FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE David Lynch - Dune (Alternate Ending) 

Now that we at least know excerpts from "Jodorowsky's Dune", David Lynch's notorious version has to be put back into the DVD player! Since I started working at the Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo, I have never seen a customer who would have happily returned Dune to me. But it's still worth a self-experiment! I intend to ignore everything that seems pointless. I also overlook the cheap effects from the bargain paradise (and Dune cost 40 million dollars!). It's 1984, the SciFi genre has long since mutated into high-tech. David Lynch's Dune, on the other hand, looks as if it was from the 1950s. Everything is confused; the work is unstructured, never gets to the point. And looks ugly, as if Lynch has put a yellow filter over every shot! Maybe the film material was also faded by the sun? Sure, we're in the desert, but must it look so shabby? Those who have read the original by Frank Herbert may understand the plot a little better. In the center, the search for meaning of a young hero. He leads his people against a devilish baron who breaks up the galaxy with "Spice", a mind-expanding drug. "Spice" makes you think less and less (philosophical tones sound but are never continued). There are so many characters, so many narrative strands standing next to each other without motivation that we have to start from a meditation on Herbert's novel. Monsters like the sand worm obviously have button eyes and spaceships were never as ugly as in Dune! You can also see them sailing through the air attached to wires. The actors were attracted to ridiculous costumes, but they have to recite dialogues that seem out of context. Lynch's Dune is a project that obviously got out of hand. If you watch the documentary about "Jodorowsky's Dune", you get an idea of it! What a tragedy! "Jodorowsky's Dune" we were never allowed to experience and instead THAT here!