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Your Fav Beatle Movie

Fav Fab Four Flick

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UncleRogi

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This has probably been done before, but....
For Board Folk of a certain age, we have opinions about these,
( and I'm certain younger-type Folk that follow such things
are equally opinionated)

What is your favorite Beatle Movie and why?
Among the four they actually made:

1 A Hard Day's Night
2 Help!
3 Magical Mystery Tour
4 Let It Be

Mine is 3, mostly because it's a hodge-podge of vignettes for the Songs,
among the first music videos.

Your thoughts?

:)

 
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Help! :beer:
It was a fun film that felt like a OO7 Bond comedy film without Sean Connery.
 
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Hard Days Night. The movie perfectly captured the chaos, hero worship, fun, music and absurdity of Beatlemania in the mid sixties. That was all before the Maharishi, drugs, touring frustration, violence, PR issues, and illness intruded the band's world.

George and Ringo were both particularly great in the movie, overshadowing the two lynch pins, Lennon and McCartney.

HDN was a pioneer in rock and roll movies and was the inspiration for several subsequent rock movies. The "Can't Buy Me Love", sequence alone was the inspiration for The Monkees TV show.
 
gblews said:
Hard Days Night. The movie perfectly captured the chaos, hero worship, fun, music and absurdity of Beatlemania in the mid sixties. That was all before the Maharishi, drugs, touring frustration, violence, PR issues, and illness intruded the band's world.

George and Ringo were both particularly great in the movie, overshadowing the two lynch pins, Lennon and McCartney.

HDN was a pioneer in rock and roll movies and was the inspiration for several subsequent rock movies. The "Can't Buy Me Love", sequence alone was the inspiration for The Monkees TV show.
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This is Spinal Tap comes to mind...

:techman:
 
Does Yellow Submarine not count because it wasn't the actual Beatles lending their voices to the characters?

I'd have to say Help as well, though Hard Days Night definitely was groundbreaking.
 
marillion said:
Does Yellow Submarine not count because it wasn't the actual Beatles lending their voices to the characters?

I'd have to say Help as well, though Hard Days Night definitely was groundbreaking.
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Yes. It does not count. And it was the actual Beatles, but it was Allen Klein responsible, They
just wanted to sell songs.

"I got a hole in me pocket..."
"take it out and let's see..."

:wtf: ;)
 
Sgt Pepper's ;)

OK, probably doesn't count. But I might be in the minority, as I really like it. Plus it's an interesting novelty seeing the BeeGees play Beatles songs.
 
Hard Day's Night hands down
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Owain Taggart said:
Haha, but if you take it in the context of when it was made, it's quite a bit of fun.
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Good point
Did any see a "Nowhere Man"....?

(course not....)

EDIT: the "White" album has been all day in my head....
which has no bearing on the Q asked...

Where are the Walrus folk...
 
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gblews said:
HDN was a pioneer in rock and roll movies and was the inspiration for several subsequent rock movies. The "Can't Buy Me Love", sequence alone was the inspiration for The Monkees TV show.
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Oh, A Hard Day's Night is a classic. Frankly, I've never really thought of it as a "rock-and-roll movie." Most of the so-called "jukebox musicals" were made on extremely low budgets and featured a series of music acts tied together with a thin plot. A Hard Day's Night is a breezy, cheeky, anarchic comedy that some critics compared to the best of the Marx Brothers' films. It never fails to charm even 50 years later.

The running gag about Paul's grandfather being a "clean" old man was a riff on Wilfrid Brambell's then-current role as "dirty old man" Albert Steptoe in the British sitcom Steptoe and Son (on which the American show Sanford and Son was based). Of course, the joke went over the heads of most of the American audience. We didn't get a whole lot of British TV back then.

marillion said:
Does Yellow Submarine not count because it wasn't the actual Beatles lending their voices to the characters?
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UncleRogi said:
Yes. It does not count. And it was the actual Beatles, but it was Allen Klein responsible, They just wanted to sell songs.
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Yellow Submarine has the Beatles' actual songs, but their cartoon counterparts' speaking voices were mimicked by voice actors. The real Beatles did appear in the brief live-action bit at the end.

Also, Yellow Submarine was released in November 1968. Allen Klein became the Beatles' manager in early 1969, just a few months before their official breakup.
 
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Nerys Myk said:
Hard Day's Night hands down
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This sequence with George was my favorite of the entire movie. Very understated and dry laughs. :)
 
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