U2 - Rattle & Hum [Blu-ray]

U2 - Rattle & Hum [Blu-ray]
by Phil Joanou

U2 - Rattle & Hum [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Adam Clayton, B.B. King, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge
Director: Phil Joanou
Brand: Paramount
Editor: Phil Joanou
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
Cinematographer: Robert Brinkmann
Producer: Michael Hamlyn
Producer: Paul McGuinness
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of U2 - Rattle & Hum [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Very nice! Quick Shipment!
Summary: 4 Stars

Very nice video of U2, we can see how amazing band is and still the best for long time!

DVD Review: Excellent "U2" From Dublin to Harlem to Memphis & San Francisco!!!! Great DVD!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This one has been reviewed extensively, so I'll just mention a few things. This dvd is packed with 26 songs. You get a guest performance with the legendary B.B.King. You get to see the U2 members visiting Graceland & hanging out in Memphis. The last time I was in Memphis, at the Sun Records Studio, they had a gold record of this album hanging on the wall. It was presented to them by U2, in appreciation for the hospitality they received from the Sun Studio and Memphis. You get some great scenes from Memphis in this dvd. This is a good dvd, and I recommend it!!!! Thanks, and may God Bless!!!

DVD Review: The old movie in a new technology
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie is more than knowledge by the fans. The quality is excellent.
But...
For a BD I was expecting a better image quality than a DVD. It was made with 1080p but the video looks like the DVD I have, just a little bit better. Looks like a copy of DVD in a Blue Ray format.
But Im not a technician, maybe there is a reason for that.
Anyway, I was expecting a image quality like others recent movies in BD.

DVD Review: U2 at its prime
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent film. Almost every song on here is better in this version than in the original studio version. Oh, and before I go on, I should say that all of the complaints about poor audio and video quality are wrong. The audio is perfect quality unless your system is bad. The video is crystal clear and not at all grainy-it's just black-and-white, which for some reason, some people think is a synonym for "grainy".
All right, now the music itself. On almost every song, both music and lyrics are incredible. I won't discuss all of them, to avoid this review being ridiculously long, just my favorites. Let's see...hmm, most of them are among my favorites. I guess the absolute best, though it's a hard decision and I'm not at all sure, are "Exit", "Bullet the Blue Sky", and "Running to Stand Still". "Exit", about suicide, is dark and sinister and very powerful, beginning with an unforgettable bass riff followed by a short, haunting guitar melody before the singer comes in. (The effect is definitely enhanced by the black-and-white film.) Its final line is one of the best in all U2, which is saying a lot, and no, I won't give it away here-you wouldn't get the full effect. Just buy the movie.
Then there's "Bullet the Blue Sky", which is one of the angriest songs I have ever heard. The lyrics are incredibly powerful; while listening, I suddenly became aware that I was trembling with fury-and you don't even have to agree with the opinions which it expresses (though I do) to be affected by it. It also contains what is still the best guitar solo I have ever heard, whether anyone else thinks so or not (and I don't think anyone does). Right after this, probably to relax you after "Bullet the Blue Sky" skyrockets your heart rate, is the beautiful, aching, "Running to Stand Still". The lyrics are, yet again, very emotional, and the music especially is lovely.
But, as I said at the beginning, pretty much everything on here is wonderful. Buy this DVD.

P.S. The CD Rattle and Hum is totally different-I recommend it as well, but I warn you that many of the best songs on the DVD are not on the CD-but then, two of the best songs on the CD are not on the DVD.

DVD Review: U2 Rattle & Hum HDDVD
Summary: 3 Stars

Fast delivery, product arrived in good shape.
Good quality sound, black and white images. Would have liked to have the other version of Still haven't found what I'm looking for, nice Choir version, but I prefer their own version. This has 3/5, because to my musical taste 5/5 would be the "Live at Sloan Castle" U2 concert

Description of U2 - Rattle & Hum [Blu-ray]

A concert movie on an unprecedented scale. Rattle And Hum captures U2 - on and off the stage - during their triumphant Joshua Tree tour. From the giant Technicolor stadium celebrations to the black-and-white intensity of the indoor shows, this is U2 at their best. Follow the group across America, exploring new influences, playing with the legendary B.B. King, on a journey which takes them from Dublin to Graceland, from San Francisco to the streets of Harlem, from The Joshua Tree to Rattle And Hum.

Rattle and Hum is not a film for anyone looking for an introduction to Irish band U2's career in the 1980s, but it is a vibrant portrait of an established group making its musical pilgrimage through the America it has always imagined through blues, gospel, and early rock 'n' roll. Filmmaker Phil Joanou (Heaven's Prisoners), a veteran music-video director and maker of the distractingly kinetic Three O'Clock High, finds a suitable outlet for his high energy in this juggernaut of a journey, which finds U2 collaborating with a black gospel choir and B.B. King, recording inside the legendary Sun Records studio, dropping by Graceland, and in a moment of fearlessness, performing the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" to exorcise Charles Manson's sick claim on the song. --Tom Keogh

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