This was one of the few Christmas presents I recieved in '09
It took a while to write a review for this film because I watched it on my Mother's suggestion. Which was to only watch it after Midnight because growing up in the late '70s the local theater used to run a midnight cap of the film. So i watched it under the same settings and only got 20-30 minutes a night.
The opening scene made an attempt at mimicing the humor displayed by The Beatles a little over a decade prior in A Hard Day's Night and Help! but not as funny.
It attempted to provide some serious moments with Robert Plant being chivalrous and some other moments of the band trying to be deep. A feat that would be mastered by Pink Floyd in '82s The Wall.
As for the actual concert footage it was filmed at Madison Square Garden over a 3 day span during their '73 Tour. And was not a good concert footage wise as 2003's Led Zeppelin but that can be easily attributed to seeing that first.
One scene that really struck me was The early days of Piracy in music. The Band manager was flipping out on an MSG worker for allowing an unoffical vender to sell band merchandise.
Having seen other band films well before this made it's nothing special but thats my own fault.
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