Shine A Light
Last night I saw "Shine A Light" in all it's iMax'd glory. Or semi-glory. Don't get me wrong, it looked great. But it also looked like a glorified cell phone commercial.
1. The crowd. Or at least the front rows. All young, hot chicks. Thats fine. but they weren't even rocker chicks. They were bland banana republic oatmeal chicks with stones baby doll t-shirts on. It was more like product placement then a crowd.
2. The music. They sounded like a wedding band. It wasn't just Mick, Keith, Ronnie & Chuck -it was them and about 20 other musicians. I'm all for backup singers and a horn section to add spice to a few songs, but the show as a whole was too polished and over-produced.
3.Buddy Guy freaked me the fuck out. There's one point where he his blood-shot stoney eyes just stare into the camera and Scorcese holds that shot for way too long. It may not seem like a big deal, but remember, his face is two-stories high in the iMax theater. I began squirming.
Negativity aside, Keith Richards is hilarious. As is the deadpan antics of Chuck Watts. I wish there was more of them.
And Mick totally still cuts a rug. And I found it adorable how geeked Jack White was to be there. He seemed to be fighting a big goony smile the whole time.
The thing about iMax is you catch everything--i.e jack white and the onstage altercations and conversations between the band that you wouldn't normally catch. And the super dorks in the crowd.
If you can spare $16, go see it, but I wouldn't loose sleep over missing it.
1. The crowd. Or at least the front rows. All young, hot chicks. Thats fine. but they weren't even rocker chicks. They were bland banana republic oatmeal chicks with stones baby doll t-shirts on. It was more like product placement then a crowd.
2. The music. They sounded like a wedding band. It wasn't just Mick, Keith, Ronnie & Chuck -it was them and about 20 other musicians. I'm all for backup singers and a horn section to add spice to a few songs, but the show as a whole was too polished and over-produced.
3.Buddy Guy freaked me the fuck out. There's one point where he his blood-shot stoney eyes just stare into the camera and Scorcese holds that shot for way too long. It may not seem like a big deal, but remember, his face is two-stories high in the iMax theater. I began squirming.
Negativity aside, Keith Richards is hilarious. As is the deadpan antics of Chuck Watts. I wish there was more of them.
And Mick totally still cuts a rug. And I found it adorable how geeked Jack White was to be there. He seemed to be fighting a big goony smile the whole time.
The thing about iMax is you catch everything--i.e jack white and the onstage altercations and conversations between the band that you wouldn't normally catch. And the super dorks in the crowd.
If you can spare $16, go see it, but I wouldn't loose sleep over missing it.
posted by BAM! at
4/28/2008 10:11:00 AM
1 Comments:
Good observation on the fans. The first few rows of fans were picked ny Scorsese personally from a newspaper add. They were also paid $100 to be in the first few rows and look pretty. They were basically paid extras.
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