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    The Wall & Tommy...

    Tonight I got really buzzed with a friend and had a double feature of The Wall and Tommy... can ANYONE explain to me what I just watched?

    And, a more specific question... is Elton John the actual singer of 'Pinball Wizard'?? Like, on Rock Band... that's Elton's voice??
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    No, Elton John is the Pinball Wizard in the movie, not in the Album.
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    lol you just watched two epic movies to coincide with two epic albums
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    ...and I have no idea what the hell was going on. Well, Tommy I understood... basically, The Wall was confusing on every level while Tommy was just absurd in motivation... I mean, who watches Pinball championships on TV???? LOL, and becomes a famous religious symbol because of it? I gotta say though, if I just had to pick one to be "better" I'd say Tommy... if only because it seemed to not take itself as seriously The Wall. I mean... I love Pink Floyd, but 'The Wall' really just kind of seemed like an artsy fartsy student film... and I can say that, as a film student :P and in Tommy, before he 'woke up'... anytime Daltry's face was on screen I'd just crack up... he just looked so silly, but it seems like Roger had a great sense of humor to play the heart.

    Oh... and what the HELL was up with Tina Turner?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HyeJinx1984 View Post
    Tonight I got really buzzed with a friend and had a double feature of The Wall and Tommy... can ANYONE explain to me what I just watched?

    And, a more specific question... is Elton John the actual singer of 'Pinball Wizard'?? Like, on Rock Band... that's Elton's voice??
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    Quote Originally Posted by HyeJinx1984 View Post
    ...and I have no idea what the hell was going on. Well, Tommy I understood... basically, The Wall was confusing on every level while Tommy was just absurd in motivation... I mean, who watches Pinball championships on TV???? LOL, and becomes a famous religious symbol because of it? I gotta say though, if I just had to pick one to be "better" I'd say Tommy... if only because it seemed to not take itself as seriously The Wall. I mean... I love Pink Floyd, but 'The Wall' really just kind of seemed like an artsy fartsy student film... and I can say that, as a film student :P and in Tommy, before he 'woke up'... anytime Daltry's face was on screen I'd just crack up... he just looked so silly, but it seems like Roger had a great sense of humor to play the heart.

    Oh... and what the HELL was up with Tina Turner?
    The Wall is about many things: war, sexuality, education, politics, society's impact on personality, etc. I personnally believe it perfectly recreates the album's feeling. I don't study film making but I can say that I liked the choice of color themes and that actors do the job well. Artwork is also incredible.
    It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hawkofva View Post
    No, Elton John is the Pinball Wizard in the movie, not in the Album.
    Elton John actually played the "Local Lad", Tommy's the pinball wizard [/smartass]

    Oh, Tommy I've watched that movie twice, I'm thinking all the way through "this is terrible" but, both times, I came out the other side feeling good about it. Makes child molestation funny!

    (in case anyone feels like being traumatized today)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkEAS_eySw4

    Also, When we first got surround sound and a wide screen tv The Wall was my dad's first choice to try it out.

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    ive never seen tommy all the way through so ill pass on that one.

    The Wall however,

    in a very very VERRY brief nutshell, the main chtr is Pink (yes, as in pink floyd) who had a very messed up childhood during WWII and grew up to have all these walls up around him to keep people away. as he grew up and became the rock star, he grew further and further isolated until he has a breakdown which forces him to tear down the walls he has constructed to keep everyone away.

    Of course, thats just my own personal take on it. There is a LOT of symbolism in that movie and different people have different takes on that one.

    blargh

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    Quote Originally Posted by RainbowMist View Post
    Elton John actually played the "Local Lad", Tommy's the pinball wizard [/smartass]

    (in case anyone feels like being traumatized today)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkEAS_eySw4
    ... Is that Keith?


    Anyway, I've really got to watch them both again... I know Tommy had some kind of message in it but I can't remember it... Some sort of social commentary set against a story that is somehow based on Pete's Child-hood. The rest is just weird...

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    I may have sold myself short on The Wall, I DID get it, more or less, but it's when he became a Nazi that I just got kind of confused, lol.

    And Tommy, more or less, is a feel good movie... except the ending I guess. Props to Roger though, the sheer amount of silliness and even danger (when he's crawling up jagged rocks and waterfalls and stuff) show he's not a prima donna egotistical lead singer but has a sense of humor about what he does. and what great hair!

    By the way, the actor who plays Pink... he seemed way way familiar, has he been in anything else?
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