The Offspring: The Complete Video Collection
by Dexter Holland, Darren Lavett, Dave Meyers, David Yow, Jonathan Dayton
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Actor: Atom Willard, Dexter Holland, Greg K, Noodles, The OffspringDirector: Darren Lavett, Dave Meyers, David Yow, Dexter Holland, Jonathan Dayton
Brand: Sony Music
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony
Movie Reviews of The Offspring: The Complete Video Collection
Movie Review: Pretty great and nostalgic collection
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a collection of the Offspring's music videos. Before you shrug it off as being a ripoff to pay for music videos that are available on Youtube, you should really know that this DVD's much meatier than you'd think.
It includes all the Offspring's videos up to Can't Repeat (from their Greatest Hits CD) all in excellent quality. We've also got optional full commentary from Dexter and Noodles on all of them except Can't Repeat. Watching these was bitter-sweet in a way, because The Offspring, at this point in their career, no longer seems to care much about making music videos (their latest seem to only be either fully performance vids or videos without them in it whatsoever,) and that's kind of too bad because their videos, especially those from the Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana period, are some of the most memorable I've ever seen, and it's great to see them again here. The commentary's informative and fun to listen to (I just really wish the usually more private Greg K would have taken part,) and that alone would be worth the $12 you'll pay for this DVD. But there's much more.
There's an interview with Dexter and the dude from the Pretty Fly for A White Guy vid, the "Making of Da Hui" vid, storyboards, a never-used "Cool to Hate" video from Ixnay, and 10 AMAZING quality live performances, edited perfectly with some of the best performances from the band...really great stuff. The energy demonstrated, especially on the Splinter tracks, is pretty incredible. I saw The Offspring live once (during their Conspiracy of One tour,) and this video really makes me want to see them live again, it sucks that they didn't do a major US tour in support of Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, hopefully that'll happen this year...but yeah, the live videos would also have been worth spending $12 bucks alone for, because Offspring fans are going to love them....they demonstrate why this band's so amazing...some of the live tracks sound even better than their album versions (Dexter's voice and vocal style has, in my opinion, improved vastly from the Smash days,) and of course having all the Offspring's videos available for easy access (with again, great audio and visual quality) is a big bonus. Seeing videos from the 1990's is also, of course, a very nostalgic experience as well.
Every Offspring fan owes it to themselves to pick this collection up, it's a great find and although I owned it for years I hadn't gotten around to reviewing it until now, but somehow it was even better a watch to me now than it was when I first got it.
Good stuff.
Summary of The Offspring: The Complete Video Collection
OFFSPRING:COMPLETE MUSIC VIDEO COLLEC - DVD MovieWith any band's video collection, it's as fun to track the evolution of their music as their style. In the first few clips on this DVD, released in conjunction with Greatest Hits, the Offspring come across as scrappy So-Cal skate punks in their Germs and Sex Pistols T-shirts. Then they left Epitaph for Columbia. Their catchy pop-punk-metal sound, in the vein of Social Distortion and Green Day, didn't really change, but by "Gone Away," Dexter Holland had traded in his cornrows for a spiky 'do and patent leather shirt. (No wonder some fans felt abandoned.) Fortunately, the band learned from their mistakes and toned down the new wave look by the next video, "The Meaning of Life," where they race across the desert in wheelchairs, Mad Max-meets-Murderball style. Other highlights include "She?s Got Issues" with Zooey Deschanel and "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by McG, who created The O.C.. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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