By Arlin Golden:
I’m sure many rock fans are looking forward to David Guggenheim’s (An Inconvenient Truth) latest documentary, a profile of three generations of guitar luminaries. Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White all came to define the sound of guitar rock for their respective decades, and their influence and innovations are still being felt and copied across genres.
Why then does a film that seeks only to pay tribute to these men’s egos seem so disorganized and rambling?
It Might Get Loud centers around the meeting of the aforementioned trio in which they discuss their music, influences, and creative processes. Each player is also given segments where they return to their old stomping grounds for fond recollections and self-analyses.
Guggenheim uses a variety of documentary techniques to aid the film’s exposition (archive/concert footage, stills, animation, interviews), but their is neither form nor flow to lend cohesion to the whole; most segments feel as though they could have been placed anywhere in the film (despite titled chapters). It is as if Guggenheim, clearly a personal admirer of his three subjects, simply thought “lets put these guys in a room together and let them tell stories and all I’ll have to do is shoot it!”
However, the film is not without its moments; one memorable scene has Edge and White struggling to contain their glee as they watch Page play the riff from ‘Whole Lotta Love”. There are even some interesting artistic choices, such as having Jack White co-exist with a 9 year-old version of himself; but on the whole the film really struggles to be taken as anything but idol worship. Loud is almost completely devoid of hardship or controversy, perhaps in fear of offending its stars; but any music fan knows thats where all the real interesting shit lies. Without such content and other necessary context, Loud is guitar porn posing as a documentary.
If you’re a fan of any of these three men, you’ll probably enjoy your time with It Might Get Loud, but I would implore you to demand more.
Rating: C
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