Best Beatles Movie

[thunderbolt]

Sgt. Pepper. j/k it'd be either Hard Day's Night or Submarine.

[david_b]

Agree with most of everyone's analysis...:

1) "Hard Day's Night" definitely was the best, with all the energy, quick wit and pacing..

2).. Although "Help"'s my personal favorite, I wish that all the discarded footage was somehow saved (not burned in a 1966 clean up of the editing studio as reported by Shenson..Lennon claims they were the best bits, everyone high and giggling) and the non-Beatle scenes get somewhat long and laborous.. Making the whole picture kind of slow over all, pacing-wise.

3) After watching Mystery Tour a few times, the only part that really kills it is the stupid 'Race Competition' a third of the way in. Seriously (I have it on my iPod now..), if they would have tossed that entire bit out, it would have made for a cooler little psychedelic home movie.., the rest of it was alright, some bits pretty cool in a goofy way.

4) Yellow Sub: SO GLAD they re-digitized it for home theater.. The colors REALLY bleed off the big plasma screen I have.

5) Let It Be..? The director admitted to preferring the dismal parts of footage to try and document his ideas for the group falling apart. Apparently , Lennon was a hoot during lots of the filming, and a few genuinely entertaining parts were left out. Not to say there wasn't turmoil, but the film could have easily been edited more 'optimistically', according to those who were interviewed as being there.

6) Compleat Beatles: Not to be forgotten, a nice mid-80s documentary with great narration and good footage, some rare at the time..

7) Anthology: A fan's dream in many ways, although I hate some of the talk I've heard that some reminisces were a bit made up by the Fab Three; still, a welcome close on the legacy. My favorite bits are when the Three are just sitting around the table (or at George's estate..) talking together, nodding and adding to the other's comments, which documents the only real post-breakup cohesiveness we've seen publically.

david_b