Sympathy for the Devil
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Movie Reviews of Sympathy for the Devil
Movie Review: Sympathy for the Devil
Summary: 2 Stars
I remembered seeing this in a theatre coupled with Gimme Shelter. But I had forgotten how bad and bizarre it was. Thank Goodness I bought it used for a few dollars more than nothing. I think it may be impossible to sit through the whole feature without the finger on the fast forward button during the bookstore, Democracy Eve interview and black militant scenes.
Movie Review: a boring waste of money
Summary: 2 Stars
I found this a boring waste of money. It could have been condensed down to 10 minutes.Movie Review: Sympathy for the viewer?
Summary: 1 Stars
I have to admit, that both Gimme Shelter and the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon Tour Live in Concert '97-'98 DVD rate high for me. These two are classics that give us great performances by the Rolling Stones. Easy to follow, entertaining; and in the case of Gimme Shelter, thought provoking.
What happened here? I originally bought the VHS version back in 1994 during the Stones hype of Voodoo Lounge. I do not have the DVD version. I do not want it. This is perhaps one of the worst films out there.
Don't get me wrong. I love the Stones footage of rehearsing the song. I can even see that the director may have been trying an avant garde film (or avant garde a clue, as the late George Harrison once remarked). Just because this is the Stones or "avant garde", does not make it any better.
Disjointed scenes of interviewing one woman about love, the black revolutionaries scene, and other hodgepodge of stuff make this unwatchable. C'mon. Give me a break. If I am watching Stones I want performance, interviews, or insight from the band themselves. I would have given this movie 1/2 a star(if I could have on Amazon) for at least seeing the Stones in part of it. I always like to give the benefit of the doubt to any artist that I like. In this case, avoid this "movie" at all costs.
Movie Review: Big Disappointment!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a huge fan of the late 60s and early 70s era Stones. I bought this DVD without knowing anything about the French director Jean-Luc Godard. The so called "pop politiacal cartoons" that the review on the back cover refers to as sheer genius, are moronic and actually painful to watch. These skits are all about socialism, black power, and revolution. Oh boy! The high minded symbolism of this movie just looks ridiculous to me. The skits in this movie are so un-professional that they appear to be made by Junior High School kids! And that is a slight to the kids! As far as the Stones rehersals, they are interesting, but slow. They develop only the one song. As great as that song is (one of my all time favorite Stones tunes) it's just not something to watch over and over again. Especially if you have to endure the rest of this horrible movie.Movie Review: ***pathetic (NO sympathy!)
Summary: 1 Stars
Great song; ridiculous movie.
I'm of this silly generation, yet it is not the silliness of half this movie which bothers me. (The movie mixes footage of the Rolling Stones recording "Sympathy For the Devil" with immature, amateur social "commentary".)
It is the arrogance and the ignorance which flows from this film that bothers me, the fakery that richness and idleness birth. Silly me! When I was impressionable, I listened to these jesters and these jumping jack flashes rather than the wisdom of the west.
Maybe this is why so many had so many objections to us in the 1970s; we were so objectionable.
Continue to listen to the song. Save yourself, though, from this dull, pornographic drivel. (Unless, of course, you want to see just how ugly and empty we were then.)