Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, The Very Best of Dire Straits

August. 01,1998

Rating：

7.8

Genre：

Documentary Music

Keywords：

Rock Band Guitar Virtuoso

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Sultans of swing - Lady writer - Romeo and Juliet - Tunnel of love - Private investigations - Twisting by the pool - Love over gold (live 1983) - So far away - Money for nothing - Brothers in arms - Walk of life - Calling Elvis - Heavy fuel - On every street (live 1992) - Your latest trick (live 1992) - Local hero - Wild theme (live 1992)

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Reviews

ThiefHott

1998/08/01

Too much of everything

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FeistyUpper

1998/08/02

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Baseshment

1998/08/03

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Janis

1998/08/04

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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mor-13

1998/08/05

For sure, Dire Straits weren't big name in music videos genre ( i mean, not as Michael Jackson or Queen were in 80's), but this collection has some interesting points. Here i must admit, it's not complete compilation of DS videos. At least "The Bug" video (from "On Every Street" album) is not included (i can't find a reason why). - "Romeo And Juliet" - example of using abstract and in some ways theatrical style in music video, pure geometrical forms, conventional acting of characters. - "Money For Nothing" - DS' biggest hit, one of the earliest music videos ever based in general on computer animation. All figures are made of squares but characters are very expressive. Looks nice even now, 20 years after release. - "Calling Elvis" - good work with puppets using "Thunderbirds" cartoon characters Disappointing thing is no comments or additional information on videos appears in DVD, even no names of persons who directed videos.

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portobellobelle

1998/08/06

Dire Straits are my favorite group, and so I love the music on this tape. But let's be honest, most of the "videos" consist of people pretending to play their instruments. That just gets kind of old for me after a while. If you're going to buy a Straits video, I recommend seeing/hearing Straits in their purest form: live. Alchemy (1984) is my favorite; On the Night (1993) isn't bad.

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Mujik

1998/08/07

There is not much to say about Dire Straits and their music. When I received the DVD I really enjoyed it, however poor editing was disappointing. I wish they had retained the original clips, at least that is what I expected to see for "Money for Nothing" instead of some cartoon stuff. They could have added them as extra material like it was in Santana:Supernatural, where you can have the concert and choose to view the very popular songs (e.g Smooth) as a video clip. Also the visual quality can sometimes be low as they are of concerts from long time ago. Yet, Dire Straits is an epic group and I'm glad to have this one in my collection.

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