When The Wind Blows - Have You Seen It?

Real Pink in the Inside · Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:24 pm

Have you seen When The Wind Blows? Do you recommend buying a used copy (There's no chance of a DVD or VHS re-release) on Ebay?

I have read the book, but I found it quite boring. However, I still have this odd desire to buy a copy of the film...

Post by **drafsack** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 11:32 am

It would depend why you were buying it. If you were buying it because Rog did some of the sound track then no I would not buy it. But If I was a big Raymond Briggs fan then I would buy it. I have seen the film and I have got the sound track (both because of Rogers involvement) but I did not buy the video because what I wanted (rogers songs) were on the album.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:23 pm

I heard David Bowie also contributed to the soundtrack. Were his contributions any good? (I'm a Bowie fan, but I thought most of his 80s stuff was forgettable).

Post by **mosespa** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:57 pm

I believe that Schaffner made the comment that the movie was something one would sit through only if one were a socially concious masochist or an author doing research on a Pink Floyd book.

I saw the movie about eleven years ago...a friend of mine had it on video. The backgrounds are live action, but the characters are animated...it's almost as if they couldn't raise enough money to animate the whole film and so cut corners where they could.

The couple in the movie reminded me farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr too much of my grandparents for me to get truly comfortable with the movie...You'd have to be me to fully understand what I mean there.

It's okay as far as apocalyptic films go...with a socially concious message.

Yeah...I think you might want to own it, R.PITI...it's not an exceptional film, but if you are any kind of collector like me, you might want to own it.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 7:00 pm

mosespa wrote:The couple in the movie reminded me farrrrrrrrrrrrrrr too much of my grandparents for me to get truly comfortable with the movie...You'd have to be me to fully understand what I mean there.

I'm not, but I do.

Post by **drafsack** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 12:14 pm

Mother wrote:

I heard David Bowie also contributed to the soundtrack. Were his contributions any good? (I'm a Bowie fan, but I thought most of his 80s stuff was forgettable).

I will check for you when I get home (I am at work at the mo). But I'll be honest with you I don't think I have played that side of the album I have only played the side with Roger on It.

Post by **drafsack** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:19 am

Mother:

The David Bowie track is called "When the wind Blows"

dgsyd1 · Post by **dgsyd1** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:21 am

A very depressing film, and probably one of the better of the 80's nuke films (although IMHO Threads is the best). That moment at the end when it fades to black and "Folded Flags" starts to play really brings a lump to your throut.

madcap69 · Post by **madcap69** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 6:15 am

A friend off mine had a tape of this a long tyme a go and me and him and a nother guy would sit in his basement apartment which h ad black paper over the windows and we would watch it and get reeally stoned and laugh our arses off. It was great

Spinoza · Post by **Spinoza** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:14 am

i haven't seen or heard it yet