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The vid is okay, but the song is much much better.
Great cause.
Great cause.
Val said:
I believe the vast majority of Americans wants to love their President. Why don't they? There must be something to that.
And I also believe U2's past responses toward injustice has no borders... Africa, Sarajevo, America.
IMO, this video does show the real U2.
And again, I'm grateful to them.
U2Man said:i agree with kayla.
don't you think that the fighter jet scenes were a bit cheesy, regardless of the message the bands wanted to convey?
and if you are so much against war as bono & co here try to express, how can you call the world's deadliest military killer machines 'saints'? sounds a bit awkward to me.
europop2005 said:I think this is more of a green day video than a U2 video
bono_212 said:
*ding!* At least that's my opinion, one that I am allowed to have. Anyway, it just seemed to my like yet ANOTHER Bush-bashing video.
bono_212 said:
but please, if you're going to convey an idea about what should've happened, you need to drop a few more hints throughout the video that you're being sarcastic, rather than place it RIGHT AT THE END of the video.
IMO
sue4u2 said:
If it has to be explained then you never paid attention when it was happening in the first place. I'm not sure where you live but anyone in the world who has watched the news, even a fraction of it, over the last year or so know's what really happened.
If not, I suggest you pick up some world news magazines once in a while to find out what's going on.
Not trying to be a bitch here, but???
Canadiens1160 said:You can do a political commentary/reactionary video without the heavy-handed callousness of a hundred Stealth Bombers dropping food parcels spliced over news footage.
Especially when a large portion of its viewing audience will be a bunch of 12 and 13 year-olds on VH1, MTV, and Youtube, who have grown up with Fox news and don't know an honest news story from a hole in the ground.
Yeah I think you're correct. The shots are all very close up and there are some strobe lights and whatnot that weren't in the live performance.bonocomet said:Yes, they must be shots of rehearsal I guess?
He's wearing the plain black one and the copjacket. Glad I wasn't seeing things.
bonocomet said:I'm just confused by Bono's jacket
Nuala said:I love the song but hate the video. I am really dissapointed that Green Day and U2 decided to turn a song designed to bring money in for musical instruments into a video that bashes the US Government. For me, the charity just lost all credibility. I loved the idea of Music Rising, I was on the field at the Superdome when they shot parts of that video!! I donated to Music Rising but if I had seen that video first I would not have donated at all. Not everyone likes to bash the US government. Katrina was a horrible NATURAL DISASTER. It wasn't like the government dropped a bomb and then didn't clean up fast enough!! It is not like the military has hundreds of warehouses with "'Terminator" like robots ready to go at a seconds notice! I won't get into how good a job they did or not, I wasn't there. I am just really surprised that Bono especially would compromise all the work he has done to be so diplomatic with both the left and right sides and then turn around and be in this video. I think he shot himself in the foot on this one. I would have really liked the video to show more upbeat footage, more on how the Music Rising Charity is HELPING the musicians of New Orleans. IMO this video was a very poor choice of venue to showcase Green Day and U2's political points of view. Seriously, where in that video does it promote Music Rising at all?????
shart1780 said:I think Nuala's complaint wasn't whether or not the video and song were cool, but that they decided to use it for political grandstanding instead of pushing forward a good cause.
The clip will combine the stark black-and-white footage Milk shot at Abbey Road with the Superdome performance and "conceptual images" — heavily edited newsreel footage that Milk said would "make a commentary on the Katrina disaster ... from the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future."
beLIEve_ZOO121 said:maybe just for me - but i dont really see whats so anti-US government about showing the newsreels. The moment where you see the jets flying over and you hear "The Saints -- are com-ing" ... Seems to me that its actually portraying the government differently.
(btw i never read the pages b/f, sorry if i repeated :S)