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Reply #30 posted 02/09/05 7:55pm

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It's a rock movie. The Purple Rain film is the same thing.


effectively, they are similar, but the marketing is totally misleading on the SOTT package by being called a "live" rock movie.
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Reply #31 posted 02/10/05 2:02am

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jjhunsecker said:

dnaplaya said:

All the concert movies are like that though. Look at Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" movie, that was done the same way and yet it got rave reviews for it too


Actually, that's not quite the case with "Stop Making Sense". For that movie, they filmed 3 or 4 concerts, and would sometimes either edit together performances, or they would dub the audio from a song from one concert onto the visuals of that song from another concert. But, as opposed to "Sign o' the Times", they did not film anything on a soundstage; all the footage was from the actual concerts .

But even with the fakery, I still love "Sign O the Times".. Just got my DVD from up North, and I've been cranking it up !


Yeah, sorry, I should have clarified myself. When I said it was "done the same way", I meant the music tracks were re-dubbed, I didn't mean that it was filmed on a soundstage.
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Reply #32 posted 02/10/05 7:01am

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It's a movie. It's not supposed to be live.
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Reply #33 posted 02/10/05 7:59am

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mrdespues said:

I have an original of the PR tour film on video in bad quality, but it kicks arse in comparison to the "live" footage of SOTT tour. If THAT could be transfered to DVD in pristine quality, I think many fans would feel the same, and SOTT would be considered inferior...almost GB-like.


I have been wanting Lovesexy Live 1 & 2 for years. I have never seen it and don't like to buy things off the net. I have heard it is his true BEST for a concert video...and to be honest I like the Lovesexy music a little mo' better than some of the SOTT stuff anyway. I do have a boot CD of the concert on CD, and I can tell it blows away the Rotterdam SOTT show.


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I couldn't agree with you more on this subject.

I have a pristine DVD copy of the PR Tour broadcast from Syracuse and I can vouch for the fact that not only is it more representative of P's talents as a live performer and musician, but it's also a million times more exciting and entertaining than SOTT "The Movie" which, in my considered opinion, is fine within its field but way too overrated.

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