Tommy

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Summary: HA HA HA
Review: After hearing such good things about this movie and having a great time being in the stage rock opera i was quite excited about finally seeing it. the after i did i was quite excited about never seeing it again. this movie is a plain example of when directors try to be deep and sybolic and just mess it up royaly. this was honestly the sadest thing i had ever seen. the only reason i didn't stop it after the baked beans scene was because of the soundtrack. THE WHO and Pete towndstead are AMAZING, but the direction was horrific. i honestly felt bad for jack nickolson oliver reed and any other cast member. Ken Russel butchered what could have been an amazing movie. i had to watch like 3 jewison film after seeing this to convince myself that film wasn't a curse on the earth. i wish tht this film could be remade with a director who actually knew what he was doing
THAT IS ALL

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Summary: Um... what did I just see?
Review: I love The Who album "Tommy." The countless hours I've spent listening to it have been great. Then I rented the movie one night since I heard it was so good. I couldn't be any more wrong.

Some performances were great, like Roger Daltry and Elton John, but others are just horrible. Like.... oh pretty much everyone else in this movie.

Then, at the very end, I'm not quite sure what happened. I had to rewind it and watch it one more time to see if maybe it'd make more sense if I saw it a second time. But no.

Too many new songs, all a little flat or melodramatic. And none have the same brilliance that the original songs have. Too much weird stuff. Too many bad performances. The movie's too long, too. It's all so much to take in that the greatness that is the album is completely lost. Waste of your time.

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Summary: It just goes on too long
Review: TOMMY is one weird movie. But it is watchable ... for awhile ... then it just gets so stupid. What is the point of it all? It bombed at the movies, but got some exposure through a quite acceptable soundtrack - which featured the awesome "Pinball wizard" by Elton John.

Overall, Pete Townsend spoilt the original idea of Tommy by doing this movie. If you must see it, just watch the Tina Turner scene.

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Summary: horriable
Review: this movie is nothing at all like the real tommy. it doesnt give the true aim of the who and they latter on refuse 2 endorse the movie as they previousaly did because it did not convey the message they were conveying. the broadway rock opera is amzing and remians my favorite show, even after viewing it numerous times and being on staff as the sound designer for it. so save the money from buyign this dvd of the movie and see it live and in it's true beauty

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Summary: Wow...
Review: I saw this movie because I really like the Who, and the Tommy album... let's just say that this movie... SUCKED!!! it was horrible... none of it made any sense... (one second i have to go throw up) ... ... ... ... I will never see anything that is this bad again! it was just... BAD!! I don't reccomend this to anyone. The music was bad as well... it just wasn't well done at all... i don't think that anyone should have to sit through this horrible waste of time again.

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Summary: What About Ann Margaret?
Review: Long a personal favourite of mine, from the minute my brother brought home the soundtrack back in 1975 I knew TOMMY was something new, different & very special. The film fulfilled every expectation .I always find it interesting to read what people think of films I hold close to my heart & in all the reviews on site I found the most important thing about this film only vaguely referred to. And that is of course regarding the star of the film. Ann Margaret's spellbinding Oscar-nominated performance as Tommy's long-suffering mother who sings her way from rags to riches viciously chewing the scenery all the way. Over the top? Most definitely! But her performance is only in keeping with the tone & style of this bizarre, cruel, spectacular rock odyssey. Roger Daltrey(singing & looking like an angel here)is adequate as a modern day prophet of sorts but thankfully Tina Turner & Elton John are on hand to help fill up the screen until Ann Margaret returns in Act 3 to blow everybody off the screen with the now infamous baked beans sequence. Louise Fletcher had nothing on this performance....BRAVO!!!!!

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Summary: The Who's Tommy is really terrific.
Review: Even though I do not believe Tommy is a pinball god or the new meissiah I still enjoyed this film. First time I saw this I knew only three cast members Oliver Reed, Anne-Margret, and Elton John nobody else. First time I saw this movie I was tapping my foot by the time I heard Acid Queen say goodbye chair and hello dancing. Pros and Cons then followed by the Syponsis and a summary
PROS
1. * Oliver Reed! Oliver Reed! Oliver Reed! Sorry, he's too good-looking.
2. Music! Need I say more? This is a rock opera right?
3. Story. God rest this poor man who spent half his lifetime writing this rock-opera I am surpised his hand didn't fall off.
4. Make-up. I am just naming the special effect make-up that I extremley grew fond of Sally Simpson the girl who got that scar and according to the song took twelve stiches just to mend it. She really looked like she had to get stiches on her cheek. They weren't real, right?
5. Art Design a.k.a Special Effects. SMASH! LIGHT! ACTION, BABY!!!
Cons

1. Bootism
Syponsis
This story focuses on Tommy a boy borned into this world like any other child (Captian Walker, It's A boy!) problem was he became blind the deafness did not pick up quite yet. He was taken to a campsite (Bernie's Holiday Camp) as Frank Hobbs was lifting the kids off the bus he grew paticulary fond of 4-year-old Tommy and then we he saw Nora he immeatidtely became attracted to her and grew attached to Tommy and Tommy dreamed of owning the Holiday Camp DIASTER STRUCK! Seven years old Tommy happily resting in bed now deaf and blind in Frank and Nora's bedroom they were singing to each other over commitment (1921) the only thing Tommy could see was dark shadows so he slowly crept into his parent's bedroom Frank knew right away that Tommy heard it and saw it (What About The Boy?) Nora and Frank spefically told Tommy he didn't hear it, he see it and he won't tell no one about it. The rest of the story is simple they worship the ground he walks on, he can play a good game of pinball and he regains his sight and hearing.
Bottom Line: Great Music! Terrific Cast! This isn't just a foundation it's just a few great things in this musical. Buy it, rent it do anything to see it and give it a chance.

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Summary: Pretty good Rock Film
Review: This classic rock oprea made in 1969 turns into a film in 1975. Great cast in this film such as Eric Clappton, Elton John, Tina Turner, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Roger Daltrey, and a short scene of Arthur Brown(Had hit "Fire"). The songs are great but the song "1921" is "1951". This film starts with it's romatic begining to it's bloody end. Tommy is a classic rock film a will be forever.

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Summary: Tommy...
Review: This is one of the rock operas EVER. The songs are lyricly wonderful but ANN MARGERT SINGING ROCK IS JUST EVIL!!!!!THERE ARE ONLY 3 GOOD SONGS ON IT IM FREE,ACID QUEEN,AND PINBALL WIZARD. ELTON JOHN'S CHARACTER WAS WEIRD I THOUGHT HIS DAD DIED IN A WAR INA PLANE!THEN HOW COME I SAW BERNIE HIT HIM WITH A LAMP KILLING HIM. AND ALSO THEY NEVER STOP SINGING! EVER!!!!!
INSTEAD OF BUYING THIS...DROP [$$] ON THE WHO'S GREATEST HITS OR PINK FLOYD THE WALL

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Summary: Tommy is dated!!
Review: I recently purchased "Tommy" the movie and had some friends over to watch it....wow....was this movie dated....it was a lot better in the 70's when we were all stoned out of our minds....sitting thru the movie was like sitting thru a dentist visit, although we all had a good laugh watching the over acting of Ann Margaret....and Oliver Reed....during the song "I'm Free" (which by the way is the most rocking song in the movie) Roger Daltry is running on air and on fake water and stuff which is really bad....perhaps we should have gotten stoned first....like the good old days!!