If you are a die hard U2 fan, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this! A very cool experience!
U2 3D (2008)
Rated: G
Runtime: 85 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 23, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $9,235,719
Synopsis: The larger-than-life rock band is given perhaps the only treatment that can properly capture its outsized popularity with a 3D concert film extravaganza. Produced by the 3D masters at 3ality Digital Entertainment, the film comprises footage from seven different South American concerts... The larger-than-life rock band is given perhaps the only treatment that can properly capture its outsized popularity with a 3D concert film extravaganza. Produced by the 3D masters at 3ality Digital Entertainment, the film comprises footage from seven different South American concerts during the group's 2007 Vertigo Tour. A massive undertaking, the project called for nine different cameras, making it the first-ever 3-D multi-camera live shoot. Directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington had previously worked with the band--Owens as the designer of screen visuals for their tours, and Pellington as the director for the "One" video--and they may have succeeded in doing what few concert films can, by truly capturing the ecstatic joy of a massive rock show. While still offering plenty of footage of the rapturous crowd, the film puts you exactly where you want to be at a concert: as close as possible to the performers. You get so close, in fact, that the first time the camera swoops in on Bono, it creates a strange sense of, well, vertigo, to have the mega-star's nose nearly grazing your own. The cameras draw in close enough to show beads of sweat flying from The Edge, and even reveal the middle-aged paunch Bono has hidden inside his motorcycle jacket. The sound quality is impeccable, and the moment it kicks into the drumbeat for "Bloody Sunday," it is nearly impossible to keep at least one body part from involuntarily bouncing in time. For U2 fans, the film can only be exhilarating, though it may hold less sway for those who don't own the band's complete, decades-spanning catalog. [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: U2
Producer: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens
Reviews
By the time Bono turns to the camera, reaching out to his audience in a typically theatrical plea for peace, love and understanding, one half expects his outstretched hand to surge through the screen and seize one of your own.
U23D captures the band and the excitement of their live shows in a way that no other medium could. The combination of art and science, technology and emotion, separates U23D from being just a nifty 3D experiment and elevates it to a pop mast
Represents what is far and away the most impressive use of 3-D I've ever seen.
The rock mega-band U2 has made so many concert films that it's hard to get excited about this one.... But the film is a revelation, redefining 3D live-action moviemaking.
Inadvertently, U2 3D mimics perfectly the empty, intimacy-free spectacle that is stadium rock.
U2 just look like four conceited billionaires who are further up themselves than ever.
It makes you want to climb on screen and give the big, eco-friendly lug a hug.
Ultimately, U2 3D will infuriate as many as it dazzles – attendance depends on how much Bono-me you can stomach or how grabbed you are by 3D cinema.
If you already love U2 your conviction will be strengthened. If you hate them, it will confirm your worst fears. Either way, the 3D technology is fantastic.
Bono should refrain from ramming his preachy political meanderings down our throats and let the music do the talking. Even if some of that music becomes a little stultifying.
It's not for nothing that these guys are the world's finest live act.
The playlist alone with thrill fans, but while spectacular, the 3D element still can't replicate the feeling of a live gig.
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