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Dream Theater - Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Wea/Elektra Entertainment Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-04-24 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 159 Average rating: 4.5 "Not Worth your bucks..." Being a friend of this group since I can remember listening to music, you may safely assume I am not doubting the excellence or authority of Dream Theater here. BUT..this video must be the worst production I've witnessed since the early days of my DVD collection (back in 1999). The sound is so cluttered that feels like a monophonic recording. The High Frequencies are away on vacation and the Bass is completely messed up... Let alone the horrific graphics popping up all the time making the picture at par with the rest production, SIMPLY UNBEARABLE!!! "Good but flawed" I am (like many other reviewers have stated) a huge D.T. fan. I love the performance of this dvd and I can even deal with the bad acting in the narrative film, but I was very disappointed that it was not in 5.1. I don't know the circumstances involved so maybe it was not possible to have this in 5.1 but when I hear Kevin Shirley's awesome 5.1 mixing on the Led Zeppelin dvd, I cry at what we missed out on D.T.'s dvd. "Video Quality Substandard, And It's A Shame!!!" I love Dream Theater but this DVD is a huge letdown visually! This is a taped performance not filmed. Plus the video effects are laughable at best. I mean these are cheesy basic video editing machine tricks(mirror image, hippie like tye dye backgrounds and the like). Musically, Dream Theater are amazing, but this DVD just fails to visually deliver the power of their music and instead makes it feel cheesy which is a damn shame! Next time guys, release a DVD that is visually on on par as your studio albums are sonically "even better than the cd! i wish i was there...." ill just say, James Labre's amazing voice sounds better live, John Pertruci's guitar playing leaves me in awe, Jordan Rudess keyboard skills are amazing, and johny myung plays the base like the end of the world is near, and of course Mike Portnoy kicks major major ass at drumming, its cool to see him twirl his stick in one hand and hit the drums with the other and still keep track with the rest of the band and make it sound like the cd. which brings me to the title, this in my opinion is better than their amazing perfect Scenes from a Memory! for crying out loud they play everything except for a couple things just like the cd, and at some parts they add or change some things to make it sound better. the dvd also incorporates some really cool clips of people actually portraying the story that the album is about, all around it is a perfect story with the most beautiful music to incorporate it, and its made by the best musicians in the world. sorry if i didnt spell their names right or get them all, im doing this in a hurry, ill revise this when i get a chance, but still..... 5 STARS!!! A MUST HAVE!!! "OK but..." First af all, let me state for the record that I think DT is the best band all around, ever. But... What's with the mediocre images of the characters alongside the performance? The story in Scenes From A Memory is so exciting you could write a whole movie around it, ala Stephen King. So i guess my expectations were a little too high... I mean: I did hope to find that kind of shots, explaining the story and all; but those I didn't like. It looked like they were made by some kid in a high school video project. Sorry bout that. Other than that: great performance, as always. That's what makes the DVD worthy... "Scenes" is the best album ever and there should be some kind of tribute to it... Please, filmakers: Consider it.