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Say what you want about David Lynch’s adaptation of Dune, seeing it on Blu Ray was a complete eye opener! It has its messy, rushed narrative, but this is sci fi Shakespeare, or sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. And it looks just as epic.

I remember seeing Dune in the theater as a kid, and I’ve owned all of the other home video incarnations (minus HD-DVD, which I guess would have been the same as this Blu Ray version), but I never before noticed the absolute depth of detail on display. Every last square inch of every prop is fully realized, and the sets seem to go on forever, rich with texture. The models and miniatures kick the shit out of most current CG work, with a massive sense of scale and weight.

Dune does suffer from the same problem that the Dreamscape disc has, in that the optical compositing processes are just crap. The problems are extremely visible, and kicked me out of the story every once in a while.

And do the worms look more like sandy penises in high def? Probably, but I digress.

It’s a renter, just to admire the balls-to-the-wall art direction.