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Francais Pour Une Nuit [Blu-ray]

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IF YOUR A METALLICA FAN BUY THIS !!!

IF YOU WANNA SHOW OFF YOUR KICKASS TV AND SURROUND SOUND BUY THIS !!!

THE PICTURE IS AMAZING AND THE SOUND RUMBLES MY HOUSE


BUY THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As of the time of this review amazon has this for $54(discounted from $100), you can buy it for $20 on metallicas official site. The dvd is great, but not worth the price of a concert ticket.

Somebody mentioned previously that this Blu-Ray is $19.99 at the Metallica Store...but they also charge $15 for shipping! I was going to order this one and the Mexico City Blu-Ray through the official Metallica store, but they were going to TRY to charge me $18 for shipping.

I don't think so!

Total rip-off. Amazon must order their copies from Metallica themselves, which is why it costs so much here.

Any wonder why people would rather just download them via torrents?

After MUCH digging for a DECENT price on this,I picked it up from Amazon.UK. $23 USD (w/ shipping) and got it relatively quick too.For a while I'd been waiting for another awesome concert dvd/bluray,and this one does NOT dissapoint! I was at first deciding between the Mexico one and this one.After hearing the complaints about the Mexico one having no "concert only" option(meaning there were breaks between each song,interviews,etc) I went for this France concert-18 tracks of pure Metallica -straight through,and songs from almost EVERY album (including the new one(2009)which is what I wanted)The audio is EXCELLENT and the picture is stunning.At first,I was a LITTLE nervous,wondering "am I going to be able to even navigate the menu?.in French?" BUT,you get language options(and audio options,go with DTS,if you can-amazing)If you're really into picture/audio QUALITY concert blu rays-PICK IT UP..But shop around!-not sure why they don't have a U.S. version..hmmmm...

Picture,sound,setlist,and performance are incredible,although performance wise I felt the Mexico show had more energy.Synchronization issues drive me crazy,so I was concerned when I read on multiple sites that this was a problem with this disc.I have studied both audio options and found no issues,so I can only conclude that a)there were some defective discs ,or more likely b)it is equipment related(ex:entry level blu ray players with low quality processors combined with 60 hz lcd's).I have a late model Toshiba 240hz tv,late model Marantz sr6004 amp,and Oppo BDP83.Both amp and Blu ray player have lipsynch correction,and the combination of these quality components has eliminated a lot of the synch issues I have had on other discs.Just a theory,and on a different note,I live in Canada and ordered this disc from Amazon UK.It took 11 days to the door at $22 canadian all in.

I'm giving this 3 stars because the picture and sound are awesome. However the audio is out of sync, more so on the stereo version than the 5.1. It is inexcusable for them to be this sloppy with the transfer. It's my 1st concert on bluray so I can deal with the 5.1 transfer, but still a sorry effort. Also, it's much cheaper on Metallica's website.

I pre-ordered the blu-ray, and I can say the sound and picture are amazing!

If you've seen Metallica live, than you already know that is where this band truly shines. Now a bit about this blu-ray.

The venue is historic...a truly amazing night, unlike any venue I've ever seen. As James proclaims, Metallica Gladiators are here! The show is stripped down, gone is the usual large stadium walk-around stage, they have a much smaller, typical box stage here (for obvious reasons) but I think this always makes for a more intimate show, so don't expect any of the tricks and grand stage events like the prior official releases. You get Metallica in-your-face!

The setlist is as follows:

Blackened
Creeping Death
Fuel
Harvester of Sorrow
Fade to Black
Broken, Beat and Scarred
Cyanide
Sad but True
One
All Nightmare Long
The Day That Never Comes
Master of Puppets
Dyers Eve (yah baby!!)
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman (concert staple eh?)
Stone Cold Crazy
Motorbreath
Seek and Destroy

There is a short booklet with the setlist and black and white photos of the venue and the guys playing live. Kirk and James break out some very cool guitars at this show, as a guitar player, I always like to see the new guitars so I thought I'd mention that.

Bonus features are an extensive interview with the guys individually. Lars was interviewed outside at night and he's wearing dark shades, typical Lars! It also includes 5 videos shot by 5 different fans, which is really cool as you probably already know Metallica has one of the largest bootleg communities of any band, so I thought that was a very cool feature to add.

The performance in my opinion was fantastic....James voice sounds really good and tight....the whole band sounds good and the bass is sweet, the crowd is not disappointing either. A Metallica fan will really enjoy this release and if you missed the band on this tour, this is a MUST own.

As it has been mentioned in previous reviews this is a steep price. I got this on blu-ray for 19.99, it's not available in stores here in the U.S, so shop around online before you decide where to buy it.

French people are soooooooooooooo dumb, they don't even know the lyrics, the crowd sucks bigtime, other way the show it's awesome

I was outraged by the $44 price tag, but a friendly review said to buy it on the UK Amazon site. I did, and with shipping it is only $23 to California. This is the only reason I did not rate it at five stars. Much more reasonable. No need to worry about regions, as this Blu-ray is region-free. IT IS AN AWESOME SHOW. Definitely one of the coolest arenas I've ever seen. Definitely worth $23 from Amazon UK.

5 stars. Picture and sound quality 5 stars. Setlist 5 stars. Venue 5 stars. Buy it.