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Summary: YYYUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!
Review: RUN SCREAMING! Being a HUGE Radiohead fan, I was excited for weeks when I learned that 'Meeting People is Easy' would be playing at a local theater. I counted the days and, on Saturday night, I finally got to witness what turned out to be the biggest load of CRAP I have seen in a long, long time (Appologies to Thom York and company.)Grant Gee must be in his own little world where everything is a non-stop jumble of sounds and images where nothing ever comest together or ever makes even a scintilla of sense! From beginning to end, it is one big pile of disjointed images and sounds that ends pretty much the way it started..... with a fizzle. Even more shocking was Grant Gee's unashamed extended coverage of both the video and the making of the video "No Surprises" while virtually every other song or video received only a brief moment in this nightmarish theatrical effort. Save your money. If the new music that Radiohead is working on (fleeting moments of which were heard in the movie) is any indication of the quality of their next release, your money will be much better spent on the upcoming CD. BUY THAT INSTEAD!
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Summary: step back for one second....
Review: When all the hype is taken away there stands the music and five guys from england with amazing talent. This video is a disturbing yet brilliant example of what the constant touring and media can do to a musician. Don't just watch this video for concert footage...watch it to get just an inkling of what it might actually be like to be on the road with radiohead. Oh, and if you have epilepsy..then i sugest not watching it at all...
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Summary: For the dedicated
Review: If this video is the same version as the one released in England months ago (makes a change that we actually get something before the U.S) then this is well worth purchasing. It's a documentary more than anything that will give you a good insight into the minds of the band (Thom in particular). However, the best bit for me was when we were shown the band recording their new album - simply amazing. All in all this film was a good experience but prehaps could have shown a few more shots of them in concert. Every Radiohead fan needs to (and no doubt will), buy this video.
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Summary: its rough...
Review: if you have a thing for radiohead, im sure youll like it. if you dont really care for radiohead or dont like them at all, then this video might scare you. its real, and rough.
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Summary: a wonderful window into radiohead and modern existence.
Review: a magnificent film that not only provides the viewer with a greater understanding of radiohead, but also presents a beautiful and sometimes frightening image of our society. grant gee perfectly captured the atmosphere that is radiohead. even an individual who is not a radiohead fan (GASP!) would enjoy this film. .sit back and absorb.
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Summary: a fantastic video about radiohead
Review: it does not really reveal the face of radiohead but it shows how concert is difficult and very tiring. despite of it they still have the fpeach on stage!!!!!
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Summary: Colorless Blue Thoughts
Review: Meeting People Is Easy is an ironic, brilliant and graphical expose of one of post-pops most exploited and misunderstood band of our day; Radiohead!!!! The film dives like a swan into the viscera of depression and holds you there until you are drowning in the deluge of image and sound. One literally has to periodically kick back to the surface of reality for a gasp of air and the comfort of being able to discern between the life of the band and your own. Frenetic, disturbing, and true-to-form, Meeting People is Easy is a poignant and morose portrayal of rock-stardom one would not feign to want. Yet, the images presented in the film are similar to those of car accidents. You want to stop and look.
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Summary: Not your typical band DVD (and that's a good thing)
Review: For those expecting tons of live concert footage or unreleased songs, you may be disappointed. There is some interesting footage that shows the origins of Kid A/Amnesiac, such as the early stages of "Life in a Glasshouse" being written, and Thom Yorke soundchecking "How to Disappear Completely" alone with an acoustic guitar (an amazing scene). I think "Big Ideas" is in there somewhere too. But that being said, this film/documentary focuses more on the band than on their music. And that is what makes it so damn interesting. I think this film can best be explained by describing one scene: the movie fades from live footage of the band (playing "Lucky", my favorite song) into a bunch of press clippings about "OK Computer", most of them claiming to know exactly what the band was thinking behind each song. The pre-eminent (and least pretentious) one says something like this: You're a band. You release your third album, which you quite like. No big deal, that's what bands do. All of the sudden, you're being hailed as the saviors of rock n' roll. That is what this film is about. Almost overnight, Radiohead went from cult favorite to some and "that band that wrote "Creep"" to many, to rock n' roll gods. (Love the scene where they're playing "Creep" in Philly and Thom looks incredibly disinterested as he limply holds the mic to the crowd.) This film documents that journey via following them on their "OK Computer" tour. The best scenes are those of the band being interviewed. Again, and again, and again, and again. At one point they play about 5 different clips of people asking "What does music mean to you?" back to back without playing the response. The point is not to give you some kind of insight into the band persay, but to show the effects of stardom on otherwise ordinary people who are not consumed with being stars. Question after question starts to crack some members of the band. They are all very uncomfortable with their new found celebrity status, and it shows. One interviewer continually badgers Thom Yorke about all the celebrities attending their shows. "So you're not impressed when, say, Tom Cruise is at your concert?" Thom does not look (nor act) impressed and he then explains that in England they do not quite comprehend the god-like status given to celebrities here in America. In the end, celebrities are people like everybody else, just as fallible as you and me. (For some reason that scene reminded me of the Charles Barkely commercial where he said "I am not a role model.") This film is about so much more than music, and that is what makes it amazing. It is about fame and celebrity, about the loss of privacy, about having to live up to unrealistic expectations from people who know next to nothing about you, yet they feel they understand where you're music is coming from completely. The title itself speaks volumes. Meeting people might be "easier" for the members of Radiohead now that they are famous, but what good is it if the people they are meeting are insincere phonies (for lack of a better term) who only want to meet them because they're Radiohead? Are you really meeting anybody worth your time? This DVD was not what I expected but I was more than pleasantly surprised. It seems fairly obvious why "Kid A" sounds as claustrophobic as it does after watching this documentary. If you're a band that went through this, you would make claustrophobic sounding music too.
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Summary: a good doc, but a bit misleading
Review: I am of the opinion that this is not so much "a film about radiohead" as the cover states. This is more of "a film involving radiohead". This film is less aimed at an overall picture of the band, and more aimed at a peek inside their struggle in trying to tour for an album amidst heavy media attention and their newfound "legend" status. As such, the film succeeds in presenting a picture of the tour that is almost as frustrating to watch as it must have been for the band to live. Text interviews and live interview footage are cut and mixed in a dreary repetitive collage that almost numbs your mind. The little bit of concert footage that is present gives the same feeling. You can almost hear Thom saying "do we have to do this song AGAIN?!" when we see the band performing 'Creep' for the third time. At one point, he simply holds the microphone to the audience and lets them sing the chorus.. but it's obvious that he isn't doing it to 'pump the audience up'... he's exposing the tired ritual of a performance for the parody that it is. Through the course of the film, you can see the progression from a band who is modest and quite surprised about the attention that is being heaped upon them, to a band who is almost bitter at the 'responsiblity' that comes with being the darlings of the moment. If you are looking for a VH1 'behind the music' type view of Radiohead, this isn't it. If you're curious about why the band seems so edgy and distant with their music, this glimpse into their frustrations might be an important piece of the puzzle.
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Summary: A great view into a long tour
Review: Grant Gee's "Meeting People Is Easy" shows the side of Radiohead you didn't see during their 1997-1998 "OK Computer" Tour. I went to the very last show of the tour (at Madison Square Garden in New York) and thought it odd that after every song or two, Thom would remark about it being the last show. Now I know what sort of mind-numbing crap these guys went through to get to the end of that tour. "Meeting People Is Easy" shows how Radiohead deal with fans, awards, corporate drones from the label and even getting stopped by security backstage (even though Michael Stipe is with them... yep, they're THAT unassuming). They seem to go out of their way to behave nicely to all the reporters who ask them the stupidest questions imaginable (who ask ridiculous questions like "What is music to you?" and "There's no song called 'OK Computer' on the album...why?"). Gee seems to take to the Radiohead way of thinking right away; the camera angles and grainy picture add to the general weary, claustrophobic feeling the band must have been feeling. Touring the world, everybody in every city wants a piece of them and nobody's thinking about how sick and tired of the whole thing the band must be. In typical Radiohead fashion, "Meeting People Is Easy" is a bit dreary, but with good reason; you'd feel wiped out, too, if you had to deal with all the ridiculousness of touring like they did. Now I know why, at the end of that show at Madison Square Garden, Thom remarked that they were "going home now".
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