Console best movie i've ever seen.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Sleeper-Cell A lot of people have made mention that this concert was the death of the hippie ideal. I would argue that the hippie never existed in the first place. It was all just an excuse to take drugs, have sex and avoid responsibility while claiming the fight for some higher impossible cause. What we see here is what happens when idealism runs it course and all that is left is drug addicted people who have no clue whatsoever. It is interesting to watch the musicians trying to cope with the Hell's Angels who just have a totally different reality. It is a bit like Mad Max meets Mary Poppins in that respect. Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane singing woefully out of tune and then trying to calm down the crowd so that the Angels stop beating them, as if that is really the problem. She tells them "Both sides are temporarily f***ing up, we need to stop f***ing up" the Angels head man gets on stage and tells people that they are the problem. There is a complete lack of organization, the Angel's even being told to park their bikes at the foot of the stage. Eventually we see a member of the audience pull a gun and get stabbed by a Hell's Angel's member. Musically the Stone's are quite good, Mick's voice is spot on and the music great. He tries to calm the crowd but he isn't a bouncer or anyone who commands that kind of respect. It's out of control, the bikers rule the roost. Watching Mick at the end as he reviews the footage, he tries to show some kind of professional distance. He neither looks disturbed (although he claims to be) or surprised or anything really. A bit of trivia, the Hell's Angel's tried to assassinate Mick Jagger due to this concert.

subxerogravity Got the privilege to see this on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing movie.It's interesting, the documentary makes the event seem like the first rock concert ever done. I've been to a lot of concerts and the whole thing seem unorganized in comparison to present day concerts, but that's the magic of the whole thing, The Rolling Stones were doing something fresh and unique at the time (Or at least somewhat, Just before this, I saw Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles playing Shea Stadium, which was more organized and predates this event, but once again, that adds to the magic, as The Fab Four are too squeaky clean to have Hell's Angels as body guards).My favorite part was these inter cuts with the Stones watching the documentary being edited, including the infamous scene when the Hell's Angel stabs a man to death, which became one of those moments in Rock and Roll History that became legendary. Plus a cameo appearance by the Grateful Dead and a clip of Tina Turner performing really add to the vibe.Great Doc, seeing the Stones in their prime interacting with each other was great, one of those things that a true fan can enjoy, but also good music that all can enjoy.

grantss Great capture of rock's darkest day.A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour and the tragic events that concluded it. We see footage of their concerts and of them making the Sticky Fingers album in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. However, the main focus of the film is on one concert - Altamont Speedway, outside San Francisco, 6 December 1969. A free concert, it is the Stones' idea and it was meant to be the Woodstock of the West (Woodstock having occurred four months earlier). Other bands performing included Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Santana. However, it is far from being the peace and love of Woodstock. Part of the problem is that the Stones hired the Hells Angels as security. The other problem was that a large portion of the crowd were high on drugs. Friction ensues. During the Stones' set, Meredith Hunter, high on methamphetamine and armed with a gun, makes a lunge for the stage and is stabbed to death by the Hells Angels. The peace and love era of the 60s was over.A very well made documentary, especially considering the limited material the producers had to work with. We don't just see the concert footage but also the Stones and the film makers sitting in the studio going through the footage. We see their thoughts and reactions to what occurred. Some of this feels contrived or staged but for the most part it provides a narrative to what happened. Otherwise we would just have concert footage with no explanation of what to expect or what was going on.The fact that the Meredith Hunter incident is mentioned early on in the film helps the tension in the movie. You know something is going to happen, but you don't know when. You see the friction preceding the incident and there's now an inevitability to it all. It plays out like a thriller, ultimately.The camera work at the concert contributes too. The roughness of the shots adds an edginess and feeling of anarchy to the proceedings. The footage preceding the Altamont concert is quite interesting too. We see some Stones concert footage from other concerts, and get complete songs from these concerts. These are probably the only enjoyable live music moments from the movie, as the Altamont songs are too soaked in tension and the threat of violence to fully enjoy. The Sticky Fingers footage is great too, seeing a classic album being formed. In the movie it only lasts a few minutes but it deserves a documentary of its own. The highlight was seeing Jagger and Richards listening to an early take of Brown Sugar. Quite illuminating to see artists' views of their own work.Overall, one of music's most infamous incidents, quite accurately captured.

Michael_Elliott Gimme Shelter (1970)**** (out of 4) The Maysles' landmark documentary covering The Rolling Stones 1969 tour of the United States, which was to end with a free concert in San Fransisco at the Altamont Speedway. While the band and everyone else had great hopes for the free show, it turned into a disaster as concert goers went up against the Hell's Angels who were working as security.A lot of films get the reputation as being the "greatest" of something. Most people consider CITIZEN KANE to be the greatest movie ever made and many consider GIMME SHELTER to be the greatest documentary ever made. I'm certainly not going to debate that because it's amazing how terrific this movie is on so many different levels. On on level it's amazing because the Stones really are incredibly strong with the music as we get clips from a New York show as well as Altamont. Another reason the movie is so powerful is that it has footage of the band in the studio as they were making their Sticky Fingers album. Finally, the film works brilliantly as a thriller.Yes, GIMME SHELTER works perfectly as a thriller because most people are going to come into the movie knowing what happened at that free concert. The events that night ended up turning deadly and like a great Hitchcock thriller, this one plants in your mind that things are going to turn out bad. At the very start of the picture we're given bits of information of the deadly encounter at the end so that there was pretty much the directors starting the time bomb and the intensity just keeps building up in the viewer's mind because you know it's eventually going to go off.As I said, the film simply works on so many terrific levels that it's almost sad that the movies ends on such a down notes. The musical performances throughout the picture are quite wonderful and there's no question that the band was full of energy and it really does show throughout the numbers and especially with the early stuff in New York. Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Woman, Street Fighting Man and Jumpin' Jack Flash are just a few of the tunes that sound terrific and just leap off the screen. Then there's the stuff in Altamont including Sympathy for the Devil and Under My Thumb. The performance from the band is great but what's so remarkable is seeing them struggle to try and keep the crowd under control as the mounting danger just continues to build.GIMME SHELTER really is 90 minutes of pure entertainment. Some of it, like the music, is of a very high entertainment. Seeing the hundreds of thousands of people showing up to jam is a perfect image of these type of music festivals back in the day. The other entertainment, the ugly side, is the disaster that is playing out in front of your eyes as more and more fights begin to happen and of course it eventually leads to a death. This film will certainly appeal to fans of The Rolling Stones but it's going to be even more appealing to those who don't even know the band because of how great the film itself is.