After watching this movie, I can say that it's pretty awesome. This film succeeds in a way so that you don't have to be a fan of the subject matter to enjoy it.
I didn't know much about the "film's" universe, but hearing Jodorowsky's interpretation of it was quite interesting. To put it simply, his version of the film was SOO ahead of its time that it wound up ever even getting made. I love how well this documentary illustrated what he had planned, and I appreciate the effort of animating the storyboards to give us a better idea.
The interviews provided some great context but were also very entertaining. Not only is the story itself fascinating to begin with, but Jodorowsky is generally a funny and interesting character to hear a story from. Not only that but this movie stands as the last interview with HR Giger, who is most famous for his design work on "Alien".
Whether or not, you thought Jodorowsky's interpretation of dune would have been fantastic if it was properly funded, This film is fun and informative for anyone interested in film overall as an art form or is interested in Alejandro Jodorowsky. This is a great documentary! check it out!
The most influential sci-fi movie that never got made.
This is an amazing documentary and Jodorowsky is an incredible person. The ensemble he created for the movie which ultimately failed to get produced was astonishing and influenced so much in the future... to think that Alien would've probably never been made (like it was) without all what came from this... Amazing...
A wonderful documentary about this part of sci-fi film history. If you're a fan of anything that comes within the radius of Dune, you'll be a fan of this story.
It was an entertaining documentary, but as a Dune fan I am between apathetic and happy this film was never made. It was painfully clear this guy A) didn't understand Dune, and B) wasn't setting out to create a faithful adaptation of the work. He said he hadn't even read the book before deciding it was practically his mission in life to make it into a film, and he uses a rape metaphor to describe what he was doing to the work. Gross.
“It’s different. It was my Dune. When you make a picture, you must not respect the novel. It’s like you get married, no? You go with the wife, white, the woman is white. You take the woman, if you respect the woman, you will never have child. You need to open the costume and to… to rape the bride. And then you will have your picture. I was raping Frank Herbert, raping, like this! But with love, with love.”
It really is the greatest movie never made. He would of got Mick Jagger and pink Floyd and the dune that got made had Sting and Eno. Always knew the dune that got made had horrible special effects. This one would of been so good.
So Jodorowsky was extroverted, ambitious, a strange father and an upcoming movie director at the same time. And this is a documentary about him and his biggest movie that was never made.
So my feelings change while watching the documentary. But it's good directed and quite entertaining. So it's fine. But hey, it's just me. Maybe you get "wow"-ed by it.
A group of talking heads sit down to chat about the "most ambitious sci-fi epic never made." Which, I realize, sounds like some rather exaggerated, overplayed hyperbole. Thing is, between the director's intense dedication to the project and remarkable eye for talent, it quickly seems like a pretty reasonable statement.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, who single-handedly provides much of the documentary's narration, is both the best and the worst thing to happen to this launchpad-implosion of a film. His confidence can often come off as egotism, and his absurd track record quickly turned off any potential Hollywood suitors (ultimately damning the picture) but in retrospect there's no arguing with the impact his hand-picked team made on the world of science fiction at large. Then-unknowns like HR Giger and Mœbius would go on to enormous careers, both in the cinema and art scenes, while many of their collaborators found themselves poached for future hits like Star Wars and Alien.
There's a certain irrational appeal to the man himself, which immediately comes through in his speech and mannerisms. It's no wonder major celebrities like Pink Floyd and David Carradine would attach themselves to the project, mingling with brow-furrowing supporting acts like Orson Welles and Salvador Dali.
The big question of how the film could make the translation from eccentric paper-bound concept to vivid on-screen special effect (in a pre-Lucasfilm world, no less) is never adequately answered, and that hurts in the long run, but as an exercise in unbridled, unhinged creative discharge it's fascinating. Utterly tripped-out, surreal and nonsensical at times, but fascinating.
I've always been a huge fan of the Dune universe. I've played the original Dune game on the pc, read the Frank Herbert books (all of them - not sure if I read the books first and then played the game or vice versa) and of course also - mother of all RTS games - Dune 2 and later Dune 2000.
Most of the movies and productions in this 'franchise' have been a bit disappointing so far; I did enjoy however the 2 low budget TV movies "Frank Herbert's Dune" (2000) and "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune" (2003).
I hope the newly announced Dune for next year will be really the first true big motion picture which will do justice to Frank Herbert's creation
A rather slow but somewhat entertaining look into a crazy mans grandiose vision.
Jodorowsky is totally off his rockers...but in a good way. A mad storyteller with an insane vision of a movie that would apparently replace LSD as the drug of choice for the youth that era. Insane?!? You bet!!
The conclusions to this documentary are also totally insane, and they didn't sit well with me at all, but big egos tend to make themselves more important than what they really are.
Enjoyable watch...
Jodorowsky’s Dune es fascinante!
No pensé que me sentiría tan interesado en este documental y en lo que pudo ser la película.
Ojalá algún día hagan, al menos en formato de animación, Dune de Jodorowsky.
No tendrá el impacto que hubiese tenido en los 70, pero igual.
De todos modos, la arrogancia, ambición y alto ego de AJ lo dejó sin película. Pudo haber sido algo espectacular.
Jodorowsky seems like a brilliant guy, and this makes me want to check out his other movies, but this movie is just kind of there. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it and seeing him, Giger, and Foss talk about Moebius, Dali, Pink Floyd, etc was all interesting. But ultimately it was like eating rice for dinner. Without a finished product, the behind the scenes stories just don't hold the same weight. Some of the talking heads didn't really seem necessary. Why do I really care what Nicolas Winding Refn thinks? Also wasn't a huge fan of some of the graphical choices made, but that's nit-picky. Ultimately, I enjoyed the trip with this cast of characters.
Magical in all senses. A must!
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Ultimately, the documentary really makes you wish that Jodorowsky's version of Dune had pushed through. It would have been vastly different from the original novel, but I think it would have amazing in its own way.