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Title: it's "just another brick in The Wall"...
Review: Those who think books like Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and movies like "The Crow" actually have something to say about their respective 'generations' will probably like the film version of "The Wall," as well, and laud it just as highly. For me, though, the movie is a soulless, emotionally sterile, and bombastic 90-minute music video that's nowhere near as affecting as the album that inspired it. Okay, so a little boy's father dies in a war. He has fantasies about being a rock star and, wouldn't you know it, grows up to be a Hitler-esque dictator...or something. The subtle humor from the album is gone, instead replaced with super-literal interpretations of the songs. "The Wall" will remain popular, I think, only as an oddity in the annals of pretentious filmmaking.
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