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
