The last Dune movie (1984) didn't do it.
"It's like The Last Airbender, but with sand."
"It's like The Last Airbender, but with sand."
From one other review:
"The second scene depicts the mysterious “Guild Navigator,” a brainiac character Lynch devises as a literal giant talking brain floating in a tank of brine. His mouth is triangular-shaped. There’s really no clean way of saying this, so here goes: It looks like a vagina. And it secretes gas. Lynch likes to shoot this in graphic close-up, and they’re explicit enough that if you see the film cut on TV, the editors completely omit these shots."
https://www.metro.us/entertainment/in-slight-defense-david-l...
I respect your appreciation for the movie, but to most people it's objectively bad.
From Wikipedia:
"In retrospect, Lynch disowned the film and acknowledged he should never have directed Dune:
I started selling out on Dune. Looking back, it's no one's fault but my own. I probably shouldn't have done that picture, but I saw tons and tons of possibilities for things I loved, and this was the structure to do them in. There was so much room to create a world. But I got strong indications from Raffaella and Dino De Laurentiis of what kind of film they expected, and I knew I didn't have final cut."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(1984_film)#Critical_rece...
That last scene with Neil Patrick Harris' character also destroyed that movie for me.
It's one of my favourite movies, however it deviates quite a bit from the books. Still good :)
I can see why other might not like it though.
I liked the aesthetic of the movie (everything was 'old' and worn and staid). I liked the mini-series because it stayed closer to the original story, but (because of budget?) things looked too shiny: things seemed too 'fresh' for a societal structure that had been static for generations and generations.
That was kind of point of the Golden Path: you wanted the Imperium to seem 'static' because of inertia, and humanity needed something to shake them up from stagnation.
The weirding way, the Voice, even the psychedelic sequences - these had to be explained, or shown, and how? How do you film these things in a way that audiences can understand?
Not saying there's clear answers now, but there's been another thirty years of exploration in how you show weird, hard-to-film genre elements. There's also another entire set of explorations on exactly these things (the Scifi Channel's miniseries) from which to see what works and doesn't.
Some of the movie is fantastic, but some of it is laugh out loud silly.
It's one thing to read about the voice and worm-riding, it's very hard to put those into movies.
Apparently a new film is being made by Denis Villeneuve. Let's hope for the best.