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The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (1986)

Starring: Todd Rundgren Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Todd Rundgren
  • Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Bmg Special Product
  • DVD Release Date: February 22, 2000
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004RETE
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,807 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A complete waste of time, July 24, 2002
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An interviewer who is unfamiliar with Todd's work asks Todd overly abstract questions, interrupted by amateurish videos for some of Todd's cheesiest '80s music. Focuses on Todd the songwriter/performer and ignores Todd the singer, guitarist, multimedia pioneer, arranger, producer, bandmember, etc. For example: the interviewer asks Todd if he believes in an afterlife; Todd -- inscrutable behind hair and sunglasses -- sits in silence for five seconds, touches his nose for a few more and refuses to answer the question. Tortured artist indeed. Then another video featuring a floating egg/brain/vagina/chambered nautilus object. This DVD was painful to watch, even with the remote control handy to speed through videos of Todd's naked backside. I actually feel that Todd is a lot less interesting now that I've seen this. Todd -- from a fellow Philadelphia/San Francisco boy who has been a fan for 20-plus years: do yourself and your fans a favor and get someone else to do this kind of thing for you.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great content for true Todd fans, but poor quality DVD, June 13, 2002
By Rev. Dan (Mason, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
If you're truly a Todd fan, you've probably seen this already in the VHS format. I've enjoyed it many times in that format and was excited to see it available on DVD...but was very disappointed when I finally viewed the DVD, as it looks like it's a second or third generation dub from the VHS copy. At least on the DVD I bought, the picture quality is so lousy I suggest you stay with the VHS.
So, 4 and a half stars for the material. One star for the visual quality.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect, December 15, 2000
By A True Fan (Northern Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This is a video for the Todd afficionado who wants to hear in Todd's own self-effacing words what it is like to be a creative genius. Less committed viewers will find it disappointing that many of his great songs are not played all the way through. Also, the video will strike many as hokey, because the special effects are very homemade-looking; one seems to be an homage to "2001-A Space Odyssey." But if you love Todd, you will appreciate his concepts and overall message that being Todd is a never-ending, solitary quest for new challenges, truth and an ideal state of being. The non-music sections of this show Todd in dark glasses responding to questions from an unseen interviewer. His comments are illuminating: sometimes funny, sometimes off-putting. They remind me of a line from "International Feel" -- "I only want to see if you'll give up on me." But there's always more...the live performance on this DVD of "Real Man" makes this worth buying, but it's not for the un-initiated.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A Wizard In A True Farce
As many other reviewers have observed, this video is a disappointment and worse, a painfully meritless look at an artist regarded by "the industry" at large to be a genius... Read more
Published 10 months ago by wllbra2

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a good DVD
I was disappointed in this DVD. Luckily I rented it and did not buy it. The interview part is odd in that there is not a lot of discussion about music, it's more about philosophy... Read more
Published on March 7, 2007 by Hamer Player

4.0 out of 5 stars artistic visionary statement with a dash of humor indeed
all of the newest reviews here talk as if this is a new piece of art. actually, it was done in the 80s with a commission from the bbc to do a retrospective. Read more
Published on August 5, 2005 by Anthony W. Rogers

1.0 out of 5 stars If you like Todd's music DON'T WATCH THIS!
As a "long time Todd fan", I realize I need to re-define that to read "long time TODD'S MUSIC" fan, as I suppose I don't even really know Todd. Read more
Published on April 12, 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars A poor effort
I am a long time Todd fan going back to Nazz days. I saw him every time I could. He did a show at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta with Utopia that still blows me away to think about... Read more
Published on February 23, 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Todd's home movie
Consider this a warning. This video contains almost no live music. It consists mostly of an staged interview with Todd Rundgren, where he bears his soul and traces the evolution... Read more
Published on November 3, 2000 by Gerald B. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Visionary
Todd was way ahead of the video revolution in music when he prepared this masterpiece at his state-of-the-art video studios in Woodstock, New York. Read more
Published on March 15, 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars None Better....
You know Todd is the Real King of All Media... Mr. Howard Stern should Step Down and Recognize and formally hand over the Title... Howard should Bow down to Our Hero.. Read more
Published on March 5, 2000 by Mick The Maag

5.0 out of 5 stars Todd is God. Who said that? P.S. Hi Ruth............
Some day when the student loan is payed off, the truck payment is done with, and the mortgage is over with, I might be able to get a real life and buy my own computer. Read more
Published on March 10, 1999

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