Beatles Get Back Doc

golem · Fri Nov 26, 2021 7:53 pm

Just started watching it. As a more casual fan of the Beatles I think it's a lot of fun to watch (and a lot to watch).

Mossman · Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:18 am

I watched it today too.... Even as a maniacal Beatles fan it was a lot to watch. I liked it, though. When you've seen and heard everything that the Beatles ever did, many times over, it's hard to express how it feels to see so much new material that you've never seen before. Especially in such high audio/visual quality... It almost felt like you were there... I could almost smell the cigarette smoke (but I thought it was kind dumb to warn us at the beginning that the film would depict people smoking. Is anybody really triggered by that?). I also think this was a much better representation of the project than what we got in the Let it Be film.

golem · Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:51 am

Mossman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:18 am I watched it today too.... Even as a maniacal Beatles fan it was a lot to watch. I liked it, though. When you've seen and heard everything that the Beatles ever did, many times over, it's hard to express how it feels to see so much new material that you've never seen before. Especially in such high audio/visual quality... It almost felt like you were there... I could almost smell the cigarette smoke (but I thought it was kind dumb to warn us at the beginning that the film would depict people smoking. Is anybody really triggered by that?). I also think this was a much better representation of the project than what we got in the Let it Be film.

I accidentally a word in my first post. It's definitely fun. I guess I thought Yoko would be more annoying but just sitting there in the thick of things does seem a bit odd. Hearing Paul talk about Brian Epstein was really interesting. John seems disinterested at times. George gets annoyed at Paul. Paul gets annoyed at everyone.

Partscaster · Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:53 am

"I cant wait" , except I'll probably wait to see it when dvd's come out.
I was born into a beatles loving family. I remember dressing up and "playing along" wearing my blue blazer and cardboard cutout fake guitar at the age of 4. Still have the little board that was my mock stage.

Mossman · Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:17 am

golem wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:51 am
Mossman wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:18 am I watched it today too.... Even as a maniacal Beatles fan it was a lot to watch. I liked it, though. When you've seen and heard everything that the Beatles ever did, many times over, it's hard to express how it feels to see so much new material that you've never seen before. Especially in such high audio/visual quality... It almost felt like you were there... I could almost smell the cigarette smoke (but I thought it was kind dumb to warn us at the beginning that the film would depict people smoking. Is anybody really triggered by that?). I also think this was a much better representation of the project than what we got in the Let it Be film.
I accidentally a word in my first post. It's definitely fun. I guess I thought Yoko would be more annoying but just sitting there in the thick of things does seem a bit odd. Hearing Paul talk about Brian Epstein was really interesting. John seems disinterested at times. George gets annoyed at Paul. Paul gets annoyed at everyone.

I thought part two was awesome! I had a smile plastered on my face the entire time. After George came back and they got the hell out of Twickenham, everything just came together, and the song writing kicked into high gear... It was frickin' joyous! Especially after Billy Preston showed up.

We should have gotten more of that in the original Let it Be film, but Lindsey-Hogg was more intent on making a film about a band in the process of breaking up, than presenting them as real people. I've always said that film was a gross misrepresentation of the band at that point in time. Sure, they were all starting to out-grow the Beatles, and wanted to do their own thing, but they weren't exactly at each other's throats all the time, as the many pundits since then would have us believe. Everyone forgets that Let it Be may have been the last album they released, but it wasn't the last album they recorded together. This was hardly a document of four guys who couldn't stand each other. They were having a blast, and you could feel how much they loved each other. Especially during that candid conversation that John and Paul had about George, when they realized how badly they had treated him over the years... When John said: "George has been feeling wounded for a long time, and last night, we made that wound deeper", I nearly cried... Or when Paul was wistfully describing the films from their trip to India, and they were all reminiscing about it, I don't think they ever seemed more real... more human to me. I'm getting all teary-eyed just thinking about it.

And yeah, I'm glad Peter Jackson had enough sense to keep Yoko's involvement to a minimum. But I also don't think the other three hated her as much as everybody thinks they did.

Chocol8 · Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:59 am

It is striking how young they all were at the END of the Beatles. Having come along a bit after that time, I never made that connection.

Partscaster · Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:17 pm

Chocol8 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:59 am It is striking how young they all were at the END of the Beatles. Having come along a bit after that time, I never made that connection.

Right, very young. By the time their first album was coming out in 1963, they were between 19 and 22 years old....after having played together as a working band about 2.5 years in Hamburg, 4-6 hours of playing per work night starting at 17-19 years old.
By 64', at just 20-23 years old, they had the 5 best selling singles in the US simultaneously. Its still amazing.