**** Pearl Jam Twenty Fanviews Here ****

BagCzech

Great movie especially if you also have the book to refer back to. The book definitely fills in some of the blanks, so to speak.

I only have 2 negative things to say that have no impact on my opinion this film was great:

1. Too much reliance on live footage from Italy 2006. This was bordering on being Immagine in Cornice Part II
2. Betterman was labeled as being from New York in 2010. While some of the footage was, it was cut in with footage from what appeared to be Italy and Mexico. A bit confusing.

Johnnyguitarwatson

Been talking about this film all night and most likely all day with my wife... We seen it last night at the Franklin institute in Philly. Got soaked on the way into the theater and my wife took a nasty fall on some steps but all in all it was worth it. When exiting the theater it felt as though we had just left a pearl jam concert... The emotional roller coaster,one great song after another and then seeing Alive from 9/30/09 footage from the spectrum was pretty much over the top(theater applauded during this scene

Favorite moments : ed and stone Playing brother (daughter)
Jeff ament showing his home town and sharing how his love for music began.
The MTV drunken Eddie performance
Eddie getting pissed off at security and singing "very loudly" haha in the security guards direction.
Matt cameron having to learn like 70 songs in 10 days or something ha ha lmao.
The band almost broke up after binaural !? Wtf ? I never knew that ... I thought That almost happened in 2003

The whole film was unreal, I mean I still can't believe I got to look into the life of the band ... The guys finally opened up. I could watch 5 or 6 more hours of this stuff.

SD63653

AMAZING 2 HOURS! in SEATTLE, where if you DIDN'T get CHILLS at least a handful of times, you were too drunk or HI

Favorite Part. ...........when Ed does his CRAZY EYES, and is a foot away SCREAMING the song at this beefed up security guard.......gotta LOVE CRAZY EYES! its like he went to someplace else, "thats F****** UP, leave the kid alone!" GREATEST BAND IN THE WORLD!~~~~~~~~~~~!~~~~~~~~~~!

perljamdan

watched it ondemand. can't wait until the DVD gets here.

Yellow Ledbelly

Got it ppv on directv....Unbelievable. I have zero complaints. Most didn't but I thought the handling of the drummer issue was pretty funny.
Long story short...no football for me today

neilybabes86

well done and from the comfort of my lazy boy

the grammy in stones basement was classic

DragonsAfter3or4

Very short and to the point. It was okay. It was kind of all over the place at times and slow. There were funny moments and touching ones.
I think it could have been done a lot better and told a complete story. Like someone stated before, if I were gonna introduce a new fan to PJ, I would not send them to this movie as it never really did them justice.
At times I felt like I was watching a 2 hour long music video.
Having been a pj fan for over 20 years now, I would have to say I guess after having seen the Foos documentary, I was let down by this one. Theirs, while different angle wise, seemed to be complete as this one was all over the place at times...
3 outta 5 stars.

mfc2006

just watched it. thanks to Cameron Crowe for putting this together....really loved it. looking forward to all of the blu-ray extras!

GuitarEnthusiast

Getting ready to watch it for the third time...

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SB62034

Thank you Cameron Crowe. Thank you Pearl Jam. Enlightening, entertaining, sometimes emotional. Funny. And I think it lived up to what I see this film as: a celebration of the band, its longevity, and the highs and lows along the way.
Personal highlights:
Stone's reactions and facial expressions at the TM Congressional hearing.
Bushleaguer
crowd singing Betterman.
Stone finding his Grammy in the basement. "Oh look there's a Grammy!"
Ed's change toward aggression while watching security man-handle fans during "Breath"

These guys deserve every praise and as a fan I feel extremely fortunate they have stuck together for so long.

On a final note I would like to respond to Andy Rooney's question:
"Do they work at all? Are they contributing anything to the world they're taking so much from?"
Contributing anything? What are you giving, Andy Rooney? Your opinions. With all due respect, Fuck you, Mr. Rooney.

cbrunelle783

Andy Rooney's a dinosaur curmudgeon. He was then and is now even more so. Is he even still on tv anymore? That was back when CBS was the old people network, pre-2000 when they had Murder She Wrote and Matlock on. Average age of the viewer was 65. Coincidentally when I was at PJ20 I looked around and thought to myself, wow look at all the people who took time out of work to be here.

FitPearl

PJ20 reminded me the Celebrity Deathmatch video!

My god, I think it was soo funny when I first see it back on the days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uev9UYZjKA

cort

There was a scene in the film where ed slides down a pole. I remember reading a Deep article by Tom Tomorrow about a night that he spent at Ed's place and describing sliding down the pole. It was cool to put the two together. I love that idea, to get down instead of taking stairs.

GuitarEnthusiast

SB62034 wrote:

On a final note I would like to respond to Andy Rooney's question:
"Do they work at all? Are they contributing anything to the world they're taking so much from?"
Contributing anything? What are you giving, Andy Rooney? Your opinions. With all due respect, Fuck you, Mr. Rooney.

Well said...someone should send this to him!

locked

Saw it on ppv
Basically disappointed .
Agree the editing of subjects is all over the place.
Would have prefered a more even look at mike and matt's stories..
Cameron could have easily made each album as a segment...
Did not touch on any one memorable show beyond 1992!
I was expecting more songs analyzed for meanings and performance.
Where are all the key concerts?
Soldiers field 1995
Idio 1993
Boston orpheum 1994
Randalls island 1996
The breath campaign at msg 1998
Poland 2000
The Boston experiment 2003
The gorge shows?
Only one song for Philly? And not even a narrative of why it was special ?

That would have been the movie I expected..
A live band celebrating 20 years should have more analysis of the famous shows?

Ooh and I forgot
The Vic 2007
Newcastle Australia 2006 where the city petioned the band to come and then let them pick the setlist.

The only thing I think the movie did great was the temple of the dog segment and chris Cornell was soooo heartbreakingly honest!

eladder

Read the book! The doc can only have so much. For specific shows, etc. check out the book. Doesnt a book always have more detail than the film?

pearlhawk

I just watched this on DIRECTV. Overall, it was great seeing anything two hours long featuring this band. I loved the documentary. My only outstanding opinion is that I thought the story of the last 10 years or so seemed rushed. Awesome, and we are very fortunate to see this.

jdelin

I just saw the movie yesterday at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA. I thought it was amazing. I know a lot of people have been complaining about certain things - the last ten years not being discussed that much, key shows in their history not talked about, etc. While that would have been cool, the movie was two hours long and it could have easily been five to ten hours long with all of that stuff added. It really digged into their history and how they became a band and how they stuck together as a band. In the past ten years, the one thing that could have ended the band was Roskilde, and they touched upon that. And the one thing keeping this band going strong are the fans.

It was great seeing the old footage, most of what I haven't seen before. The I remember watching the MTV Unplugged performance and that just convinced me at the time that I had a new favorite band and that "Black" was my favorite song. The emotion that Ed had when he sang that and when he sang most songs really connected with the fans in a special way. And it still does...

Thank you Cameron Crowe and Pearl Jam - can't wait for the DVD with all of the extras!

Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh

I too saw the movie at the Brattle in Cambridge yesterday and it was an awesome experience.Cameron did such a good job with the movie.It was funny and sad and everything in between.Awesome!!!!!

peachykeen

saw it late last night at the ifc in ny....made me very happy....i also enjoyed how people were singing along and clapping