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edenfalling) wrote2010-08-08 12:17 am
edenfalling) wrote2010-08-08 12:17 am
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not exactly a review of "It Might Get Loud"
A couple weeks ago my coworker MS loaned me a copy of It Might Get Loud, which is a documentary thing about three rock and roll guitarists: Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin and the Yardbirds), the Edge (of U2), and Jack White (of the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and whatever his latest project is called... the Dead Weather, maybe?). Now, while I have been a musician and have even studied some music theory (ages ago, and I've forgotten most of it), I am only a casual music fan at best, even of music I really like. But U2 and Led Zeppelin are definitely among the favorite bands I do not have. :-) (As for Jack White, well, a lot of his music is good, some other songs are not to my taste, and his particular brand of theatricality bugs me, so overall I am neutral on him.)
Tonight the weather and my energy level finally conspired to let me watch the film at a reasonable volume early enough in the evening to not royally piss off my neighbors. So that was nice.
It's a bit rambling and piecemeal as a film, and while it bills itself as a conversation among the three guitarists, it's more like a bunch of individual interviews (done on location at various scenes from their pasts, their studios, their homes, etc.) plus fragmentary excerpts from the conversation they had when they met in a studio to be filmed. And some of it doesn't make an awful lot of sense if you don't already know a certain amount about their life histories and the bands they've been in. (I suppose the idea was that if you didn't already know about them, you probably wouldn't be watching the film, but still, that's sloppy.)
But the music is fun (though, annoyingly, songs are rarely played in full), there are some interesting anecdotes and deleted scenes, and what the hell, I enjoyed it.
Tonight the weather and my energy level finally conspired to let me watch the film at a reasonable volume early enough in the evening to not royally piss off my neighbors. So that was nice.
It's a bit rambling and piecemeal as a film, and while it bills itself as a conversation among the three guitarists, it's more like a bunch of individual interviews (done on location at various scenes from their pasts, their studios, their homes, etc.) plus fragmentary excerpts from the conversation they had when they met in a studio to be filmed. And some of it doesn't make an awful lot of sense if you don't already know a certain amount about their life histories and the bands they've been in. (I suppose the idea was that if you didn't already know about them, you probably wouldn't be watching the film, but still, that's sloppy.)
But the music is fun (though, annoyingly, songs are rarely played in full), there are some interesting anecdotes and deleted scenes, and what the hell, I enjoyed it.