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Summary: What a waste!
Review: Disappointed and amazed are the two words that best describe my feelings toward "Meeting People Is Easy". I am amazed that some people actually liked this. Regarding the DVD, there is only one long, continuous chapter, and no time counter, so you can't even look at the clock to see how much longer you have to endure this out-of-focus, mostly black-and-white boring background footage. True, there are some good concert bits, but they are left to a maximum of 30 seconds, and the incessant interviews are barely legible. The emphasis here, believe it or not, is on the mundane nature of touring, the boredom of publicity, meeting record reps, and the stupid interview questions (with no answers) that go with touring. If you like Radiohead, which I do, this DVD could actually lower your opinion of them, which I hope wasn't the intention of the director, but is certainly the result this ugly mess of bad editing and poor video clip choices had on me. It seems to be a cinematic experiment gone bad. Let's hope a good documentary can one day be made on this excellent band.
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Summary: Great vision by Grant Gee
Review: The constant flow of Radiohead music sets the seen for behind the scenes footage of Radiohead on their OK Computer Tour. Must have for Radiohead fans.
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Summary: A Perfect Extension of the Album's Themes
Review: Whoa. I just finished watching this DVD and was very impressed. You will not see any in depth formal interviews here or analysis of the music. You will get to know the band, but that is not really the point. This DVD is an extension of the themes in the music and builds nicely on the concepts of chaos and loss of control from OK Computer. It is brilliant and blisteringly chaotic. A film to make Lovecraft proud. This video reminds me of Dylan's Don't Look Back, with the lame press interviews and some desperate philosophising, but a level above that, way above. This is much more intense.There are some beautiful scenes here too. One after another--the pace is exhausting. The scene in the german night club blew me away. The camera starts outside on the side walk and slowly floats into the club centering on Thom who is on stage gesturing the lyrics of Creep to a non-english speaking audience. The music hits climax, the stage is covered in a blinding white light, and the camera slowly backs out of the club and stops at the side walk where it started. Phew. I was shaking my head in amazement at the richness of this scene. There are also a few shots of audiences from Thom's perspective. Surreal and scary. The out takes from the no surprises video are a nice touch as well. All I can say is this is intensely beautiful somber. Poetry in every way. Check it out!
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Summary: Radiohead Yes, Rock Journalism (& Grant Gee) No
Review: A film which doesn't do justice to the music of Radiohead - ifyou don't know the band, this is not the place to start. Much tooartful for its own good. Chief irony: while Thom Yorke, et al. explain several times how the music is the important thing, you get driven to distraction by all the out-of-focus shots camera shots and assorted irrelevant pictures! Also, if you ever had a doubt how dumb rock journalism is, this is the film to see. One stupid question after another. . END
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Summary: For Radiohead Fans Only
Review: I loved this movie to death. It was very emothional. When I saw the band playing live on the few live shots of them playing, I was amazed. By the end of the video I was singing right along. The ending with Exit Music (For A Film) is brilliant. However, I was disappointed in the lack of concert shots and interviews. There is a lot of off the wall pictures and things that I personally liked, but in a sense it has nothing to do with Radiohead. Nevertheless, it was well worth the buy, and then some. The reason I give it four stars is because it probably won't appeal to fans looking for interviews and music only. It is a great movie so I recommend it. It may even interest your friends in Radiohead, if they ever sit down and watch it all the way through. Thanks.
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Summary: Post-modernism a la Tom York
Review: Blending Radiohead's moody melodies with frenetic cinemaphotography, this tape becomes more a statement and expression of Radiohead's vision than just a casual following the band with a camera. It's an artful blend of sound and images, with some unintentional comic relief by Tom York trying to stay underwater in their "No Surprises" video. I felt that I came a little closer to understanding his dark vision after watching him choke in his water helmet. The only downside is because it's so artfully blended, the music sometimes becomes more a backdrop to the images. I was thrilled to hear their excellent live version of "Karma Police" on the David Letterman show, but frustrated when it too was blended into a backdrop for the overall statement of the documentary. I highly recommend it, not specifically for hearing their music, but for bringing Radiohead's true message closer to its fans.
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Summary: Just your average, run - of - the - mill rockumentry
Review: How disappointed I was when this video finally arrived. Whilst I was expecting to find an intelligent insight into the makings of Ok Computer and the subsequent touring... all I found was a typical rockumentry. When I say typical, I mean a film that speaks nothing of the band as a whole but instead is a showcase for the director's arrogance. In it's entirety, I'd estimate that in the 1 1/2 hours of screen time, there was probably about 35 minutes of the band speaking about their thoughts on life and fame... whilst the rest of the time was devoted to Grant Gee shooting scenes that bared no relevance to the band. When I read the caption: "A film about Radiohead", I was expecting to find in depth interviews with each band member... after all, Grant Gee did spend a fair amount of time with them. However, all I got was a bunch of images set to music for an hour and a half.
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Summary: Photography that fits the mood of Radiohead's 1997 "OK Compu
Review: Grant Gee, the director, was brilliant in his "rockumentary." The overlapping of amazing music with amazing photography. It is as if the music was written for the film. Following Radiohead's every movement of their OK Computer tour, Grant Gee showed everything not cutting out anything, except for some footage of them bitching about someone and some of the No Suprises behind-the-scenes footage, but that only due to the fact that they had to. This movie is put through the roof with such creativity flowing through out it. As long as you like Radiohead, possibly even if you don't, you will greatly appreciate this movie. Filled 95% with Radiohead's music, except their is about 4% where there is some other song by somebody
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Summary: Enlightening
Review: I just got this DVD in today. It runs about 95mins and is a great look into the lives of Radiohead. There is some footage from some of their concerts and few splices from interviews. It really got me to thinking about life in general at the end of the 20th century and what industrialization has done to civilization. Definitely pick this up if you're a fan of the band. . . And be prepared to receive a great deal of insight.
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Summary: The filmaker thinks he's great...
Review: and he keeps trying to show it to us. I was disappointed. I kept looking at the clock. Sound was bad. I could hardly hear the dialogue sections. Music was good but, there wasn't enough! Live clips were cut to thirty second bites, as if the maker doesn't like the music.
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