Dune 2, or Battlefield: Earth 2?

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2013)

While watching this, for some reason I began thinking about the time I watched the film "Dune" together with my father. For some reason, this movie has a "cult following". In the scene when Paul Atriedes rides on a sand worm, we almost fell out of our seats laughing, because it just looked so silly and stupid. But I should have cried. Dune is one of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read, but the movie is very poor. I imagine it was very expensive to make - just like Cloud Atlas.
"$100 000 000 (estimated)" Yes - one hundred million dollars. Money that could have been used for cancer research, or something similar. Instead, they elected to invest this mind boggling sum in a horrible film.
Natalie Portman gave the book to someone. She should have kept it for herself. In the opening scene we see Tom Hanks in old makeup. One of the cardinal sins of movie making - OLD MAKEUP. After sitting through this garbage, I got to see "old" Halle Berry saying something like "warm them old bones" in a faux old woman voice. Wow... Just - wow.