It aged better in my mind than it did after a rewatch, the version in my mind being conflated with the book and the game. [Note: Apparently, David Lynch didn’t have the final cut and had an hour of his movie chopped of by the studio. But since he had also ran out of money I doubt much could have been done to make the final battle decent, or the last third of the movie comprehensible. ] What it gains on the aesthetics it loses on the incoherent plot, which at the same time has too much exposition and leaves too much unexplained. Also: Sting?!
You could say that this is a classic example of a long book being better suited to a TV show than a movie, but there was a TV show and it wasn’t much better. Maybe the new movie will be it? Or maybe HBO, Amazon, Netflix or Apple need to pour money into a serialized version, three of the four having a track record for funding good sci-fi.