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The Rolling Stones – Music Box Biographical Collection (DVD-Video)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: D     Program: C-

 

 

The Music Box Biographical Collection has been strange, which we have seen in our coverage of titles on Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.  However, this installment on The Rolling Stones is the sloppiest and most unintentionally amusing to date.  Besides the same stupid collage of old footage only using about 25% of the screen when it shows the footage through its drawing of a television, there are other idiotic moments that don’t make even make sense.

 

A few old interviews with Mick Jagger are here in that small space, along with plenty of stills.  They always do a half-witted job of a chronological history; the inaccuracies are gaping, like when a female narrator forgets the “Club” in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.  The “story” becomes choppier when they forget things and try to conform their chronology to what few materials they could scrape together, versus good research.  Running 42 minutes, the dumbest part of all is the use of two trailers for films Jagger appeared in.  Ned Kelly (1970) and Performance (delayed until about the same time) show their trailers in that stupid little analog TV window drawing.  These are public domain like all trailers before 1976.  So what goes wrong?  They do not play the audio from them!

 

Just when they get materials they can use you want to see, they do not even know what to do with it.  That kind of incompetence is just unbelievable, as well as laughable.  Too bad this is not a comedy series.  We can’t wait to see how they screw-up next.

 

The full frame 1.33 X 1 image looks forced and phony, with much softness throughout.  The PCM 2.0 sound is weak and even with no original music licensed, it might as well have been Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono.  There are no extras and not even a menu.  Another disaster!

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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