It Might Get Loud

2008
PG
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

14K

YOUR RATING

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: Jack White, the Edge and Jimmy Page.

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A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White.A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White.A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White.

Director
- Davis Guggenheim
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

14K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Davis Guggenheim
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 nominations total

Top cast11

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Jimmy Page

Self

The Edge

Self

Jack White

Self

Dallas Schoo

Self - The Edge's Guitar Tech

Link Wray

Self
(archive footage)

Bono

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Adam Clayton

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Michael McKean

David St. Hubbins
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Larry Mullen Jr.

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Robert Plant

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Meg White

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

User reviews51

Featured review

7/10

Good, but a bit disappointing

Good, but a bit disappointing. I am a massive fan of Jimmy Page and Jack White - Led Zeppelin is my favourite band, and the White Stripes would be amongst my favourites, plus I liked U2 when they made good music, i.e. until about 1989. So what was the problem?

It just felt a bit empty in the end. Like, so what? Maybe it is that I have seen just about every rock documentary ever made that made the guitarists' revelations seem a bit empty.

Also, the mutual back-slapping got a bit tiresome.

This all said, there was a lot of great stuff in here. Hearing Jimmy Page talk about how he got into playing guitar, his early bands, showing us the spot where John Bonham played the amazing drum-intro on When The Levee Breaks (which explained the unique sound to that track), seeing some of Jack White's pyrotechnics, The Edge talking us through the technology he uses in producing his sound, and hearing the sound.

grantss
Mar 8, 2020
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Trivia
All 3 participants have featured in music from a James Bond opening credits. Jimmy Page reveals that he played on "Goldfinger (1964)" whilst The Edge and Jack White contributed title tracks to "GoldenEye (1995)" and "Quantum of Solace (2008)" respectively.

Goofs
The section where Jimmy Page is talking about his first electric guitar is prefaced with a title card labeled "Jimmy's Strat" and showing a Fender Stratocaster. However, the pictures accompanying his story show a young Jimmy Page with a guitar that is distinctly not a Stratocaster, but a Selmer Futurama.

Quotes
Jack White: Never wanted to play guitar. Ever. Everyone plays guitar. What's the point.

Crazy credits
"St. Vincent De Paul", a Detroit thrift store mentioned in the movie, is credited as "St. Vincent De Paul - Detriot", with "Detroit" misspelled.