Pink Floyd - The Wall
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VHS Movie Reviews of Pink Floyd - The Wall
Movie Review: i forgot how good it could be
Summary: 5 Stars
anything music is almost always better than sex!!! Movie Review: Only discovered Pink Floyd after seeing this film
Summary: 5 Stars
Unlike most people posting reviews of this film here, I had not seen it when I was younger, while on drugs, nor did I even know what Pink Floyd was. Rather I simply found a short clip from "The Wall" online, watched it, and was stunned. Needless to say, I hunted down the film, and watched it in one sitting, and when it was over?
I bought the original 2 disc album, and listened to it daily. Truth be told, the music itself tells a pretty good story, if dark and depressing for a good deal of it's duration. Had I heard the music before the film, I'd have known what to expect. Of course I didn't, but comparing the two is pretty stupid in my opinion. The reason for that is, while hardcore fans seem to take to heart the fact that the key factors in the production of this film weren't happy with it, they did in fact create a masterpiece of film and music fused into one giant story that has more layers and depth then most films I can name.
Trying to take "The Wall" and make a film from it, must have been as trying and difficult as Kubrick's direction of "2001", as both films are stretching and reaching to not only absorb you, but trap you in a world of sight and sound, where there is no escape till the credits roll. The problem with this film is, too many people are viewing it once or twice, and missing more complex metaphors to physiological viewpoints or at the bare minimum, the main point. Merging live action segments with animation, creating tripy and psychedelic imagery for a purpose. It isn't just random algimations here, we are seeing the inner workings of a mind that seeks to isolate itself from the world...and thus build a wall, to keep everything and anything out.
It's much deeper then that, but what must be said is, despite how bizarre or insane it might seem, it's a film that anyone can connect with, since it isn't about "Pink", it's about everyone, and everything, just as "2001" wasn't about outer space, it was about humanity and evolution. Everything you see is just window dressing for the real message-
"Tear down the wall".
This film introduced me to Pink Floyd's music, and to "The Wall", which stands as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. The film is the visual representation of that album...therefore?
It's one of the greatest films ever made, that doesn't require you to know the music, the band, or anything before going in. Just know you will be glued to your chair for the duration, and when it's over?
You will never be the same again.
Movie Review: The Wall-Loving it!
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, it's a strange movie-but my new Pink Floyd fan (15 years old) thinks it's way cool. Package arrived quickly and in good shape-thanks! Movie Review: A mad piece of Cinema!
Summary: 4 Stars
Alan Parker has always had a gift for the integration of music and film, and his efforts over the years have reflected that. Movies like "Fame" & "The Commitments" have made him a director more remembered for his music video skills than his storytelling, even though he directed gripping controversial more seriously films, like "Midnight Express," and "Mississippi Burning."
"The Wall" tells the account of a rock star's breakdown, Pink Floyd slowing down into madness... Pink's madness is illustrated with living flashbacks of his life... He has visions of his childhood from a baby held in the cradle to his present moment... We have little Pink suffering from alienation for the death of his father in the war, and taken under the care of his mother... We have also rock and roll star Pink, who is destroyed by his evident insanity and is driven over the edge by his wife's infidelity and we have a blown insane Pink, a Nazi dictator under the Hammer Regime leading a series of occurrences like raping, breaking and pillaging...
Alan Parker translates the music into memorable images that are insensible to love or pity... All of Pink's life is projected on the screen... We see and hear songs altered from an abstract concept into a disgusting vision of students being thrown into a meat grinder...
Pink constructs the wall by building up tension... In mixing up sexuality and violence, he creates a new window into Pink's character... The animated sequences that reflected Pink's foolishness are important and influential...
Alan Parker's direction moves the story cleverly from the present into the past and into a possible future, drawing a warning, but still contemplating traumas of a child with hurtful effects on the fully grown man... The result is a mad piece of cinema, a kind of a bad dream becoming even worse than usual...
The film exploits great special effects, some frightful and impossible to understand... The music praises the film so well from declaring noisy rock and roll music to quiet ballads of insanity...
Bob Geldof is amazing as Pink, the British rock star broken in pieces under the psychological pressure of an American Tour...
Pink Floyd-The Wall is a bizarre animation reinforcing its vision of an insane, inhumane, unjust and cruel world, not easy to follow...
The film stands out as one of the classic in the teenage scene, specially teenagers who take or receive narcotic and due to its psychedelic nature leaves you greatly depressed...
Movie Review: A twisted and disturbing look into a rock stars life
Summary: 5 Stars
There is not much left to be said about this movie from the many in-depth reviews, to continue to analyze the movie further would be redundant. I will say however, in spite of the actor who played pink doing his own vocals/lines in the movie and some of the songs redone with a more theatrical sound. The movie is perfect, especially since they didn't add any dialogue from what has been done in the album, what you hear on the CD is what you hear in the movie. At some points disturbing though, not something I would suggest children to watch but for anyone who has a love for this band as I do, this is a must-have. If you have an advance stereo system this movie will further the effects. Don't hesitate, buy ASAP, it's well worth the money.