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Arena

Artist: Duran Duran
Type: DVD
Release date: 2004
Run time: 58:35
My Rating: 9

Picture Ratio: 4:3
Extras: The Making of Arena, TV Ad, Interview, Trailer, Video Mix, Save a Prayer Live
Audio Options: Stereo (LPCM and PCM)

  1. The Return of Duran Duran (4:28)
  2. Is There Something I Should Know? (4:38)
  3. Hungry Like The Wolf (4:08)
  4. Union Of The Snake (4:14)
  5. Save A Prayer (5:18)
  6. The Wild Boys (7:59)
  7. Planet Earth (4:41)
  8. Careless Memories (4:10)
  9. Girls on Film (6:02)
  10. The Reflex (6:50)
  11. Rio (5:57)

Comments

Arena is somewhat of an oddity. Rather than do a straight concert video, Duran Duran decided to do a movie of sorts. What we therefore get is concert footage interspersed with a plot involving the villian from the 1968 movie Barbarella (though he bears a closer resemblance to Krankor from Prince of Space) and his trio of short henchmen.

Mainly this makes it hard to enjoy the concert footage because Durand-Durand breaks in with some snarling comment just when you're trying to listen, but it did give us the pretty cool music video for "Wild Boys" (with windmill-dipping action!) which is here a lot longer than the standard video. But the plot-related parts are largely crack, such as the bit where Durand-Durand kidnaps some young women and forces them to roller skate in a circular set ALA Robbie William's "Rock DJ" video. When this doesn't achieve... whatever it is he was aiming for, he hangs them upside-down in kinky lingerie over tanks of putrid green water.

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Then again, why not?

Once you get the hang of the balance they seem to be going for, this is quite fun. But still very very strange.

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