Three amazing musicians of different backgrounds get together to share ideas and approaches. Great concept! This is how this movie was marketed.
Unfortunately it is not what is delivered. 90% of it is looking back with voice overs of the individuals talking about their history and only 10% of it they are actually
together playing and interacting. It’s okay but not what was promised in the trailers. Many of the things they express I’ve seen on youtube and magazines
over the years. Nothing new. I was excited to see the dynamic of them together and was disappointed in how little there was of it. Sony Pictures should be
ashamed of marketing this the way they have. A great idea unrealized and then deceptively presented to make a quick buck.
Judging from all the enthusiastically positive reviews of this film, I thought that there might be some kind of surprising chemistry or musical magic that occurred when these three very different guitarists got together–well, there wasn’t much, as it turns out. The bio sketches of these three figures were interesting as separate clips, but the jam session/discussion was REALLY lame. It was just all too contrived. It was funny when Jack White was asked what was going to happen when the three guitarists got together and he answered “Probably a fistfight.” Not likely, of course, but I expected a fistgight more than seeing the three guitarists sitting together and all three just plain ol’ strumming the chords to “The Weight.” Boring! Any one of them (or any novice guitarist, for that matter) could have handled that. What was the point? That song isn’t in any of the three guitarists’ reportoire, anyway. Couldn’t they come up with some kind of jam that exemplified each of these three guitarists’ individual styles? That happened to a slight extent on the “In My Time of Dying” jam, but overall the jams mostly just had them playing the same thing. And sorry, Edge just looked out of place playing a slide blues song, even if he did a fine job, of course.
And do any of these guys really care about what strings the other guys use? I’m sure none of them could care less, and in fact I think Jack White said that he really couldn’t care less about what strings HE uses!
Yeah, this was just a goofy idea to have them sit around together and practically read a script for a discussion. The most fascinating parts of this video were the opening shot of Jack White making a miniature diddley bow, and the rare, very early footage of Page in his pre-Zeppelin days. Edge’s soundcheck in the goofy “living room” was the most interesting part of the documentary in that setting (the “discussion”), although it was just thrown in as an extra in the Special Features.
Watching Jack White write and record a song was cool, I guess, but the resulting piece was pretty much a throwaway tune, as I’m sure he would agree. I mean, how inspired are you going to be to write a song when some film director requests it and sticks a camera in your face while you do it?
This was a novel concept of filming this so-called “informal” dicussion, but it didn’t generate anything interesting, IMO. Anything that is so contrived just isn’t going to be natural, nor will it result in any real synergistic artistry. OVERHYPED.
As an amateur guitarist with a broad appreciation of rock music spanning every generation, I naturally found the concept of this film intriguing. As for the three guitarist in this film, I would only consider myself a fan of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin. I like a number of U2 songs, but I would no way call myself a die hard. As for Jack White, I am pretty familar with the White Strips and the Raconteurs, like some of his licks, but have always thought he was pretty overrated as a guitarist. The fact that RS ranked him #17 all-time Guitarist is insane. Anyways, as for the movie. It lacked a lot of actual substance. As much as I like Page, he was rather uninteresting and revealed very little about himself. The Edge was disappointingly dull as well, in addition, he basically admits that his expensive gear gives him all of his sound, not his surprisingly lack-luster playing ability . Jack White is the only guy who seems interesting or at least interested in the project. Though, through his awkward “Age 9 self with current self” story telling method, it increasingly feels as his entire persona is forced and it trying very hard to seem like he doesn’t care at all, if you know what I mean. At one point in the film, he admits to copying his “style” from a 2-piece band he saw in North Carolina (name of band I cannot recall). Also, there was actually very little guitar playing. When there was any, it wasn’t very inspiring. There was maybe 15mins of good material in this entire movie.
I was dying to see this, especially after reading a number of reviews here. I heard so much about the scenes with the three of them together discussing and playing, but it turns out those scenes are maybe 10% of the movie, and the best ones are in the deleted scenes reel. The rest is a poorly edited (scatter-shot, if you will) set of scenes where each musician talks about where they came from (e.g. Edge visits the school where U2 formed, or stock footage of Detroit with Jack White talking over the top). The idea of hearing how these guys developed seems like it would be cool, but there’s very little real information in these scenes. If they release another disc of the three of them together just talking and jamming in the same room for 100% of the movie, I would buy that in a heartbeat. It’s worth watching once, it does have its moments, but not very many…
I was expecting a lot more out of this. Very little footage of the three of them together. This is basically three mini -life bios with a little footage of them together spread throughout. There were some cool pieces but not $18 worth. Also, if you are a fan of these three guitarists chances are you have already seen at least a few of the performances from other sources. This disc reminds me of the history channel where they take a few experts, talk about the subject and intersperse some old clips or art.
Three amazing musicians of different backgrounds get together to share ideas and approaches. Great concept! This is how this movie was marketed.
Unfortunately it is not what is delivered. 90% of it is looking back with voice overs of the individuals talking about their history and only 10% of it they are actually
together playing and interacting. It’s okay but not what was promised in the trailers. Many of the things they express I’ve seen on youtube and magazines
over the years. Nothing new. I was excited to see the dynamic of them together and was disappointed in how little there was of it. Sony Pictures should be
ashamed of marketing this the way they have. A great idea unrealized and then deceptively presented to make a quick buck.
Judging from all the enthusiastically positive reviews of this film, I thought that there might be some kind of surprising chemistry or musical magic that occurred when these three very different guitarists got together–well, there wasn’t much, as it turns out. The bio sketches of these three figures were interesting as separate clips, but the jam session/discussion was REALLY lame. It was just all too contrived. It was funny when Jack White was asked what was going to happen when the three guitarists got together and he answered “Probably a fistfight.” Not likely, of course, but I expected a fistgight more than seeing the three guitarists sitting together and all three just plain ol’ strumming the chords to “The Weight.” Boring! Any one of them (or any novice guitarist, for that matter) could have handled that. What was the point? That song isn’t in any of the three guitarists’ reportoire, anyway. Couldn’t they come up with some kind of jam that exemplified each of these three guitarists’ individual styles? That happened to a slight extent on the “In My Time of Dying” jam, but overall the jams mostly just had them playing the same thing. And sorry, Edge just looked out of place playing a slide blues song, even if he did a fine job, of course.
And do any of these guys really care about what strings the other guys use? I’m sure none of them could care less, and in fact I think Jack White said that he really couldn’t care less about what strings HE uses!
Yeah, this was just a goofy idea to have them sit around together and practically read a script for a discussion. The most fascinating parts of this video were the opening shot of Jack White making a miniature diddley bow, and the rare, very early footage of Page in his pre-Zeppelin days. Edge’s soundcheck in the goofy “living room” was the most interesting part of the documentary in that setting (the “discussion”), although it was just thrown in as an extra in the Special Features.
Watching Jack White write and record a song was cool, I guess, but the resulting piece was pretty much a throwaway tune, as I’m sure he would agree. I mean, how inspired are you going to be to write a song when some film director requests it and sticks a camera in your face while you do it?
This was a novel concept of filming this so-called “informal” dicussion, but it didn’t generate anything interesting, IMO. Anything that is so contrived just isn’t going to be natural, nor will it result in any real synergistic artistry. OVERHYPED.
As an amateur guitarist with a broad appreciation of rock music spanning every generation, I naturally found the concept of this film intriguing. As for the three guitarist in this film, I would only consider myself a fan of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin. I like a number of U2 songs, but I would no way call myself a die hard. As for Jack White, I am pretty familar with the White Strips and the Raconteurs, like some of his licks, but have always thought he was pretty overrated as a guitarist. The fact that RS ranked him #17 all-time Guitarist is insane. Anyways, as for the movie. It lacked a lot of actual substance. As much as I like Page, he was rather uninteresting and revealed very little about himself. The Edge was disappointingly dull as well, in addition, he basically admits that his expensive gear gives him all of his sound, not his surprisingly lack-luster playing ability . Jack White is the only guy who seems interesting or at least interested in the project. Though, through his awkward “Age 9 self with current self” story telling method, it increasingly feels as his entire persona is forced and it trying very hard to seem like he doesn’t care at all, if you know what I mean. At one point in the film, he admits to copying his “style” from a 2-piece band he saw in North Carolina (name of band I cannot recall). Also, there was actually very little guitar playing. When there was any, it wasn’t very inspiring. There was maybe 15mins of good material in this entire movie.
I was dying to see this, especially after reading a number of reviews here. I heard so much about the scenes with the three of them together discussing and playing, but it turns out those scenes are maybe 10% of the movie, and the best ones are in the deleted scenes reel. The rest is a poorly edited (scatter-shot, if you will) set of scenes where each musician talks about where they came from (e.g. Edge visits the school where U2 formed, or stock footage of Detroit with Jack White talking over the top). The idea of hearing how these guys developed seems like it would be cool, but there’s very little real information in these scenes. If they release another disc of the three of them together just talking and jamming in the same room for 100% of the movie, I would buy that in a heartbeat. It’s worth watching once, it does have its moments, but not very many…
I was expecting a lot more out of this. Very little footage of the three of them together. This is basically three mini -life bios with a little footage of them together spread throughout. There were some cool pieces but not $18 worth. Also, if you are a fan of these three guitarists chances are you have already seen at least a few of the performances from other sources. This disc reminds me of the history channel where they take a few experts, talk about the subject and intersperse some old clips or art.
Rent it first.