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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Helene Silverman, Drew Takahashi, Lidia Pryzluska, J. Otto Seibold, Adam Bernstein, John Flansburgh, Nico Beyer |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Wea Corp |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Music Video - Pop/Rock |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 018777299428 |
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Customer Reviews of They Might Be Giants - Direct from Brooklyn
Oh, how paltry MTV looks now! Jonathan, you might want to check your DVD player, because I had none of the problems you had -- "Play All" DOES play all, and all of the videos have commentary. A few of the older videos are grainy, but I suspect that's more due to the source material, and I doubt they'd go to the trouble of professionally touching up and restoring them.
I don't know why they bothered to put the Quicktime "home movies" on the disc. I thought it was odd that they didn't make them available as regular DVD "special features" videos, but then I found out -- they're VERY low quality, and they're only about a minute each -- just snippets of the songs. There could have been much more in the way of extras, but, fortunately, there's a treasure trove of extras available on the _Gigantic_ DVD, and the ones that are included here -- the "Tiny Toons" clips, the "fiery" live performance, and the audio tracks -- are not on the _Gigantic_ disc. Plus, the "commentary" for the "Snail Shell" video is actually another song! Overall, this is a great video collection for TMBG fans. (By the way, I'm sure that the reason "Boss of Me" is not included is that it's owned by Fox, so perhaps they couldn't get the rights to it, or didn't think it was worth it, or maybe they're saving it for the next collection...)
An excellent DVD for an excellent band. Just a few problems.
Well, I was very excited when Direct From Brooklyn was released on VHS, but I did not purchase it knowing the DVD would eventually come out. And it did. A few years after the VHS, but who cares. The DVD is overall great, animated menus (in a way), extras, and of course, John Linnell and John Flansburgh.
OK, now the special features. All the official videos are there except Boss Of Me, the Malcom In The Middle theme song. Which was a great video, but it's a minor loss. Again, it has all of the videos plus the two Tiny Toon Adventures videos ("Particle Man" and "Istanbul"), and a new live video of "Why Does The Sun Shine?" from a 2002 tour. Each video's audio track is in Dolby Pro Logic Surround, which is old technology. Also, every video, including the bonus videos have commentary from the two John's in the background. Plus, there are three bonus unreleased songs that are audio-only tracks, a trailer for the TMBG independent film, "Gigantic," and three DVD-ROM only home videos of their songs, recorded by John Linell. I did find a lot of technical problems with the DVD, though. A few of the videos are low quality, and all of them are grainy, a few don't have commentary when you go to the commentary tracks, and some selections on the menu don't do what they are supposed to. For example, pressing "Play All" on the main menu only plays Doctor Worm, and brings you back to the main menu. Plus, during some videos, the screen flickers black a few times. That's about it.
Well, that's my review of this DVD. Overall, I think it still deserves five stars because of how great the band is, and all of the songs on here. Just ignore a few problems, and you have a perfect DVD. Well, almost perfect, anyway.
Great collection but...
The collection is great but on the John & John commentary, John Linnell is extremely hard to hear which is extremely dissapointing.