Tommy (1975)

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• AJ V

  
  This is one of the oddest musicals of all, but it's also pretty cool, and has a lot of good music from the Who. Plus, there are a lot of stars in it.

• Spencer S

  
  The strangest and most interesting musical I have ever seen. Keith Moon's scene is by far the most interesting part, along with Ann-Margret's charisma and style.

• jay n

  
  wild and imaginative. Ann-Margret is amazing.

• Cindy I

  
  Composed as a "rock opera" by The Who, this is a weird tale of a boy struck deaf dumb and blind by a traumatic event. He becomes a "Pnball Wizard" and at the same time a Messianic-like figure. The music is great, the film just freaky.

• Lady D

  
  A very odd story and musical, that made me laugh all the way, not because it was a comedy, but it was pretty amateur stuff and seeing Ollie Reed singing like that really couldn?t have done his hard image any good.

• Lafe F

  
  A decent movie version of the Who album; it all makes sense with images applied, but ruins some of the mystique of the original songs. It gets damn cheesy in parts, applying literal symbols to some of the concepts. I didn't understand all the religious messages they were getting… More
  A decent movie version of the Who album; it all makes sense with images applied, but ruins some of the mystique of the original songs. It gets damn cheesy in parts, applying literal symbols to some of the concepts. I didn't understand all the religious messages they were getting into, with Tommy being marketed in Christ-like status as a new religion; I guess the finale showed the dangers of that. I really liked some of the scenes. The first half of the movie was very artistic. I was a bit bored with the Eric Clapton church of Marilyn and the musical interlude in the junkyard. Things get boring once Sally Simpson gets on the scene with her Tommy-worship and the Tommy camps are set up. Oliver Reed and Ann-Margaret are great to watch in every scene; they have a lot of personality and screen prescence. I doubt a person could get a high score on pinball being unable to see what is happening. There were a lot of trippy scenes which I'm sure the drug crowd would wow at. The music was good, but it seemed like some generic movie band was performing; it seemed flatter and lacking in energy which the Who album had.

• xGary X

  
  The Who obviously wrote some classic songs, but Ken Russell's self-indulgent and trashy "rock opera" is just plain ugly and irritating. And it's got Phil Collins in it.

• Brett W

  
  As an album Tommy succeeds due in part to the fact that we aren't lambasted by blatant visual metaphors like we are here. Townshend successfully tip-toes the line between a kind of pseudo-religious commentary and open-ended space for listener contemplation. However, (and this is… More
  As an album Tommy succeeds due in part to the fact that we aren't lambasted by blatant visual metaphors like we are here. Townshend successfully tip-toes the line between a kind of pseudo-religious commentary and open-ended space for listener contemplation. However, (and this is a big however) coupled with Ken Russell's lavish visuals there really isn't any space for anything since he either beats you over the head with obvious symbolism or throws in arbitrary set pieces, leaving the viewer to wallow in a sea of slap-happy excess. Pink Floyd's The Wall was an example of how to do concept properly. Through different styles of sequences and montage It invited us into Pink's (Bob Geldoff's character) world by exploring the different facets of who he is; his memories, his hopes his fears, etc. Tommy is a meaningless figure in a sea of circus-like absurdity. Perhaps that's part of the point, but it certainly doesn't prop up prolonged interest in his ultimate fate.

• Sean S

  
  Ok people in the know tell me that Pink Floyd's the wall is the movie that'll just freak you out if you watch it on acid. This movie kind of freaks me out and I've never done acid in my life. Really cosmically trippy and so hard to watch and not smirk. Still, great… More
  Ok people in the know tell me that Pink Floyd's the wall is the movie that'll just freak you out if you watch it on acid. This movie kind of freaks me out and I've never done acid in my life. Really cosmically trippy and so hard to watch and not smirk. Still, great music and Ann-Margaret swimming in alphagetti or something. Brilliant!

• Lee K

  
  weird trippy little film i used to watch it on late night city tv but now usually when its on a music channel, definatly for who fans

• Quinto W

  
  For music lovers, The Who lovers or lovers of anything anywhere.

• *Kimberly *

  
  Bizarre and not in a good way; irritating as hell to watch.

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