Product Details

• Actors: Paramore
• Directors: Michael Thelin, Brandon Chesbro
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Concert Hot Spot (Summit DVD)
• DVD Release Date: March 21, 2009
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001QWEE44
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,686 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

As she struts around the stage, stoking the crowd, belting out the songs, her energy never flagging, Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams is the obvious focal point of The Final Riot!, the 2008 Chicago concert that wrapped up the Tennessee band’s tour of the same name. But in fact it is two other, less obvious components, both of them brought into vivid relief by the wonders of Blu-Ray technology, that define the sound: Zac Farro’s drums and Taylor York’s rhythm guitar. The way the younger Farro (whose older brother Josh co-writes most of the material with Williams) pounds those skins, the snare in particular, and the distorto-crunch attack of York’s guitar are hallmarks of much heavier music, from punk to metal to grunge, than that usually offered by young bands with sufficient teen appeal to earn a coveted spot on the Twilight soundtrack (Paramore has two tunes in the film, although neither is performed here); and yet they also have the pop chops, not to mention cute young dudes playing the instruments, to attract the kind of audiences who swoon over the Jonas Brothers, rock to Avril Lavigne, and idolize Kelly Clarkson. So when it comes to demographics, Paramore has it pretty well covered. In other respects, they still have a ways to go; the songs aren’t especially memorable (lyrically, a little less would be more), and Williams, for all her confidence, occasionally sings off-key. But they are still very young--bassist Jeremy Davis, the oldest member, was all of 23 at the time of this gig, while Williams was just 20 and Zac Farro a mere 17--so this band’s future looks bright. This Blu-ray release’s principal bonus feature is a behind-the-scenes tour featurette which, though advertised as a "tell-all" documentary, is little different from the many others of its ilk. Music videos of Paramore’s two Twilight songs, "Decode" and "I Caught Myself," will appeal to the film’s zillions of fans. --Sam Graham

Product Description

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 03/03/2009 Run time: 120 minutes

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Blu-Ray. Other reviewers have it wrong on video and audio quality, December 13, 2009

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Adam Burns - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paramore - The Final Riot! [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

First off, let me point out the video and audio are fine! There is not a lag issue with this concert. What they do is during most songs about once there is a two second delay. For example, Haley will jump off this little step on the stage and the video creators of this dvd/blu-ray (blu-ray on the review) purposely made the jump down go slower on the screen. It is always during the cool moments like jumping, head bobbing, instrument solos, etc. It is not a bad thing. I loved it. The audio is great and sounded just like they do in person. I know, I attended their 2009 Kansas City concert a few months back. The video is a 9.5/10. It is not bad and looks amazing. There are a few scenes that are very dark with mild dark blue lights on haley during an intro. Those can have a very very tiny bit fuzzy, but I really think it is a camera limitation or dvd creation tool is not amazing in dark scenes. 92% of the time the lights are blaring and the video is spot on. This is one of my favorite blu-ray concerts I own an I have quite a few. The special features are a mix bag. I love they have two additional songs. One song is in hd audio with a stable picture in the background. I have a lcd, but I turned it off during the song. I know I should be safe, but I don't want any potential for burn in. (burn in is where the image burns into your tv and you can never remove the sceen. It would be like having a mild whitish transparency over everything you watch in the future) They should have had a slideshow going, but it is minor and this is an extra feature. This is not why you bought the movie. It does include the new paramore song decode from twilight and it sounds amazing. The video is obviously too small for the size they tried to expand it to. It feels squished into the middle and it is a tiny tiny bit blocky. Some scenes worse than others. I would have rather had a second disc on dvd with this video. My playstation 3 can upscale and would have looked much better than this video that is stuck in the blocky form at a hd resolution. There is also a video about their group and planning the concert. I just skimmed this video, but it is a interesting extra if you want to know more about their group. Definitely a great blu-ray and worth the purchase if you like paramore or a couple of songs. This group is growing on me more and more. Thank you twilight for helping me discover this group as it is now in my top 3 favorite groups for 2009.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME!, August 26, 2009

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Jasmine Libatique "jasmine says" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paramore - The Final Riot! [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

This is an absolutely amazing concert! I was just blown away by the crazy vocals and overall performance of the band. I love this blu-ray! I have a lot of concert blu-rays and THIS is my favorite. If you're a fan of Paramore, you'll absolutely love this! MUST HAVE for paramore fans.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good concert, April 9, 2009

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BIGLURCH (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Paramore - The Final Riot! [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

The concert itself was really good. The video and audio seem to not work with each other at times, but still not that bad. The band was full of energy. To sum it up I would say that is was a good concert to buy, just not the best.