Product Details

• Actors: Rush
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Eagle Rock Entertaiment
• DVD Release Date: September 28, 2010
• Run Time: 224 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003Z6HSFQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,816 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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73 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Documentary on Rush's pivotal albums, September 20, 2010

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SRFireside "ZOOM!" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Albums: 2112 / Moving Pictures [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

This Blu-Ray is essentially the documentary that aired on the Classic Albums TV series. There have been a number of releases for Rush lately from concert footage to documentaries. For a band who is as prolific and influential as they are I say it's high time more stuff has been put out there. While the recently released documentary, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, gives a lot of details spanning their entire career this disk delves into great detail Rush's two most important albums. While the band has released more than 20 albums these two bookend the five albums that defined them as the ultimate power trio and masters of the progressive/art rock genre.

2112 was Rush's fourth (third with drummer Neil Peart) album and it was created out of a mixture of defiance, anger, and pure sense of uncompromising. Their album Fly by Night made critics take notice and Caress of Steel made them disregard the band out of hand. 2112 not only make them take notice again, but it caused a frenzy from just word of mouth. This documentary goes into the thought process behind this. Not only the "we are gonna do this album our way" and "if we are going out we are going on our terms" kind of thinking, but also the music theory behind the songs written and the long play format of the titular 2112 suite (consisting of an entire side of a vinyl album.

So you have that breakaway album, and then Rush makes a couple more critically acclaimed concept albums, then two albums that take the band to a more radio-friendly arena. This is where Moving Pictures comes in. As the last of the albums of this genre it marks the band's complete departure from the art-rock/long form suites (The album Permanent Waves still had the multi-themed Natural Science) to single concept, self contained songs ready for airplay. This album also marks Rush's greatest hit single to date with Tom Sawyer.

Again this doc goes into not only the thinking of where they were going with Moving Pictures as a band, but also the musicality of the various songs (and studio theories and techniques). It's a good message Rush says when the changes they went through on each of these albums were something they did all for themselves and for the love of music. This documentary really shows how a band can change their (for lack of a better word) shtick and still be true to who they are.

You get some great early footage from studio to concerts and more as well as current interviews with each band member. You get to see the breakdown of many of the songs of each album and how they were put together both instrumentally and post production. You also get interviews with Terry Brown, Rush's studio producer and engineer from both albums and each one in between. All in all this is a great resource for anybody who loves these two albums.

This Blu-Ray has some solid video comprised of the newer interviews and footage done in high definition and older concert footage getting some decent touch up (not as good as the high def stuff, but it's as good as you can get). The video I believe is in 1080i, and while that's not quite full 1080p I think it's probably a better idea so there isn't too much of a difference seen between the older PAL footage. The audio is in Linear PCM Stereo. That may sound like a limiting factor, but you don't really need surround for interviews and the music was recorded in two channel stereo. BTW that music footage sounds awesome on this disk so forget the need for 5.1 anything.

What's cool is the extras, which is about an hour of additional interviews and concert footage not shown in the original airing on Classic Albums. That's like getting twice the show in one disk. If you are a fan of the classic Rush this disk is worth going for. If you are a serious music fan and enjoyed the song Tom Sawyer I think this will be a very informative and enjoyable disk to have in your collection as well. If you have been collecting all of the other Rush videos believe me; there is still stuff in here you don't have.

48 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, October 1, 2010

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Artman "MasterOfReality" (Phila,Pa.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rush: Classic Albums: 2112 & Moving Pictures (DVD)

If I wasnt a HUGE Rush fan I would have given this 2 stars.There is nothing new here.The interviews seem rushed (no pun intended) and there is no new vintage footage and you just KNOW they got it.Most of it is from Live in Rio concerts with some stuff from the other concert films.There is some Black and White footage and studio footage they provide but my old bootleg VHS tapes look and sound better!!! Dont know where all these 5 star ratings are coming from.Maybe the reviewers havnt heard all these stories before or seen the same old footage before?? I dunno but save your money and just get Beyond the Lighted Stage dvd (which I gave 5 stars as I love Rush!) Anyways-I wish I would have just rented this instead of buying it but I just couldnt resist.Hope this helps somebody out.......................

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than on TV, October 8, 2010

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David M. Majestic "Magic" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Albums: 2112 / Moving Pictures [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

There is about 50+ minutes of additional footage on the DVD. It is great seeing RUSH talk about the making of their two greatest albums. Seeing the behind-the-scenes of making 2112 and the pressure they were under was unbelievable. 2112 was a do-or-die project and they clearly made an amazing effort. You really can hear the anger in their playing of 2112. As for Moving Pictures, this is their masterpiece. As Neil said "This was when we became Rush" They discuss almost every song on both albums and the studio scenes with Terry Brown are great. Lets just hope they release "The Time Machine Tour" on Blu-Ray.