Pink Floyd: Pulse (1995)

Best movie ever!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Pink Floyd: Pulse (1994) *** 1/2 (out of 4)Shine On You Crazy Diamond / Learning to Fly / High Hopes / Take It Back / Coming Back to Life / Sorrow / Keep Talking / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 / One of These Days / Speak to Me / Breathe in the Air / On the Run / Time / The Great Gig in the Sky / Money / Us and Them / Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse / Wish You Were Here / Comfortably Numb / Run Like HellFilmed at Earls Court on 10/20/94 during Pink Floyd's The Division Bell tour, this concert film often splits fans in regards to the quality of the music. There will always be those who don't see this as Pink Floyd because Roger Waters wasn't involved but attacking the film for that alone just doesn't make too much sense to me. I will admit that I didn't care too much for the music during the first portion of the show, which is included on disc 1 of the DVD. The "show" itself in regards to the colors is downright amazing as it's so easy to just get caught up in the terrific light show that you really don't need to notice anything else. However, as a fan of music, I must admit that I didn't too much for some of the songs including "High Hopes," "Take It Back," and "Keep Talking." As you can tell, these are all songs from The Division Bell so if you're a fan of that album then perhaps you'll enjoy the first part more. The second set (on disc 2) kicks off with a complete playing of the Dark Side of the Moon album and it's beautifully pulled off with an effective stage show as well as strong performances vocally and musically. The entire album is pulled off to perfection and at times it's quite breathtaking to watch and listen to. The encore features fan favorites like the classic "Wish You Were Here," "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell." All three encore songs are done terrifically and the lights again are just amazingly done. PINK FLOYD: PULSE was a rather strange show for me as I really got bored during the first half but if you're feeling the same way it's certainly not worth turning it off. The light effects of the first half should at least give you something to look at and then the second half is a complete hit.

--I did not get to go. Well, a lot of people in the states did not get to go. Unless they had tickets to London. The Pulse concert was a one and only.This is a performance, it is a big stage production, a rock concert, and not a movie. But almost like a movie. Pulse was one of the largest productions of it's type, possibly ever. Woodstock 1969 could not compete with that typification, at least at least not in technical terms. There were a few very famous people up there in the video disc, I won't say who. I have the first DVD released in the U.S. of Pulse. The disc, or each disc have all types of configurations. Configuring the sound is the mainstay of the controls. There is even a "pink generator" and that is a real sound configuration found in rarer and older theater system. Also a configuration for the speakers. I do not not have a lot of concert videos, this may be something normal.There are some very cool things going on inside that wheel, which is really half a wheel. This is not to even include the lighting effects. The Pink Floyd concert includes marvelous laser light effects, but there is so much more. There are singers, for Pink Floyd's 1969 classic Dark Side Of The Moon. There are videos. There is so much included in this concert it is staggering. The first disc is music that came out later, after Dark Side Of The Moon had sold millions of copies. On that first disc is beautiful incandescent lights, not to mention the laser lights. It's all a spectacular show, and the sound of Floyd does not run second rate to the visual auras surrounding the band.An excellent show, from any point of view. Even if you do not listen to one of the original psychedelic bands from England. Turn the house lights down, please..

After band front man Roger Water's departure from the band Pink Floyd, he thought that would be the end of the band, but he was wrong, and this is undeniable proof. Pink Floyd plays some of their best known songs here, including one's he wrote, and David Gilmour takes over vocals. Along with a great sound they managed, this is also one of the coolest looking concerts ever. It's got full on laser shows, along with a television screen in the middle playing interesting music videos to the music the band is playing live. It's quite a spectacle.The first half of the concert is mostly Pink Floyd's late 80s, early 90s stuff, which is not as good for the most part as what they produced on some of their classic albums, but the performance is still great. The second half of the concert is the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, with David Gilmour effectively taking over for Roger Water's singing parts on Brain Damage/Eclipse. They finish off the concert with some rewinds to classic songs Wish you Were Here, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell. From start to end, it's a really beautiful concert.This is an amazing concert, but even as amazing as it is, I only had one problem with it. At times David Gilmour would sing very oddly for the song he was singing. During Us and Them, which is supposed to be a more peaceful song, he kind of gave it a scratchy twist. It could be he was tired, or just getting older, but the occasional voice problems are noticeable, but what can you expect. It's a live performance of 20 plus songs.Overall, this is a great concert DVD. The light shows are very cool, and the song choice is great also.My rating: *** 1/2 out of ****. 120 mins.

I'm a great PF fan and I was looking forward to see this DVD. I will start with the positive: Disc 2 is amazing, Dark Side is my favorite all time album and the version here is pretty good (not as good as the record, but what in the world is as good as the dark side record?), and the solo in Comfortably Numb is amazing (the only true "better then the original" moment in the set).But sadly, there's also Disc 1... Shine On is a masterpiece and it's played nicely and One of These Days is always a treat (sadly the only song played from pre-dark side times), but the rest of it is just BAD. A Momentary lapse of a reason and The Division Bell are just very average albums, and the band play too much of them! I ended up skipping all those songs because they have nothing of the beauty earlier PF records had. And then, there's Another Brick In The Wall, which has a good solo but it is still a very very bad song.And another thing, I don't like the style of the show. Too showy and grandiose; too much use of lightning, background movies, special effects and so on, and you can barely see the band. In the CN solo, there are hardly any closeups on the guitar which is a shame.So my suggestion: Get Remember That Night by Dave and Rick instead, it is just much better.