Rating: Summary: Radiohead What can you say about this British Band Review: I loved the video and i still watch it. this band is not trying to be anything that they are not. Thom Yorke is a true composer, And he's British thanks very much. Critics should stop trying to compair Radiohead with Pink Floyd or any other band because Radiohead is what people of the 90's are grown up with right now. And another thing Radiohead is all about the music. Critics you can clam that you're a "RAdiohead Fan" but, you're not a true fan if you don't care about the music and so much worry about what thom yorke is going to do next. All in All Radiohead keep producing music and never mind the bolloxs. END a radiohead 100,000,000 fan or maybe number one who knows.
Rating: Summary: radiohead Review: This film's pace and style is very similar to O.K. Computer itself. This movie doesn't set out to document the bands every movement but rather give a visual impression of the band during the skyrocketing success of the album. The movie gives a rather matter of fact view of rock stardom. I got the impression that radiohead are anti-rock stars, but the movie doesn't hit you over the head with this. In fact it doesn't hit you over the head with anything, rather it leaves everything to interperatation.
Rating: Summary: BORING and Pretentious Review: Oooooh, it's so hard being a rock star. Tries to arty, but in reality is a big mess of poor editing and lousy song choices. Maybe I just didn't get it...
Rating: Summary: catharsis... Review: In a music business perpetrated by sham bands built in some record company executive's image, Radiohead is a necessary, refreshing schism from the mold. Their music is honest, intelligent, and real. This video shows the band to be all too human- these five men are no rock stars! Watch for how their moods alter when placed in front of an interviewer's microphone. Will you feel as uncofortable as they appear? just see it...Dan Garavuso
Rating: Summary: An Inevitable Move After OK Computer Review: As a Radiohead fan, I've been looking forward to this video for a while. And when i finally saw it recently, i was pleasantly surprised. The video is more about the inanities and boredoms of being a "rockstar" in this modern life than a video collection or whole live performances. Grant Gee, who directs this video (and other Radiohead videos) does an excellent job at keeping the audience glued to the 'tube with stellar cinematography. A intelligent video from a very talented group.
Rating: Summary: Mesmorizing Review: i didn't really know what i was expecting when I first saw this video, but all i could do was sit and stare at the television! This is a brilliant time killer!
Rating: Summary: Its nice fridge buzz Review: Through the obvious hurdles of this film not being a film about music but rather a film about image Meeting People is Easy shines. Truely if you're a person interested in veiwing this video you allready know the songs by heart, lord knows i do. What Meeting... provides instead is a framework of concept to tell of a band that is mocked everyday by a song now 6 years old, a group of rock-stars paraded about as the best band of the decade who like to sit in hotel rooms and fumble through interveiws, the pastey world of media and the cold indifferent strugel that is The Ok Computer run of 97-98. Enjoy. i know i sure as hell did becuse its a rock-u-mentary for people who don't like rock from the best rock band of the decade for people who don't like rock bands
Rating: Summary: Well-made but could use some extras Review: First of all, let me say how much I enoyed this film as an artistic statement. It accurately captured the core of Radiohead as a musical entity. It uniquely showed the life of Radiohead as a rock band. It also contained a lot of subtle film tricks and "beneath the surface" effects that reflected the mood and genius of OK Computer. (One example off the top of my head would be the abrupt beginning and ending of live shows, and then the long drawn out interviews day after day, and playing the same live song over and over which probably meant to show their roller-coaster life). And like OK Computer, the video is an atypical of rock in general. BUT, it lacked a chapter search. The film is an hour and a half.....you gotta have some way of going to a particular location on the DVD instead of the "forward" button. That's annoying. It would have also been nice to have a few full-length live songs instead of just portions of concert footage, maybe as a special feature (the way some films have trailers). The film by itslef is genius and I give it a five. Because of the lack of chapter search and no complete live songs, I give it a three.
Rating: Summary: I Love RADIOHEAD, Hated This "Film"! Review: I only moments ago removed this DVD from my player and whipped it against my living room wall. Grant gee seems to want to convince us that RADIOHEAD made this Grammy Award music by accident and now are being punished for their brilliance.The choppy MTV style editing dosen't suit the band nor the snippets of their music that plays in the background.This "film' serves as nothing but as an infomercial for their next album. There are no redeeming qualities about this "film'. Excuse me while I go vomit.
Rating: Summary: Appalling, pseudo-arty rubbish! Review: 'Meeting People is Easy' is perhaps the most shallow, prententious, pseudo-arty films ever made. Whereas the album 'OK Computer' brilliantly dealt with themes that could easily be related to (such as fear of technology, political frustration, etc), this documentary consistently misfires. The live footage only seems to consist of Thom whining at the top of his voice and the interviews are treated so seriously by the band, the whole endeavour reaches states of self-parody. The attempt to show the difficulty in touring for rock bands fails completely, and the band members, especially the pathetic Yorke, come across as hopeless and ungrateful for the position they are in. Seeing this film has caused me to dread their next release, as it will only mean seeing them become more and more conceited.
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