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The Wall
« on: 30 Jan 2007, 06:02 »
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.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #1 on: 30 Jan 2007, 07:21 »
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.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #2 on: 30 Jan 2007, 07:24 »
Everyone in high school used to get high and watch this.

I have never seen it.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #3 on: 30 Jan 2007, 08:48 »
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.

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Re: The Wall
« Reply #4 on: 30 Jan 2007, 11:37 »
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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Re: The Wall
« Reply #5 on: 30 Jan 2007, 15:37 »
Not bad, though. By that point, you've made to almost the end of the movie. "The Trial" is the last song.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #6 on: 30 Jan 2007, 16:31 »
I watched it sober. It was pretty confusing, to be honest. It's more like one gigantic music video, there's pretty much no dialogue that wasn't already part of the music.

I MEAN

DUDE DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE WALL TOTALLY SYNCS UP WITH THE WALL

HOW THE FUCK DID THEY DO THAT
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #7 on: 30 Jan 2007, 17:02 »
I TRIED THAT ONCE, BUT I STARTED AT THE SECOND ROAR OF THE LION, NOT THE THIRD.

But seriously, I never saw the movie. The album is bloody brilliant, though.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #8 on: 31 Jan 2007, 08:53 »
I think the album is a masterpiece, totally five-stars, though not their greatest. The film, I think, is somewhat essential to the Floyd experience. I think any Floyd fan, particularly a Wall lover, should see the film once just to get a handle on it.

I saw this on prom night with a girl I wanted to bang, but never did because I had a girlfriend already. It was still a good night. The film is pretty cool. Plus it has 'What Do We Do Now?,' which I always thought was better than 'Empty Spaces.'
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #9 on: 31 Jan 2007, 22:49 »
Loved Pink Floyd: The Wall. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #10 on: 31 Jan 2007, 23:59 »
Quote from: Storm Rider on 30 Jan 2007, 16:31
I MEAN

DUDE DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE WALL TOTALLY SYNCS UP WITH THE WALL

HOW THE FUCK DID THEY DO THAT

What's truly amusing is that it doesn't.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #11 on: 01 Feb 2007, 02:02 »
My favorite part is the bit where it transistions to the animated part the first time (Goodbye Blue Sky) I love how the dove transforms into that evil looking Stealth bomber/ Giant bird,  then the Union Jack morphs into the Grave Stone that starts bleeding, so trippy...

Other cool parts are the scene leading into "Run Like Hell" with the Fascists dicatator and the part where he rings up he's wife and hears another mans voice on the phone, that bit where he just drops the phone and slides down the wall is really good, then theres the trippy sequence afterwards with the flowers.

all in all quite a well done film.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #12 on: 01 Feb 2007, 06:53 »
I really quite liked it... but then again, I love weird movies. It's definately a crappy movie though. At least they had that kickass animation to spice things up.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #13 on: 01 Feb 2007, 07:44 »
Love the album, merely like the film. I do wish they had included 'When The Tigers Broke Free' on the album rather than forcing you to buy the bloody soundtrack to hear it.
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Re: The Wall
« Reply #14 on: 01 Feb 2007, 14:08 »
Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 01 Feb 2007, 07:44
Love the album, merely like the film. I do wish they had included 'When The Tigers Broke Free' on the album rather than forcing you to buy the bloody soundtrack to hear it.

Or Echoes, or the rerelease of the Final Cut, or the single...but then only one of them was available at the time.

Either way, it's a wonderful track. One of my favourite Floyd numbers.
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