Like I said, they did all their classic stuff live on their "farewell tour" when I saw them here in April, and they were great! (Live CD "Alive 4" is supposed to be out in a few weeks..."Alive 3" was great.) Sound was terrible, and the loudest I've heard, especailly in the 2kHz range...and I've heard a few. I especially liked "Cold Gin" (my favorite), "100,000 Years", "Heaven's On Fire" (from "my" generation), "Let Me Go, Rock n' Roll", and "God of Thunder". My earplugs were in for all but 3 songs, and those weren't 3 in a row, either. I mean, it was REALLY loud, dude! At least 4 dB louder than the next loudest one I've ever been to, and that was Motley Crue in '89 (now THAT was/is a silly dumbassed band!)......................Saw MI2, thought it was all style, no substance. Worse than a cornball music video, or a "gap" commercial! I've hated every film John Woo has ever done, and think the reason he uses slow motion so annoyingly overmuch is because HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO SHOOT AN ACTION SEQEUNCE in the first place!!!! So, he fools the females and others in the audience, who lack a basic understanding of the physical world (and how vehicles react with it), into thinking that his shots are valid, by making them "different" with slow motion. They still SUCK, and the slo mo takes like an hour of the movie's time, so as to fill in where the comic book dialog leaves off. Ebert thought the car chase scene early on "worked"...boy, is he full of monkey dung on that one! He hasn't called an action movie correctly this year, and I think he's just gotten old and senile (oddly, he was mostly right about last year's lineup)! I, AND ALL NORMAL MALE MOVIE GOERS, like action sequences that are physically plausible and skillfully shot (like all the car chases in "Ronin"). I hope "Gone in 60 seconds" is worth seeing, cause I certainly don't trust movie reviewers on action movies anymore (did I ever?)! (I hate Nick Cage and Angelina Jolie, but I want to see sports cars driven the way they're supposed to be driven...by the stunt people, of course)..........................I hated "Face Off", the other John Woo movie that all the critics liked. It sucked! Basically, any movie where one actor is used to portay another, and then pulls off a mask that disguised him as the other guy, SUCKS!!! I mean, it's the oldest "trick" in the effects book, and it doesn't work at all. IT'S HOAKY!!!!! (And anybody that says, "Gee Carl, tell us what you really think," should take that up with KGB, because he asked.....).........Gotta go watch McLaughlin Group....
