MEETING EXPECTATIONS ~ Awesome: I FUCKING SHOT THAT

[Bionic]

I've seen the film and it really is as great as the fans say... Young Remy wrote a great review without giving away too much, the review that got picked up by someone and used in an article. I can't wait to see it in theaters, I can't wait to get the DVD. I'm a huge fan.

I think that people may have lofty expectiations for how the film 'will do' with the general public. I feel like some fans will be dissapointed if this film isn't a huge commercial success. In my opinion, the film is already a success, it doesn't matter if everyone doesn't see it. There've been a bunch of pretty ok movie theater concert releases that have gone unnoticed. One major problem I've seen from them is that the sound has usually not been that good when I've been to them. I could appreciate them but the casual fan might get bored. If I had a say, I'd want to make sure that the theaters that play the film are ones equipped with not good but excellent sound systems and also make sure to let the audience know that they don't need to sit in their seats passively as though they were watching some other movie.

let me just clarify... i think that AIFST is an INCREDIBLE piece of work and I do want to see droves flocking to see it. This is the kind of thing you can watch with your friends who might not be that into the Beastie Boys and be like, "this is what I've been telling you about!!... im really looking forward to checkng it out in theaters again. I wonder how it'll do

Anyway, my quesion is about expectations. what are your expectations? how do you feel this will be recieved by the casual fans? the press? etc...

[midzi]

I know it will be exciting for us here to watch it. But for others it will be just another live dvd.

[@water]

Yes!
If the rest of the DVD is anything like the Brass Monkey video on Solid Gold, then no-one outside the really hard-core fan base will be able to enjoy it.
The reason beeing the (very shakey) focus of the video will be on the audience rather then the performing band. Which after all is what everybody else will want to look at, the Boys - not the schmuck in the audience.

And if I saw the film in a movie theater I most definitely would like the guy in front of me quietly sitting down so I can enjoy the film. Not jumping around screaming as if it was an actual concert.

My two c's...

[Bionic]

the "very shaky" video that "focuses on the audience" and not the beastie boys thing... I thought that at first, but it works out very very well.

i didn't mean people should be jumping around and screaming at the theater screenings, but the audience should feel free to move around a bit and to clap/cheer between songs.

[acamus]

Hey, at this point I hope they loose their mass popularity. For one, we wouldn't have to put up with the assholes and frat boys in the audience. Two, they could play small venues again.

Yeah I know, they may not able to tour if this happens and I sure like how they've played underground anthropologists for mainstream ear. It's really a good thing to bring the bouge and the rebel together, but you get the idea, right?

[Documad]

I feel like some fans will be dissapointed if this film isn't a huge commercial success. In my opinion, the film is already a success, it doesn't matter if everyone doesn't see it. There've been a bunch of pretty ok movie theater concert releases that have gone unnoticed.
I haven't seen it but I can't imagine it being a huge commercial success during its theatrical release. Has there ever been a concert film that was?

Only the most critically acclaimed concert films tend to get noticed outside their fan base. I still can't imagine why someone who didn't like the Talking Heads would have seen Stop Making Sense just because Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs up. I was a huge fan and saw it a bunch of times in the (nearly empty) theater. I guess that I saw The Last Waltz at a retro theater without loving The Band, but that was because there were so many guest stars and because I used to see every acclaimed movie. The good news with concert films is that they become staples of the midnight movie circuit and they tend to sell steadily on DVD.

Gimme Shelter might work if you're not a Stones fan, because it's a snapshot of an interesting event, but no one was murdered on camera at MSG in Oct 2004. At least I don't remember it. :)

I do not expect the beastie boys become one of these seminal movies (I'd love to be wrong). But I do expect to personally enjoy the movie because it will let me relive my own good times during the 2004-05 tour. And beastie boys make the best videos and have the best extras, so I'm hoping for an interesting DVD someday. Isn't that enough?

[Bionic]

Of course that's enough. And you make all good points. I really don't care if it makes millions, I just think its a great way to relive (or live for the first time) their concert experience. When I said commercial success, I meant relative to other concert films. I wouldnt expect a concert film to do "Titanic" numbers or anything like that. Im just curious as to what people are expecting, and for those that have seen it, how do they think it will be recieved? How will the people who haven't seen it base their level of satisfaction? Will the press give the Beasties the props they deserve for it? I think they will but who gives a shit? That kind of thing....

PS i think the dvd will be out not too much after the theatrical release...

[impackt]

I'm not sure you're gonna have much to guage the success against.... I've been searching the net today trying to find other concert videos that actually had theatrical releases.... and I really can't think of any that are apples for apples like AIFST.... I'm sure Im missing some, but the only rock/pop/hip-hop musical performance films to hit the theatres that i can think of are

1) Rattle N Hum - U2 film, but was shot over serveral legs of their tour and was not straight concert footage, had studio footage and other features, i never actually saw it..

2) Some Kind of Monster - Metallica, but again, this wasnt a straight up concert, it was live footage with a whole bunch of other stuff mixed in...

Those are the only ones Im aware of, somebody else mentioned Talking heads, never saw that one..

[cj hood]

i'd rather see the same effects on a concert pre-1995!!!

[Bionic]

oh well

what do you expect for this one?

[Laver1969]

Since it looks like it will only be released in NY and LA and maybe some other markets, it will probably not make a big commercial splash.

From the reviews that I have read, I can't wait to see it.

[jennyb]

I'd like to think of AIFST as, I guess, an indie film. Yeah, this'll be a little extra money in the Bboy pockets but really now... it isn't about selling out if you ask me. It's about Hornblower pushing that envelope.

To me, this is more a gift to us fans than anything else, and for that I am eternally grateful.


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Hey, at this point I hope they lose their mass popularity. For one, we wouldn't have to put up with the assholes and frat boys in the audience. Two, they could play small venues again.
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On that note... I'm going out to have a nice dinner in Hollywood and out for a few drinky poos cuz it's Friday dammit! :cool:

[fucktopgirl]

i am looking forward to see it!I never had the chance to see the bboys lives so,,,yea!

[Documad]

Those are the only ones Im aware of, somebody else mentioned Talking heads, never saw that one..

The movies I named are concert films, they had famous directors, they're highly thought of, and they are good movies. Also:
Sign O the Times (Prince) -- see it at a midnight movie because the DVD has horrid sound
The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin)
Woodstock
Concert for Bangledesh (George and friends)
Don't Look Back (Dylan) but it's not really a concert film.
Lots of others weren't any good. Before video, many bands did movies. One of the worst was a Paul McCartney one, maybe with Wings.

I have no expectations for the beastie boys' movie. My gut reaction is that I'd rather that fans weren't in it, but I'll wait and see. I'm not the prime audience for this. Yauch is apparently trying to do something that should be interesting. In fact, I'd be downright excited if it was being released outside of NYC and LA. :rolleyes:

[Bobtwi]

i am looking forward to see it!I never had the chance to see the bboys lives so,,,yea!
Thats a shame you've never seen th Boys live.Whats stopping you from coming to NYC to view it?I have a sneaky suspicion that It's coming to more cities than L.A. & N.Y.

[fucktopgirl]

Thats a shame you've never seen th Boys live.Whats stopping you from coming to NYC to view it?I have a sneaky suspicion that It's coming to more cities than L.A. & N.Y.


Well,i kinda live far from NYC,,i live in british colombia,man so..But next time they come here,i will try my best to chek them out!!Or in MOntreal(i am from there so.. )!

But i would prefer to see them in small venues,i dont think they still do that!I am not a fan of stadium!!

anyway,one day,,hopefully before they have no more theeth in their mouth!

[lyneday]

Most movies are released in NYC and LA before other markets. From what I got at the screening, those two markets will be test markets and they will add others from there depending on how it goes.

[Bigg Russ]

Most movies are released in NYC and LA before other markets. From what I got at the screening, those two markets will be test markets and they will add others from there depending on how it goes.

Which, IMHO, never makes any sense because I don't feel there are any other markets in the country like NY and LA. Relatively speaking, of course.

[beatrix_rocks]

Yeah, I would love to see in on the big screen, but since I live in the middle of nowhere, I will have to settle for the DVD version. Still, I can't wait to see it. Very much looking forward to it!

[Laver1969]

Which, IMHO, never makes any sense because I don't feel there are any other markets in the country like NY and LA. Relatively speaking, of course.

They should include Chicago!!!

[Chicka B]

They should include Chicago!!!

YEAH THEY SHOULD!!! Sorry. :o

[YoungRemy]

http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20060116204041824
Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That, directed by Nathanial Hornblower, was a hot ticket in Salt Lake where punk rock lives on with snowboarders and others, and the Beastie Boys are the private party you would do (almost) anything to get into! "Awesome" was actually filmed by 50 audience members given cameras by the band at a 2004 concert in Madison Square Garden

I expect this film to be a surprise hit at the festival, and I wouldnt be surprised if we saw it air on TV- maybe MTV, VH1 or even IFC or the Sundance Channel...

i expect AIFST to get alot of buzz at the festival...