Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pros: excellent use of the songs as a narrative, great performance by Bob Geldof, great animation
Cons: may be dated to some younger viewers

For all my love of music during my life, I was never a huge Pink Floyd fan. I don't know why, but only Jethro Tull was lower on my list of bands that I liked. The only song I found the least bit redeeming was Learning To Fly because it ...

Pros: music, visuals, and strangely enough - the story
Cons: sometimes a tad bit bizarre, to say it nicely

Of course, being a member of the Floyd culture, it was required that I watch this movie. A strange one to be sure and probably better viewed when first released instead of in this day and age. Actually, for the time of its' release, the graphics were...

Pros: excellent music, probing images, makes you think
Cons: this movie might not be for everyone

This is a movie for everyone, or at least that's what I always thought. This was the movie everyone watched in High School. Everyone was the world's biggest Pink Floyd fan (almost twenty years too late) and watching this movie was a rite of...

Pros: The animation, DVD extras, Bob Geldof, killer tunes.
Cons: None really.

On the opening night of "Pink Floyd: The Wall" in 1982, fans flocked in droves to the nearest multiplex expecting a night of watching Pink Floyd perform their monster hit album "The Wall" in it's entirety. Well, they didn't get a concert film, in fact ...

Pros: Great music, insightful contents.
Cons: Disturbing subject and lack of conventional plot might bother some viewers.

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

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Contrary to popular belief, The Wall (and not The Dark Side Of The Moon) is Pink Floyd's biggest commercial success to date, and it is...

Pros: Outstanding picture and audio quality. Lots of interesting extras, very unique
Cons: Story is somewhat muddled at points. Not suitable for children.

Every once in a while, something comes along that is so different and so special that it causes the world to stand up and take notice. The original concept album from Pink Floyd titled The Wall did just that. When I first began listening...

Pros: A few good songs
Cons: The movie is mostly a waste of time

After viewing the trailer, and seeing this ridiculous excuse for a movie, one realizes just how much there is to the whole thing. Captured in three words: memories, madness, music. It is one of the most absurd films I've ever seen. That's not to say it's ...

Pros: Good film on "The Wall"
Cons: Story is incomplete without "Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On"

The movie for "Pink Floyd: The Wall" is used as another vehicle for the story from the band's 1979 classic album. Directed by Alan Parker ("The Commitments" and "Evita") and written by Floyd bassist/lyricist Roger Waters,...

Pros: Excellent music and imagery, deeply emotional
Cons: I won't even pretend that I understand it completely

I like Pink Floyd. When I tell my peers about my admiration for the band, I usually get one of two responses: either they laugh at me hysterically for a good ten minutes and then say, 'But seriously, what bands do you like?' or they tell me how great...

Pros: Stunning visuals, great music. Absolutely amazing.
Cons: Some may find this bleak and depressing. Will freak the hell out of little kids.

When I first saw this movie, I sat there riveted and unmoving for the entire film, totally absorbed in the plot. When the credits quietely find their way up the screen, I still sat there, mesmerised, touched.

Then I reached for the remote. My...

Pros: Extrodinary visual effects. Excellent music. This is Floyd on a visual scale
Cons: Can be a demanding and depressing film to watch

Symbolic and surreal, ‘The Wall’ defies categorisation of genre: animated film; musical; contemporary art?

I first watched ‘The Wall’ (directed by Alan Parker) when I was 15. Even then I could see the powerful messages which were being...

Pros: amazing vision of Waters & Parker, Geldof, of course the music
Cons: may be too trippy to handle for some: also, NOT for young kids

"Pink Floyd’s The Wall" is a film that filled a certain niche in a very particular generation: the teenage druggie film for those who were teens in the 80’s. I happen to fall in that category, and I certainly had m ore than my share of...

Pros: Music and Art
Cons: none

Pros: Thought provoking, definitive Rock Opera
Cons: Habit forming - or is that a Pro?

that's The Wall... a masterful melding of music and imagery - a fitting complement to what must be the definitive concept album of the 20th Century.

The man who provoked Roger Waters to spit in his face should be knighted. Make him an Earl,...

Pros: Hitchhiking
Cons: Hitchhiking

As an album, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" thrust on the music world an opus with the towering angst of a burnt-out rock star cursing his environment for causing him to build a "wall" against it and its tortures, both trivial and...