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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Salesrank: 15020
Released: July 25, 2006 |
| Our Price: $6.31 |
| Used Price: $2.64 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Madison Square Garden NYC - The Beastie Boys hand out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance. These 50 different perspectives shot from the point-of-view of the audience take the viewer deep inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show capturing the experience of a live musical performance like no other film.2006 Sundance Film Festival Smash Hit!System Requirements:Running Time 88 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 821575547758 Manufacturer No: TF-54775
Description of Awesome, I Shot That:
Directed by one "Nathanial Hörnblowér" and shot by 50 fans, Awesome is the Beastie Boys live and direct. (The full title includes a four-letter word in its six-letter-plus-apostrophe incarnation.) The place is New York’s Madison Square Garden. The date is October 9, 2004. The show begins with scratching from DJ Mix Master Mike as the amateur operators, armed with Hi-8 cameras, get busy--from the audience, at the concession stands, and even in the bathrooms. Subtitled "An Authorized Bootleg," Awesome features the tracksuit-sporting trio, Mike D, Adrock, and MCA, running through numbers from all six records. (Later, they bust out the pastel tuxes for a pro-shot suite of jazz-funk.) Selections include "Brass Monkey" (Licensed to Ill), "Shake Your Rump" (Paul's Boutique), "Pass the Mic" (Check Your Head), "Sure Shot" (Ill Communication), "Body Movin'" (Hello Nasty), and "Ch-Ch-Check It Out" (To the 5 Boroughs). On stage, they're joined by Keyboard Money Mark, percussionist Alfredo Ortiz, and Doug E. Fresh, "the world's greatest entertainer," who adds a little human beat-box to their rhymes. For viewers concerned about Blair Witch-style vertigo, rest assured that editor Neal Usatin has stitched the shaky footage together skillfully enough to stave it off. Almost as essential as their Criterion Collection Video Anthology, Awesome may be the world's most professional home movie. Nathanial Hörnblowér, incidentally, is the nom de film of MCA, AKA Adam Yauch. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Awesome, I Shot That Reviews:
This Movie Was Great and I Am In It !!! 
2008-08-15 - The concept was great, the performance by both the Beastie Boys & Mix Master Mike was awesome AND my performance made this movie worth 5 stars. I am the original "I want two Beers" guy and I can be seen at about 37 minutes into the film during the first instrumental. The only thing I want to know is WHERE IS MY ROYALITY CHECK ???
SOLEY BKLYN NY !!!
VERY PLEASED!
2008-04-30 - I love, love, love, this dvd! I am simply amazed that I'd never seen or heard of a concept like this to shoot a live concert performance. If you do not know what I mean, then read the promo about what this dvd is all about. If you like the Beastie Boys or if you know someone who does, then this dvd is sure to please!
No Less than 5 Stars
2007-07-13 - ***MINOR SPOILER ALERTS FOLLOW***
I'm not sure why anyone would give this lees than 5 stars. I've read the reveiws of those who did, and I just don't see it.
If you know anything about this DVD, it was shot by people in the stands....ummm, therefore: no, this is not professional camera operators. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!!! In fact, there is a point where one of the guys goes to the bathroom and takes the camera with him. Since these are just regular joes, it is a little shakey, but what do you expect?
The edits are a bit quick, but that keeps it interesting (especially the cut to the guys that snuck back stage). I think the added effects to the show make it cool, like how during "Whatcha Want" the colors polarities are reversed just like in the video.
I like the premise of this show, because it gives depth to the audience. In so many live shows when they show the audience, it gives this feeling of some endless mass of people. This DVD actually puts a face to the fans and much of the flavor comes from the folks in the stands. It kind of gives you the feeling that you're sitting next to these people, instead of being some robotic camera hanging from a line.
Actually, this show is less about the Beatie Boys and more about the fans watching their concert.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS: the selling points of this DVD are the same things people are comlaining about. This DVD puts you in the pits, in the dirty stands, and next to the drunks pushing and yelling. Between the intense point of veiw of the bleechers and the safe, steral, robotic veiw from a professional cameraman....I'll take the former any day of the week.
Great concert, but a little bit lacking. 
2007-03-10 - Lets start with the good: This is a very cool concert DVD. I love the whole feeling of it, it really feels like "an authorized bootleg" as the Boys have billed it to be. It shows them at their live best. There are some amazing performances on this disc.
Now on to the bad: Although the concept of letting the fans shoot it is very cool and enjoyable, the editing could have used some work. It jumps from shot to shot every few seconds. Also, there are too many weird effects thrown in that give it less of a feeling that you were there. Also, the setlist could have been better. The 3 instrumentals right in the middle of the concert seem to slow it down and make it tedious. They could have used those 3 songs to play some more of their hits, such as Fight For Your Right or Hey Ladies (which are strangely missing from this otherwise-complete setlist).
Overall: This is definetly worth a purchase.
I won't pay for bootleg-quality footage 
2007-01-14 - Glad I caught this garbage on VH1 before I shelled out any $$. Watching this jittery unprofessional video gave me nausea. Was it too much to ask that the ONLY good live video footage we may EVER have of this great band be of good quality? Guess not. I could never sit through this again - thanks for nothin 'boys.
