[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

I said it before. In my view Dune is from score perspective a big missed opportunity. This very slow paced movie would have been a great canvas for a kind of Wagnarian classical score. But Zimmer’s spheric meandering sound design slows this already slow movie down so much and evoked partly rather boredom in me despite this epic imagery.

I’m not a super-fan of the movies either. They’re spectacular, for sure, and visually, of all the DUNE film or TV adaptations, they’re by far the closest to the images I had in my head while reading the books. But I can’t say they engaged me emotionally to any great extent. Not sure how much the scores are to blame for that, though. I wouldn’t call them “spheric meandering sound design” – as I mention, I find them quite varied. But a far cry from anything Wagnerian, definitely.