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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 "Great show; Terrible DVD" Like others have said, I give this 3 stars based solely on the quality of the DVD. The music is incredible; the visuals look like they were put together by a middle school television production class. ... give me a widescreen edition, with real stereo sound, and I'll give you five stars. I'd rather just throw the triple-live CD version of this album in the player and crank it up, because this is hard to watch with all the visual [stuff] they throw in there. "Missing two things" Great DVD just missing two things from the live album. Another Day and Metopolis pt 1 are greatly missed "By far, the absolute best!!" Dream Theater has set the standards for which all musicians should follow! This DVD is outstanding! Even if you are not a musician, but just a fan of true talent, purchase this product. John Petrucci?? What can I say. I'm convinced he's not human! Enjoy! "It's okay. Nothing great. Read why." I'm a huge DT fan, and I thought Scenes from a Memory was a monumental achievement in the band's history. However, this DVD doesn't do the album the justice it deserves, but not because the performance is bad. The live show is fantastic: tight, full of energy, and fun to watch. But the actual production of the DVD detracts so much from the performance, that it gets annoying after the first 5 minutes. Obnoxious phrases from the lyrics flash up on the screen every few seconds, and the special effects such as blurring, multiple camera angles, and cutting away to "reenacted scenes" are way overdone. I bought this DVD for one reason, and that is to watch the band play their instruments, without having the camera pan away to some other nonsense every 15 seconds. I didn't expect all this other garbage that they threw in there for who knows what reason. Now, the Change of Seasons extra bonus was done well- it actually shows the band for more than a few seconds at a time. They could have done much better. "Essential viewing for any Dream Theater fan" I have always thought that Dream Theater were an incredible band and that Metropolis Part 2, while not being my personal favourite of theirs, was a very good album. But watching this they have impressed me even more. Simply looking at either John Petrucci's, John Myung's or Jordan Rudess' hands when they play is mind blowing, and I will admit now I've seen him play that I have never given bass player Myung the credit he deserves. The songs also come together very well live, putting out an incredible energy that was almost absent from the original studio recordings (therefore I recommend buying the studio album before this or the live album Live Scenes From New York so that it can be truly appreciated for what it is). LaBrie also comes across very well live, even if he does look kinda funny sometimes (he's not as thin as he used to be which makes those spunky leather trousers look all the more comical). And Mike Portnoy is simply fantastic. Those fills he does near the end of Finally Free are mindblowing. Not only do you get the entire Scenes From A Memory live, but you're also given live performances of A Mind Beside Itself (Erotomania, Voices and Silent Man) from Awake, Learning To Live from Images And Words the mighty 25 minute long Change Of Seasons. On top of that there is also commentry from the band which can run throughout the entire performance when turned on. This is especially interesting for 2 reasons - firstly it is excellent at telling the story (which is considerably more intricate than I realised) and secondly I discovered that Petrucci's name is pronounced Petruchee. Now isn't that interesting? ;-) Add to that a photo gallery with some very cool backing music (some of which resembles Caught In A Web from Awake and New Millenium from Falling Into Infinity but some of which I don't recognise) and a brief documentary on the band live. The only drawback is that the effects and patterns and some of the filmed storyline incorporated into the edit are a bit unprofessional. However, I'm still going to give this a full five because it is so good in every other respect that they are overlooked (at least the first few times of watching it) due to everything else being so incredible. This is an absolutely essential purchase for any Dream Theater fan with a DVD player.