Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Micha Hilliard Jodorowsky's adaptation of "Dune" would have been wildly ambitious. He wanted to change the human consciousness, recreating the hallucinations of LSD. "For me, Dune will be the coming of a god." Jodorowsky is incredibly charismatic in his interviews. I can see why people wanted to work for him. He assembled an eclectic group of artists: H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Jean Giraud, and Dan O'Bannon. It was important to him that everyone on his crew was not only technically savvy but also spiritually aware. They had to believe in "Dune." Once he found the right people, he gave them total freedom. He let Giger be Giger. "I was searching for the light of genius in every person, with an enormous respect, an enormous respect. And then, every day I was feeding them in order to be free, to do what, to do the best of them." Jodorowsky also cast Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger. He knew what it took to make people believe. After "Dune" fell through, O'Bannon wrote "Alien" based on Giger's work. Foss and Giraud were also part of that project. I'm not sure if "Dune" would have been any good. Jodorowsky wanted it to be 14 hours long. However, while watching the documentary, I couldn't help feeling awed by the grandiosity of his vision. He wanted to make a work of genius and he wasn't going to settle for less. "The movie has to be just like I dream it."

Nikolas Robinson Just watched Jodorowsky's Dune and I have never been so glad as I am right now that David Lynch ended up directing the film adaptation that ultimately came out. Lynch may not want to take credit for the film, he may feel more disappointed about that movie than anything else he's done, but the alternative would have been an even greater departure from the source material...would have been abysmally dismissive of the novel and the subsequent additions to the series that was Dune. There are some aspects of Jodorowsky's vision that impressed me, and some stylistic choices that would have been interesting to witness...but the end that he planned would have been enough to ruin the movie for me. Paul dying and beginning to speak through the mouths of everyone else present followed by Arrakis becoming a verdant paradise with a consciousness of its own is just stupid.

attae Is Jodorowski a genius? He certainly sells it well. on the other hand, it took me two viewings to get through Holy Mountain, and I would not describe it as mainstream entertainment - or even general entertainment for that matter.The genius of Jodorowski is in cherry picking other geniuses to work with, and developing a team that was later poached by mainstream Hollywood.The team of Moebius, Giger, O'Bannon, and Foss is inspired on so many levels for a choice of artistic design. It's no surprise that the best we could have hoped for after the failure of this project was a classic in its own right, 'Alien'.On the music front he was trying to bring in Pink Floyd for the Atreides score, and Magma for Harkonnen.And actors... Dali for the emperor, who immediately demanded the highest pay in Hollywood - what better choice for emperor than such an arrogant, spoilt, self-absorbed know-it-all? Orson Wells for Baron Harkonnen is also another masterful choice.Love him or loathe him, Jodorowski knows people. He chose some pretty incredible people to take on this project, and succeeded in pulling them all together. It's a damn shame that it failed.Sure, Jodorowski's Dune would probably have been a financial and critical failure, but I think it would also have developed a cult following as the best film of all time.In the end it was just too 'European' for the pay masters. Hollywood and the States love a clean cut hero in a black and white story. Philosophical and metaphysical does not go down as well there as it does in Europe. Although, that seems to be changing a bit now.This project was far ahead of its time for Hollywood, though they do seem content to poach parts of it to splice into more mainstream and less thoughtful movies.

tedg I am glad the man is alive and still making films, though they don't drive my soul the way some work does. I like that he is aware of parallel narratives, is visual and fearless. His notions of sex and oppression are decoupled from the physical, and that is remarkable.For my taste, his notion of narrative is less full of irrepressible need and more of butterflies. And they all have to rely on connectives he keeps in his imagination. So many years ago when I heard of the rumored Dune project, well, I was interested. If he indeed tapped that material, his weaknesses would be covered, because the whole Dune series is one that well integrates the spiritual, political and personal (meaning individual drive).Now I learn that he roped in the artistic team that later went on to give Alien its edge. And Welles! Also some simple but then famous celebrities were cast in some roles. Seeing the thin excess he put together in his storyboards, I believe the thing would have been a mess.But now here we have this remarkably well made documentary that gives the film more value than it ever could have had! We have that almost film in many still images. We have the memory of the original book, still strong in many of us.We have the outer wrapper of an excellent filmmaker in putting the thing together as a narrative. And we have Jodorowsky's telling, as if the film were not a project but a child destined to become Jesus.This manifold narrative is really effective, and the film grows and grows in importance as if it were a fictional but hardly understood celestial character. Destroying the film — he says near the end — gave it more power than it could have had.As much power as spice flowing through urge without image.