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valley_parade:
I just..don't. get it.

I'd never seen it before, and VH1 Classic had it on last night at 8, so I figured I'd watch it instead of hockey, something to do before Tony Bourdain came on.

I had nightmares, man. It wasn't at all plesant.

Orbert:
The original album was a semiautobiographical story by Roger Waters set to music. It explored the reasons why a person might decide to build a psychological wall around himself, having determined that the pain life can deal you is not worth the few moments of pleasure, so it's best to just shut everything and everyone out. It necessarily dug into the death of his father, his overbearing mother, his crappy schooldays, and his lousy luck with women. It was monumentally depressing, but had some good music and was great therapy for Waters to write and produce with Pink Floyd.

When they made the movie of it, they apparently decided that if depressing and twisted is entertainment, then making it ten times as depressing and twisted would make it ten times better. They were wrong. I think the album is great, though I don't listen to it as much as I used to. The movie has some good ideas, but they just took everything way, way too far.

JJMitchell:
Everyone in high school used to get high and watch this.

I have never seen it.

guywithoutsocks:
I think that the film is interesting for a number of reasons that have very little to do with its actual content, more about how it reflected the state of the band at the time.  It also has some sentimental value to me, for other reasons.

One of the local theaters used to have midnight movies, where they'd show non-first run films; The Wall was one of these, and I rather enjoyed the spectacle of the film on a large screen.

Hat:
I am not capable of watching this movie. When the judge/giant butt and testicles shows up, I just cannot deal with it, it triggers some primal fleeing instinct.

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