Off: Pink Pompeii DVD/ why cant the Hawks.....

[Michael Daniel]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 04:38:34 +0000, chris at HAWKLORD.UKLINUX.NET wrote:

>Hi ya,
>
>I've had the Pink Floyd DVD a while and watched the main title a few
>times, that being the directors cut.
>
>Now I am watching for first time the original version (on same dvd) and
>its soooo much better!!!!!   For all the cga and so, the directors cut
>just don't do the same thing for me.   The original rocks, dig that dog!
>Wish my mutts could sing like that, mind I play them a Del Detmar
>bootleg and they sing like hell....  Howling to remove themselves from
>what they know to be 15 minuites of one chord with reverb (only after an
>hour of other noises designed to irritate mutts)
>
>Yea well, original version excellent - directors cut just don't get me
>there at all.   Thank what/who ever they put the original version on the
>dvd!  Its a classic, its art, and don't ever mess with classic art cause
>ya can't better perfection.   The original Pompeii is a perfect vision.
>  Whatever happened in the directors cut seems to have removed all
>emotion and feeling from the film.   Its not just the inclusion of
>interviews that destroys the feeling, the computer generated animation
>is totally out of place, you don't notice how out of place till you see
>the original again.
>
>Directors cut is desecration ov sacred temple of (All {alchemical - not
>all}) chemical influences.
>
>Man that dog can sing the blues better than any of mine!!!
>
>Chris

I know what you mean.....
The camera work and Adrian Mabens original cut is amazing.....
I still get goosepimples (as much for the music as for the camera work)
on that last instrumental part of Echoes part one....

Why cant the Hawks get something along the lines of the original cut?
I remember sitting down with my VHS of Love In Space and thinking "great-
a decent recording of a great tour"...and then just as Death Trap gets going
it starts going into a sort of slow motion cutting technique....loses all
the urgency of the light show created in those blistering opening
shots.....lets hope the new DVD is just a good straightforward
representation of the gig.Its along the same lines as what makes the COTBS
video so annoying to watch....

Oh well fingers crossed!