The David Lynch "Dune" was better than the remake

The Lynch film is a beautiful, moody thing, with images that have stuck with me for 37 years. I always assumed it was trashed only by those "but the book was so much better" literalists. In SciFi that type seem the very worst sort of killjoys.

Who cares about the other with this tranny looking Timothee thing.

David Lynch Dune was poetic and art cinema. I just watched the new one tonight. It's OK but there isn't much story to make up for the lack of mystery and cinematic art. It's a nice big production, though.

I really wish David would put aside his anger and create a definitive Director's Cut of the film already.

The problem with that R3 is that he never got to film all scenes he so carefully scripted over the11 or so drafts he wrote for over a year. There are pieces he could add back in, but it would still be far from his original intent, and he was profoundly disillusioned by his vision being derailed. At least the theatrical cut is the closest to what he wanted. The longer cut, cobbled together by vulgarians at Universal, does have some good bits added in but is a hack job of heinous proportions and ruins the flow.