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Azas said:
Dave and Bruce clearly know which songs suit them best. ROTAM all the way.
Adrian is a bit too commercial, ha ha.

As for Infinite Dreams, I think Bruce is dropping hints. Buckle up - they’re going to play it instead of The Clairvoyant.
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It sounds like Bruce is dropping a hint. It is either that or he is trolling everyone. :lol:
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
Just got back. I really enjoyed it.
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It was quite enjoyable. A bit shallow in the treatment of the band’s music and history, but it has to be very difficult to synthesise 50 years into 100 minutes of footage.

Ascendingthethrone said:
I thought they handled the Blaze era really well.
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Agreed!

Ascendingthethrone said:
I also spied some pro shot footage from the LOTB tour. Can we see the rest of that show, please?
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According to the credits, the footage is from Graspop 2018.

The Maiden nerd in me cringed at sight of the 2003 footage from the recording of Dance of Death being wrongly presented as Paris 1999…
 
That was an entertaining tribute, super sensitive about Paul in particular, and definitely some footage I'd not seen. Nicko was the one speaking from the heart as usual.

My current favourite moment was the Montsegur noodling in the studio.
 
GhostofCain said:
It was quite enjoyable. A bit shallow in the treatment of the band’s music and history, but it has to be very difficult to synthesise 50 years into 100 minutes of footage.



Agreed!



According to the credits, the footage is from Graspop 2018.

The Maiden nerd in me cringed at sight of the 2003 footage from the recording of Dance of Death being wrongly presented as Paris 1999…
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I thought the same thing about the 1999 moment!
 
Watched the movie today, at first I thought I got too high expectations and that movie will be complete band glaze, but actually flows real nice. I expected to be pretty much album by album, but rarely any album is mentioned. It really nicely bounces from fan and band perspective and almost nothing is left out. There is not much details, but topics are there. Still picked up some stuff that didn't know (no spoilers).
70s get 0 mention (also Dennis Stratton which is weird)
80s are flown through in terms of content, but still take half of the movie (I mean if you want details, you got history documentaries)
90s are done very nicely, Blaze era gets more time than Paul and nothing is left out, so happy for Blaze
2000-now go through quickly, mostly in a shadow of reunion, BNW, Bruce and Nicko
There's a lot of unseen footage and everything and we definitely need LOTB and TFP videos cause they recorded and edited it like all other videos.
Can't give it a rating cause I like all Maiden stuff and this one is really nostalgia-filled, so can't do it properly, but I'm very satisfied with this one and would like to rewatch it multiple times, but on DVD when it comes out. Interested what could bonus content be...
 
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Looks like it's true, it will look like this. Below this there are not manu details: pictures we already know and it says it comes with 2 discs and that it's coming soon. 35£ is a lot for 2DVDs tho
 
Ledges Bitten In Dust said:
Watched the movie today, at first I thought I got too high expectations and that movie will be complete band glaze, but actually flows real nice. I expected to be pretty much album by album, but rarely any album is mentioned. It really nicely bounces from fan and band perspective and almost nothing is left out. There is not much details, but topics are there. Still picked up some stuff that didn't know (no spoilers).
70s get 0 mention (also Dennis Stratton which is weird)
80s are flown through in terms of content, but still take half of the movie (I mean if you want details, you got history documentaries)
90s are done very nicely, Blaze era gets more time than Paul and nothing is left out, so happy for Blaze
2000-now go through quickly, mostly in a shadow of reunion, BNW, Bruce and Nicko
There's a lot of unseen footage and everything and we definitely need LOTB and TFP videos cause they recorded and edited it like all other videos.
Can't give it a rating cause I like all Maiden stuff and this one is really nostalgia-filled, so can't do it properly, but I'm very satisfied with this one and would like to rewatch it multiple times, but on DVD when it comes out. Interested what could bonus content be...
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Did NPFD get a lot of coverage?
 
PhantomOfTheOpera said:
Have they ever brought any song, that hasn't been played for ages, back to the setlists on the other legs of the same tour?
I can't remember this to happen ever. For example, FOI was played live on LOTB-tour and each of it's legs.
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They swapped in Phantom of the Opera to the second leg of the Somewhere Back In Time tour. Not exactly “ages” but it had been five years.
 
Was nice seeing the band on the big screen, but we know the story. Definitely a vehicle to potentially get any casual fan more invested into the band.

The nitpicky parts...

The random Eddie segues were a bit clunky - I still don't know what purpose the Eddie vs. punks in Thatcher masks with machine guns really served. I understand they probably couldn't devote major chunks of time to Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son, but glossing through them to hammer home the point how ragged they were ran through the mid-80s was probably the best way to pace that era. Blaze's era got a decent amount of coverage for how long it lasted. Reunion was a bit too quick paced where it went "Bruce and Adrian are back! They're playing Rock in Rio! ...Bruce has got cancer." Probably could have told how they continued to build up and up and up.

EDIT: Probably had only the first two rows of the theater open. 10 seats per row. Soooo... 80/100 seats sold in mine for the 6:30 showing? 8:00 showing ticket map looked more bare.
 
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