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• Chuck731 said...

  Posted on Oct 06 2010 03:11 Wow! I like a person who isn't afraid to make his or her opinion heard. Agreed, the camerawork in Ladies and Gentlemen pales in comparison to the camerawork in, say, Shine A Light. But the music is first rate. And isn't music what a concerr is all about?

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• lebezel said...

  Posted on Oct 05 2010 08:15 A terrible awful movie, just pathetic! Whoever did this thing obviously has NO sense of "anything artistic". Just slip-shod crap. Someone had access to a camera and pointed and shot, whatta waist of film

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• Chuck731 said...

  Posted on Oct 05 2010 00:08 lebazel: As they say, "That's what makes a horse race."

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• lebezel said...

  Posted on Oct 04 2010 23:08 This was one of the most boring, worse films I could ever imagine myself walking out of, and did. I felt sickened at the amateurish of the thing.

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• Chuck731 said...

  Posted on Sep 23 2010 23:11 Seeing Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones on Sept 16 2010 reminded me of why I instantly became a Stones fan when I first saw them in concert in Nov 1969. Although I have attended, and thoroughly enjoyed, many Rolling Stones concerts with the present touring unit of Jagger / Richards, Ron Wood, Charlie, and Bill Wyman or Darryl Jones, this film clearly demonstrates that it was the Jagger, Richards, Taylor, Watts, Wyman (and Ian Stewart) band of the 1970s that earned them the title of The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World. No one on the planet could touch them. Period. Granted, Ladies and Gentlemen's image quality is somewaht limited by the 16mm film stocks that were available at the time, the sound...although good...is not quite up to current standards (Rolling Stones At The Max, Shine A Light, etc.), and the lighting was pretty much what you see is what you get. I doubt Chip Monk spent much time talking about light levels, contrast ratios, etc. with the film crew before the shoot. But the music is straight ahead guitar-driven rock and roll. Seeing and hearing this film is an sensory experience that improves as it settles in As the days pass, it gets better and better. It's a film you want to experience again and again. Over the last few years I've become appreciative of Mick Taylor's role in the 1969 - 1974 Rolling Stones. The matching of Mick Taylor and Keith Richards, no matter how long the present band plays together, is something the Stones have never even come close to since Taylor left in 1974.. Mick Taylor played his soaring, bluesy, single-note solos over Keith's chord-driven locomotive rhythm guitar. Together they were absolutely awsome. Fortunately Ladies and Gentlemen spends a great deal of time on Mick Taylor. The Rolling Stones in this film is just the band, with Bobby Keyes on sax, Jim Price on trumpet, and Nicky Hopkins or Ian Stewart on piano. No backup singers, no elaborate stadium staging and lighting, no motorized stages that venture out into the audience, etc. In spite of the minor image and sound limitations, this is one of, if not the greatest, rock concert films ever made. I first saw it during the initial Quadraphonic Road Show engagement at the Zigfeld Theater in NYC, and since then have wanted to see it again. I have and enjoy Gimme Shelter, Let's Spend The Night Together, Rolling Stones at the Max, Shine A Light, the boxed tour DVD packages, and the pay-per TV shows. But Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones is The One. I can't recommend it highly enough. Anyone who professes to be a rock fan, regardless of whether they are Stones fans, must see this movie. It is a 15-song lesson on what rock & roll is. No preaching to the audience (other than Mick Jagger asking the audience why they aren't in church on a Sunday), no intellectual lyrics, no messages. Just shake your *ss rock & roll, the way God and Chuck Berry thought it should be. A great film!

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• Cappybear said...

  Posted on Sep 16 2010 23:11 Loved it. Greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

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