03-26-2015, 03:40 PM
Another film on the 366weirdmovies list. And nope, however it’s possible, I hadn't seen it.
This is wonderfully, dizzyingly depressing. I know DM sets high standards for hallucinogenic scenes. Here I’ll hazard a guess that this stands tall in (if not fills) his weapons rack (or medicine cabinet).
Requiem for a Dream was a very depressing movie that somehow, for me (your mileage may vary), was trippy and fun to watch. The Wall falls in that category. Maybe a great soundtrack makes all the difference.
One recent reviewer made the comment that The Wall comes across edgier and more daring now than it did back when first released. I tend to agree. Today’s young generation strikes me as very tame. It helps that the grim specter of the draft doesn’t hang over them, and that social media has in large part usurped their reality. Then again, maybe I’m just an old fogey thinking things were different back in the day when in fact, as the Talking Heads put it, it’s “same as it ever was.”
I’d love to have been a fly on The Wall (an incredibly bad pun, I know) during the shoot. According to what I’ve read, Roger Waters was originally going to star, but after some test shooting he was replaced by Bob Geldof. Thereafter, director Alan Parker and Waters clashed nonstop. Parker called the shoot the worst experience of his life. As for Waters, to this day he considers the movie a poor rendering of The Wall as he envisioned it.
Still, the result seems monumental to me. Like Gone with the Wind, it succeeds despite all the on-the-set problems.
Enough preaching to the choir (certainly all of you have seen this). In summary, a great emotional roller coaster ride through dark genius.
Oh, and there’s a dog!
This is wonderfully, dizzyingly depressing. I know DM sets high standards for hallucinogenic scenes. Here I’ll hazard a guess that this stands tall in (if not fills) his weapons rack (or medicine cabinet).
Requiem for a Dream was a very depressing movie that somehow, for me (your mileage may vary), was trippy and fun to watch. The Wall falls in that category. Maybe a great soundtrack makes all the difference.
One recent reviewer made the comment that The Wall comes across edgier and more daring now than it did back when first released. I tend to agree. Today’s young generation strikes me as very tame. It helps that the grim specter of the draft doesn’t hang over them, and that social media has in large part usurped their reality. Then again, maybe I’m just an old fogey thinking things were different back in the day when in fact, as the Talking Heads put it, it’s “same as it ever was.”
I’d love to have been a fly on The Wall (an incredibly bad pun, I know) during the shoot. According to what I’ve read, Roger Waters was originally going to star, but after some test shooting he was replaced by Bob Geldof. Thereafter, director Alan Parker and Waters clashed nonstop. Parker called the shoot the worst experience of his life. As for Waters, to this day he considers the movie a poor rendering of The Wall as he envisioned it.
Still, the result seems monumental to me. Like Gone with the Wind, it succeeds despite all the on-the-set problems.
Enough preaching to the choir (certainly all of you have seen this). In summary, a great emotional roller coaster ride through dark genius.
Oh, and there’s a dog!
I'm nobody's pony.
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