Impact! Songs that Changed the World - Like a Virgin Madonna, Nile Rodgers, Betsey Johnson,...

Buy This Item Impact! Songs that Changed the World - Like a Virgin Madonna, Nile Rodgers, Betsey Johnson,... (DVD - 2007)  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 3-1-2010     Features Actors: Madonna Directors: Greg Hall Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC Language: English Region: All Regions Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: STANDING ROOM ONLY DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007 Run Time: 36 minutes Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews) 2 Reviews 5 star:  (1) 4 star:    (0) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:  (1) › See all 2 customer reviews... Reader Reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) If you're a completist collector of Madonna memorabilia, or if you're someone that knows absolutely nothing about Madonna and would like some of the basics I suppose this might be an okay purchase. For everyone else, avoid this like the plague! For starters, they lied about the running time. It is NOT 36 minutes. It is 23 minutes long! That's it. And about two minutes of that cover the opening and ending credits. The "documentary" is redundant and rehashes common sense and everything we've heard about Madonna over a million times. No interesting footage, unless you consider a small clip of Madonna from American Bandstand saying she wants to "rule the world", which I've personally seen many times elsewhere. The most annoying thing of all are the three young people that are referred to as "Madonna fans" that give their dopey (and often inaccurate) views of Madonna. It's amusing to hear the male Madonna "fan" talking about his reaction to Madonna's appearance in the 1984 MTV Awards show when he had to have been in diapers at the time, or one of the two female fans mentioning how Madonna has been married 3 times (wouldn't even a casual fan know she was married twice?) and that has given her hope for the future (what? LOL). I at least got a laugh from those idiots despite how embarrassing it was to hear them talk out of their behinds. Buyer beware. I am hit big time with remorse for this purchase. Bottom line: Ten dollars for a crappy twenty-minute documentary. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews   function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } }   Report this | Permalink Comment Comment   3 of 5 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Not to Long, not too short. and priced right!, September 12, 2007 By Steven I. Ramm "Steve Ramm "Anything Phon... (Phila, PA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)    This is one of a series of 12 reasonably priced ($9.99 list) DVDs released in the US by SRO (Part of Kultur International) under the umbrella "Impact: Songs That Changed The World". Each runs about 24 minutes as it was co-produced by Canadain TV and broadcast on the cable CMT network in the US in 2002 and 2003. I could cell from the quality of the editing - even before I saw the end credits - that this was produced by Gregory Hall. Hall - who also makes music documentaries under his own Hallmark Productions banner - has been cranking these out for about 20 years years now. I first saw his Country Music bios. They've always been well edited and usually contain great interview "sound bites". The four volumes in this series that I;ve watched so far are no exception. Some of the interviews were recent at the time of the show's production while some go back to the 80s and 90s and have appeared in other Hall productions. (You can tell by the locations where they were taped.) Most of the Impact series DVDs cover more than the single records that are the topics. They also cover the impact that artist - at that point in time - had on our culture from style of dress to style of music. In the case of the "Like A Virgin" volume, the focus is limited to just that one recording by Madonna and how it "shocked" a nation. In addition to the song's co-writer (Billy Steinberg), the producer (Nile Rodgers -of Chic) and the Director of the now-famous video we hear from a few of her biographers, some Madonna "wannabees" and clothing designer Betsey Johnson. Jeanne Baker of the Fashion Channel shows up here too (as well as on the Elvis Presley ("Heartbreak Hotel") volume, talking about Madonna's impact on style. And "Weird Al" Yankovic - who parodied the single as "Like A Surgeon" explains why the song was so important to parody. Like the others in this series the DVD does a really nice job of presenting a sociological study of how one single pop record can affect a whole culture, without belaboring the point. These DVDS will leave a legacy to the next generation and can be very useful in, not only music history classes but in the study of late 20th century "pop culture" Steve Ramm "Anything Phonographic" Help other customers find the most helpful reviews     Report this | Permalink Comment Comment Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 2 customer reviews...    function createIFrame_847789() { var elem_847789 = document.createElement("iframe"); elem_847789.id = "cachebust_847789"; if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")

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