Phil Collins: Finally... The First Farewell Tour (2004) (V)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

Hamish Hamilton

Release Date:

25 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Music

Plot Keywords:

Pop Concert | Live Performance | Live Concert

Cast

Phil Collins	...	Himself
Daryl Stuermer	...	Himself
Chester Thompson	...	Himself
Luis Conte	...	Himself
Leland Sklar	...	Electric Bass

Runtime:

133 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Greece:K

Filming Locations:

Bercy, Paris 12, Paris, France

Company:

Done and Dusted

Still squat, still bald, still talentless, and still with a squeaky rat-voice.

If you love both Phil Collins and the French - and I mean, who doesn't??!! - you'll love absolutely love this VD, released as yet another attempt to milk the last ounce of cash from the ever-decreasing batch of Phil's tone-deaf and not-too-loyal fans. After all, how can you remain loyal to something that sang "Sussudio"? Tone-deaf or not, even the most clueless pop fan will eventually get it through his thick skull that buying Phil's albums was a bit like voting for the Nazi Party in 30s Germany: in other words, a secret sin that you want to wash away from your past as soon as you realize that it's no longer popular.

What started as a little runt hitting the drums in a rather pathetic "progressive" band called "Genesis" (ironic, that name, considering they had much more to do with the death of music than anything else) soon developed into a rodent-like creature that discovered that its trademark "squeak" was very much liked by apathetic grandmothers, bored cleaning ladies, and traumatized street dogs. It soon left "Deathesis" and started a solo path, a path that would eventually lead to the many pearls of pig's vomit, instant classics such as "You Can't Hurry Crap", "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Bald Head)", "Easy Lover Of Garbage", "One More Night, I Paid Didn't I?", "Another Rat In Paradise" and many others.

"Phil Collins: Finally... The First Farewell Tour" VD features other spiffing musicians: Daryl Stuermer, Chester Thompson, Luis Conte... Never heard of them? How could you...: they're the creme-de-la-creme of hired-guns/session-musicians/pop-world prostitutes. Ever wonder how Pink's tour guitarists must feel? "Why aren't I Joe Satriani? I think I wanna die..."

But P.C. isn't just a bubble-gum pop singer who serves stale ballads to lonely, fat housewives. It is so much more than that. It is a creature that joined forces with that intellectual organization known as PETA in order to protest against Kentucky Fried Chicken. Easy for Phil to do that! He is a mouse-like vermin: he doesn't eat chicken like the rest of us...

If you ever get sick of this VD, break it neatly into a thousand pieces, burn it in a modest 20-meter-high bonfire, and then sit on the remains after they cool off. You will enjoy this more than anything. That's a promise.

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