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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Music Enterprises
Salesrank: 3358
Released: June 9, 2009 |
| Our Price: $10.48 |
| Used Price: $6.77 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
FLIGHT 666 documents the first leg of Maiden's legendary SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR which took them 50,000 miles round the planet playing 23 concerts on five continents in just 45 days. One of the stars of the movie is the band's customized Boeing 757, Ed Force One, which carried the band, all their crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and was piloted by Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, a fully qualified and active Airline Captain with Astraeus Airlines.
Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to L.A., Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago to New York and Toronto and places in-between, you travel with the band and crew on the plane, to and from shows, in the bar and during leisure time, while experiencing the exhaustion and fan pandemonium that comes with such a mission.
As a very special bonus for the fans, Maiden have included a second disc of the entire set from the 2008 segment of this tour with the DVD. Sixteen songs from sixteen different cities in eleven countries around the world, for the first time ever encompassing such varied places and cultures in one concert.
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 Reviews:
Maiden at their best 
2009-11-08 - Iron Maiden's most ambitious tour yet. With Bruce Dickinson piloting a custom jumbo jet carrying the entire crew, all the equipment and the band they are able to jump from continent to continent in hours playing a concert basically every other day in a new city. The documentary is especially interesting and fun. Very impressive feat they pulled off and the concert is of course vintage Maiden. I highly recommend this for any Maiden fan.
Cheers to Maiden and Banger Productions!
2009-10-28 - I bought this dvd not only out of interest in learning more about Iron Maiden, but also based on the strength of the other Banger Production films, "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey," and "Global Metal." I wasn't disappointed on either count.
This is a good-natured documentary of the Somewhere Back in Time tour. There's no tension or drama a la Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster" or Wilco's "I am Trying to Break Your Heart." These guys seem to really enjoy their music, their lives, and each other. There is NOTHING old or tired about them, and that makes watching them for an hour and forty minutes pure fun.
Writer/director Sam Dunn tells us at the beginning of the film that Maiden is his favorite band. He and Scot McFadyn have paid the band an immense tribute with this film. It is well-executed and enjoyable from start to finish. Excellent.
Maiden are one of the best live bands of all tiem
2009-10-15 - This DVD proves a simple point: Iron Maiden are one of the best live bands of all time. Their ferocity and talent have not mitigated with age. At a time when most bands from their era have either become caricatures of themselves or nostalgia acts, Maiden continue to evolve and push the envelope of their music; they re-invigorate songs that they have been playing for over two decades and still keep them fresh and exciting. Iron Maiden are simply amazing in terms of songwriting and stagecraft. There are bands half their age who cannot rival their output. This is not just another token filler live album between studio albums: this is a document of these Metal veterans at the top of, and re-inventing their game as they play it. A must buy for fans and a good place to start if you are still not one. Up the Irons.
Big time IM Fan...
2009-10-15 - Im a Big Time Iron Maiden Fan.
I been to both concerts when they came to Costa Rica.
I have the full Discography, and i even love my Statue of Eddie the Great, besides i have Rock in Rio and at last in BLUE-RAY... Flight 666.
I been to many concerts, however this WAS the concert... never seen such band do such shows, and Bruce, i take my hat before him!
He enjoys his audience!
I would say this could beat Rock in Rio!
This is a Souvanier and a great bargain as well!
"Flight 666 Is A Winner"
2009-10-12 - Flight 666 The Film follows the band during their Somewhere Back In Time tour in the 23 concerts the band were plaing. Being a huge fan of Iron Maiden, when Flight 666 came out this June along with soundtrack of the film(the live songs on disc 2)I had to buy it. This film was said to be showing the band's life on tour and everyone who knows the band know that they are private to a certain point about their lives. Here they are showing the fans what it's like to be in the band or working for the band. And I haven't been disappointed, I've been surprised on how complete it was as it goes into details and there are interesting stories from the countries they played during the tour.You have to understand first that Iron Maiden is not your average band. No other band has a lead singer who also pilots the band's own private plane during a tour across five continents. They are also respected everywhere they go and they have influenced many bands of today.
You have to admire them for staying down to earth people with their success and for the fact that they have many good songs and albums. They are an entertaining onstage and fans will find out just like I did that they are as much offstage. Capturing the intensity of band on tour is not an easy task but Sam Dunn's team (for those who don't know him, he made the Metal - A Headbanger's Journey and Global Metal documentaries which I would recommend watching if you are a fan of rock n' roll music or heavy metal or whatever YOU want to call it) just did that, I'm glad they were the ones who did this documentary as someone else might have screwed up. Oh and this is not about Dunn it's about the band.
The purpose of the Somewhere Back In Time tour was to offer their increasingly younger fan base those classics song they might not have seen the band perform before. This means for the band going back to the classics, for this tour they performed songs like "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner"(Bruce Dickinson said it was his favorite song to perform during the tour) and "Can I Play With Madness". They always played their old stuff but this goes further into the songs they didn't play, of course the tour still featured songs they always play like "Number Of The Beast" and "Fear of The Dark". The stage set was even reminiscent of the one used during the Powerslave tour mixed with a little of Somewhere In Time, it looks very good. The live footage shown in this film will likely blow you away, the band sounds amazing.
It also shows people talking about Iron Maiden and their stories are interesting to hear. For instance the Priest who has many tattoos of the band and claims to be their biggest fan. Or someone saying just how much an Iron Maiden concert means to them, for how long they've been waiting etc. It may sound boring here but it certainly isn't. You see the road crew, how they build the stage, the fans nearly making a riot at a hotel where the band stays. It seems everyone was having fun during this tour, everyone smiles and tells jokes, fools around or something, you see that the band enjoy each other's company and they still like selling out their concerts all over the world.
Iron Maiden has always been exciting to watch and this DVD is another reason why. You also get another disc of the 17 live songs used on the Flight 666 soundtrack; the songs have been picked from different cities so each song is different from another. The film shows a good part of this disc already but if you only want to watch the live part it's nice to have. I have it and I've watched it already a good dozen times and each time I find it as good as before. Live After Death is the best Maiden concert DVD but Flight 666 is a great look at the band and is just as good. If you're a fan this a must never before has Maiden been shown this way, it's hard to believe just how good it is. It's hard to describe but if you are a fan of the band you just have to see this.There two versions the special edition has a better booklet, I own the standart edition as it was what was available to me.
