What I knew about Jodorowsky himself prior to this was very little. I have seen The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, and El Topo. Judging by those, the idea of him creating Dune with people like Dali attached seemed pretty incredible. I don't hate Lynch's Dune but this sounded like it could've been a pretty sweet improvement. After watching this, I don't really think so anymore.
He had a lot of big names on board or at least made it sound that way - Dali, HR Giger, Orson Welles, among others. It seemed though, that many of those who were interviewed were less than enthused while describing the project. The title of this doc is spot on - "Jodorowsky's Dune". He was taking so many liberties with the story that it was now "based on Herbert's Dune". Even Jodorowsky's son came off as relatively apathetic when speaking of it.
Jodorowsky is very passionate about what he does and was very much so about this movie in particular and I always appreciate creators expressing those feelings to an audience. He is obviously quite sure of his capabilities and believes himself to be a *very* capable storyteller. But this effort, for me, was overblown. I really wish he had shared more of his actual vision and what we would have seen, not just spoken about how it would have come to life. With Giger and Dali, I would have expected more visual representation in the doc.
Should his movie be made? It would be cool to see it realized on the screen, yeah. But should it have been *the* Dune? Definitely not. Anyway, I cut this one short after he spoke about raping Frank Herbert's novel as one would rape the bride on the wedding night. I tried for another 10 minutes or so but I could not get past that euphemism.
