Hyvää nimieni päivää minulle!

[emmuzka]

My Reel Nsync DVD came yesterday. SQUEEEE!! (at this point I have to say that this DVD is not a regular thing for an European fan to have since it was never released in here and its the wrong region format for us.)


The DVD is truly remarkable on it's own way. It's made cheaply. So cheaply that it doesn't even have any footage of them singing their own songs so they wouldn't have to pay the royalties. The editing is quite good, despite te overly artistic ending with the boys dancing/running on the beach in white with other stuff cut in between. This tape is 20% production values and 80% fan service.

What I liked:
What I noticed almost right away was the way Lance had no problems to be in front of the camera and making a fool on himself. Despite the fandom knowledge of Chris and Justin being the pranksters, in this, it was usually Chris and Lance.

The guys have incredible sense of rhythm. What ever they did, they would synchronize it easily.

The complete lack of teenie mag type introductions. If you are not a fan, you don't even know their names in the end of the film. You maybe have learn to recognize them, but that's about it. But this is fan sercive, so no waisting time to tell the facts that we all already know is a good thing.
(What they should have done is put a little bio in the end or something, so that people watching in 10 years from now would have a faint clue what is happening. "No one had ever heard of them in the States and they were promoting themselves in Europe, and their songs were hits in countries they didn't know even existed before that." Luckily the back cover of the DVD says that "at first they had bad hair, bad promotions, bad planning, bad introductions, bad flight plans, bad sleeping arrangements and bad make up." So that is the only place they give this film any kind of perspective.)

What I didn't like:
This was not reality TV. Besides the "Airport Catastrophe" episode, there were only brief clips suggesting that their life couldn't always be fun and games. It only shoved the fun, or amusing parts. I would have liked it more if they had included a "one day of Nsync" kinda material with the frustrations and hotel check ins and such, but this was cut to the teenies who have no need to the "real life exposed"-type material.

The use of the same material twice. Even brief use of the same footage irked me greatly. C'mon, there must have been tons of footage! (If there hadn't been, the quality would have been much more crappy, as anyone ever filmed with an non-digital video camera knows. ) So why use the footage twice?

The complete lack of a time line. On one clip they are no ones, on the second, super stars, then no ones again. You can try to put the footage in order by noting JC's (and Chris') hair style changes ;)

My favorite footage:
The long "music video" footage on the airport where they sing "No Mercy", on one take, while they are moving. What totally killed me was the recognition of the airport. It's Helsinki-Vantaa in Finland! I know that all the other people in that airport had to look at them thinking they were seriously mad!
My other fave in a short clip when they are in the ostrich farm and JC pretends to be one and Chris and Joey try to catch him. A golden moment is also one where they wake JC up and he is practically sleeping on his feet.

That's about it. All the Finns out there, if you haven't seen it, you are welcomed to visit me in Turku to watch it.


Also, I just saw a music video on Mtv where two women were spanking a lot of bottoms, some bare. And that was the whole idea of the video. I change the channel and see a pizza commercial with a YMCA gay joke and then a commercial in witch ends with an alligator trying to rape an anthropologist. After that, "Sex in the City" seems tame.

Comments

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My real name in Emma Alfa Emilia, so, I'm celebrating two names at one day. Yeah, that's really my name. (My twin sister is Beta.)

[elowena.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you got to be Alfa. :) (I'm just curious how long your parents had to fight with the officials to get the names approved.)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Actually. it went like this: We were supposed to get christened. We were late from the church since my mother had to put the white clothes on us and her two other cranky children. Before the christening, when our parents told the names to the priest, he said that he wouldn't christen us with those names. At that point, my mother wasn't ready to negotiate about it, but said "Ei kasteta sitten!" She was perfectly ready to call the whole thing off than to start discussing the new names only a few minutes before the christening. The priest relented since he were afraid that my parents would really call the christening off and just register us. Ha! So we became Emma Alfa Emilia and Elsa Beta Petronella (I could take the name Alfa London to use and it would be my real name! Imagine that!)

[elowena.livejournal.com]

Alfa London...kind of has a cling to it. :) And that christening anecdote is another amusing example of how regulations and practice don't always go hand in hand.