Reviews hechos por fans de la película de Pearl Jam

Fucho sent me a Spanish language review of the film.  The closest screening to me was in Long Beach (a 45 minute drive on a week day/week night) and that wasn’t doable for me on a week day.  Obviously if Pearl Jam themselves were playing live I would have been there, haha.  I read that there is some sort of way to watch it by paying on DirecTV this weekend so I’m hoping to go to a friend’s house who has DirecTV to watch it and write a review.  Anyways here’s some reviews so far from the Ten Club board:

Kodiak posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

Just got back from Seeing the PJ20 documentary. Phenominal!!! The Tampa Theater was packed and it kind of had the atmosphere of a concert (if that’s possible on a much smaller scale with no actual live act…lol).

There were times where everyone cheered, laughed, and even some touching moments. Knowing where I was at in my life and getting into high school and the things I went through and seeing how this band came to be during that time and all the things that make them who they are…it’s just amaing. I mean the scene where Eddie starts to get comfortable as a lead vocalist is just freaking awesome. Also, the stage climbing/diving video clips are just unreal. I still can’t believe Ed did that crazy stuff…lol.

At one point near the end, they show a clip from PJ playing Betterman from one of their more recent tours. The entire theater was singing along…freaking awesome. I have never been to a movie where the crowed reacted quite like that.

The movie does focus more on the forming of the band and their first couple albums and some of the stuff PJ stood up for and had to go through but the middle/later years are only briefly covered. Overall, I am fine with that. The most important parts are covered and the movie had to be a certain length for theaters/PBS. I just placed my order for the Blu Ray which has over 4 hours of extras. I can’t wait to see it again…especially all the extras!!!

Hugh Freaking Dillon posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

I really enjoyed it, but I mirror the same comments as many others. I mean, Jack Irons is shown in one performance. Dave Krusen was shown in a couple, but barely mentioned. Dave A was with the band for the first 3 albums, and he’s in barely anything. I just don’t get why this band tries so hard to rewrite history. Dave A was in the band during its meteoric rise.

If you go to so much trouble to show the history of the band to the world, why ignore one fifth of it? it would have been ultra classy to have him interviewed, or even mention his skills as a drummer and what it brought to VS and Vitalogy, or even make a waffle joke. Something.

I can’t stand half my old band, and haven’t spoken to them in 2 years, but I still plan on mounting our cd promo poster on my wall with their pictures on it.

I think the movie should have been called Pearl Jam 1-7, and 18-20.

PJ73 posted this on the PearlJam.com forums:

First I really enjoyed the movie – loved the early footage and all the MLB videos. The band members all come off as really great guys too, which we probably all knew, but it’s nice to see in the movie  Lots of funny moments (Singles party esp!) that had the theater laughing. I also enjoyed some of the band member vignettes at the 3/4 mark too.

My issue with it is Cameron Crowe – I could tell he was the director. I find him a good director who chooses his works well but his pacing, especially with his later movies, always feels a little off. At points in this movie, I thought I was getting bombarded with info and then it would kind of lilt off and the movie would skip several years and then bam – we’re at Roskilde. And then a lot of early 2000s, then bam – we’re at 2008. I also thought the movie glossed over the drummer situation and the No Code years too quickly. No Code’s omission was pretty glaring to me since I consider that album to be their turning point, when they became the band they are today.

That said, the subject matter more than makes up for any pacing issues and I am more than looking forward to seeing this on PBS (and seeing how they handle the frequent use of the f word) and then the extended DVD.

Honestly not a bad way to spend a couple of hours