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  Review by gazorpazorp ★★★★ 3

  The edge: why doesn’t jack just buy new equipment that sounds old. 
  Jack white: why doesn’t the edge just by DJ equipment.
  Jimmy Page: why do I have to talk to these peasants. 

  
  Spoiler alert: it does get loud

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  Review by Courtney Small ★★★ 3

  I kind of wish the film had just focused on Jack White. I found him to be the most interesting of the three.

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  Review by Andy Summers ★★★½ 3

  The scope for director Davis Guggenheim to really run away with this concept must have been tempting? One guitar legend, one guitarist who sounds the same regardless of the track he's playing on, and another guy who was married to someone he later claimed was his sister. Now I'm being mean to David "The Edge" Evans and Jack White, but I came here for Jimmy Page if I'm totally honest, and although the other two add the odd interesting anecdote, Jimmy rules the roost. He's seen it all, done it all, and has both a place in rock n' roll eternity guaranteed and a ringside seat at the End of the World courtesy of his "Zoso" Sigil and his interest…

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  Review by Chris Wade ★★ 1

  Guitar God origin stories:
  Jimmy Page: I was creatively unfulfilled as a Muzak session musician.
  Jack White: I needed to find an aesthetic to launder me just just doing Son House with electric guitar.
  The Edge: My beautiful country and everything I knew and loved was being blown up in the Troubles.

  Anyway, yes, the guitar do be like a woman

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  Review by Charlie Hunt ★★★

  Dafuq is the edge doing here

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  Review by Swartacus ★★★★★ 1

  The Guitar as cipher for master craftsmen who have put in well over their Gladwell-mandated 10,000 hours. Inspiration meets, greets and takes a stroll with the ghosts of the past.

  Following the first time I watched this film in 2009 ...I went directly to a music-go-round and purchased a used guitar. I hadn't played a single note in over 13 years. 

  I find this film to be supremely inspiring and positive. I think you can enjoy and learn from it even if you don't care much about the bands these men play in. The film itself is about unlocking creativity and examining the how and why of its spark. I am always excited to see how art is built from the ground up and this gets to the core of that aspect of life.

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  Review by Jordan Rowe ★★★★½ 1

  While I would have liked to see a bit more of these three rock legends interacting, "It Might Get Loud" is still an essential documentary for all music fans, as it explores what three guitarists of drastically different backgrounds bring to their craft.

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  Review by Zal C ★★★½

  Get yourself someone who looks at you the way Jack White looks at Jimmy Page playing Whole Lotta Love.

  Also, The Edge was there too I guess, good for him

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  Review by Hudson Barber ★★½

  Watched this for Jack White, and I got Jack White. Honestly this should’ve just been a Jack White doc. The man is so much more intriguing than The Edge or Jimmy Page, who are legends but don’t have the mercurial, somewhat withholding nature that makes the White Stripes architect the enigma he is.

  The problem with this is that these three men are all wildly successful in their own respective niches, and all have competing philosophies of music that they adhere to strictly. And why shouldn’t they? It’s worked wonders for them. Unfortunately, I never got the sense that they took each other’s musical perspectives nearly as seriously as their own. What we’re left with is a reverent, but unenlightening conversation between three rock stars who view this meeting as just another pit stop.

  
  Can confirm that it does in fact get loud.

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  Review by SnowboardJunkie ★★★★½

  To start, I don’t know a lick about the guitar or any musical instrument for that matter. I couldn’t tell you what a musical note says or does for the musician. Which sounds even stranger when I recall I’ve actually written lyrics for friends bands. Basically, I don’t know what it takes to play an instrument badly, let alone well. But every time I watch this documentary it gives me goose bumps. Jack White building that guitar out of a bottle, spare piece of wood and a pick up was brilliant way to start. Yes please, take it all the way back to the beginning. I couldn’t help but feel as if Jack could be perfectly content to sit there…

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  Review by Sandy

  I just want to quote, quote, quote, so I will.

  "Want to figure out how you play guitar, what your niche will be? You just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock n' roll, well, you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues... 1930's, really scary version of the blues: minor key, anti-establishment, questioning themselves, painful. There's a tension in that music that you can feel. It just feels like there's this place wherein my soul rests and those guys were expressing it." --Jack White

  "Fifteen minute guitar solos. Fifteen minute organ solos or the drum solos. There was this huge element of self indulgence. Professional rock musicians who looked down upon their fans. Those old…

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  Review by Atom ★★★★

  “What’ll happen when we all get in the same room together? I dunno. We’ll probably get in a fistfight.” -Jack White