twcc wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 11:26 am
I asked if there was a reason why the new 'Pompeii' movie was not available on home media in 4K?, this was met with a response that there is work underway and new artwork has been requested and it’s a case of watch this space.
Thanks for this update. I shall wait until the 4K version hopefully comes out and get just the vinyl instead for now. Sounds like you had a terrific evening!!
Yesterday (24/04/2025) was a day of memorable memories
Presented in XPlus format, the documentary PF in Pompeii MCMLXXII began its exhibition in Brazil without much fanfare by the press.
I myself found out only through the NPF. Except for very specialized media, the rest seem not to care about concerts 'from the past'.
The room contains about 300 seats, with only about 20 seats occupied. I stood in the upper part of the theater. This way I can have a wide view of the entire screen.
After the lights went out, the heart started beating - literally!
The room was incredibly quiet. No noise! Only the beating of the heart.
The documentary took place as very well textualized by the twcc.
Many memories throughout the screening: the journey of each of the members, the passage of time, the behavioral changes of their respective times, politics, economics, deaths, even some passages from Nick Mason's book (Inside Out) entered the thoughts.
At the end, the same silence in the room. It seemed to me that people were still experiencing every moment of the concert.
Anyway, just a sharing of impressions about this revisit to the concert.
Thank you
everton1690 wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:38 pm
I thought it was piss
Better sound with my b&o headphones on
Just my opinion like
Was it a small screen at a multiplex ?, the sound should have been at least four or six channel. I was spoilt by the fantastic audio set-up at the IMAX in Waterloo but I saw again at my local Odeon and the sound was likewise very good with excellent front, side and high level rear channels. The image masking was a bit off as the Odeon is clearly geared for an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 (or wider) and 'Pompeii – MCMLXXII' retains the 4:3 as shot.
If your local cinema send you a 'customer satisfaction' survey tell them you were disappointed.
Thats the thing some cinema's will have the sound perfect others will always be slightly off or turned down. When Roger had his live cinema screening from Prague the cinema i saw it in i thought the sound could of been louder but was still fine for me
Went to see it on Friday. Loved it. If it had gone on for a few more hours I could easily have sat there and lapped it up. As someone who came to them later in their career it was great to them in thier youth. Still giggling at "no crusts". I am now inspired to go back through the catalogue from the beginning. I'll write up my thoughts on each.
Great to see it on the big screen where you could see the cigarette stains on Rick's teeth, the pimples on Roger's face and of how scruffy they looked in those days.
I don't think Steven Wilson could have done much more with 4 mono feeds as the sum total of the sound. Was the sound any better? Hard to tell without a comparison of the older version.
I still enjoyed it immensely.
I wonder how much they really remember the Pompeii concert? I mean, is it really possible for a brain to remember something that happened the 55 years ago? I remember an interview with Gilmour from a few years ago - I think it was around the time of his solo show at Pompeii - and he said that he remember it as being very hot during the recordings. He said the heat was the reason he played without t-shirt for the most of the Pompeii show. At the same time, he didn't seemed to remember the part of a film where the band was running on a slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, and between those warm geysers.
I could just imagine the thought processes of someone going in blind on the basis of “Pink Floyd live”. Someone who is only familiar with the likes of Another Brick in the Wall or AMLOR.
This is a completely and utterly different band from what came after DSOTM and it’s all the better for it. A million miles from backing singers, saxophones, 1980s mullets and session musicians and Polly Samson. The REAL Pink Floyd!
24 year old Gilmour is the coolest cat about, Roger is the ungainly voice, Rick looks like Jesus and plays the keyboards like Him. Nick has a handlebar mustache and cowboy hat and drums like a dervish.
Absolutely life affirming stuff that took me back to my first full viewing in 1992.
cigar73 wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 1:13 pmThis is a completely and utterly different band from what came after DSOTM and it’s all the better for it.
I'm trying to think of an another band that has undergone as much transformation as Pink Floyd. But I can't. Only the other rock 'n' roll band that comes to my mind is maybe Genesis. They transformed from a progressive band in the Peter Gabriel era to the commercial pop-crap band in the Phil Collins era. But still, Genesis were not as experimental and weird in their early days as Pink Floyd were, I think.
cigar73 wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 1:13 pmThis is a completely and utterly different band from what came after DSOTM and it’s all the better for it.
I'm trying to think of an another band that has undergone as much transformation as Pink Floyd. But I can't. Only the other rock 'n' roll band that comes to my mind is maybe Genesis. They transformed from a progressive band in the Peter Gabriel era to the commercial pop-crap band in the Phil Collins era. But still, Genesis were not as experimental and weird in their early days as Pink Floyd were, I think.
king crimson would be similar in this regard
plus, their live stuff reach new heights as pink floyd does
genesis is more like yes, very strict songwriting (in a classical vein) in their prog years, without the experimental side of pink floyd or king crimson, but much more virtuosos and tend to be intense live, but their live stuff don't change much from the studio. And then they try to get more pop, but with many prog moments still, but lose the otherworldly aspect of theit music (while Pink Floyd and King Crimson still maintain it, remaining very atmospheric and unique sounding each)
