Review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) by Brandon W — 21 Feb 2016

Jodorowsky's Dune is documentary film that is about director Alejandro Jodorowsky in his mind process of making an adaptation film from Frank Herbert's Dune, and problems of getting it developed from studios with budget problems that is to the point of not getting it green-lighted.

When seeing this documentary, I didn't know anything about Alejandro Jodorowsky or even watched his films. So when the documentary talks about his past history, it got me interested about it and got enough information to know enough about Alejandro Jodorowsky, and it doesn't forget the fact that it's suppose to be about his development with Dune, so it goes by pretty fast with the director's backstory.

It's very interesting to hear about his ideas of what to put in his movie adaptation of Dune, and it's very ambition at that time and would've been ingenious if it went through. Now I never read Dune, so I wouldn't know if his ideas were faithful to the book, but the drawings and paintings of what they were going to do were really inventive and really cool to look at, making it stand out.

It's fascinating to see how the director really tried to get this film made with him getting actors, well known effect designers like H.R Giger, and getting any studio to distribute the film. When it sadly didn't get made, you can tell that Alejandro Jodorowsky was completely heartbroken about it as it was his dream to do this, and he just wanted to express his dreams to the wide screens in the theaters.

Jodorowsky's Dune is a fantastic documentary that is definitely a missed opportunity that would've been huge, and probably would've been up there with George Lucas's Star Wars as one of the most influential Science-Fiction films of all time.