Sam Cooke - Legend
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Movie Reviews of Sam Cooke - Legend
Movie Review: Excellent in every way, but.....
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD does a great job in telling the Sam Cooke story. Most all of the major events are somehow covered in over an hour and the choice of music and performances are excellent. Only minor complaint is that complete clips of these songs (particularly the intriguing duet with Jackie Wilson that we only see for a moment) should have been included in the extras (after all, it's the DVD age and the technology makes it possible). But that aside, it's great for both fans and novices of the man who invented soul.Movie Review: I Pray Sam Cooke is with The Lord Jesus Christ Eternally!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD is wonderful for those of us who were young when Sam Cooke was popular and doing so many great things such as owning, writing, and producing his own music. I enjoy his talent today some 43 years later now that's classics for you. I wish he had stayed with The Lord and let the world come to him instead of the other way around. I just believe his outcome would have been much different but that's neither here nor there at this point. The man was great and God was good to loan him to us. KSMovie Review: HE IS STILL THE MAN
Summary: 4 Stars
I LOVE THIS DVD IT's shows why sam cooke is still the man. sam cooke is a legend there's only one sam cooke.Movie Review: Essential for Cooke fans, but glossed over.
Summary: 3 Stars
As overdue, essential & welcome as this DVD documentary is for Sam Cooke fans, let me explain why I give it 3 stars.
Nice vintage footage included, and the first time for me to see Sam in action. On the negative side:
First, in typical A&E fashion, the majority of interviewed segments are total fluff..."he had so much charisma, the room would erupt, people went crazy, he was the complete package, I never knew anyone else like him, I knew he had something special" blah blah blab that you hear in every A&E biography of a deceased star. We know all that, he was great. There is no negativity whatsoever, yet minimal substance at the same time.
Two: length. Get the expanded edition or you're stuck with a quick 1 hour show.
Three: total gloss over of his death. Look on the internet for the more in-depth story of the shooting. They skim over this occurance without much dirt on why the married Sam Cooke had a woman back at his room anyway, and why a woman pulled a trigger on such a seemingly otherwise perfect guy.
Four: if you are going to license the minimal TV footage of him in existence, it would be nice to not have it talked over, and so brief. I would prefer to see the uncut footage as a DVD extra feature, not 2 hours of repeated story interviews instead. I want to SEE the man perform, not hear about it second hand.
Otherwise, a good product in a nutshell, but I feel it is also far from complete or as good as it could have been.