The thing that I love about films is the excitement that comes from the whole cast. There are people in movies (even in some bad ones) that you can tell are so excited and passionate to be there. This is part of the pull I get from films. It's an unbelievable rush to see people with passion talk about work they want to do with excitement. I just love it. Luckily for me that is exactly what this documentary is about. Unluckily is the fact that a documentary like this had to be made. I had never heard of Alejandro Jodorowski before watching this film, but I can clearly see that he is a very interesting person to talk to. He has a vision for what he wants to do. It's wildly entertaining to watch him talk which is what most of the film is. Sure some of what he does is a little odd, but it's the mind of a truly visionary person. There's a passion to the man that just is fused into the film. Even more interesting is how this man rounded up a bunch off people to create what would be the greatest science fiction movie of all time. The ways that the charisma of this guy brought together the team that he did. Dan O' Bannion, H.R. Giger, and even Orson Welles. I love watching this stuff. The main pull of the entire movie is just how interesting it is to watch Jodowarsky talk about how he got some of these people to get into his movie. And yet that is also where a problem arises. The majority of film is made up of building this whole movie which is so exciting, and out of nowhere just drops the entire thing. That's not to say that the reason for it failing is not understandable, it's just that the movie spends only a very small amount of time with this. It's like build up and oh wait where'd it go. However that really is the only problem. It just has a dissatisfying ending. Other than that what we have here is a very good film about a passion project that never panned out. Jodorowsky's Dune gets a 9 out of 10.
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