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The TV movie of it is kind of ugly, but it terrified an entire generation; seeing it as kids really has an impact, thanks to an interesting premise. I then rewatched it a few years ago to see if it gave me the same feelings, and I realized how banal and simplistic it is compared to the book, which is a true treatise on the fears and anxieties of childhood—a masterpiece!

Art truly, while the previous one didn't impress me as much, still great, very intense lyrics, but too showy in the sense of "ours is longer than the others," this one is much more accessible, both in the lyrics and in the music! In a perfect world, Pain of Salvation would be acclaimed by all music lovers!

Great movie, I don't understand the criticisms and the fierce attacks from certain critics (I'm not talking about Debaser, but in general). I get that it might not be to everyone's taste, but it's well made and very intriguing.

great album and great band, even if lately they have somewhat stagnated in their sound

cheap criminals in my opinion instead is very amusing. Like Bergman (one of the directors most appreciated by Allen), he too does a remake of the Shakespearean masterpiece. Nice film, but nothing special, the real masterpieces of Allen are Annie Hall and Manhattan.

AOR is not at all tacky; sure, there are tacky productions, but many bands are elegant and refined. Especially for AOR groups, studio work is even more important than live performances; they seek a sound clarity and a perfection in the sound that borders on the obsessive. To put it this way, in terms of the melodic side of the '80s, I find The Smiths enormously overrated (they made some beautiful songs, but I can't listen to an entire album of theirs all at once) and much more interesting are some AOR bands that don't claim to be cultured or anything else. Survivor walks a difficult line between tackiness and melodic refinement; their precarious balance has led them to some tacky moves and missteps, but those who listen to their albums without prejudice will notice a band with enormous feeling and compositional strength in many of their songs. Download "Backstreet Love Affairs"; even those who, like me, aren't huge fans of '80s keyboards will appreciate their use in that track. This message was brought to you by "AOR is not tacky, it's just a genre from the '80s."

great also archetype, which is a sort of demanufacture part II, of course it doesn't reach the levels of the first, but it shows that even in the new millennium fear factory still know how to kick ass :D, then I am biased, I really like digimortal too, but that is not an album to recommend to someone approaching this band for the first time!

Great Fear Factory. Francescobus, the best way is to start with Demanufacture, their best work; Concrete is still raw and tells you little about what the group's style will be.

Of this trilogy, the best remains Invictus, an epic album without being pompous, one of the few records in the history of music to recreate the epic and battle atmospheres of the Iliad and ancient Greece (which inspires the concept), a must.

Of Gamma Ray, I listened to "Somewhere Out in Space," which comes after this one, a fun and enjoyable CD, even though the two keepers from Helloween are, for me, on another planet, just like the Blind Guardian from "Nightfall" and "Episode" by Stratovarius, which I consider the pinnacle of the power genre. Anyway, in our house we have Vision Divine, and "Stream of Consciousness" is truly an excellent CD that has nothing to envy to the best names in power, a genre that I now consider dead and that produces clone and banal CDs by the dozen. The only original power CD that has something new to say after 2000, in my opinion, is the debut of Masterplan (a very nice CD), along with Vision Divine.