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Summary: WORST HENDRIX DVD
Review: Rainbow Bridge on DVD is the same as on VHS. This movie is really weird alot of it makes no sense. Latter on in the movie you see Hendrix interview about his life which it sounds like he is acting. At the end Jimi Hendrix comes on stage with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox to perform Foxy Lady, New Rising Sun(Hey Baby), and In From The Storm also Red House. On this DVD they just give you short clips of the Hendrix concert its really too bad because the rainbow bridge concert was lost. If your a Hendrix fan then dont waste your time on this crazy DVD. Like I said it has nothing to do with Hendrix. Im sorry if there are no voting buttons but I dont know how to make them. ENJOY!!!!!!!!
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Summary: and the wind cry's....
Review: so loudly you can barely hear jimmy speak. this video was ok if you got it to watch hippies instead of hendrix. The footage is terrible and the sound quality is constantly overmatched by the wind blowing in the mike. Sorry but this ones no good
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Summary: Programming Is The Key
Review: Sure the hippie scenes are silly and embarrassing...
but the Jimi music can't be beat. So, just for
absurd curiosity, watch the whole thing once to determine
which scenes you like...then program future viewings for just
those scenes. The concert on the volcano, of course you want
that; but there are a few other scenes (with Jimi music
as background) that are cool. Two examples are the
"Dolly Dagger" section...Jimi doesn't appear but this section
is good...and also the "Poli Gap" sequence I especially like...
it's a perfect combination of tripping hippies cavorting to
fantastic Jimi blues.
Rating:
Summary: Programming Is The Key
Review: Sure the hippie scenes are silly and embarrassing...
but the Jimi music can't be beat. So, just for
absurd curiosity, watch the whole thing once to determine
which scenes you like...then program future viewings for just
those scenes. The concert on the volcano, of course you want
that; but there are a few other scenes (with Jimi music
as background) that are cool. Two examples are the
"Dolly Dagger" section...Jimi doesn't appear but this section
is good...and also the "Poli Gap" sequence I especially like...
it's a perfect combination of tripping hippies cavorting to
fantastic Jimi blues.
Rating: 
Summary: Hippy Dippy Indeed
Review: The concert footage and the surf footage are worth 3 stars, but the rest of it's just a lot of rambling (The opening scene with the narrator going on and on about the purpose of the film is rather annoying). I wonder what happened to Mitch Mitchell as he looks like was tripping heavily throughout the concert. I recommend the DVD because it has a separate listing for concert footage.
Rating: 
Summary: Nix 'Hendrix'
Review: The reason that there is so much negativity toward this film is for the very understandable reason that its title is "Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge", and the DVD's cover is nothing but Jimi. It was a marketing tool when the picture first came out over 30 years ago, and Jimi is still being used to market the film. It's like all the folks who sat (and still sit) through "La Vallee" just to hear the Pink Floyd score. I guess it doesn't ever occur to them that the film was made for its own reasons and in order to bring the folks in, the filmmakers made sure there was a popular reason. I doubt that 99% of the people who rented this film would have rented it if the title or the cover didn't mention Hendrix. In fact, judging by the majority of the reviews here, I'm sure of it.!As a 'Jimi Hendrix film' this film surely sucks. He's only in about fifteen or twenty minutes of it, it's not one of his best performances, and sadly he seems like he's well on his way to his ultimate fate.
However, if one rents this film for what it actually is; a documentary about hippies and other counterculture enthusiasts and malcontents, it's quite fascinating. The hippie community in Hawaii was even more 'far out' than that of those that were on the continent. It's a world that seems farther away from us today than that of the 1950s (considering how much our society has regressed politically and culturally, that's not so surprising). The film is very disjointed; don't look for any real narrative, but that's part of the scene: spontaneous, spaced out, and experimental. That's it in a nutshell. Jimi Hendrix is just the frosting on a VERY Alice B. Toklas brownie (for you kids, that's a brownie laced with hashish). It all looks kind of stupid and pointless, but then not so much less so than the lame-brained films about twenty-somethings today. Better 'rock-and-roll' movies about this generation are Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriske Point" and Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider", and a great one is Bob Rafelson's "Head" (yeah, that's with The Monkees but it sabotages EVERYTHING and hey, Jack Nicholson was one of the writers!). Still, this film is a neat time capsule. Grab a bong and get it on with someone you love, and you might just enjoy it!
Rating:
Summary: Nix 'Hendrix'
Review: The reason that there is so much negativity toward this film is for the very understandable reason that its title is "Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge", and the DVD's cover is nothing but Jimi. It was a marketing tool when the picture first came out over 30 years ago, and Jimi is still being used to market the film. It's like all the folks who sat (and still sit) through "La Vallee" just to hear the Pink Floyd score. I guess it doesn't ever occur to them that the film was made for its own reasons and in order to bring the folks in, the filmmakers made sure there was a popular reason. I doubt that 99% of the people who rented this film would have rented it if the title or the cover didn't mention Hendrix. In fact, judging by the majority of the reviews here, I'm sure of it.! As a 'Jimi Hendrix film' this film surely sucks. He's only in about fifteen or twenty minutes of it, it's not one of his best performances, and sadly he seems like he's well on his way to his ultimate fate.
However, if one rents this film for what it actually is; a documentary about hippies and other counterculture enthusiasts and malcontents, it's quite fascinating. The hippie community in Hawaii was even more 'far out' than that of those that were on the continent. It's a world that seems farther away from us today than that of the 1950s (considering how much our society has regressed politically and culturally, that's not so surprising). The film is very disjointed; don't look for any real narrative, but that's part of the scene: spontaneous, spaced out, and experimental. That's it in a nutshell. Jimi Hendrix is just the frosting on a VERY Alice B. Toklas brownie (for you kids, that's a brownie laced with hashish). It all looks kind of stupid and pointless, but then not so much less so than the lame-brained films about twenty-somethings today. Better 'rock-and-roll' movies about this generation are Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriske Point" and Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider", and a great one is Bob Rafelson's "Head" (yeah, that's with The Monkees but it sabotages EVERYTHING and hey, Jack Nicholson was one of the writers!). Still, this film is a neat time capsule. Grab a bong and get it on with someone you love, and you might just enjoy it!
Rating:
Summary: A unique document
Review: The reviews of this release, the last quite recent, make for interesting reading. One sequence on the DVD, which appeared in the original theatrical release but was deleted from an earlier Rhino VHS version, has been mentioned not at all. It is a hauntingly beautiful song sung by a charming then-young couple with the line "Where are you going in your rocket ships? What do you expect to find? Another land for you to conquer? You're out of your mind!" This song, nicely captured on the terrace of the Hollywood apartment of the creators of the film, is almost worth the price of the DVD to me, although the Hendrix footage and some of the scenery are not bad either. Other than that, I cannot disagree with most other comments on it - it can be painful to watch - but must note that the word "amateur" derives from a root meaning "to love" and that the mind sets glimpsed here are not purely relics of the "psychedelic sixties." I give it four stars for uniqueness!
Rating:
Summary: A unique document
Review: The reviews of this release, the last quite recent, make for interesting reading. One sequence on the DVD, which appeared in the original theatrical release but was deleted from an earlier Rhino VHS version, has been mentioned not at all. It is a hauntingly beautiful song sung by a charming then-young couple with the line "Where are you going in your rocket ships? What do you expect to find? Another land for you to conquer? You're out of your mind!" This song, nicely captured on the terrace of the Hollywood apartment of the creators of the film, is almost worth the price of the DVD to me, although the Hendrix footage and some of the scenery are not bad either. Other than that, I cannot disagree with most other comments on it - it can be painful to watch - but must note that the word "amateur" derives from a root meaning "to love" and that the mind sets glimpsed here are not purely relics of the "psychedelic sixties." I give it four stars for uniqueness!
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Summary: Rainbow Bridge: The bridge between God and Man
Review: This is a cosmic surfing movie that reflects the 1970 psychedelic conciousness. It's acid soaked. It's highlights: (1) Jimi Hendrix in an outdoor concert; (2) David Nuuiwha surfing smoothly and sideslipping glassy H.B.; (2) Leslie Potts and B.K. surfing Maalaea, Maui; (3) Mike Hynson (of Endless Summer and downrailer(Phil Edward's design, only thin) fame taking the viewer inside the tube; and (4) special effects with the camera that create visual metaphors. Unfortunately, the film is filled with mindless babble about UFO's, astrology, drugs, sex, and ecology. Any real wisdom in the film gets lost among the flotsam and jetsam. Most people should fast forward to the Hendrix concert.
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