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Summary: PUT IT THERE...WAYYY OVER THERE!
Review: Yet another excrutiatingly painful concert film from Macca, except this one's probably his MOST painful. Solid performances by the band are constantly undermined by poor picture quality and prickly backstage cut-aways. Just AWFUL.
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Summary: The more I watch it, the more I love it ~!!!!!
Review: I was there at this concert, just by the front stage 4th row. This was my 3rd time seeing him in concert tour. Each has a great memory, and each made me a deeper person, and developed me more emotional attachment to his talent, his music, art, his life, and my life. This film is of course no exception. I am sure it is for everyone else who admire, and loves his music, and also has been living with his heart. If you went to his concert, well here it is for you to keep it for life. If you missed his last tour, well, here is your chance. Paul is simply.......magical.
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Summary: It's all too much....
Review: Would have loved to have just the concert. Concert footage is chopped up with interviews and fluff pieces that make the video unenjoyable for those of us that weren't lucky enough to be there. The interviews just get in the way of any flow the concert probably had. (and let's not forget the plethora of crowd shots)
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Summary: Great audio, Video disappointing.
Review: I was looking forward to see this concert video; I have a large collection of concert videos and enjoy watching them. The disc itself has plenty of interviews and special features. Sound is very good, a little heavy in surround but OK, most concert video are mixed that way anyway. My main complaint of the movie is the video. The camera work looks like it was filmed and edited by high school kids, the camera zooms and all the jumping around is horrible, looks like they tried to copy the camera work in "Law and Order". "Live and Let Die" almost made me sick. Them looks good for "Blackbird". The interviews in-between songs are annoying to me, an option in the menu to watch the concert and concert with interviews would have been great. I do agree with most posts here that there are to many crowd shots. Overall not a bad effort but not on par to the best concert videos out there.
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Summary: I saw the concert and it brought me back!
Review: This DVD was everything I hoped it would be (I only give 5 stars for true classics, so 4 is about as good as you'll get from me). I saw Paul in Boston perform this concert and I remember savoring every second of it, wishing that it would never end. Of course, it did. And the DVD has become my window back to the concert, allowing me to relive it again and again. I'm a big McCartney fan (have been since I was little) and so I can find the positive in just about everything he does. But this DVD rocks. I swear the cars driving by must have heard it booming out of my basement, I had it cranked so loud on surround sound. I loved the cutaways to the behind the scenes - they offered a glimpse as to what made the show so good and were added bonuses to my original experience watching the concert live.This tour, by the way, was a hundred times better than Flowers In The Dirt Tour of the late '80s, which I saw in Worcester, MA. Paul's voice sounds so much better this time around (somehow - he's 14 years older now). And it's much more personal and emotional than other shows, with his tributes to Linda, George and John. Just a fabulous concert, fabulous DVD from one of the fabulous four.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I really don't know what are the some other reviewers talkin' about, the DVD is wonderful! The "interruptions" help us to know a little more about Paul, the relationships with the band guys, and let us know how a 60 years old man that has been one of the biggest pop musician in the world, can keep up singing and playing as great as 30 years ago, and even better! Thanks to shots to the crowd we can get involved many more in the concert, come on Don! if you dislike the interviews, just press the >>| button and you'll go directly to the next song ;) The video and audio quality are superb. I think I don't need to talk about the music. Simply awesome, full of feeling and Paul's voice, in spite of his age, GREAT!
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Summary: Tour documentary, not a concert
Review: I bought this on release day, expecting to relive the concert. What I found was a documentary of the tour with some on stage performances thrown in. It is like a roller coaster ride, song performance - thrilling ride, then back to the tour - OK, song, back to the tour, etc.. After the 5th crazed fan scene, I got the message - Paul is still loved, after the 15th, I got the message already! As far as I'm concerned - It's about the music, and there wasn't enough. Many concert or music documentary productions have a Menu selection to only play the songs, this doesn't even have that. Five ***** stars for the music, ** for the video that kept interrupting the music. Oh, for what could have been.
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Summary: A MUST IF YOU'RE A FAN
Review: Firstly I can't get over the number of mixed reviews here for this DVD. Talk about polarised opinions. It's obvious those who were at the concerts last year expected similar a treatement on this DVD. Whereas the "fan" opinion is opposite. I last saw Paul in concert in 1993 here in Sydney and it was the fulfillment of a dream seeing one of my childhood heroes in concert in the flesh. Personally I enjoyed the DVD speaking as someone who didn't get to see him on this tour as he didn't make it down to Oz this time around. The "interuptions" were OK. I can relate to the comments made by the fans at the concerts..the music touched and still touches us deeply. Let's face it the man is an entertainer first and foremost. Yeah there were a couple of cheesy moments - the zoo apes particularly and it cut into "Hey Jude". The song "Freedom" "may have helped New Yorkers get over 9/11" but it does come across a little too gung-ho and he's a pommy! (Bruce Springsteen's recent CD "The Rising" was probably the best example of how to approach this tragedy musically in a very intelligent, thoughful and non-jingoistic way). The behind scenes stuff puts things in perspective. The audience reactions to the "Live And Let Die" pyros reminded me of my own back in '93. But this is more a rock-umentary than a concert and if one approaches the DVD this way then it can be a very enjoyable experience. It's touching watching Paul's emotional reaction to his crew's "last night heart surprise" during "Long & Winding Road". Yeah he might have an ego but he's a guy that obviously tries to look after his own and his crews actions reflected that. When I heard Paul's ukelele version of "Something" on the CD I was a tad disappointed and annoyed by his approach as a tribute to George. However on the DVD he explains before the song that George was a great ukelele player. Now I understand the nature of the tribute. I'm no longer annoyed & disappointed but I would like to hear a more "serious rendition" of it all the same Paul. He is backed by a great, cracking young band of musicians who are all obviously thrilled at being on the same stage as Sir Paul McCartney. Heck I'm an ex-drummer and I would be ecstatic at such a chance. It's typical of the standard of musicians that Paul has always surrounded himself with going back to the Beatles then Wings and his other touring bands in the 80's & 90's through to the guys he used on his "Cavern" concert and "Run Devil Run" album.
The concert performances are superb. While it may have been great to see the concert from go to whoa for myself I don't mind the approach of this DVD as I find it a little difficult to sit through a whole concert video in one sitting. The interviews ands other bits and pieces broke it up a little quite nicely.
If you are a fan of Paul & the Beatles then buy it because you will enjoy it, particularly from a performance point of view and Paul & gang are really in great form here.
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Summary: Paul and the Band - Great. The DVD - It's not a concert.
Review: Here's the rub - it's not a concert DVD and it's not marketed
that way. It's sold as a concert "MOVIE". It's full of crowd shots during the performances and I hate that. The show is huge in scope, but you don't get the full feel because few cameras were used to shoot this movie. Some of the video is from consumer DV! Some of the concert songs are incomplete. As a movie, it's interesting but not very good. BUT, take this show, shoot it with 20 camera angles and keep the cameras pointed at the stage with wide shots to get all the effects of this fantastic event and multi media staging - you'll have a great concert DVD. I shoot TV commercials for a living. LOCAL TV spots at that. I've never shot anything on a national level and I COULD shoot this thing and make it sell. Because the staging is so incredible, it wouldn't take much vision to do it. If a man like David Mallet had done this show? It's just not a concert DVD. There is only one - and I do mean 1 song - that is filmed with a concert feel and that's
"Maybe I'm Amazed". Only problem is, there's no track list to go to. It's like trying to find a point on a VHS tape. Buy it if you like Sir Paul. Buy it if you want to see what his show might look like with some really talented young musicans for the first time in years. But don't buy it if you want to see his concert. You won't get it. It's that bad.
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Summary: The same as the TV Special?!
Review: Yes, that's right. I taped the special when it aired on ABC last November, and was greatly anticipating the chance to see a complete performance. But alas, it was the very same, only longer. Shame on you Paul. OK, I'll be honest. The interviews and other footage really wasn't that bad. But I still would like to see an official release of an uninterrupted concert. (I have two bootlegs -- Philadelphia and San Jose -- that were filmed in the audience, but they just don't do Paul justice.) I give this four stars because the concert footage that is here is really good, and I especially enjoyed the sondcheck footage, that features Paul singing "Matchbox." But do beware, if you have the TV special then you have almost half of this DVD.
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