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Someone pls tell me why this is a good movie
posted by rooprectSTAFFMOD on May 14, 2018 at 6:37 AM
Not trolling, I really want to know why everyone loves this movie so I can try it again. I watched it once years ago and hated it. Watched it again last night (actually bought the DVD hoping that would make me like it more) and it still did nothing. At least I didn't hate it, but I still didn't like it.
My main problem with it was that, if it weren't the Beatles (of whom I'm a huge fan), it would be the most lazy screenplay ever written. Imagine replacing John, Paul, Ringo & George with a bunch of random actors and it would be insufferably dry. Or as one critic put it: "Just imagine if this movie didn't have any hit Beatles songs in it." As it is, the fab 4 add some charm with their faces, but I didn't think the humor was very clever (not nearly as clever as Yellow Submarine). So we're left with random scenes of them being superstars chased by girls and acting silly.
Scenes I actually liked: the intro train scene where we meet the grandfather and the stuck up passenger, the scene where George wanders into the fashion magazine and tells them off, the scene where Ringo runs away and talks to the little kid by the canal. I liked those scenes because they weren't pointless superstar scenes and they actually showed us some of their interactions with society with some satirical wit. But the rest of the film felt like a bunch of random candid footage cobbled together. What did I miss?
Reply by rooprect
on January 1, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Exactly, in fact the documentaries about this movie have made me revisit my cynicism toward today’s Swifties who pay hundreds for a ticket, if not thousands if you add travel and merch.
The documentary I linked above mentions how the adults in the 60s had no clue what’s so special about these 4 long haired (lol) noisemakers from Liverpool. The movie gave them some credibility, or at least a means to force the skeptics to listen to their music for 90 mins and get their toes tapping.
I suppose every generation has its Beatlemania phenomenon. That’s what this movie is more or less about: screaming fans and suffocating schedules, all over a group of people who are basically normal human beings. So this movie’s power is that it breaks the 4th wall and invites everyone into the party.