Alicia
I love this movie so much
Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Tim Kidner
I have an old recording of the original Alan Parker film, brilliant but quite dour and depressing and certainly not for all occasions. It was whilst checking online for a DVD replacement that I stumbled across this gem.With the international line-up (you know who they are, by now!) how could I resist? I think at the time, it was quite expensive to buy on Amazon but I did find a cheaper, brand-new alternative, on a well known auction-style site...The staging is audacious and spectacular, with loads always going on, a feast for the eyes and a good imagining from the original. The (now) familiar music just spills out from it and into the night air and it must have been a real goose-bumped experience for anyone actually there, especially bearing in mind the significance of a big Wall in Berlin tumbling down, brick by brick (which it does!).Yes, it's a Korean release, with indecipherable writing on the case and it wants to play with English subtitles by default - but turn them off and it looks good, when considering it's a relative oldie and is in 4:3 ratio. Sound I found better when tweaked a bit, my oldish Panasonic DVD player having 2 'virtual surround sound' settings, engage the second one and it comes alive, adding a spatial bigness about it all, that helps match the total OTT'ness that you expect with any Pink Floyd/Walters live show.It is odd that I'd never heard of this Live version and I'm so glad I bought it - anyone who even remotely enjoyed the album, or original film will find this immensely enjoyable and more importantly, entertaining. Great Show!
Theo Robertson
By the Summer of 1990 the cold war had ended thus saving mankind from the threat of thermo-nuclear conflict , the Berlin wall had been knocked down and the unification of Germany was underway and how did humanity celebrate these Earth shattering historical events ? With a rock concert ! But it wasn't just any rock concert , it was a rock concert performed by Roger Waters and friends of their own interpretation of Water's masterpiece album THE WALL an album I fell deeply in love with a couple of years previously . Strange as it may seem I never thought about attending the concert in the flesh ( great title for a song BTW ) because the thought of travelling halfway across Europe was somewhat daunting and the thought of watching a concept album about alienation and social isolation being performed alongside 300,000 would have been too ironic even for me so I decided to watch it on television even though the signs weren't good since Phil Collins and a few other big names invited to attend snubbed the event and Waters replaced them with little known acts namely Sinead O' Connor , Bryan Adams and The Scorpions The concert was opened by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC who spent much of the second world war bombing Nazi Germany back to the stone age and who spent the remainder of his life as a selfless charity worker . No doubt this apt introduction revolves around the idea of reconciliation and a new way forward for Europe . Then the concert proper started which was a strange mix of the good , bad and sublime The Good : A Russian red army band performing a rousing version of Bring The Boys Back Home with the wall in the background illuminated with photographs of war , Waters performing his own penned tracks like Another Brick In The Wall Part Three and as a fascist dictator Waiting For The Worms The Bad: I know it's a live concert performed to a worldwide audience of tens of millions and accidents do happen but many of the early tracks were ruined by technical difficulties . Some of the guests were inappropriate like Thomas Dolby and Cyndi Lauper The Sublime : Albert Finney and Tim curry camping it up during the prosecution sequence . The wall being demolished ion stage as Pink breaks out of his barrier of isolation All in all ( Geddit ? ) one of the most spectacular , memorable and just plain bizarre concerts ever performed
squeezebox
If one thing can be said for Roger Waters's solo career, it's that he needs Pink Floyd much more than they need him. Consider post-Waters Floyd's artistic and commercial success without their former front man and chief songwriter, then attempt to make it all the way through PROS AND CONS OF HITCH HIKING, RADIO K.A.O.S. or AMUSED TO DEATH without being forced to turn them off halfway through. Without the creative counter-weight of David Gilmour and the musicianship of Richard Wright and Nick Mason, Waters's solo efforts have been little more than heavy-handed loads of pretension and self-indulgence, with rarely an interesting musical moment.His studio albums are bad, but the true low point of Waters's solo career is this lumbering, pointless waste of time talent and money. Instead of ceasing being a self-righteous jerk for one night, Waters chose to attempt performing Floyd's biggest piece of work on his own, without his former band-mates. Well, not really alone. He managed to get a dozen or so B and C list artists to help him out. The result is so awful, it's painful to watch.I love Cyndi Lauper, but her shrill, squeaky voice kills "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2". Van Morrisson, with his gruff, gravelly voice, is possibly the single most inappropriate choice to cover Gilmour's ethereal vocals on "Comfortably Numb." The Band and Sinead O'Connor stumble awkwardly through "Mother." Worst of all, though, is Waters himself. With his newfound vanity manifesting itself through his blow-dried hair and sunglasses, he seems more concerned with looking cool than doing a good job of performing. Seeing as though he considers THE WALL to be his magnum opus and one of his most personal projects, he lacks much enthusiasm for performing it. His renditions of most of the songs reek of a burnt out performer just going through the motions. Add to that Waters voice, which is more or less shot from years of screaming, and it ranks as one of the most embarrassing performances by one of rock's greatest artists.When Bryan Adams gives the evening's best performance, you know you're in trouble. Adams does a fair rendition of "Young Lust" and it is the highlight of the show. Pretty much all other guest performers either seem disinterested or disastrously out of place. And Waters's choice to feature so many guests came less than a year after he criticized The Who for doing the exact same thing on their TOMMY tour. Hypocrisy and integrity don't mix, and Waters proves it with this disaster.
bzbit
This video will inspire the Pink Floyd and Roger Waters fan. The production values are very high, but the video is not overproduced. You will get a birds eye view of one of the best concerts of all time. Most of the guest musicians perform brilliantly and with feeling (E.G. Sinead O Conner, Bryan Adams ,Cyndi Lauper and Thomas Dolby). If you own the album 'The Wall' you must own this video. Become one of the 300,000+ audience members as you experience the wall built in front of your eyes. Even if you prefer David Gilmour's take on Pink Floyd you will appreciate this rendition as a powerful tribute to the album.
