Hey, so there's actually only so many times I can watch this.
I want to find more masterpieces like this! Does anyone know any movies that are like The Wall in that they are made for/with an album? Uh I guess kinda like the Daft Punk movie as well.. maybe even The Song Remains The Same by Led Zeppelin?
Hehe even if you wanna suggest your fave stoner movies. Whaddaya got?
Sadly, there are very few movies that fall into the Wall's catagory.
I wouldn't really say The Song Remains the Same falls into this genre. That's more like how the Wall was originally envisioned, before it evolved into what it did.
There really aren't too many movies based on albums, which is a shame, because so many albums tell such great stories.
The your best bet is to check out Tommy by The Who. Its more of a straight forward musical than the Wall was, but they bring the album to life with such brilliance and beauty that I think its the best you're going to do.
If you just want a good musical with a rock soundtrack, there is also Across the Universe, which features the music of the Beatles. From a plot standpoint its pretty lackluster and wasn't at all what I had hoped for, but the soundtrack is great and is visually breathtaking.
Moulin Rouge! is another great jukebox musical. Not at all like the Wall, but similar in concept and equally surreal, just in a different way. If the Wall is a bad trip, Moulin Rouge! is the best trip you can imagine.
Yellow Submarine, A Hard Days Night, and HELP! are the Beatles 3 most watchable movies, also with killer soundtracks.
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, despite the exciting sounding name, is little more than a David Bowie concert film. That said, if you veiw it in terms of what Bowie was trying to do, which was blend a rock concert with a high concept stage show put on by a Martian sex god, it is easy to draw parallels between it and the Wall.
There is also director Todd Hayes' Velvet Goldmine, which is indirectly inspired by Bowie's relationship with Iggy Pop, while completely fictionalizing both singers as Brian Slade and Kurt Wild, respectively. While it does have a great original Glam soundtrack, don't expect to find any of Bowie's actual music.
Also from Todd Hayes is I'm Not There, a surreal and nonlinear fictionalization of Bob Dylan. 5 or 6 different actors portray different aspects of Dylan's personality, highlighted through very creative use of Bob Dylan's music.
Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is another film to look out for. Visually breathtaking, the filmis basically a bunch of hot chicks with machine guns fighting dragons, robots, and Nazi zombies to the music of The Beatles, Bjork, and the Eurithmics to name a few. The acting is pretty terrible and the script is poor, but the women are beautiful, the monsters well done, and the soundtrack what makes the movie memorable
While there are lots of great rock and roll movies out there, so far there has never really been anything quite like the Wall. I've heard Marillion gave similar treatment to their rock opera "Brave," but I haven't seen it, so I can't attest to its validity.
I hope this was helpful. Though nothing on this list really compares to the Wall in terms of style, I don't think you'd be dissappointed by any of them. They're all films every good music fan should see before they die.
Don't get high while watching Tommy, though. I'm not into any drugs, but I imagine that'd be a bad experience.
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Hollywood2012's list is pretty good. However he really should have pointed out that The Wall really does borrow quite a lot structurally and visually from Tommy (a bit too much it is often argued)
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I've seen The Wall a good 5 times or so, and I've only seen Tommy once, but I gotta say I don't see a whole bunch of similarities. Other than little easter eggs for the fans like the Schoolmaster reciting the lyrics to 'Money' and Anne-Marget writhing around in the backed beans and other things like that, Tommy and The Wall are really quite different. The Wall plays out more like a long-form music video. Tommy is a musical in the most simple terms. Both not only use the music of their respective bands to tell the story, but also are laden with subtle and not-so-subtle referrences to the imagery of the bands, but that's really where the similarites end, I think. I'd like to give them both a watch again. I saw Tommy in 2008 and haven't seen The Wall since probably 2004 or 05.
On a related note, I read yesterday that Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks is being adapted into a film. What that means, exactly, remains to be seen.
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Have you seen Quadrophenia 1979 (The Who)
If you are going to do drugs, do a lot of them before seeing "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.
And check out "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Hair" and . Fun stuff in there.
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