Dune

I loved Frank Herbert's trilogy I read it all several times in my youth. Dune is a parable for our times, for spice read fossil fuels.

Frank Herbert's politics are contradictory, but I do like this quote, "Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

Finally, a film has been made that does justice to the compexities and subtleties of Herbert's creation.  Even if you've not read the books, this is a film worth watching, and it is a film that has a contemporary relevance. It's also a a great story turned into excellent cinema. The film ends at the end of the first book, so there will be more to come, I hope. 

A clever bit of direction makes space huge, the space ships tiny, in the infinity of the universe. 

Now, will someone take a look at The Culture novels of Iain M Banks and work the same magic...