Whether Dune is "Trash" or not is a matter of personal opinion, but I don't think anyone would seriously argue that it is anything other than Epic, definitely with a capital E. Anyway, I was just thinking about the scene where Muad Dib harnesses the humongous Sandworm...
I bet that was so freaking difficult to film. Pardon me, this is TrashEpics, what I meant to say was "so FUCKING difficult." Running in the sand like that is no joke, you get super super super tired. And those guys are just actors, they aren't athletes or soldiers, trained for that type of thing... I bet they slept well, the night after filming that scene. I know, you only see them running in the sand for a few seconds, but I bet they had to go through dozens of takes before they got the one the director liked best.
I sometimes wonder about how this film has been perceived, over the years, by soldiers fighting in the desert. The Muad Dib character is sort of like the Mahdi, or maybe other figures in Islam... and, just the general milieu of fighting in the desert, in a war with control of an important resource at stake... I bet people fighting on all different sides have often imagined themselves to be characters in this movie.