I wonder if Paige is also going to "have an accident."

Actually, it looked really good on the big screen, except maybe for the lame-ass Vulcan matte painting.

Yeah, Silent Running was basically Trumbull saying " I CAN TOO do Saturn, Stanley."

Really, people would just keep calling it Jupiter.

Trumbull used a lot of lens flares. They're all over the place in Star Trek; The Motion Picture.

It can't be the worst comic book movie ever made while copies of the 1979 Captain America still exist.

It's like each of the 90 or so people on earth that actually liked David Lynch's Dune have commented here. What a strange demographic bubble.

Oh, I've seen plenty of bad movies. I think on a per dollar basis, though, Dune is the worst. Sure, there are a lot of cheap bad movies, like the stuff Ed Wood made, but expensive bad is a particular kind of bad that is difficult to achieve. So much effort went into making Dune as terrible as it is. It's not bad like…

Huh.
*scratches head*

Oh, no, no, no. I was listing good movies that do justice to the books they are based on. Godfather is a spectacularly good movie version of a book.

Imagine how terrible a circa 1984 2-hour Game of Thrones movie would have been. My god.

When has any movie ever done a good book justice?
Silence of the Lambs
Children of Men
Fellowship of the Ring
The John Huston/Gregory Peck version of Moby Dick
The Godfather
The Man Who Would Be King

Maybe people have more tolerance for over-the-top music than over-the-top visuals. There's probably some sort of PhD dissertation in there.

And sometimes audiences recognize when they are in the presence of a stinker. I'm going with the audience on this one. Dune is not some misunderstood classic. It's one of the worst movies ever made.

The effects were poor even for the time. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Was this the movie disk format that used a needle instead of a laser?

It was shot as a regular movie. It was not shot as a 12-hour-long serialized thing.

There is no magical director's cut that would make it better. What we saw on the screen was truly terrible. Adding more terrible footage would not have made it better. Whatever problems Dune had, "not long enough" was not one of them.

Even if Jodorowsky's version was terrible at least we'd have gotten a good 70s Pink Floyd score out of it.

Dune is far and away the worst movie I ever saw in a theater. It was just a spectacular failure on virtually every level. The acting, the effects, the murky dimly lit sets, the dreadful narration. It's everything that can go wrong on a movie. David Lynch was an art-house guy who was clearly in way over his head and…