Product Details

• Actors: Bono, Adam Clayton, Jay-Z, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge
• Directors: Tom Krueger
• Producers: Audrey Davenport, Ford Englerth, Katherine Allen, Malcolm Gerrie, Ned O'Hanlon
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS-HD 5.1), English (PCM Stereo)
• Subtitles: Italian
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Interscope
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2010
• Run Time: 131 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003ELOQD4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,085 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #23 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Music Videos & Concerts
  • #30 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Documentary
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U2'S RECORD BREAKING ROSE BOWL CONCERT
Filmed on 25th October 2009

U2360° At The Rose Bowl was the penultimate gig of last year's U2360° tour in support of their Grammy-nominated album No Line on The Horizon. The Rose Bowl performance was the band's biggest show of 2009 and U2's biggest ever US show, with a live audience in excess of 97,000. The show was also streamed across seven continents via YouTube. The first ever live streaming of a full-length stadium concert, U2360° at the Rose Bowl had over 10 million views on the channel in one week.

Shot entirely in HD, the concert was filmed with 27 cameras and directed by Tom Krueger who had previously worked on U23D, the first live action 3D concert movie taken from U2's Vertigo Tour. Available in standard and two disc deluxe DVD formats, U2360° At The Rose Bowl will also be U2's first concert available in Blu-ray. The deluxe formats and the Blu-ray will feature a new documentary called Squaring the Circle: Creating U2360°, with new interviews from U2, Paul McGuinness and the team behind the touring production.

CONCERT:
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
No Line On The Horizon
Elevation
In A Little While
Unknown Caller
Until the End of the World
The Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender

Aspect 16:9
1080i
Sound (Concert): PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
Sound (Bonus Material): Dolby Digital Stereo
Duration: 4 hours 11 Minutes (approx)
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese (Not including any subtitling of songs)

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125 of 130 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Editing and Production, June 6, 2010

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Long time fan since early 80's. Own it all. Seen them on several tours. I like the band. Seen their concert films. Was particularly moved and impressed with the U23D I saw at imax. This U2360 Blu-ray is very hard to watch. Put simply. How does the biggest band in the world. With the biggest stage and production in one of the biggest venues in the US not consider the home viewer of this DVD? One needs to capture the concert experience. The majesty of the set. The narrative of the songs and flow of the show. They have done this before in their other video releases. Other artists like Peter Gabriel and countless others get this concept. Apparently the director and editor of this production did not. Jump cuts and shaky footage can be useful for effect and to make visual points and are great when they are used sparingly. But when not a single shot lasts more than 3 seconds and there are jarring zooms and pans in them...You get a mess. We have split screens. Super imposed shots. Quick shot of Bono's shoes to a quick shot of the back of Larry's head. Those things work in a 4-5 minute song video..But a live concert has to take you there. I think of New Years day at Red Rocks. I think of Exit in Rattle and Hum. I think of Origin of Species in U23D as amazing moments of u2 on video. This concert film does not have those moments and it is not because of the performance, the sound, or their material which is great...It is because the editor and director approached this like a communication student that just got final cut pro. I will watch it again because I own it. Maybe dig around on the disc menu for alternate shots. Or just treat it like a really expensive live CD.

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is Blu-ray quality?, June 6, 2010

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This review is from: U2: 360° at the Rose Bowl [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I'm giving this a bad review based solely on the technical aspects of the disc. The video quality is absolutely terrible. For a Blu-ray I expected so much more. The video is grainy, overexposed and all-in-all very sub-par. At first I thought maybe the look was an intentional effect that would pass. I even checked my Blu-ray player settings just to make sure it wasn't my machine. Having seen the other comments on here about the video I have to sadly accept that's the way it is. It's too bad. Having seen the 360 tour and the spectacular stage show it's a real shame this is how they chose to capture it. My standard definition DVD of the 2005 Vertigo tour looks much better than this disc. Someone else said the streaming YouTube video looks better and they're right. It does.

Some have commented about the editing looking more like a music video than a live concert, and I agree it does. It doesn't bother me too much, although I would have preferred just a straight-forward approach as opposed to all the overlays, dissolves, composite images, etc.

The concert itself is good. Bono and the boys sound good (although Bono's voice isn't what it used to be) and the set list is varied, although why they chose to leave the opening song "Breathe" out of the main concert and make it a "bonus feature" is puzzling.

I wish Bono a successful and speedy recovery from his recent injury and I hope to see U2 back out on the 360 tour soon. It would be nice to see them live again since the Blu-ray does a real injustice to the experience I remember.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The YOUTUBE broadcast was better than this!!!!!, June 5, 2010

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as others have said --- the quality is like a regular DVD this is not high definition by any means and cutting from one band member to another gets old REALLY fast. I honestly think Bono told them not to film him in HD so it wouldn't show their age or something. I know it WAS filmed in HD because the YOUTUBE live video was more clear than this "blu-ray" (audio wasn't as good as this tho). My wife even asked me if the DVD was bootleg!!!!!!! It just looks like the put some digital garbage on it to make it look like a standard def DVD...and sometimes WORSE than standard DVD.

and WHY is BREATHE not the first track!?!?!?!?!??! (its a 'bonus' track)

ok, good points -- Bono actually sounds damn good throughout the DVD -- especially on Unforgettable Fire....and of course The Edge and the others sound good too.