Pink Floyd - The Wall
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VHS Movie Reviews of Pink Floyd - The Wall
Movie Review: An ever-lasting classic. At least for 3 or 4 generations, anyway.
Summary: 5 Stars
Great film that penetrates the thinkers and artists alike, a dark film that many find leaves them feeling bad yet wanting to watch it again. Most of us have, many times.Movie Review: Pink Floyd - The Wall DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
This video contains pornography, I skipped the scene. The rest makes you think and was perfect, like the acid animation. One part made me cry, like meeting my dad again when he walks off of a train. You should buy this, but I wish it didn't contain pornography. I pray to God I never have to watch that, it makes me puke. Bad. RATED R XXXMovie Review: Too Much Dramatization
Summary: 2 Stars
I was disappointed...too much movie and not enough music. I doubt I will watch this much again like I do the Pulse DVD...that one rocks!Movie Review: Cult Classic but would've been better with a different director
Summary: 3 Stars
Looking back at Alan Parker's work, he was great for capturing the dark side of postwar England. You watch "Angelas Ashes" and "The Committments" and you can see the thread that leads back to "The Wall".
Supposedly there's a screentest that had Roger Waters audition for the role of Pink, but Boomtown Rat and Live Aid/Live 8 mastermind Sir Bob Geldof got the part. And he wasn't a Pink Floyd fan until years later.
But I think Parker made it a little too downbeat. There are things on the album that I think Roger comes across a little more over the top through it, and hopeful towards the end.
There is a story, but it's very nonlinear. You see the rock star's spiral into his own madness (similar to Syd Barrett) and what drove him there, but the theme of "The Wall" is a breakdown in communication and the walls we build around us, or built by others. You assume there's redemption at the end but it's really hard to tell.
Does the wife take up with the lover because Pink was sleeping with groupies to begin with? "Young Lust" should've captured Pink putting the band together a little more, out on the hunt for nubile maidens as the song suggests, instead of turning it into being about the groupies. By the time the groupie gets to Pink, his wall is already in place...bored and uninterested. The mother in the movie isn't all that menacing, neither is the wife until "The Trial". I thought this should've been ratcheted up a lot. The teacher however, is dead on. "Another Brick in the Wall" is definitely one of the best parts.
The highlight of the film is "Comfortably Numb"... it's wonderfully filmed and is as creepy as anything Cronenberg's done.
Scarfe's animation had been used for the band's live shows and is used here, also a great highlight of the movie.
Big reason to have this is because it's in surround. The documentary's ok, and seeing the original "Another Brick in the Wall II" promo's cool.
Movie Review: Birth of a fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Back in the day, when I was in high school, I absolutely could not stand Pink Floyd with the exception of one song (Wish You Were Here). When tracks came across the radio I just tried not to listen and couldn't understand the hype.
Then for reasons I can't recall, my girlfriend (later my wife) and I went to see The Wall when it released at the theater. I sat, mesmerized and staring at the screen. To see the movie is to hear the entire album set from start to finish and the movie put it all in context. The thing I was missing before, I understood now. The music of Pink Floyd is put together in albums and if you don't listen to them that way they are disconnected and just don't make sense.
Now I was hooked and started to listen to PF albums instead of individual cuts. I bought the cassette tape (hi-tech back then), wore it out, wore out a backup copy, wore out another tape and years later bought the CD set. Today I'm buying the DVD and can't wait to experience it all again.
Bottom line, the movie is dark, it is disturbing, and it is terribly awesome. Pink Floyd played the music of the insane. Maybe it is the insane who still play the music of Pink Floyd. In any case, I can't wait to introduce my 15 year-old son to it. Wonder if his jaw will drop like mine did?