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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 22:13:46 GMT
What the fuck? Is the humour specific liverpudlian humour? Terrible though Lennon looked like he was having fun.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Oct 10, 2020 22:15:52 GMT
Yeah, I saw it a couple of nights ago and couldn't make head nor tail of it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 22:36:42 GMT
On BBC 1 or 2,aye that's where i recorded it. I thought the manager guy being pissed at Lennon seemed to be a bit too close to home. Like even though they were acting Lennon had experienced this before. I'd say he was a cunt to try to control to be fair. Like trying to herding cats, only there's one cat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 22:51:26 GMT
Lennon has a hell of a load of charisma in it though, it's not exactly good acting, it's more like showing off, but it works! George and Paul are pretty hopeless though!
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 10, 2020 22:54:36 GMT
I think George is pretty great in it! Paul's the worst of the four, acting-wise, but he has his moments.
It's a fookin' great movie, of course.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Oct 10, 2020 22:58:41 GMT
I honestly thought they were all pretty good!
It was just the attempt at 'anarchic' plotting and dialogue that left me confused rather than entertained. I suppose they were after a kind of Goons thing, but a lot it falls flat. I really grew tired of seeing Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti and Wilfred Brambell popping up in random scenes and adding their sombre lines to the chaos. I just thought it was a mess.
A lot of people love it, so I suppose it's just me and Markus...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 22:58:52 GMT
I think George is pretty great in it! Paul's the worst of the four, acting-wise, but he has his moments. It's a fookin' great movie, of course. It's gear!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 23:34:23 GMT
Never knew wilfred was actually Irish.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 11, 2020 2:31:43 GMT
i think Hard Day's Night is terrific!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 8:01:37 GMT
I honestly thought they were all pretty good! It was just the attempt at 'anarchic' plotting and dialogue that left me confused rather than entertained. I suppose they were after a kind of Goons thing, but a lot it falls flat. I really grew tired of seeing Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti and Wilfred Brambell popping up in random scenes and adding their sombre lines to the chaos. I just thought it was a mess. A lot of people love it, so I suppose it's just me and Markus... No actually I agree completely. A lot of the stuff involving the plot, such as it is, and actors you name seems very laboured and forced - I really noticed that too the last time I watched it. The best scenes are the ones that stand apart from the plot - Ringo with the kid, George with the advertising guy, John flirting on the stairs - they have a naturalism that works much better. It's still pretty good for a pop movie from 1964 though.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Oct 11, 2020 9:03:46 GMT
How's Help! then? A bit of a dud?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 9:16:29 GMT
How's Help! then? A bit of a dud? It has that reputation doesn't it? It's always compared unfavourably to A Hard Days Night. I don't think I've seen it since I was 14! Never seems to get shown..
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Post by Crunchy Col on Oct 11, 2020 10:18:11 GMT
No, I can't remember it being shown on TV since the early 80s.
If you want more BEATLES 1964 the Maysles documentary is a much more entertaining film than HDN, I'd say.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 11, 2020 14:05:02 GMT
Everybody is entitled to an opinion. Still, it feels really funny feeling like I need to defend one of the single most influential & imitated films of the sixties. I watched it in HBO MAX about a month ago and I think it holds up tremendously well. IMO It’s one for the time capsule. As a Beatles fan it’s a prized and quintessential fetish object. As a fan of sixties movies it’s a vivid romanticized keepsake of a time worth remembering.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Oct 11, 2020 14:17:24 GMT
Often seems that Americans are more keen to defend The Beatles than Brits. Maybe they're more 'romantic' to them or something.
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