KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Python Hyena Meeting People is Easy (1998): Dir: Grant Gee / Featuring: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selwey: Rockumentary independent feature that is extremely low budget yet features an insightful view of musicians and the struggles of touring and media. Grant Gee directs and highlights the band Radiohead that are on their OK Computer tour with several interesting moments including concert footage. This is sometimes disjointed in its structure with scenes that seem to jump all over. The band accepts their awards whether it be presented or, in the case of touring, do video responses in acceptance. It becomes clear that the constant attention and media spotlight wears down the band to the point where they breeze lazily through interviews without a care. The theme regards the price of fame and success and what comes with the advantage of being able to obtain wealth. The band members all react differently to the attention but one element that is common is the tiring nature of what they are unable to escape. For those that enjoy documentaries, especially within the music industry, then this will key in interest. It is hardly in comparison to This is Spinal Tap, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terriffico or even Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story but for Radiohead fans it presents an interesting view of the band, their struggles and their accessibility, as the title points out. Score: 8 / 10

stighelmer I don't think that this movie should be regarded as a typical glamors-celebrity-cult-documentary. It was obvious for me from the very first shot that this was gonna be an art movie. Althoug the subtitle of the movie says "A film about Radiohead", it is quite obvious that the band's history (together with the other typical kind of stuff usually presented in music documentaries, such as a verbal narration, clear outline of a presented material, chronological approach, etc.) is not the main subject of the film. Even the film's title is quite telling - I mean, why would a film about a music band be called "Meeting people is easy", especially in case of a band like Radiohead, whose members - as the film itself indicates - have rather "antisocial" approach and quite a deal of a distance towards music journalists and sometimes even fans (as anybody who has ever heard Tom Yorke's not-always-encouraging remarks at Radiohead's live performances will probably confirm). Personally, I loved the film. I watched it for the first time while being abroad alone for a long time. I felt pretty low and alone, the awareness of my being cut off from my Home, familiar objects and caring people, was painful to me at times. And one of the reasons that I loved "Meeting people..." so much is that while watching it I felt truly understood. The movie conveys a great deal of emotions, the way it is told (through music and pictures, not through words, and that's what's great in it) and edited really captures our (yes, OUR) everyday world - "this mess we're in" - huge and overcrowded cities (where you're still so alone), often ignorant interlocutors (who wouldn't "get you" even if you were speaking for hours), misunderstandings, unwanted responsibilities, constant movement, things that you start but then they go their own ways (you can't even control them anymore)... I think anyone expecting "Meeting people..." to familiarize them with the band's history, discography, brief and concrete verbal presentation backed up by a series of band's pictures and fragments of songs, is bound to be disappointed. But for everyone willing to "get wound-up" by this movie, just go with it without judging its "competence" and "fact-reliability" it is going to be a true masterpiece. To me, this film is about emotions, loneliness, our civilization, OURSELVES, OUR TODAY's WORLD, not about the band's story. Even so, I definitely don't agree with one of the comments saying that "Radiohead fans have nothing to look here for" - on the contrary, I think the film presents a great opportunity to see the band the way it's rarely presented in media - here the band members can get angry, they can laugh at the journalist they're on the phone with, or they can simply sit quiet for a while. Do whatever they like. Be whoever they are. Not always, however - and this is also what the film is about. All that makes "Meeting people..." a remarkable masterpiece, for all those feel-and-think-types out there, not only to Radiohead fans at all.

lost-in-limbo "Meeting people is easy" is a pretty good documentary of Radiohead's OK Computer world tour. It abruptly begins with concerts (bits and pieces), photo shoots, behind the scenes and interviews with the media through Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and ends back the UK where you hear them recording music for their next 2 albums (Kid A and Amnesiac).Its not really a coherent documentary, with scenes cutting back & forth and some arty stuff chucked in for the sake of it, but this DVD shows the media attention and coverage they received, all because of their highly regarded album OK Computer... they were the in band at the time.From this the stress and tension builds up throughout the world tour and we clearly see them getting emotionally drained. You get to hear them playing bits of new and unfinished music which would be later added onto there next 2 albums, but don't just expect live performances (as there is hardly any). They're a band that's not afraid to experiment with their music. Though this DVD is more about their experiences throughout the tour, then that of their music. Some people might have found this boring but I actually quite enjoyed it. It would've been great to get some full length live performances than that of small snippets (though there is good full length performance at the end) but I found the media's attention towards Radiohead and how it was eating them up, very interesting indeed.4.5/5

fahfooh I'm not going to tell you that if you don't know who RadioHead are, or if you don't like them, that you should watch this. If I weren't a fan (or if I lived so deep inside a cave I'd never heard of them), I would have gone crazy trying to wrap my head around this movie.However, since I am a huge fan, I absolutely loved this video. Artfully done, it has more crammed into it than I would have thought possible. The Irony, the Agony, the Frustration, the Fans, the Good Times, the (never-ending) Interviews; and of course the vicarious thrill you get from this rare look into the real back-stage life of a serious rock-n-roll band.This is not an up-lifting film. It makes you glad you never seriously pursued a career in the popular music industry.