Dune (1984)
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
Actor: Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart spent decades with the Royal Shakespeare Company before Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the casting of a bald English classical actor as a starship captain was widely considered a mistake at the time.
Picard became the definitive version of the role, and the four subsequent films plus a later series extended it across thirty-five years.
Professor X across the X-Men films gave him a second franchise, and Logan gave him the best of both, playing the character in physical and mental collapse.
He has continued to work in Shakespeare throughout, played Macbeth and Prospero on stage, and is unexpectedly funny in American Dad and Ted.
