Woodstock

I really liked Woodstock, which is something like 3 1/2 hours long. I was able to sit through all of it, fascinated at how fleeting youth is. Those kids enjoying the concerts celebrating music and peace in New York were just like many of the young people in this forum. They had the same attitudes, desires, and were dreamers. It's really hard for me to believe that these rebels are all old, even soon to reach retirement in many cases.

Never again will there be a time exactly like the '60s, but the '60s are not completely gone, because the music and thinking have strongly influenced the modern world. The spirit of those times lives on.

How beautiful it was that 350,000 young people were able to gather and avoid violence and aggression. How beautiful it must have been for those able to experience this very spiritual event.

One lesson that can be learned from this movie is to treasure the moment, because it is fleeting and will soon be gone. One senses that many of these young romantics had an inkling that they were special and would be part of history.

 

It really is a special movie, that captures a special time in history that we will never witness ever again, no matter how hard we try(Sorry ). I can't help but feel that I have wasted my own youth, just by looking at these other young people who are free and can have fun.

 

it was beautiful long but beautiful

 

I taught a class on the sixties. Screened three films. But Woodstock not one of them -- just too long. For a musical, showed "A Hard Day's Night." Which started it all -- and mtv. Taught the class for three semesters and monkeyed with the list of dramas and comedies. Two fav films from the class -

"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
"Alice's Restaurant"

BUT could have showed them the first third of Woodstock, when the stage is being prepared, and the audience shuffles in. Good stuff.

 

best movie ever.i really like the look and feel of it and how everybody helps each other out.love it bigtime!

 

definitely an enjoyable film that anybody who has any inkling into the 60s should watched. what a brilliant idea to capture this piece of history, simply amazing.

 

yea i got it for christmas, if i could travel back in time i would go there. oh i can only dream :'(

 

great film!! if you love woodstock, you gotta check out D.A.Pennybaker's movie on the Monterey Pop Festival back in '67. It was the first time anyone had seen Hendrix, Janis, the Dead, the Who.....the list goes on. Woodstock would have never happened if it wasnt for Monterey.....right in the middle of the summer of love.....THAT is a truly beautiful film.

 

monterey was an extremely successful event and some haight-ashbury bands got a record deal:janis joplin-steve miller band-electric flag and quicksilver messenger service.But woodstock is a great movie,love it!

 

Whatever 'Woodstock' was,the June 1967:'Monterrey International Pop Festival' was even more!!!.

 

i had to wach it in tree with 2 breaks i can't stay still long time ) bu it was great, it gives a great picture of what was happening over there

 

Jerry Garcia:
(holds up a joint)
"marijuana. exhibit A."

oh &, "please walk on the grass, please walk on the grass"
(i absolutely love the guy that says this!!!)

 

I think that was Wavy Gravy....

 

no it wasn't.
it was a much younger young man.
he was hot, to boot!

 

the hot guy that walks around with wavy gravy and does the Kundalini yoga????

 

I ordered it in recently because you can't buy it where i live but after reading this forum im even more excited about getting it!

 

Hell yeah. I watch Woodstock all the time with my dad. It's so great.

 

for those that watched woodstock on the warner bothers two tape set ,get the dvd ..there is added coverage on the dvd ...including seeing janis joplin sing which wasn't in the original move

 

Best movie and event in the history of mankind.

 

I love the Woodstock movie...I watch it every couple of years...

I usually invite friends over...and we have a mini Woodstock party...

This summer, I purchased the latest version (Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music - The Director's Cut - 40th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition) with extra footage, but I didn't get a chance to watch it yet.