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DisgruntledPorcupine 
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Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:05 |
Talking about the movie here. My family has it's own sort of tradition. We are a very Pink Floyd loving family, and every Christmas my mother, my grandpa, and my uncle would watch The Wall at night. However, my mom would not allow me because she didn't want me to see teh bewbs. However, she finally let it slide this Christmas and allowed me to partake in the tradition. Now I gotta say that it was definitely one of the absolute coolest things I have ever seen. It has a very deep and hard to grasp story, but even without fully understanding it I truly find something special in it. Now I've never liked The Wall album despite being a huge Floyd fan along with the rest of my family, but this movie really made the music work for me even though I do not enjoy the album.
So, out of 10, what would you rate the movie? Discuss.
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Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:06 |
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I would need to watch it again, it's been ages.
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Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:07 |
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8. Great movie, every part of it is great from the animations to Geldof's creepy stares. However, it is rather lacking a little something the album had, not sure what.
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Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:16 |
Wow, I also saw it for the first time in Christmas! But long time from now, Christmas 2005, saw it with my bro. Was blown away and changed me quite a lot, hehe, it freaked me out as well.
9 out of 10, it's not perfect, but it's damn original and love it. I consider the movie to be the "real" The Wall rather than the studio album. I haven't listened to the studio album in ages and I'm not really planning in the future.
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Posted: December 26 2010 at 23:51 |
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On the one hand, I like it more than the album because of Empty Spaces. On the other hand, a lot of it is really quite silly, especially some of the animations. As I recall, quite a bit of the commentary is Roger and whoever else was on there (Bob isn't on it) making fun of the movie. I probably shouldn't vote since it's been so long since I've seen it to give a numeric rating, but I am quite sure the story isn't "deep": it's just presented in a confusing way. There's nothing wrong with being somewhat confusing, but for some reason people a lot of people fail to make this distinction.
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 27 2010 at 12:00 |
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7/10.
It's a pretty good film. The animations are cool and the music of course is excellent. It doesn't quite have the impact on e as it did when I was in my teens, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.
The story isn't really that confusing in my opinion.
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Posted: December 27 2010 at 12:22 |
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6. Not an awful movie, but nowhere near a masterpiece either. I slightly prefer it to the album.
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Posted: December 27 2010 at 15:14 |
True story. I had no interest in the thing even though I was a Floyd fan until I saw it at the student center in college on a VHS played on a small screen TV. Also, it wasn't long after that I was eating out at a Pizza Inn and One Of My Turns was a B side to Another Brick In The Wall in the jukebox. I put my money in for it but it didn't play until we were leaving. 
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Posted: December 27 2010 at 15:54 |
 A Person wrote:
I would need to watch it again, it's been ages.
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manofmystery
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 01:11 |
Inbetween 6 and 7. It's good but not great and also, they left the best song, on the album, out of the movie for some demented reason.
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 01:25 |
^^^^^ well you have a stable family..LOL.....sociallly advanced :-)
I voted, prior to seeing it was the movie but I can now say that consicious awareness of what is right and what is wrong is kinda pretty cool 
Flip the bird to The Wall and any critics..........
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 02:47 |
6/10 is the highest I can give (rounding it up a little bit). The movie may be good, but doesn't really work for me, it even turns me off now and then. For the most part, I like the album better, although When the Tigers Broke Free is missing there.
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 04:05 |
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5/10. It's an ok movie, with some cool parts. My favorite part was Goodbye Blue Skies, that was freaky!
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 04:49 |
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Aside from the animation and the titties...
I went for a seven. I had it on VHS and got the DVD, but I must confess after a while I've lost interest. I still gong back for the a and t on occasion. Then you can supplement it with the tracks that didn't make it into the movie.
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 07:34 |
I've enjoyed it the first time I've seen it and I still enjoy it now. So that's either a 7 or an 8. ... I also have a very soft spot for Bob, but I don't know why. 
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 15:32 |
manofmystery wrote:
Inbetween 6 and 7. It's good but not great and also, they left the best song, on the album, out of the movie for some demented reason. |
Er??? I'm very sure that "Comfortably numb" is included in the movie.
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Posted: December 29 2010 at 09:52 |
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Like you, I've never been a fan of the album, but I love this movie. Mainly the imagery, the animation, and the story is what impresses me so much. A 9/10.
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Posted: December 29 2010 at 11:33 |
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Between 6 and 7. It does have some very cool moments, but I find some of the animations a bit silly. I'll take the album and the live double cd-"Is There Anybody Out There" over the movie.
Edited by yanch - December 29 2010 at 11:34
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Posted: December 29 2010 at 12:11 |
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It's been an age since I last saw it, but I always thought this was the worse of the trilogy of studio/live/film versions.
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: December 29 2010 at 12:41 |
manofmystery wrote:
Inbetween 6 and 7. It's good but not great and also, they left the best song, on the album, out of the movie for some demented reason. |
If you're talking about Hey You, the reason is they shot a scene for the song, but the scene really was pretty useless to the rest of the movie so they took it out. I watched the scene myself, and I agree with leaving it out.
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