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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 926061" data-attributes="member: 9061">This thread will now devolve into Dune discussion...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The "expanded" version of the film that was shown on TV is actually about 2:50, not four hours (that figure includes commercial time.)  Nor is it the "original" cut - it's a special version arranged by the bigwigs to "salvage" an "incomprehensible" movie.  The added footage at the end is about 10 minutes and consists exclusively of still shots of bad paintings, with a voice-over by the dunken trucker that they got to replace Viginia Madsen's (admittedly bad) narration.  This was clearly shot just for the TV version.  David Lynch, the film's director, was outraged and demanded that his name be taken out of the credits.A fair bit of other footage was also added, some of which was okay, and some of which was flat-out horrible.  And the sound was completely retracked over the movie, badly.It's no more heavy-handed than it was in the book.The film has tons of problems, though - don't get me wrong.</blockquote>