Dune '84 was neither the franchise-starting Star Wars killer the studio hoped it would be, nor the arthouse epic fans of Lynch's Eraserhead and The Elephant Man were expecting.
Modern tentpoles strive toward user-friendliness to the point of mundanity... Dune '84 hurls its viewers headfirst into four very foreign planets containing dozens of wild characters.
When I started writing my book A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune - An Oral History... the 1984 film was something of a punchline.
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