Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Expected more

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

There has never been a group quite as interesting and impossible to pin down as Pink Floyd. On one hand, harbingers of that self-indulgent monstrosity that was prog-rock, but on the other creators of the most complete and total albums ever released.This is not really a concert film and not really a documentary - so what is it? A happening, an event, a showcase? You tell me! Different and occasionally brilliant, but more than anything a historical document. In the same way as A Hard Days Night is for the Beatles. And rather like HDN it catches the band just before it shot off in to outer space (in more ways than one). They were about to change the world, not having done so.Yes they can rock (they could have earned a crust doing nothing else), they can dope out, they can extend. However if Pompeii had erupted again as they played they wouldn't be viewed as any more important (today) than Emerson Lake and Palmer - which they sound a bit like at points.Dope damaged rock. Floyd only survived it by being geniuses and then only just. For example, Echoes seems to be played for several hours despite being a substandard song that goes nowhere at all. Might sound better on drugs, but you can say that about a mouse dancing on a biscuit tin. Gilmour looks like Ashton Kutcher and, by what we know him as today, seems earthbound and restrained. No chance to play those searing solos with which he made his name (note: most of his modern work is actually a synth and not a real guitar. This is the limit of basic 70's equipment.) Waters looks a bit thuggish. Especially with that home hair cut. Aged better than the rest of the group though. Mason just looks like a Spinal Tap clown - but at least he acts like he cares a bit. Not the playboy drum tickler he is today (50 million quid in the bank according to the Sunday Times. Has anyone ever been so over-rewarded in the arts as drummers?). Richard Wright is what he always was - massively underrated and probably the only thing keeping the songs from falling in a great big heap. May you rest in peace....

The idea. The scenario. The music. The performance. The Band. The greatest. I can only say that Pompeii and Pink Floyd talk for themselves. It transmitted me the complete idea of what Pink Floyd is...or was in that time. After seeing this movie every music lover will be you delighted and every Pink Floyd fan will be enlightened (and if you do not like music nor pink floyd at all don't bother continuing reading this commentary).The songs perfectly match the Greek amphitheatre, the space sequences shown, and every song was PERFECTLY performed, so exact, including the participation of a dog singin the blues in "Mademoiselle Nobs", Roger banging the gong with the sun behind (an amazing picture!!!), the speechless improvising between songs, that leaves you only with the desire of having been there when it all happened.It also contains some fragments of what was the beginning of the recording of the masterpiece "Dark Side of the Moon" and commentaries by the four, which you'll find very interesting and wise, which give you also the perspective of Pink Floyd by its members.Buy, beg, borrow or steal...(well, not steal), but see it right away cause Adrian Maben and Pink Floyd really hit the spot in this one.

This film is one of the most impressive music docs I've ever seen. I live in Iceland and we don't have much of rare DVD material like these old concepts albums, VHS or what-ever - reproduced and remade to DVD. But God bless the Internet - because with it's help - I could get a copy, legally of course - and this film is great to watch on a gigantic theater-mode tent I have in my garage (which I turned into an office - the kind you can go to and listen to music, play the guitars, read good books and use the Internet for great things). Then I put my feet up - comfortably numb I watch from the computer, through the home-theater network system, to a projector that shows with great quality on a big theater-tent as big as the garage-doors. And with 8 speakers - 2 at the front left and right - 200watts. Not very uncomfortable!-Oh... yeah.. the Live at Pompeii movie... It's the best! Everybody who want's to learn to listen to Pink Floyd or has learned but earns for more (P U L S E does not come out on DVD until next fall). -PINK FLOYD:LIVE AT POMPEII IS THE ONE TO SEE!Note: Scenes from volcanic eruption are filmed in Iceland and also you can see in some scenes the hot spring place called "Geysir" and "The Blue Lagoon" (a natural hot water filled with some great minerals, health mud or something like that, right in the middle of a lava-area)Both are places in Iceland whom no tourist misses.

This is what Pink Floyd were like before Dark Side of the Moon shattered their status as a cult band. By performing in such peculiar surroundings they showed they didn't care if this was a daring move - playing live with no public but an empty amphitheater build 2000 years before.The songs are greatly performed - the only flaws are the filming, that sometimes doesn't show what it should. Examples of that are One Of These Days and near the end of Echoes, part 1. However, the video is a must see and have for any true Floyd fan. The Mademoiselle Nobs bit with the dog singing to a blues melody is amusing, reminding us of the same device used in the track Seamus from the Meddle album.By the way, it is said there is one edition of this video featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the band in the studio, but unfortunately this is not the one I've got.Forget about the lame stuff the Roger-less Floyd have put out and sit down, relax and watch a great piece of music.10/10.