Yeah, the sets & costumes were top notch (any Oscar noms?) and I agree that the casting was great if not wholly faithful to the book (slavish devotion to source material is not something I’m big on anyways.)

I found the hot & cold FX personally jarring: great stuff with the shields & weirding modules (not in the book at all, but a smart visual hook to facilitate the Atreides/Harkonnen/Corrino conflict,) and about 50/50 with the sandworms. Most spaceship/aircraft stuff was lame, and they’d clearly run out of money by the time they got around to doing the ornithopter.

I’ll say this: enthralling/aggravating as Lynch’s film was, it crushes the 2000 miniseries like a cockroach. THAT was just awful all around…I couldn’t even bring myself to watch the sequel.