Yeah, If You're a Multi-Million Dollar Rock Band, It Is
This is all I really know about Radiohead:
Sometime in the early 90's, they relased an album called "Pablo Honey" which featured only one good song and that was called "Creep". This introduced them into the mainstream and everyone in the rock world went nuts. Sometime later, they released a second album called "The Bends", and only about five people knew it existed.
So then sometime after that, they changed their sound, recorded a new album and released it. Then the entire world went nuts, making "OK Computer" the number one album everywhere on Earth, and parts of Neptune, Thom Yorke's (Lead Singer) home. This movie/documentary depicts the tour the band went on to promote said album.
Made by some dude named Grant Gee (That can't be his real name, could it?), who followed them around filming every painful moment off this tour and you get to see it. Yay...I guess.
Pretty much, they go to various countries playing songs that only Radiohead fans would know, with a few exceptions, them being "Creep", "Paranoid Andriod", "Karma Police", and "No Surprises". You see them on "Late Show with David Letterman" throwing tantrums, you see long boring interviews, and concert footage.
One thing I did like was the behind the scenes look of their video "No Surprises", the one where Thom is in this plastic thing and water fills up slowly and he drowns. The secret is revealed on how he stayed in there for so long and the times where he really didn't stay in here and almost died. It's almost beautiful.
Another thing you'll see is some scenes with them in the studio recording whatever album it was that came after OK Computer, which is actually pretty interesting. And Thom doing 120 Minutes with Matt Pinhead...er Pinfield. Then some shots of them in their dressing room and..."The End".
Yep.
Now, I'm just saying that I myself didn't like this film, only because I'm not a big Radiohead fan. I'm sure people who love Radiohead and understands what the hell Thom Yorke is talking about and doesn't realize how much of a prick he is (He came across as one a few times in this movie) would like this movie. So this review is just really how I felt. If you're into seeing the bandmembers sit around and talking about themselves, then this is the movie for you.
I would've perfered a "Help"-style Radiohead movie. Maybe they go to Hawaii or Bermuda and the drummer finds some cursed Indian arrowhead, which causes the bass player to wipe out while he's surfing, and the keyboard player is caught by his wife having sex with a Hula girl. And Thom's eye surgery is interrupted.
Ok, I better stop before the moody Radiohead fans treaten to slit their wrists in front of me.
2 stars.
"Meeting People Is Easy" on IMDb.com:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0195909/