Ride, Rise, Roar

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04/30/2012 I should prelude this by saying the band is superb, the songs sound superb and audio gets a solid 9. However the overall product left me scratching my head too often. I always have respect for artists who try to push the boundaries of what they do later in their careers, but the problem here is that Ride, Rise, Roar isn't really that different. It's like a karaoke version of Stop Making Sense. The whole premise of the visual experience is dancing, but SMS already had choreographed on-stage dancing. The difference is that it was more natural and uniform and rhythmically in-tempo with the hypnotic music. This film features what look like three Stanford grads spazz dancing for an hour and a half. It doesn't ad any deeper meaning to the melodic or lyrical content. Instead of interpretive dance they might as well have just hired actors to pantomime scenes. What I think this project forgot was that David Byrne was and will always be the centerpiece, even in the Talking Heads days. This concert concept tries desperately to make you interested in these dancers who get in the way of the only person on stage with actual presence. Stop Making Sense got it right, Byrne danced and everyone else mimicked his movements, creating a giant framework that directed the audience attention perfectly. RRR is an on-stage free-for-all. See more 02/22/2012 David Byrne is the man! See more 07/27/2011 Probably doesn't show enough of the creative process to be a real insight into David Byrne and cutting away from the concert footage to interviews about the creative process diminishes the excitement of the concert. What it did do was make me want to buy some more Talking Heads CDs. And that's not a bad thing. See more 07/17/2011 The director could have been a little less fancy and let us see the dancers clearly. That was sort of the point. See more 06/26/2011 A great film if you're a David Byrne or a Talking Heads fan. See more 06/04/2011 From a musical and performance point of view this film is great. However, whilst the interviews with Byrne, the band members, dancers, Eno and the production crew are interesting, mixing them in between the songs disrupts the mood, taking you out of the concert experience. On DVD/Blu-Ray they really should have been made available just as extra material to make it easier to rewatch the concert. Now onto the subject of having dancers with the band: They were a little distracting at times but seeing them at an actual live show was great. From a fixed position in the crowd you could watch either the overall choreography during a song or focus on the movement of individual dancers. Watching the film, with its multiple camera angles, close ups and cuts, you lose track of what is going on. And just when you start to follow a particular set of steps, an edit jumps you somewhere else. So for me 'Ride, Rise, Roar' is good but a little frustrating. See more Read all reviews

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