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Summary: The Ultimate Elvis!!
Review: This Special Edition is much more than that; It's a whole new movie! It is masterfully re-done--with a perfect build-up from rehearsals to Opening Night. It's the Ultimate Concert--with Elvis in Top Form! His voice is perfect! He's relaxed, funny, looks absolutely awesome, and he's in total control of the whole "Happening"! It is amazing to watch him interact with everyone--and it is equally amazing to see the mutual love and respect between the band, the back-ups, the orchestra and the Man Himself. This Special Edition is a Masterpiece! If you're a fan you will be in heaven...if you're not, then you will at least understand while others are!
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Summary: THIS IS MORE LIKE IT!!
Review: I would have given the original cut of this movie 2 stars. This 'special edition' is a faster moving edit. We are spared the sleep-inducing interviews of fans and hotel employees and we get more Elvis...goofing around and rocking out. Yep, rocking out...gone is the boring ... like "I Just Can't Help Believin'" and we (Mercifully) only get a small dose of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Words". In case anyone has forgotten, Elvis is the "King Of Rock", NOT the "King Of Schlock" and all the ... 'other people's hits' have been replaced with classic Elvis songs. E.g. A longer "Thats' Alright Mama", the complete "Little Sister/Get Back", A great version of "One Night", "Don't Be Cruel",etc. The only reason I have not given this movie 5 stars is because the director left in "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". Otherwise, this is the definitive version of this flick. We also see Elvis meeting and talking to celebrities backstage after the show as the credits roll, and there is a 9 minute featurette with present-day interviews with band members and the film restorer...plus a trailer and notes. RECK-O-MENDED!! Buy It!!
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Summary: sensational
Review: I purchased the vhs version years ago, and I must say that the dvd version is nothing short of sensational. The impression that I got after viewing the show ( with the sound good and loud ) that it was just like being there. Apart from the visual improvement, the sound is absolutly fantastic and a big leap from the original VHS. I can strongly recommend this DVD to any Elvis fan or anyone that enjoys great music of this genre.
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Summary: E shows why he is the King
Review: If there was ever any doubt on who was the greatest stage performer, please watch this DVD, and you will have no doubt. E lights it up from the beginning to the end. I was tired at the end, just from watching it. This DVD really shows E the way he was. Too bad Graceland is only inhabited by tourists, now. It would be great to see E live on the stage, again!
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Summary: Elvis Presley makes a movie about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Elvis That's The Way It Is, is not the same of the other movies he made. This time Elvis Presley plays himself. Elvis made this movie for MGM. The movie mostly shows him in Las Vegas to a show. Elvis Presley does sing in this movie, and he does more of the time. Some or more of the songs in this movie, you might have heard him sing. The songs includes Polk Salad Annie, Little Sister, That's All Right, Patch It Up, Blue Suede Shoes, Heartbreak Hotel and others. He aslo sings, Love Me Tender, All Shook Up, Bridge Over Troubled Water (Did he really recored Bridge Over Troubled Water?), Suspicious Minds, The Next Step Is Love, What'd I say, and Can't Help Falling In Love. Elvis fans can't help falling in love with Elvis. The movie runs about 1 hour and 47 minutes. But in this Special Edition, there are songs that was lost to the fans, until this year. It is like watching a movie on dvd. And you might be watching it on dvd. I don't know that about 31 years ago if Elvis Presey would have know that this was going to turn into a Special Edition some day. And it did.
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Summary: A Much Improved Film
Review: Having seen the original version of "That's The Way It Is", the "special edition" is practically a new film! The annoying fan interviews are gone and what is left is a fantastic concert film showing a very high-energy Elvis. The sound quality is great.... The visual quality is terrific, except for a few slightly discolored scenes (hey, the film was locked in a vault for 30 year, what do you expect?). What you see is a very energetic Elvis.... In fact, if you compare this performance to "Aloha From Hawaii", filmed only two and a half years later, the latter performance seems very sluggish. I HIGHLY recommend the new "That's The Way It Is". It's a lot of fun!
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Summary: * Elvis 'That's the way SE' a European View *
Review: Despite that he never performed in Europe or Asia, in all, never outside the U.S.mainland besides Canada and Hawaii, Elvis was HUGE outside the USA. This documentary of Dennis Sanders, was a joke and boring when it was released in the early 70's. Dennis Sanders treated Elvis's generousity then with an attitude like:"I'm the director, i make the film how i see fit" result: a terrible film wich flopped. It's follow-up a year later "On Tour" was made by someone who wanted to show everybody what Elvis was all about,getting as a reward an Emmy/Oscar for best music-documentary in 1972! This 21st Century version is done by some-one who wanted to make a GREAT Show documentary of World's greatest entertainer. It shows! From the moment it opens with the small text and finishes with "until now" and then re-opens with Elvis doing "mystery train/tigerman"on stage,after that showing Elvis riding to the MGM re-hearsel studio's in his black Stuzhawk car accompanied by the CC-rider intro drumroll, until his stage performances of the Vegas Summer Elvis festival in 1970, You are focused to the screen. This is what the original 'That's the Way'should have been. Capturing an energetic and trim looking Elvis in action like some said: "knocking them dead" In all, if this would open in Theatres Worldwide, it might even top the Elvis Concert who tours the world at the moment with great succes. Hopefully they have in plan a 21st Century version of "On Tour" in the making also. Let's hope so.
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Summary: What could have been
Review: The concept is brilliant - rework the "hatchet" job that Dennis Sanders did on the original movie, cut out all the annoying interviews and fan club meetings and just show Elvis doing what he did best - knocking them dead on stage and in rehearsals. The extra footage, CD quality sound and different camera angles are all done brilliantly (although the sound is a little patchy in places). The reworking of "Patch it up" is worth the money on it's own - it is sensational. Which leaves me with only one very serious criticism,can anyone please tell me why so many of the original songs were cut out? Where is " I just can't help believing" ( arguably his finest live song), "Bridge over troubled water" to name a few? Ultimately these ommissions spoil what should have been the rightful ressurrection of a flawed original. What were they thinking?
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Summary: MAGIC IN EVERY WAY
Review: This movie shows some excellent scenes with 100% picture quality, somewhat non-created 6 channel digital sound but it must be said 'the sound quality of the songs is fantastic' but Elvis I guess Thats the wonder of you! this movie is another memory jerker, clearly bringing to life the Elvis we loved and sadly still miss, I could not help repeating the songs for the sheer delight of going back in time and respecting the King, Elvis lives on and this movie dvd is a classic worth double the selling price, please buy it and enjoy it.
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Summary: The king still the king
Review: this is great dvd of the way the king was. would recomend it to any elvis fan.but one disapointing thing about it is the bonus selection track's are not on it [why not]
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