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  1. I haven't seen it yet, but I love the download stystem. I can download it a ton of times. The audio seems to distort on the higher end, but I can live with it.
  2. Seems like someone reacted on all the complaints about the terrible sound of the download version. It got a replaced with a better sounding version.
  3. Finally (three days, two mails asking for help, four internet browsers and six millions of Java updates after) I'm able to download the movie... LOL, it's in MP4 format but it should be in extremely high quality, because Unknown Caller is 88 MBs...

    Anxious
  4. really really like it. The songs work so well as the characters inner monologue. Only watched it once but I'll probably watch it again tonight, and a lot more. Really good film art
  5. This is a pretty boring film, made on a budget too.
    They're not even any Stay-esque aerial sweeps through Paris in the UC segment (which practically calls out for such treatment).

    The White as Snow segment is embarassing with the Africa/One cloud, the song deserves better than this. And the GOYB's segment left me scarred.

    Magnificent's TV within a TV double vision made my head hurt.

    It seems very much like a film made by a photographer, in that a lot of scenes are made up of images that would have made a good still, but extended into a 4/5 minute sequence lose their impact. The Breathe and Stand Up Comedy segments are a good example.

    MoS and Cedars were probably the best parts.

    And the Fez-Being Born segment is probably the worst, instead of burning rubber on a coastal, Mediterranean road. We have the guy eating salad (SALAD!) in some piddly cafe.

    It's a good thing I didn't fork out $100+ for the boxset.
  6. Originally posted by vanquish:


    And the Fez-Being Born segment is probably the worst, instead of burining rubber on a coastal, Mediterranean road. We have the guy eating salad (SALAD!) in some piddly cafe.



    So true, what pisses me off is i can't hear what might be the best song, without picturing a North African cop eating fish salad.
  7. Originally posted by thefly07:really really like it. The songs work so well as the characters inner monologue. Only watched it once but I'll probably watch it again tonight, and a lot more. Really good film art


    Absolutely.
  8. I just watched it. I don't get it. So the album is about a guy who rides his bike from Paris to the Meditteranean, and then takes a boat to Africa?

    The images in the film don't match up with the songs. "Being Born" and "Magnificent," for example, are about some guy sitting in a cafe? And where's the sea in No Line on the Horizon? And "Stand Up Comedy," a song about our collective call to action on behalf of the poor, takes place on a motorbike in the middle of nowhere? Huh? I wish I hadn't bought the box set. Love the album, but the boxset is a rip-off.
  9. still haven't seen it


  10. make up your own mind about watching it, but I recommend it. The songs don't have to be visually reproduced so that it lines up with every lyric in the song. I watched it and thought it made sense, as the songs are what's going on in the Cops head. in Being Born, sure he's eating a salad, but his head is somewhere else, dreaming about going to Cadiz. Sure not all the songs perfectly match up the scenes but whatever, it's art and the scenes are certainly evocative of the emotions in the music. Granted Boots is weird as hell, but fun, in a weird way of course
  11. I've seen it from the start to the credits this morning and I think I like it. It's not a movie, it's just a graphical accompaniment to a great album, where the song themselves evoke feelings and thoughts.... I like it, and since I've burned it to a DVD, now everytime I play the album on my Home Cinema it will show Linear on our big screen. That's great
  12. Originally posted by LikeASong:I've seen it from the start to the credits this morning and I think I like it. It's not a movie, it's just a graphical accompaniment to a great album, where the song themselves evoke feelings and thoughts.... I like it, and since I've burned it to a DVD, now everytime I play the album on my Home Cinema it will show Linear on our big screen. That's great


    nice. I agree with you about it not being a movie.
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