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Summary: Classic performances...but
Review: Obviously this stands as a document of the time and the music, and is a mandatory purchase for anyone who was a part of the 60s, or a fan of the music. From a quality and technical standpoint, this could have been produced for much better for the DVD release. Thus a 3 star rating.1. Even in 5.1, the sound quality sucks! The intro of CS&Ns "Lone Time Gone" sounds crackley and muffled, and is only the beginning of the lousy sound throughout. 2. Since the original release only utilized part of the screen, when put in widescreen, the film is shrunk down. There is actually more black screen than picture! 3. The additional footage was placed poorly into the movie, very uneven flow. 4. Not enough footage of Janis and others, and very few bands are actually represented in the film. No additional footage for The Band, the Dead, Sweetwater, and many others that could have been included for this release. Much of this was aired on PBS a few years back, but not included in this version.
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Summary: Great music video
Review: I have a Sony VAIO that I use as a multimedia center on plane trips and at work, to listen and watch. Woodstock is a great find, that can be watched as a movie, listened to as music. I have two children, and the movie serves as a good explanation of the confusion of the times.
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Summary: They cut the good stuff
Review: I purchased this DVD with high expectations, and was very disappointed. The directors cut seems to have lost lots of the good stuff from the original, like Arlo Guthrie's live performance of Coming Into Los Angeles has been replaced with the studio version (which sucks). It coulda been a contenda...
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Summary: Woodstock 1999? Huh?
Review: Having been in Vietnam in1969 i did not have a chance to actually go to woodstock.I waited almost 30 years before i saw this documentary.This is the kind of experience that one has to open the mind and heart and close off all pre-concieved ideas,prejudices,religious and any and all other ideas and thoughts and just (to quote the hippies)go with your feelings.This was a once in a lifetime experience that will likely never be back again.360,000 young people(and some not quite so young)brought together for three days love,music,drugs and rock and roll.Even disallowing all the illecit drug use(the reference to the "bad acid"(not poisoned)just bad.One can watch this movie and maybe get just a small glimmer of what was occuring those three days.I finished movie and for a good week could not quit thinking about what i had seen and heard.Young girls and boys swimming in a lake naked,people getting rained on and instead of griping and complaining making a game of it! Feeding each other,both physically and spiritually and emotionally and no one getting hurt.My God! Where has this country gone wrong in the last 30 years?Maybe only people from my generation can truly understand what happened then.I am passing this movie around to friends and people at work ,some whom are my age and others much younger and they seem to really get into it(oops another hippie slang-sorry)Watch this movie-if only for your own peace of mind!(Yeah i borrowed part of that last sentence also) P E A C E
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Summary: good, but not as great as many may think
Review: I don't know about everybody else ,but i personally feel that woodstock was far too hyped about and over rated (which most definitely ruined the franchise in '99). Though some great artists were there and the music was excellent. I've seen both the woodstock film and the isle of wight film (The british woodstock),,, I'd probably prefer the isle of wight festival because it was the biggest and the last of its kind and because i genuinly felt the music was better (The doors, ten years after, Free, the who, joni mitchell, joan biaz, miles davis, tiny tim etc etc. and of course Jimi Hendrix jamming in one of his last live performances) though that's only in my opinion. I advise all those who have seen the woodstock feature to watch the isle of wight festival feature as well....see for yourself
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Summary: Back to the garden....
Review: I've seen the Woodstock documentary innumerable times. It's a fantastic look at a once-in-an-eternity event. Two things about it frustrated me however: (1) the sound was awful, and (2) I longed to hear the REST of the music. My fantasy is that they will someday (maybe for the 40th anniversary?) release a marathon 20-tape package of the entire 3-days of music, beginning to end, good or bad! I'd love to hear the whole sets by Santana, Janis, CSN, etc. In the meantime, this greatly improved Director's Cut will do. The sound has been cleaned up, and lots of music (Hendrix's set is a highlight) has been added. A great documentary gets better. Thank you!
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Summary: DISHONEST
Review: There are many good things to say about this rockumentary: we were all surprised by the high quality production; the finest performances were showcased with startling clarity; and the editing was incredible. But wow! What was hyped as an honest recollection of the events up to and including the concert turned out to be the very commercialized effort it was thought to protest against. Nothing was said of the capitalistic negotiations that made the festival possible. The few scenes of litter made it look as though it was a "KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL" rally, when in fact it was not. The politicking by the bands was ignored, and the salesmen must've vanished for awhile. Rather sad for those of us who thought this was as much a political convention as a show. It was a muddy good show though...thats about it. Nothing good came of it. A wretched poor document.
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Summary: if you like good music and fun you'll like this video
Review: it's not as good as the real thing but it's pretty clos
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Summary: relaxing
Review: I love the whole movie, wish I had been there. The music will survive to amaze my children as it did me.
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Summary: This video takes you back in time and plants you in 1969
Review: Sit back , relax , and get ready to be taken back in time. The year is 1969 and the scene is the legendary Woodstock Festival of 1969. This legendary Rock Documantary is "as good as it gets". It is some of the best Rock footage ever caught on tape. The performance of "were not gonna take it" by the Who is one of the standouts of this four hour long film. Almost all of the performances will blow your ears off but what makes this vidoe so special is you feel as if you are inside the heads of the 300,000 plus people that made it to the festival that August in 1969 while the Vietnam War was going on thousands of miles away. One scene in particular stood out in my mind which was the "Acid warning". The crowd was alerted , by a man on stage , that the black acid tabs my not be very good. He gave the warning and said that it was your trip so do what you want. The calm and stoic way he spoke of the black acid problem personified how different the thinking of drugs was back then and how the hippie movement was now in full swing. Love, sex, and drugs ruled this 3 day festivel. I recommend this video to anyone who loves the Rock and Role of the 1960's and wants to be taken back to some of the best times ever.
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