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pretty good movie
I saw this movie in an IMAX theater when it was released. This is not that movie. It is almost all the same songs, probably from the other night of 2 show run. still a good movie. the sound mix is different. volume up on whomever is playing lead riff. interesting at times, not so much at others.
Skip it
Like others have said the sound quality is bad the performance unispired. The sound may be a result of poor production or more probably the Stones just aren't that good. The Rolling Stones may be the most overrated band of all time. I used to be a fan, but after seeing this I lot much respect for them. As a guitar player myself I was disappointed at how sloppy and simplistic the musicianship was. SO many more talented bands out there.
Technical Issues
The disc played in my Samsung Blu Ray player with great difficulty. At 11:19 it kept locking up, so I had to skip those chapters in order to see the concert. The menu caused my player, a Samsung with all the latest firmware upgrades, to lock up. Chapter selection was unavailable as were the extras. Why did they even ship this knowing full well it would not function with Blu Ray players- see other reviews about this as well. I am not the only one having problems with the bluray version.
DOESN'T PLAY ON SONY BLU RAY PLAYERS
I was really looking forward to watching this Stones concert on Blu Ray only to be disappointed when I found it wouldn't play on my Sony Blu Ray Player. I purchased two copies of this blu ray disc and rented it three times. None of the copies of purchased or rented worked on my Sony Blu Ray player. What gives? Anyone else have this problem? I'll have to take the word of the other reviewers because I still haven't been able to watch it. I'll just have to rent the regular, sub-par DVD version. What a disappointment.
Watch "Gimme Shelter" instead
The sound quality here is unacceptable. The picture looked great. But the concert was very predictible. And the performances were not very inspiring. I watched Gimme Shelter the day before watching this and it was much more exciting. To shoot Shine a Light, they had the lights turned up really high and lots of security at The Beacon.But at Altamont, it was dark and crazy and there didn't seem to be any security. People were all over the stage, at one point a dog walks across in front of Mick. At Altamont, the band was sounding great. Anything could happen at Altamont.It's nice that nobody was killed during the filming of Shine a Light. But all the IMAX cameras in the world couldn't make this performance fun to watch. And like I said, the sound quality on the Blu-Ray disk was really bad. They could have at least put high-quality sound on the disk.
Blueray problems
I have had two copies of this shipped to me, neither would play on my Sony Blueray player, too bad I like the movie in the theater.