Worth it if an SF fan, much less a Dune fan. If you can handle stuff like Babylon 5, you can handle this.
It is 20+ year old miniseries, the budget shows sometimes. The production design is often great, space VFX are superior to the Lynch version (great ships) but many other FX are awful. Obvious greenscreen, obvious sets, just fuzzy and bad things. Thopters are pretty good except they are not true to the books with flapping, likely due to budget again.
Some great acting. I especially liked. Ian McNeice's baron, to the point I worry now he's actually evil. One of very very few evil laughs that are totally believable. Some other actors are... okay. Generic TV folks I won't remember tomorrow.
All in all, still felt a little too rushed. This is weird because it's somewhere north of 4 hours, but still, it lacked a bit of the epic feel and passage of time. The story takes place over a several year period, but just doesn't feel like it.
It is 20+ year old miniseries, the budget shows sometimes. The production design is often great, space VFX are superior to the Lynch version (great ships) but many other FX are awful. Obvious greenscreen, obvious sets, just fuzzy and bad things. Thopters are pretty good except they are not true to the books with flapping, likely due to budget again.
Some great acting. I especially liked. Ian McNeice's baron, to the point I worry now he's actually evil. One of very very few evil laughs that are totally believable. Some other actors are... okay. Generic TV folks I won't remember tomorrow.
All in all, still felt a little too rushed. This is weird because it's somewhere north of 4 hours, but still, it lacked a bit of the epic feel and passage of time. The story takes place over a several year period, but just doesn't feel like it.