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Summary: Texas rocks
Review: Loved the glimpse into behind the scenes...TOFOG definitely rocks the house...sounds like they need to be experienced live to be appreciated fully...although trying to get to all the different levels of the DVD was quite a challenge, I'm sure ole Russell is laughing....but the frustration was well worth it...after viewing this can't wait to see them live!
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Summary: Not very much Russell Rent This One
Review: Russell Crowe is a huge movie star and he is the draw to this movie. (And there is nothing wrong with that.) Yet he chose to be in the film very little. He treats himself as a equal to the other band menbers, ( which of course he is not), giving himself very little screen time. Yet, he alone is the reason most people would ever be interested in watching this movie. Crowe promotes the other band members, while he takes a back seat in this film. I guess he thinks it will give his band more credibity. I think he hopes that people care about them based on their music alone, and not his own personal fame. What a joke! If you have never heard TOFOG before, why would you care about anyone else in this film except for the major movie star. When you see the movie, it is obvious,he is hung up about his fame in relation to promoting his band. I found this movie rather boring when Crowe wasn't in it which was a lot.
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Summary: A cross between Myst and Spinal Tap
Review: This is quite the fun little DVD, an odd cross between the computer game Myst and the rockumentary, Spinal Tap. Having not been terribly impressed with the band's last cd release, "Bastard Life or Clarity", I was pleasantly surprised to see energized performances contained in this enterprise. The band is loud, forceful and nearly always on tune, and when they're not, the fans at the taped live performances are there to drown out the errant notes.That said, I've never had to work so hard just to get to the end of a DVD. The promise of hidden videos kept me listening and watching, over and over again, to the same tracks in order to "drill" down (can we say Freudian?) through virtual layers of "rock" (yeah, yeah, we get it- sex and rock and roll, the grunts are clearly masters of the pun) to get to those videos. The gamesmanship in me came out as I became determined to locate every one of the hidden tracks, even traveling to [gruntlands site] for clues on what order what tracks needed to be played to get to the next layer of hidden files. The journey was worth it though, as a number of often crude, sometimes hilarious, and otherwise highly entertaining moments of the band's life on tour and in the studio emerged. Then I got tired of working that hard and figured out the obvious way (geesh what a dummy I was) of how to locate the last few hidden tracks. All in all, this one is well worth the cost and effort involved in enjoying the grunts.
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