Imaginaerum (2012)

I'm a huge Nightwish fan. I heard about them in 2011, and have since listened to almost every song that's been on major release from Oceanborn to Endless Forms most Beautiful. Honestly, it feels like the Imaginaerum movie was built to go along with the music. The track list accurately reflects the entire movie structure.Though it's an accurate representation of the story of the 2012 album (The death of an artist), it's still kinda... strange. It's an oddity of a movie that one would only really understand if they understood Nightwish beyond their music.Additionally, the run-time seems kind of short if they want to create a movie with even a bit more information. Also, I'm disappointed that "I Want My Tears Back" was only played in a sliver of the movie early on.

Well, in a few words - I didn't expect such a beautiful work. That's a movie with lots of layers and it takes a few listens to Nightwish's album - Imaginaerum as well, to see what Tuomas is trying to say. It's a masterpiece. Surely, there are a few things which could've been made differently and better, but nonetheless the result is breathtaking. It deserves more than 6.2 stars. I waited for this movie 2 years, which is a lot for a 14 year old girl (at the time I learned that there will be a movie by Nightwish). Now, 3 years later, I am thankful for the wait, because I grew and was able to understand the layers, the concept, the ideas, the meaning of everything. And I am speechless.

I love Finland, I love Nightwish, and I love their songs. Good story, bad acting, and excellent soundtrack. That's all my point. (Hope you guys find some of their CDs to listen. They are really really amazing.) I'd rather considered it as a very long music video than a film.The film tells a story about a man who lost in his dream,and how he tries to get rid of it.Sounds like a fairy tale but there's another story hidden.It's about father's love,and more,dealing with the suffering of lost his families(Maybe more,i don't know)And that's why I don't think it was a good film.It's true that it tells us a wonderful story and show us plenty of fantastic scenes,but we should not neglect the fact that it was busy of telling stories and show the great scenes which made us forget to find the emotions deep inside.(I don't know how to tell my feelings.)But still,I want to say,I love the band,I love Nightwish.

If you don't know the band Nightwish, you can still enjoy this movie. The one thing that comes across, is that is an apologetic homage to the egocentric megalomaniacs that achieve some success in the music industry.The story centering about a daughter dealing with her father slipping away from life, has too much of a tone of "Oh poor me, tortured soul, that no one understands me." And the rest of the characters have to go through hell to accept the apologies of the central character. **Spoiler** Daughter spends 1 hour of the movie bitching about how uncommunicative the father was towards her, and then they find some writings about how much he loved her. WHO THE HECK things that some pages a guy wrote in 5 minutes can make up for maybe 30 years of not caring for her? On top of that she has to spend lengthy hours putting the writings together? This guy should never had children in the first place!Maybe I am biased, because I know too many of these artistic types who get married have kids, but they don't want to sacrifice anything for their children, and at the end they turn up making apologies in movies like these... And most are in the music world and in the movies industry.Armchair psychology aside, I loved the blending of music and imagery. At times it feels like a over extended MTV video (from back when MTV used to play music videos).But someone versed in the arts, often I had the feeling while watching this movie that the guys from Nightwish saw Pink Floyd's The Wall for the first time, and said "Heck! We can do this better... Nightwish style!!"Although I may sound bitter, I enjoyed the imagery and the soundtrack. If you enjoyed this, you should also check out Pink Floyd's The Wall, by Alan Parker, and maybe Jesus Christ Superstar.