Dead Planet

3 hours ago, auslander said:

Apparently it is amazing in Imax. I don't have an Imax screen near me though, but if I had the option I would have held out until I could see it on Imax as that is where the movie was intended to be seen. 

I found the sound mix a bit poor though as I couldn't hear all the dialogue clearly above the music, especiallyin the first act. But maybe the was the cinemas fault.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/07/oppenheimer-director-christopher-nolan-explains-sound-issues-19288038/

2 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

I saw it and have to say that it was good, but it was not perfect by any means. It seemed to jump all over the place, which was quite confusing at times. For instance the Winger segment completely missed out Pull era and just kinda went from 2nd album to being dropped by label. I wonder how much interview footage ended up on the cutting room floor.

It also seemed to pain anyone who came along late 80s like Britny Fox, Slaughter, Mr Big, Damn Yankees and others as not serious musicians and just gimmicks, even though bands like Vixen, Winger & Skid Row all had their debut albums around the same time, and yet those were the bands we were focussing on.

I think the biggest problem with it was, as a retroactive look back it tried to fit over a decade of the music scene into three short episodes, so so much was missed out or glossed over.

It could have done with at least two or three more episodes, especially as so much of the third episode was about grunge taking over. Also the comment that the likes of Garth Brooks was what killed the scene was laughable. Firstly because just because he was massive in USA does not mean he was that big worldwide, and secondly, pop and country artists were always selling bigger numbers than hair metal. I mean as far as I can see, Brooks had an album that was 10 times platinum in USA but Michael Jacksons Thriller is 34 times platinum. Does that mean Michael Jackson killed hair metal?

Saying most hair metal fans started following Brooks instead is also laughable.

 

Yeah this was far from a proper accounting of all the music/bands that came along in the 80s 'hair' music scene and the series could have been 10 eps easily. I agree that they insulted/wrote off a lot of really good bands with some of their comments. But this series was never about covering the whole genre imo....it was about giving a general overview of the scene and they only needed to interview and cover a few bands to do it and I'm not even sure the people behind the camera were even fans of the music so the end result is not as satisfying as it could have been....

I just watched this and it is decent. It's always nice to hear the stories from bands from the best era of rock...

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