Tommy
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Movie Reviews of Tommy
Movie Review: Outrageous film!
Summary: 5 Stars
Following the traces of the career of this Avant Garde filmmaker, the results can not be totally appreciated in just a view. Russell was in the seventies and eighties the daredevil director, the Nasty boy, the embodied irreverence.
Thanks to that wonderful Who's Rock Opera, Russell built a frenetic, dazzling, disturbing and even puzzling picture, blending visual extravagances, kinetic rhythm, and original stages about a dumb, isolated, blind, and deaf boy who will become a Pinball Wizard and eventually a kind of New Messiah.
Roger Daltrey in the principal role showed his vocal gifts. A venerated cult movie for hard fans and followers of the beatnik Wave.
A sincere advise: you must be absolutely involved by the score; get Tommy in its original version, and go for Pinball Wizard, The Acid Queen, and every one of its episodes; otherwise, I can guarantee an absolute understanding and consequent
dissappointment.
Movie Review: The second greatest movie in my book
Summary: 5 Stars
when my friend told me about this film a few months ago,i thought to myself, self, this must be another boring musical... as i moved away from my friend without seeing the movie he had told me was his favorite, i was surprised to see that my new drama teacher had it in his classroom... i asked him if i could borrow it over spring break, and he said that would be more than okay... he said that to say that this film is "good" would be a massive understatement...much to my surprise (again), the movie really showed me how a musical should be... the story of a boy who musn't speak, hear, or see so that a horrible crime can be covered up is of epic and rock infused proportions... the who and elton john really were great as well, as well as tommy, who in the end struck an unmistakable resemblance to how jesus christ was portrayed in the bible... somewhat of a religious base, very well done... fantastic all the way around...Movie Review: Pure genius
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the key titles of the seventies and of the counterculture spirit, and a truly "tour de force" of surreal and sarcastic visual invention. Iconoclast and subversive british director Ken Rusell filmed in 1975 this satyrical rock opera with synthetic and rabidly mesmerezing visual imagination using many of the icons ( from psychodelic designs and underground imaginary to the musical pop stars of the moment: Tina Turner; Elton John and Eric Clapton make self-parodic cameos in the movie ) of the age so as some of the topicals of Hollywood melodrama to build a sardonically kitsch revision of the british Establisment; the cynicism and obscure interests of organized religion and the star system deliriums through the story of Tommy: a blind, deaf and dumb middle-class child who becomes a sort of messiahnic pinball star. Music and lyrics by the mythical band The Who.
Widescreen edition.
Movie Review: pure rock'n'roll magic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie made me a fan of the Who when I was only ten years old (back in 1978). Roger Daltrey is the perfect Tommy (the broadway version with that moron playing Tommy is a total fiasco; awfull); Keith Moon is really frightening and at the same time, fun. Ann Margret is absolutelly great, and sings much better than most of broadway female singers: her voice is beautifull and powerfull. Actually, one of the best moments in the film is "mother and son" where she sings a dueto with Roger Daltrey. That song is so lyrical and the curious thing about it is that Pete Towshend wrote it only for the movie. That song was not in the original Tommy record. The final scene, where Daltrey sings "listening to you" at the top of the mountain and suddenly the sun comes out, is magical. I must have seen this movie about 200 times already and never get bored. This is the ultimate rock movie!Movie Review: Come on the amazing journey
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been watching this movie over and over and over again since I was about 8 years old. I've always loved it and always will. Yes, it's strange, a bit trippy, and those who are fans of the The Who's original recording will probably not like this. But I LOVE the performances of Oliver Reed, Ann Margaret, Elton John, Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey, and especially Jack Nicholson (how sexy was he as the doctor!). When Oliver Reed and Ann Margaret are singing "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it" to young Tommy and the way they're yelling it to him at the end of the song gives me goosebumps. Even though Oliver Reed and Jack Nicholson aren't the best singers, I like it, I think it gives the movie some realism and even some comedy. I'm a huge fan of the songs from the movie by all the guest artists! And the ending of the movie is great.
Overall, I think it's fantastic, despite it's "flaws".