Black Sabbath: The Last Supper (1999)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Dear Black Sabbath, this DVD was great. The interviews interwoven into the concert were a bit of a distraction. But I'll take it. Bill Ward was really pounding those drums. He was so energetic. Geezer Butler still has that rhythm, I liked the way he moved on the stage. Tony Iommi looked a bit self conscious at times. Ozzy Osbourne was unfit as hell. He kept jumping up and down. Calling the crowd bastards. His voice was pretty OK for such an old man. I liked the way the crowd reacted when Children of the Grave began. It was terrific. There were quite a few mosh pits forming during that song. Best Regards, Pimpin. (8/10)

This had the potential to be a nice document of the reunited Ozzy-era Black Sabbath, with solid concert footage, and some insightful interviews. However, the mixing of the two ruins both. The producers chose to splice the live music with the interviews, which completely ruins the cohesiveness of the concert. It seems like every guitar solo is overwritten with an interview second. Quite a shame that some overzealous wanna-be filmmaker would ruin this. It's also a shame that there isn't an option on the DVD that would let the user turn off the interview portion, so that the concert would play straight thru. C'mon, isn't stuff like that s'posed to be one of the DVDs main selling points?

The Last Supper DVD is a great concert of the great Black Sabbath songs. However, most of the songs can't be enjoyed because they are stepped on, the narration by the band interrupts the songs. Sometimes in the middle, sometimes towards the end. What a disappointment this is, DVD quality music that can't be enjoyed. The producer of this DVD could have put the band's comments (which are great and very informative) at the end of each song, but they didn't. I think whomever produced this DVD should be greatly criticized for screwing up such a great concert. Sure you can buy the CD of this concert, but the sound quality is nowhere near as good as this DVD.Does the music industry still wonder why people download music? How about putting information on back of the cover indicating that the DVD is also a narration that interrupts the songs.

Black Sabbath were pioneers on the hard rock/metal scene if only for their hard edged riffs and solos drenched in the darkness of thought. Iommi, Ward, Butler and Ozzy himself return to the concert stage and this footage takes place over the stretch of concerts they had on the Ozzfest tour. Intercut are interviews and just footage of the four talking like the camera isn't even there which also brings interest. Could've gone wrong if the music wasn't fresh anymore and tiffs still went on in the band, but this now isn't the case, even Bill Ward has it in himself to play, all this through long hard drugships (inparticular Ozzy who gives an ironical joke in a way- I should be dead!). For Sabbath and Ozzy fans the treat of the season, and for other general rock fans a glimpse into a brilliant old British group whose roots date back to the late 60's. A