t8thgr8
War Child
video quality was superb however
Varitek said:
HOLY SHIT> this is both the cheesiest and the most homoerotic thing I've ever seen in my life. First I was like "well this opening montage is silly, and very litteral." The litteral cheesiness is a big too much wiht the chains dripping with water, some of Bono's hand motions that match the lyrics. And the birds. My god what the hell were they thinking.
But interspersed with this was the most sexual movement ever. First I just htought it was funny that sweaty heaving Bono kept staring at Larry's ass, but then he kept making thrusting motions while holding onto the chain right behind Larry. And Larry just kept pounding away. Wow. Wow. Wow. (As Bono would say.)
brooklynmike said:
By the way, no video could possibly be as bad as that Stuck in a Moment football vid.
brooklynmike said:
Yes. It's strangely dripping with ghey. Not that there's anything... never mind.
t8thgr8 said:this video wouldve destroyed them
coolian2 said:A good Red Hill Mining Town video would be all about desert scapes and ghost towns.
U2FanPeter said:
Is the Bono camera mugging any worse than WOWY?
Something that's very easy to forget is that U2 did have a wardrobe consultant in the UF era for videos and touring. This was something that came out in the Lola court case. It may also be in the UF tourbook tour personel.
U2girl said:They may have had a wardrobe consultant but I consider their "cowboy" look in JT era their first official/professinal wardrobe-consultant made look.
Axver said:The best part of this thread are the claims from some people that one single video would have completely sunk U2's career, despite the fact that at the time of JT's second single, U2 were riding a massive wave of popularity. One video - which is nowhere near as bad as many that have preceded and succeeded it - would in no way destroy the band's whole career, and even if the general public hated it, it would have made little more than a dent in U2's huge popularity at the time.
coolian2 said:
That video gets so much unfair shit.
Take away that fucking John Madden intro and it's a great little video.
brooklynmike said:You may be right, it may not have made a dent. However, I feel that there's a synergy in the sequence that DID happen, which catapulted them to even greater heights.
Somehow I feel there was a magic that was happening and everything played out perfectly.
I can't explain, but there's something special that lacks in any other band.
david said:Okay, if you compare it the other videos from the Joshua Tree album, it's pretty bad..
But if you compare it to things like Discotheque.. Then it's not that bad.
Axver said:The best part of this thread are the claims from some people that one single video would have completely sunk U2's career, despite the fact that at the time of JT's second single, U2 were riding a massive wave of popularity. One video - which is nowhere near as bad as many that have preceded and succeeded it - would in no way destroy the band's whole career, and even if the general public hated it, it would have made little more than a dent in U2's huge popularity at the time.
How long before someone changes the music, re-edits the scenes and makes a mock 30 second gay porn movie trailer?
Anji said:
Well Said! I for one completely HATED Rattle and Hum, thought it was appaling. An Irish rock band trying to sound like Americans (No slight on the Americans) but they were better than that and should have not gone there, but then I guess the mentality was to make it big in the US so sell it to them their way. Glad they never went down that street again
PopFly said:Hey, look how the Discotheque video sunk the Pop album. It can happen.
last unicorn said:
I don't get it. Rattle and Hum contains some of the greatest and most well known U2 songs, they are classics. The movie, however, that's another story.