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U2 3D (2007)
Astonishing
$13 is a lot to pay for a movie, but that's not the way to think about U23D. $13 is, on the other hand, a vanishingly small amount to pay for prime, nay impossible, access at a live U2 performance. THAT is what you get with U23D.
I was fortunate enough to have the chance to see the movie with my wife and some friends at the Edwards Marquee IMAX theater in Houston. As a U2 fan since the early 1980s I figured I'd enjoy it, and had the general notion that the IMAX/3D presentation would add to that enjoyment... but I was still unprepared for the riveting, unforgettable experience that this film delivers!
Our friends and my wife are probably less rabid U2 fans than I've been over the years, but they were completely captivated as well. We stood around in front of the theater in the late-night chill afterward and marveled... at the gorgeous in-your-face visuals and well-mixed sound, the startling (but not distracting or overpowering) occasional graphic special effects, and the pulsating energy of the porteño crowd in the film, conveyed flawlessly in 3D.
But above all, the music - as only U2 can conceive and deliver it, with the passion and power that comes from almost three decades of transcending musical, political and cultural barriers wherever they have gone - makes U23D a movie worth the effort to seek out in one of the few theaters capable of showing it.
Whether you consider yourself a U2 fan or not, I can only conclude: Go. See. This.