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Rush: R30 (2005)
a sensible choice for the die hard fan and the newcomer
Whether you are looking to add to your collection or just want to see just who are this band that has eluded you for the past 30 years then this is a great place to start.
Filmed in Frankfurt, Germany towards the end of their European Tour (after the Sold-Out UK tour) this DVD works well in addition to the Rush in Rio DVD as the German filming company had the newest of audio and vision equipment, coupled with an indoor venue (as opposed to Rio where it was filmed in a football stadium), allowing them to produce sound of the highest quality and to output the show in High Definition.
As Alex Lifeson said on the Rio box-set, the equipment the Brazillians had was a little dated, however the Rio DVD has something that no other Rush recorded concert has and, in my experience, only one other live show DVD has, which itself was filmed in Rio (this is Iron Maiden: Rock in Rio) and that is energy from the crowd. I do not believe that any other crowd can be any more entertaining to watch in a recorded concert, I most certainly would love to have the chance to join them one day! For this reason people reading reviews on the Rio DVD should ignore comments about the crowd being in the recording too much, there isn't an easy way of dampening the cheers of almost 60,000 excited people!
My only disappointment with the DVD is the lack of the full concert, I attended the Birmingham show and one of the reasons I bought this DVD was that they cram so many songs into the 3 hours they're live you cannot remember what was played altogether so anyone purchasing this will need to get their hands on Rio too for the awesome opening of Nebbit and to hear Ghost Rider.
Munich (2005)
this film is biased, but not in ways many will find
contrary to some posts here, this film is biased, but whether that is a fault of its production or a biased opinion of its producers is hard to tell.
my reasons for this are simple, if you sit down and thoroughly read through the facts of the Munich siege you notice a lot of things missing from the film, and some of it is shown in a light that makes the terrorists (and sometimes the Palestinians as a whole) look like they were cold blooded animals, what is depicted in the film is for bits of the actual story, known to be not true.
also, the film is based on the book Vengeance which the author of the said book claims to be the team leader, but many people with first hand accounts of all that happened during and after Munich dispute his claims to this.
other than that the film is OK, though some bits are horrific and are not for the easily distressed, towards the end of the film though it does tend to drag and the ending was a little pointless.
this isn't a film i'll be in a hurry to watch again and I wont be buying it on DVD, I feel Spielberg has regained some of his credibility in this film after the abysmal War of the Worlds, but he still has a lot to go