love the books. Lynchs' film i also liked. Irrespective of the scenes he was forced to cut. The mood and aura around certain characters and scenes were fantastic. Rather than explain it all he was forced to show parrells like the ugly harks, the prettier atredies the rugged fremen. I thought the characters thoughts were portrayed well - considering there isnt all that much chat in dune, i can understand peoples confusion. The film was cast superbly - perhaps not lynchs' doing apart from Jack Nance who i thought was a fine rabban - although we saw hardly anything of him. The exaggerated B Harko was brilliant - despite lack of intellegence. Stilgar was good - despite the lack of character depth. I enjoyed paul, leto, jessica, the emperor, yueh, guerney. The stillsuit looked the piece and i liked the idea of a wierding module, carryalls were good and general set design was nice, hunter seeker probes were good, wind traps looked good. The music was epic. I would have more negative comments about cut scenes - IF it had been a six hour epic, i am sure i would have enjoyed it a whole lot more.