I think having read the book makes Lynch's Dune a tad more understandable. Also lurking somewhere on t'interwebs there's some sort of fan edit of the film which takes the theatrical version, the extended TV version, some deleted scenes and mashes them all together with some story-friendly editing. The result gives a nother step towards coherence (though you'd probably still need to read the book).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
