Review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) by Stefan G — 29 Jul 2014
It's kind of a weird idea to turn an album into a feature film, especially when they don't feature all the songs (if you listen closely through the entire film, you'll notice that they skipped "Hey You").
As you'd expect, this is basically Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" as a feature film, complete with most of the tracks, though sometimes, they changed the order in which the songs are played.
I can't help but think that changing order in which the songs are played kind of messed up the context of the story. There's little to no dialogue in the entire movie, and no, David Gilmour's singing voice doesn't count.
On the one hand, this means there's no bad acting, but without any dialogue, there's almost nothing stringing the plot along besides the music and imagery. Ultimately, my biggest criticism of this movie is that you have to have listened to the album first in order to get it, and sometimes I still don't, and actually listened to the full album.
It's not all bad. Gerald Scarfe's animation sequences are really good, providing inventive, rich imagery to the film. However, the only thing that would be better is if the entire film were animated.
It's not that bad, but it seems rather inconsistent. In layman's terms, I'd stick to the album.
This review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) was written by Stefan G on 29 Jul 2014.
Pink Floyd: The Wall has generally received very positive reviews.
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