Shortly after publication in 1965, Dune was identified for potential film prospects and the rights to adapt the novel to film have been held by several producers since 1971. Attempts to make a film were made and it was considered to be "unfilmable" owing to its breadth of content. Because of the book's status among fans, any deviation from the original material without strong justification has the potential to harm the film's reputation.
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Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- 1 Hans ZimmerDream of Arrakis 3:09
- 2 Hans ZimmerHerald of the Change 5:01
- 3 Hans ZimmerBene Gesserit 3:54
- 4 Hans ZimmerGom Jabbar 2:00
- 5 Hans ZimmerThe One 2:31
- 6 Hans ZimmerLeaving Caladan 1:55
- 7 Hans ZimmerArrakeen 2:16
- 8 Hans ZimmerRipples in the Sand 5:15
- 9 Hans ZimmerVisions of Chani 4:27
- 10 Hans ZimmerNight on Arrakis 5:03
- 11 Hans ZimmerArmada 5:09
- 12 Hans ZimmerBurning Palms 4:04
- 13 Hans ZimmerStranded 0:59
- 14 Hans ZimmerBlood for Blood 2:29
- 15 Hans ZimmerThe Fall 2:32
- 16 Hans ZimmerHoly War 4:21
- 17 Hans ZimmerSanctuary 1:50
- 18 Hans ZimmerPremonition 3:30
- 19 Hans ZimmerOrnithopter 1:55
- 20 Hans ZimmerSandstorm 2:35
- 21 Hans ZimmerStillsuits 5:31
- 22 Hans ZimmerMy Road Leads into the Desert 3:52
Dune: Part One
(2021)126
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Runtime | 2 hr 35 min |
Budget | $165 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $402 027 830 September 15, 2021 |
USA | $108 327 830 |
Other countries | $293 700 000 |
Box Office – Budget | $237 027 830 |
first day | $17 500 000 |
first weekend | $41 011 174 |
theaters | 4125 |
rollout | 436 days |
Digital: World | December 3, 2021 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore |
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Production Companies | |
Also Known As | Dune (Canada) |
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A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy’s most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 79
In all its marvel, Dune forgets to do basic things like give us someone or something to root for, or feel for, or think about for longer than the s...
Dune is a triumph of mediocrity. What it does, it does well enough, but was it worth doing? It’s a cookie-cutter movie, a restateme...
One’s eye is at first dazzled, then sated, and eventually tired by this pitiless inflation of scale.
[Villeneuve], working with amazing technicians including cinematographer Greig Fraser, editor Joe Walker, and production designer Patrice Vermette...
Cinematic sandcastles as impressive as Villeneuve’s "Dune" don’t come often – wouldn’t want it to just melt away in the dese...
In the main it’s a stately film, exacting and elliptical, more in the slow-release tradition of David Lean than the candy-coated insta-h...
However inconclusive as a story, the resulting film is a rarity among the overlong effects-heavy blockbusters of the last decade: One act...
An all-consuming and downright stunning technical marvel from Denis Villeneuve, bolstered by more masterful work from Hans Zimmer.
Denis Villeneuve’s take on Frank Herbert’s dauntingly complex novel can sputter and flirt with incoherence, but the director and his ac...
Such pseudo-spiritual sci-fi adventures often teeter on the edge of the ridiculous, but Dune mostly stays on the right side of risible…
It’s a film that asks a lot of you to fully understand it. It’s also utterly beautiful in its own harsh, meticulously crafted way.
The film itself is mostly fine, with breathtaking visuals broken up by a less captivating story that often drags its feet. But its place withi...
You will be stunned and amazed by the astonishing worlds on the screen, one of the most remarkable examples of cinematic world-building magic ever...
[It renders] Herbert’s rival intergalactic aristocrats and space witches on an awe-inspiring, gloriously unfriendly scale.
With plans to continue the story into a second movie, Villeneuve starts spinning his wheels in the sand about halfway to a sandwormy dest...
Even if Villeneuve tasked his actors with reading out Herbert’s dialogue verbatim, they’d find a way to make it sing.
The movie is a bit like picking up a small pile of sand: no matter how hard you try to hold onto it, once it sifts from your grasp, all you&rs...
When the anticipation is feverish, it sets up movies to disappoint and fail. This long-awaited movie smashes those expectations.
Nowhere near as enjoyable as Villeneuve’s inspired Blade Runner 2049, Dune is an achievement for sure, but watching it is rather like having...
The casting choice is poor… It’s a small, but noticeable chip in the paint when it comes to Dune - a work that’s otherwise of...
Denis Villeneuve’s new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story.
Oover the course of its two hours and 35 minutes (!), the film won me over. Had part two been immediately available, I would’ve nuk...
The director Denis Villeneuve’s film is the first adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel to properly portray the grim tragedy of Paul&rsqu...
An absorbing, awe-inspiringly huge adaptation of (half of) Frank Herbert’s novel that will wow existing acolytes, and get newcomers hooked on...
It’s a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that’s purely Apichatpong.
Dune is sluggish in places-my eyes glazed over during one or two or maybe three of the battle scenes-but Villeneuve’s conviction counts for&n...
The movie isn’t "Lawrence of Arabia in Space," but it comes pretty close, and I say that as someone who went in a doubter.
By the time its near three-hour run-time comes to an end, and Chalamet’s Paul finally encounters Zendaya’s Chani, the story is only jus...
I admire any director who is able to create a self-contained world on such a scale, but this is an epic for the eye, not the heart.
Working from an adaptation he wrote with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, Villeneuve has gotten an enormous amount right, from the casting to the epic sc...
Everything about Denis Villeneuve that keeps me from loving his previous works really works here… [Villeneuve’s] chilly, inhuman quality real...
Villeneuve’s Dune is a thick, loud, well-fed spectacle of a movie, towering over the people in it with a brooding sense of int...
The mixture of high-tech bombardment and hand-to-hand combat harkening back to Lawrence’s battle of Aqaba. It’s that same mix of grande...
A beautifully designed machine that, for all its elegant clockwork, fails to deliver much that connects with the soul.
Villeneuve’s Dune takes a bit of time to set up the necessary palace intrigue and family dynamics before finding its shape as a relentle...
Denis Villeneuve is a journeyman with visual flair. On the evidence of his Dune, this may be what is needed to wrestle the unruly material int...
While this Netflix Halloween entry from director Adam Randall has its campy moments, it’s just too long for its own good and would have been...
A formidable cinematic accomplishment, a giant mood piece that can be exhilarating in its dark beauty.
This Dune, for all its technical virtuosity, is stranded in an emotionally barren desert.
It’s not just that the story loses its pulse. It loses any sense that we’re emotionally invested in it.
The plot machinery grinds to a halt, as if clogged with sand, and the well-earned welcome wears out.
When Villeneuve announced this year that this was a movie that demanded to be seen in the cinema he was not exaggerating: your jaw will drop...
Dune feels like the start of a story that will soon become the stuff of sci-fi filmmaking legend.
Villeneuve is a master at creating mind-boggling futuristic worlds, and he tops himself with the overwhelmingly striking imagery in Dune.
I really loved Dune. The action set pieces were phenomenal, but the focus was almost always on the characters.
Villeneuve has made a serious, stately opus, and while he doesn’t have a pop bone in his body, he knows how to put on a show as he...
Villeneuve draws you into an astonishingly vivid, sometimes plausibly unnerving vision of the future.
Villeneuve’s Dune sensibly tackles only one manageable section of the story, avoiding the baffling narrative compressions and ellipses that b...
Eventually, "Dune" only resembles a dream in that it cuts out on a note so flat and unresolved that you can’t believe anyone would have...
Denis Villeneuve’s film makes the complex world of Dune comprehensible through stunning visuals.
[Denis Villeneuve’s] take on Dune isn’t merely fascinating and narratively coherent. It is a gorgeous sensory immersion that holds...
Dune ends up feeling like an extended prologue for what one can only hope will be a sequel that will clarify its parables and paradoxes.
What a spectacle. This is the event movie audiences have been waiting for and theaters have been coveting.
This film is a curiously paradoxical achievement: a visual and aural marvel that is also a crashing bore.
If there can ever be a moment of triumph for a director, when the anxiety of influence is vanquished – for a bit, anyway – then...
I was gripped, throughout, and I definitely want there to be a Part 2.
I saw it Tuesday night, and I want to already see it again this weekend. To watch a two-and-a-half-hour movie like that, says something…
Dune plays itself out with an assured confidence that encourages you to settle in for the long (2 hours and 35 minutes!) haul ...
Villeneuve has pulled off an impressive feat of sheer craft that is very large yet very empty, full of wondrous sights but shot with a staunch...
This is a movie of Oscar-quality craftsmanship, but it lacks the primal drama of a "Star Wars," the emotional interplay of a "Star T...
Even with its imperfections, "Dune" as an experience is awesome, with astounding special effects, great production design and a propulsive Han...
A formidable achievement, allotting itself the time and the scale to tell this story right.
The result is a movie that seems to move both too quickly (Wait. What are the ramifications of that last conflict?) and too slowly (When are w...
"Dune" is an impressive feat, a plunge into a richly designed world that feels at once ancient and futuristic and wholly, fully formed.
Visually stunning, beautifully acted and genuinely thrilling offering from one of the masters of modern sci-fi.
Part hero’s journey and part survival story, the film keeps throwing arcane details at you, which might thrill the Herbert geeks but will hav...
If you’re already knee-deep in Herbert mythology, you’ll thrill to every whispered word; if you come in not knowing the difference betw...
Denis Villeneuve’s windswept epic is engrossing enough to maintain an audience with an intermission and a running time twice its length.
Dune, the planet, suffers perpetual drought. "Dune," the movie, feels waterlogged.
This movie is the first of two planned parts. Please, dear God, make the second one.
Not every shot registers as rapturous. Sometimes we’re just looking at sand. And Chalamet remains more haircut than actor. Yet the film also...
The movie’s stripped-down material world correlates with a stripped-down emotional one-narrow, facile, and unambiguous.
The film is geared to fans; newcomers may want a second look, but consider it a pleasure.
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A chic film, grandiose, beautiful, you get a buzz in the cinema, but unfortunately the film ends, and as one of the heroines says, "This is just the beginning" Translated to English

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Excellent screening. Actors hit 100%. The plot of the book has been carefully translated. There are some minor changes, but nothing more. The visuals are great as is the action. But I would like to see more original solutions. For those who have not read in places it will be difficult to understand the logic of the world. Mandatory viewing! Translated to English

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it’s just impossible to resist when the movies have such a powerful soundtrack and beautiful visuals, give me more. (spit in 4DX top moment) Translated to English

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Dune is just amazing! Visual, music – everything is at some unthinkable transcendental level. There are a couple of victorious Oscars, and even more! I didn’t read the book, so I absorbed every detail that the movie told. I’ll go again, and you go – we need a continuation. Translated to English

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The film is good, the picture was beautiful and bewitching. I recommend watching in imax. Time flew by unnoticed Translated to English

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for me, the film has become a kind of meditation, a lot of action, but there are enough static scenes with mesmerizing music. 2.5 hours flew by. Let’s hope part 2 doesn’t disappoint. Translated to English

Awesome movie! Even an ordinary cinema screen is not enough for such a large-scale epic spectacle. Gotta go to IMAX! Translated to English

Watched
A film with an amazing scale, a powerful soundtrack, cool actors, but … emotions after watching it are generally zero. And I don’t even know why. Is there a great book in my memory that I read for the sake of adaptation and which is much better, or do Villeneuve’s films do not emotionally hurt me? Translated to English

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THIS IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL MOVIE ADAPTATION OF A FRANK HERBERT WORK. EVERYTHING IS PERFECT HERE – FROM VISUAL AND SOUND TO ACTORS. I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SECOND FILM. Translated to English

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Great visuals and fast paced storytelling. Movies like this don’t come out very often, which is a shame. The acting game, in my opinion, let us down a little bit, so 8 out of 10 touched on the sequel, and the soundtrack is simply divine. Now all that’s left is to cross our fingers for the film to do well at the box office. Translated to English

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Beautiful science fiction. Unfortunately, incomprehensible to people not familiar with books or previous films. It goes very well with the plot of the book. Perhaps the only negative is the timing of this epilogue of the trilogy. Translated to English

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Villeneuve is handsome! So competently to do so that when you leave the cinema you already want to continue – not everyone can. Watch strictly in the cinema! Translated to English

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Denis Villeneuve. The case when a great remake and the beginning of a new Villeneuve franchise. Cast is great. Great style and atmosphere, but how can we wait for the continuation?! I respect Lynch’s 1984 version. Translated to English

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Yes, this is the beginning of a new era) I liked everything! I fell in love with this movie so much that when I left the theater I was already waiting for the sequel! Super! Translated to English

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Wow))) This is not Marvel’s jumping jacks, but serious science fiction with a plot honed to the smallest detail Translated to English

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People are divided into two parts: those who say that this is a real masterpiece, and those who believe that "Dune" is beautiful, but very boring. I’m from the second category 🤷 Translated to English

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The visual is chic, the sound is chic, but there are too many questions and misunderstandings in the plot, and in some places it is dragged out and boring. Alas and oh guys Translated to English

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I liked the book more. It turned out that the film spent more time explaining the situation. Yes, and the scale of Villeneuve and Zimmer worked out at 200%. Oscar Izer and Rebecca Ferguson are great. Now I hope for the 2nd part and that in it Paul will piss me off less than in the book) Translated to English

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The start of a big fantasy franchise to fight Star Wars. Everything seems to be fine, but this is the obvious beginning of the movie series – hence the protractedness. I will note the casts: both Chalamet, and Zendaya, Momoa look very good. When it comes out, part 2, I’ll look, but I won’t wait too long. Translated to English

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The film is very long, scenes with short dialogues, but with long faces of chapters. heroes who are looking somewhere with a thoughtful expression. Well, why this excessive epic. If there were comfortable chairs in the cinema, I would fall asleep. Translated to English

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Atmospheric, viscous, like caramel toffee, fantasy. And that’s just the tie. Beautiful visuals and music. Enjoyed until the last letter of the credits. Lots of great guys in the cast. Translated to English

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A lot of beautiful sand, good actors, but the plot is three kopecks. Aesthetically pleasing to look at, but not necessarily Translated to English

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Villeneuve was able, beautifully able. He competently imposed a measured pace on the events of the book, you believe everything, you empathize with everyone. The visuals are obviously just wow, but the sound design is top notch, give the Oscars to the guys there. This is only half of the plot, so the emotions from the "ending" are zero. Translated to English

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Not bad, but drawn out, little explanation of the importance of any liquid for the Fremen, little overall explanation of the universe. I really didn’t like that a strong and courageous Bene Gesserite Jessica was turned into a whiny young lady. Hope the second part gets better. Translated to English