The Wall Movie: Good, Bad or Ugly? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The Alan Parker produced movie based on Pink Floyd's The Wall gets little mention here. What's your opinion?

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I liked it. The Gerald Scarfe animation sequences are great. The scene where Pink (Bob Geldof) shaves off his eyebrows with a bloody razor was quite memorable.

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I like it, Probably give it a 7.5 on a scale of 1-10. I thought the animated sections were great & really helped pull the film together. I remember going to a midnight show with some friends when we were in high school. Good times !

The guy who animated for it also was lead designer on the Disney Hercules movie.

I only saw it once and that was a long time ago(mid to late eighties I think). I remember liking it. A bit dark maybe but I think it worked as strange as it was at times.

Also, I think it was only released on video in the US. I don't think it ever came to theaters(maybe a select few night time showings though). I only saw it because my uncle was(is?) is a big Pink Floyd fan and he had it on video(vhs).

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - February 15 2021 at 13:51

I rate it 6/10. Pretty good, but rather depressing.

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I think Parker did a great job of translating the material to a visual medium in this format.

He most certainly did, especially when you consider that Waters spent most of the time wanting to garrotte him LOL

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The film is very good, although I think it would have been "better" if folks had been able to see it in the very early days, when the music was augmented with a lot more speakers and the sound went all over as it used to in PF concerts.

Seeing it in video, for example, is not that great an experience by comparison ... but the animation material was tremendous ... absolutely fantastic.

The film experience, was far better than ANY concert, at the time ... which kinda made the story a bit disjointed, but it worked. In LA, the Wall idea did not fare too well against the media, but the shows were sold out so far in advance, that no one could really say a whole lot more ... except how many people got busted at the door of the concert hall. It ought to tell you the media madness against the "hippie" thing in a few years before, but in this case PF was not going to be denied ... it was better than anything the media could have said or tried to say to hurt it.

It was also an incredible play for the FM radio stations in those days ... unbelievable ... and 2 long cuts got the immediate attention.

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I saw the movie when released with some Floyd heads and we loved it, being well versed in the album. I believe the album was released in 1981 and the movie in 1984 or 1985. Afterwards, I saw the movie again with my brother. He was working on his masters degree at that time while also working part time and never had time to even listen to the album. He was a Floyd fan from way back, like me. He couldn't follow the storyline of the movie and was confused by the narrative. I always wondered if any others not familiar with the album felt the same way as my brother.

Edited by SteveG - February 15 2021 at 20:02

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very very very very very very very very good

deeply inspiring

makes me want to make a movie

the way the visuals relate symbolically in ways you may not expect makes me very happy

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