To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

Absolutely the worst movie.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

if u don't like pink Floyd's music its normal not to like this movie cause it talks about depression and losing his father when he was a baby then miss treated in school ....its a little bit bizarre do doubt about that.. so it depends on your taste if like to watch a man with huge depression then you will enjoy it and if u like pink floyd and wondered how did they come the idea of writing "the wall " or " comfortably numb " it would be very useful

When this movie came out nearly 35 years ago, it was met with cult reception and broke records in limited release for an R rated rock opera that blended live action with groundbreaking graphic animation by Gerald Scarfe, who did work on the animation for their Wall tour upon which this movie is based on. The surround sound in this movie is amazing, and the Panavision cinematography is gloomy yet captivating. Nearly every song from the album is here, along with a song created for the movie, "When the Tigers Broke Free", which would be used in another Pink Floyd album released the year after this movie came out. I first saw this movie on VHS in stereo and then rented it on DVD and saw it in HD on cable TV. I can't wait for the bluray release with the original 5.1 surround track when it comes.

Pink Floyd's The Wall is already an overrated album with plenty of songs that are filler, some good songs have weak lyrics and some great lyrics use weak music just to convey the message. The film takes all that, keeping all the filler, and adding even weaker pieces like When the Tigers Broke Free 1 and 2.Some of the weaknesses of the Wall's story are amplified even more. The horrors of WWII are shown even though the boy had no way of knowing. It is presented as if the boy himself were a war veteran, suffering from a case of contagious PTSD, perhaps by touching his father's medals or uniform. The album alludes to the Luftwaffe's raids, but the film makes it seem as if it the boy experienced the war on the front line first hand, which is laughable.The film, with its completely new songs, reordered playlist and freedom to add scenes with no music, does not address the transformation of Pink from rock star to neo-fascist leader. It's just a hole in the plot that is left to our imagination. Fine for an audio album, not for a visual film.Some of the things look theatrical and comic - the headmaster in the tunnel looked like a clown, the neo-fascist rally's synchronized dancing was less "Triumph of the Will" and more Macarena.The animation goes from beautiful (Goodbye Blue Sky, Empty Spaces) to ridiculous - The Trial with a talking buttocks as presiding judge.A lot of mistakes were done. If I were Pink Floyd (or if I were Waters), just as the protagonist was a composite character, so should the album be a composite, not loyal to The Wall, but taking the best of Pink Floyd to make something larger than life. The song Money would've been a great piece, Pink as a rock star enjoying his riches, then the dissatisfaction with the political system, shown via Animals, would've made the transition from rock star to fascist leader a great one.It all boils down to this - did they want to make a great Pink Floyd-based, The Wall film or make a long music video for The Wall? It is not a binary issue, but a gradient, since they already changed the order of events, added new songs and reworked original songs, so this was not a pure "The Wall" film. My opinion is that they should've added things from their past, reworked if needed, to tell a better story, to make a better film rather than one truer to the album.Perhaps that's an idea for the remake.

When I first watched this film in my teenage years I really didn't get it, but then again the only reason that I watched it was because it was Pink Floyd. I then lent the movie to my boss and never saw it again (the moral of this story being – never lend a movie to your boss). Anyway, there is so much in this film that it is impossible to actually talk about it in the limited space on an IMDb review, however you can always go to Wikipedia, look at the discussion boards, or even visit my blog (sarkology.net) if you want to find out more about what is going on – especially if you are like me in my teenage years in that you loved the music, but the film simply went over your head.Anyway, I recently saw it again and surprisingly it made a lot more sense (probably because I am a lot older, and have seen quite a few weird and wonderful films such as this). You could say that it is basically an extended video clip of the entire Pink Floyd album The Wall, however it is much more than that (but if you do like the music then why not – watch it as an extended video clip). The film itself is very dark, and actually quite disturbing – especially if you are in the music industry, but then again Pink Floyd never shied away from attacking the music industry in their songs. According to Wikipedia, the production of the film eventually led to the split between Roger Waters and David Gilmor (and thus the end of what I considered the classic age of Pink Floyd).The film itself sticks closely, but not strictly, to the unity of time and place. If you have seen the film you may ask how, and my suggestion is that the film appears to take place over the period of a day, and most of the action occurs in the head of the protagonist, the rock musician Pink Floyd. The film opens with him sitting in a grungy hotel room watching television, and then goes through a series of flashbacks where we learn about the death of his father in World War II, his time as a child in the fifties, his failed marriage, and his descent into madness. We then cut back to the real world where his managers break down the door, inject him with amphetamines and drag him onto the stage where we are then thrown back into his hallucinatory world where he is a fascist dictator roaming the streets of London.The film touches on a lot of areas of modern society, such as the horror of war and how it not only tears apart families, but destroys the lives of innocent people; the modern education system that turns individuals into clones; the emptiness of the modern technological society; and the realities of the rock and roll lifestyle in that it is not as fulfilling as the media makes it out to be. The Wall is certainly a very confronting and challenging movie, and certainly deserves the accolades that it received (including the number 3 box office spot behind ET and An Officer and a Gentleman – but they were going to be really hard to beat – still, it is now a cult classic where as the two the beat it are quaint movies from the Eighties).