Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Strong and Moving!

Fresh and Exciting

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I watched "The Wall" again and again. 'Cause it's just explaining my life's emptiness. I just want to live without any religion, any ideology, any race, any relationship... I just want to live with myself. I just want to think about everything, draw and write about everything... Actually "The Wall" is not my type, usually i'm watching Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Tarr, Bergman and some directors' like these. But even The Wall is a different type movie, it's explaining a lot of things that unavailable to explain. Just must be watched...

I started listening to Pink Floyd quite recently (last year) and I had been avoiding listening to The Wall until I saw this film. Now that I've seen it twice and listened to the album a few times, I think I can safely say that this film is the optimum way to experience The Wall. It's incredibly well produced despite being an adaptation of an album and pretty much all of the imagery presented in the film is meaningful and well conveyed.My first viewing of this film was accompanied by my friend who had to tell me about the deal with Pink being a Rock Star and the Neo-Nazi meetings representing his concerts. The one real problem I have with this movie is that I honestly can't imagine understanding it without that information already given to me.Conclusion: wonderful movie, watch it with a friend who's already seen it and you'll have one hell of a time.

I'm not a Pink Floyd fan, I never really listened to their music. However I think the idea of a concept album is an intriguing one and I've heard that The Wall is the best one and there's a movie adaption. I picked that up for 2 reasons, one was it was cheaper and the other is I'm more familiar with movie storytelling rather than a series of songs telling a story. But I watched it and what transpires is probably the best band movie ever made.The plot. Pink is a rock star who has walled himself in as he recollects his childhood with a father who died in WWII, a mother who ranges from overbearing to negligent, teachers who shoot down his dreams to adulthood where his wife has an affair while on tour. Soon this causes a mental breakdown and he... becomes a Neo Nazi.What's good here? The cinematography is amazingly good, I love the use of set design, lighting and other such things. It also dives into animated segments where we see what's going on in his mind and these are trippy but never in a way that you don't get the symbolism. I think the movie made Pink without a single line of dialogue... sympathetic. I also think the music, whether you're a fan of Pink Floyd or otherwise balances extremely well with the movie telling the story. I may buy the whole album though because it feels as though some songs last about a minute and none of them are bad in my opinion.I think this maybe the best band movie with the competition being Imaginaerum and Yellow Submarine and I'll tell you why this is better than both. Imaginaerum did tell a good story with good cinematography and acting on an obviously tight budget but that didn't have any of the music from the band. Yellow Submarine fares better in terms of the band's music but the story gets a little off kilter. I would say whether or not you'll like this is entirely dependant on your feelings towards the band's music and art-house storytelling. If you don't like either you'll probably hate this but if you don't have feelings one way or the other towards either like I do then you'll probably like this.

"Pink Floyd: The Wall" is a celebration of spot-on directing, effective animation, and chilling yet powerful imagery. And it is one of the few musicals whose primary source of story-telling is the soundtrack. The main character is a rock star named Pink who has locked himself in his hotel room and is left to his own devices. Which in this case is his mind. And what we find down there when watching this movie, is pure insanity. Getting darker and darker as we go deeper and deeper into his head. He imagines his past and how it could have been different. For better or for worse. The film is brilliantly well done, and deserves a spot on any of my lists for the greatest musical of all time.