Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
uninvited_weirdo
When you make a masterpiece, you have to face it. This is what Grant Gee shows in Meeting People Is Easy, a film about Radiohead and their well-known album Ok Computer. It's not an easy film to see. It's more of the style of Man With A Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, nothing to do with the Discovery channel documentaries. In the VHS or DVD box the warning is clear: this film contains stroboscopic effects (whatever that means) and it can affect epileptic sufferers. It's Radiohead.Creating a masterpiece has its implications. Radiohead knows that. Grant Gee could capsule all that in a film that is sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes gray. Ok Computer is trascendental rock album. Not just an album. Ok Computer is a concept album, hard, cult album, that capsules thoughts and emotions of a machine-world, where you need to be fitter, happier, more productive, where the artificial reigns and the gray panorama is all we see. Little pieces of hope, gradually disappearing to give open field to other colors, more or less bright; images of people in the cities, that say more than a thousand words, that evoke on us tortured memories and bitter gladness that we didn't want to accept. Meeting People. capsules the essence of the album, its concept; in an hour and a half we visit the places that the band visited to promote the album in 1997, with all the people that was in the eye of the hurricane. A radio registers the answers to the reporter in a room, while a camera shoots everything.Ok Computer wasn't easy. Long sessions of interviews, frequently asked questions by the reporters and fans, a plane here, a bus there. London, Paris, Tokyo, New York. Publicity for the French radio, presentations in the David Letterman show, a concert here, tomorrow another show in another country. Hotel rooms, crowds, publicity at the metro station. Meanwhile, life goes on in the great metropolis of steel and concrete. Unplug the phone. In a city of the future it is difficult to concentrate, as Thom Yorke sings.Maybe the scene that describes the best the situation of making a masterpiece is that one of the photo session: Yorke is literally shot, against the wall, the flash of a camera is a gun, Yorke, the pray. Unstoppable. Their partners try to defend him, but the attack doesn't stop.Like Yorke says in one of the final sequences of the documentary: those things change you.
jmn4
This highly cinematic documentary forces one to rethink the way s/he may think of life as a "rock star". Radiohead's unique stardom is portrayed in a dark and highly neurotic light. The pains of dealing with an incessant press, constant live performances, and travel around the nation bear down on these five men and produce tension that borders on nervous breakdown. When watching this film, the intense style transports this tension to the viewer, making it difficult to watch. But it adds insight to the band that has changed Rock music forever, and lets one understand better exactly what they are doing and going through. Well worth the headache and depression experienced afterwards. Meeting people is truly not easy.
zerodegreesk
When I first got ahold of "ok computer" I was blown away. First, by the music itself. Then, by the fact that this was Radiohead I was listening to! Non-stop injection into my brain resulted for the next year or so. This all stopped once I saw this movie.It's really hard for me to accept a rock'n'roll star complaining about how horrible his life is and how hard his job is. Did any of these guys ever work a REAL crappy, minimum wage job for a living? I'm sure they did, so have they forgotten?Then again, I've never been a rock-star, so I have no way to tell for sure which is worse. The one thing I DO know is that these guys could quit, right now, if it's so bad, and never have to work another day of their lives.If it's such a horrible way to live, quit the biz and do what you want, but don't bother with anymore of these self-indulgent cry-baby projects.
This is why it's hard for me to sympathize with these guys. Come on! It could be much worse!
fahfooh
I'm not going to tell you that if you don't know who RadioHead are, or if you don't like them, that you should watch this. If I weren't a fan (or if I lived so deep inside a cave I'd never heard of them), I would have gone crazy trying to wrap my head around this movie.However, since I am a huge fan, I absolutely loved this video. Artfully done, it has more crammed into it than I would have thought possible. The Irony, the Agony, the Frustration, the Fans, the Good Times, the (never-ending) Interviews; and of course the vicarious thrill you get from this rare look into the real back-stage life of a serious rock-n-roll band.This is not an up-lifting film. It makes you glad you never seriously pursued a career in the popular music industry.
