I was born in 74 and this movie came out when I was a kid but my older brother was into Floyd so I watched this movie probably 100 times in my teenage years. It was normal for a group of teenagers to drop acid or shrooms and watch this movie. I felt is was an internal struggle but also an external struggle of post WWII England. A warning of fascism. Looks like that warning was not taken seriously here in America. You could replace Waiting for the Worms with Waiting for the MAGATS. They do love walls.

only one other concept album even comes close imo, operation mindcrime by queensryche

Dope sweater, I got the t-shirt.

Bravo!

Fully agreed. The movie is unnecessary, except for the animations!

The best version is the live version. Try to get your hands on 'Is there anybody out there?' a double CD of the 1980's live shows. It's absolutely brilliant. Extended solo on Mother, additional instrumental parts.

Animation by the great Gerald Scarfe

The Wall was always intended to be an album, a live show and a movie. But you are right. One should not watch the movie before one has a clear and complete mental image of what the album means

I mean I saw the movie as a kid before I knew the band, so for me it was all one piece of media. The concept itself of the film not being worthy of the album is something completely alien to me.

Some of the songs added were on The Final Cut 1982 the final Pink Floyd album with full lineup. At this point the band deteriorated and Rodger was being an ass firing Richard Wright and going solo not long after. He rehired but dude WTF? Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Radio Kaos are swesome, but it was never the same. Pink Floyd released 3 albums after but yeah the Wall is their final masterpiece where they were all together.

Like the Silent Hill music in the intro!

This is the most genuine music reaction I’ve seen on KZbin

Really Nice sound from your Guitarrería , what is the brandname ?

The alternative is a revolution that would bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. That’s your answer.

Stop looking at your phone

Watching the movie made the music easier to understand. It did make me more of a fan. I also enjoyed the laser light shows at OMSI too.

u absolutely cannot cut out “united we stand, divided we fall, we fall… etc” at the end of “hey you” ( which was one of the biggest hits from this album and one of the fanbases fav songs by floyd)

Great reaction!! To me: the scene where he "becomes the dictator-like person" on stage - he's having to "dress as someone totally foreign to his ideals" and become something he doesn't like to be able to entertain all the "sheep" - not so much a "controlling person" of the crowd - but, to enable him to deal with all the followers. I've noticed that, at one point in the movie, there: the crowd has the same faces as all the children they're all teaching in school (the conformists to society)....just a thought.... THANKS for reacting to this movie - SO MANY DON'T!! ...and, I'm still not sure WHY??

Every time I watch it I get new particulars: the face in The Trial has "a look in your eye like black holes in the sky" and the animation zooms inside the dark eye. That's clearly the late Syd

16:19 yeah… it’s cool watching it now but f’ing terrifying when i stole my dads DVD and watched it as a kid😂

FYI: The marching hammers animation won an award.

I don't belive you're baaaaack. Omg, i'm so happy that my KZbin crush is back and talking about my favorite album of all time🎉

The sound sucks. And there are no other reactions that are any good wtf.

My Dad worked for a company that supplied the equipment (cameras etc...) for making the film. He took me to Pinewood Studios to watch the SFX shot of the Wall being blown up. Just my luck the shot did not work that day. But as a thank you my Dad got the bands autographs on PF headed paper plus a necklace holding a silver brick.

Can't hear. The sound is very....

I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd for 51 years now, since I was 11 and there isn’t one day I don’t listen their music and Gilmour’s guitar makes me cry every time. Enjoy their music ❤

Greetings fellow Floydian. Sincerely hope you truly enjoy both edges of the Pink Floyd Saga. I'm team Roger but a staunch Floydian all the same.

It's hand-drawn animation.

The Greatest Concept Album Of All Time

You should check out (even if it's in your free time), Roger Water's original The Wall demo. He recorded what would become the wall by himself. It's very emotionally scattered and disturbing. yet MUCH of it made it into the album. Although he originally intended 3 parts of the song "Is There Anybody Out There (pt 1-3)", A totally different version of "Run Like Hell" with different music.

The movie is an integral part of the art. I watched it, oh I dont know... 400+ times on vhs. If you enjoyed this, you should try to listen to the pro's and con's of hitchiking. No video, but... the story. Man.

On dirait que tu es francophone, note de ta remarque au début, The Wall a été pensé DES LE DÉBUT comme quelque chose de multimédia, disque, concert ET film... Dire que l'album se suffit a lui même, c'est vrai, mais c'est AUSSI comme dire la couverture du bouquin est bien et se suffit a elle même... Bien sur ma comparaison est abusive, et je suis sur qu'a la fin du react tu auras peut-être "augmenté" ton avis.

Roger Waters is brilliant, but he was and still is deeply scarred, thus the heavy handed and pessimistic. That being said, the school system in England back in those days was certainly worse than what we have going in.

each of us has our own wall

It is almost a must to research the Toronto incident in the 77 pink floyd tour, to get the idea of where this concept came from. People throwing things, fireworks and Roger spitting on a fan.... Great job, thanks.

Why did you cut parts off this movie? Makes no sense.. If you're gonna review something, don't edit it.

You need headphones !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i thought you never return!!!

I have not watched this movie in years. I did see it in the theaters when it was first released. I found a VHS tape of The Wall performed before the Berlin Wall.

when the album came out roger waters said in an interview that the wall was actually the soundtrack to a movie that didn't yet exist. it would be a few years,in fact, before the movie came out. so it did challenge the listener to use their imagination. the movie did help to fill in some of the blanks such as the first quarter of the story being told in flashbacks. having heard the album,and now seen the movie,you should watch a live stage performance. i saw the original concert in 1980 and it's still #1 on my list. the idea that there was a wall between pink floyd/roger and the audience was the basis of the show. roger thought the audience didn't understand how disconnected he felt from the audience ,and decided to show them by constructing a physical wall between them. so during the first half of the concert the wall was slowly built,and once they ended "goodbye cruel world" the wall was completed. it was roger's way of conveying the frustration he felt after the "animals" tour in 1977. unfortunately the wall shows that were filmed in1980-81 are of very poor quality and have never been released. it's said roger does have a HQ film of one of the shows,but for legal reasons he isn't allowed to release it,so it remains locked away. roger has released a couple of live versions,one from a tour a few years ago,and one from berlin in the late 80s not long after the berlin wall fell. the berlin show featured an all star line up of singers and musicians. i prefer the berlin concert film,but either one is great. the characters of the wife,teacher and mother are portrayed by giant inflatables,and the amazing animation is projected directly on the wall. it's a very unique telling of the story,so don't close the book on the wall just yet.

When they toured the country (only two cities) shortly after the album was released, those animations were projected on a 40-ft high wall that extended the full width of the stadium. The Wall was constructed during the course of the first half of the show until the band was completely obstructed from view for the second half. Blocks of the wall were removed here and there during the second half to reveal Roger or Dave playing or singing. Roger appeared in front of the wall during Comfortably Numb with Dave popping up on top of the wall 40 feet in the air to sing the chorus and perform the iconic solos. Quite the spectacle.

The album is the total soundtrack to the film. The film's audio is the whole album.

Inclusion of "When the Tigers Broke Free" was really good and a shame it's missing from the album. You'll never hear so much contempt in the words "rubber stamp"!

This movie is a masterpiece that allows individual interpretation in an beautiful artful way. "The distant ship smoke on the horizon".

I tried watching but the audio in this video is horrible.

That 'interesting cargo'...think of the Germans and Jews in WW2, loaded into cattle cars and sent off to the camps. . That poem...it's the lyrics to another Pink Floyd song, 'Money'. . The album came out in 1979, the movie in 1982. And the messages, the themes presented...are still relevant today.

Another really cool movie that is fully animated is Heavy Metal.

Finally someone reacting to this movie. Thanks

The film contains the outtake "What Shall We Do Now?" (different from Empty Spaces, which is actually the reprise of that song), and the new track "When the Tigers Broke Free", not to mention "Hey You" is missing.

When the kid is going through the drawer of his Dad's belongings, yes it's a song that isn't on the album version. It's called 'When The Tigers Break Free.' It's now on an album called 'The Final Cut.' However as far as I know, it's only on the CD version, it's not on the original vinyl.