Camera work spoils this superb concert!
The first few tracks are shot with cameras whirling around until you feel dizzy! When I buy a DVD, I want to see the artist, not up the nostrils of the backup singers or the whirling leg of a dancer. Once the camera work settled down, the rest of the concert was pure Pink and superb!
When will the people who make DVD's realise that it is not an open invitation for them to do weird angle shots and strange vision. We want to see the concert as it was!
5 stars to Pink, 2 to the DVD/BD - Larn Poland ruins a terrific show
Worth the purchase, but...
I saw Pink twice during this tour, she's absolutely and utterly amazing. The DVD/BD release is atrocious. The hectic editing ruins pretty much EVERY single performance. Even the acoustic ones, where Pink is sitting down, have some fancy directorial trick or pretentious video effect that prevents you from fully enjoying the show.
Pink is so full of energy and the choreographies are so lively and rich that making the viewing experience so hectic and chaotic just prevents you from being engaged and fully enjoying the show as a whole. We're supposed to let HER and her energy enthral us! The split-screen gimmicks and all the frantic bs editing are annoyingly distracting. Cutting to a close-up and then staying on the audience for so long after just 10 frames of a choreography is the most moronic thing to do for live footage. Poland (I'm guessing this frantic style wasn't the editor's idea) sucks the soul out of the show from the very opening...
Brilliant Concert - Shameful Editing
I'm going to start by saying that if you are a Pink fan, go ahead and buy this DVD. As horrible as the editing is, the fun and excitement of her live show still comes through and Pink, her dancers, and her musicians deserve a lot of credit for all their hard work.
That being said, during the first few songs I wasn't sure I'd be able to finish watching the movie. Cut away after cut away after cut away! There was never time to fully absorb the greatness of the performance; some shots were perhaps two seconds before moving on to the next shot. If I was epileptic I'd worry about a seizure. I wanted to watch Pink and her dancers and musicians perform, not suffer through the editor's self-indulgence. I don't need clever camera angles to be entertained, Pink is more than entertaining just standing on stage.
The editor just needed to calm the heck down and let us enjoy the concert.
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