why does anyone think this sucks????????
i thougt this movie was very good....
so tell me people why does it sucks...
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If you took the Beatle's out of it and replaced their characters with other actors, no-one's ever heard of...would you still think it was a good movie????
It was good as a long video...a listening to Beatle's songs....but as a movie...YUK.
I won`t say this movie sucks but what I do tell people is that it`s definitely 100% weird lol. It`s definitely a trip. But it`s not bad. Kind of funny at time, pretty cool. Just weird.
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The Beatles = Life
it's a pretty good effort for what it was. the beatles owed another movie on their contract, so paul dreamed it up in an effort to keep moving through the aftermath of brian's passing, instead of falling in a heap and not continuing to be the beatles
sharePeople say that, but without The Beatles would 'A Hard Day's Night' or 'Help' been up to much?
'Magical Mystery Tour' was a TV film though and not a feature film, so you have to try and look at it through 1960's eyes and few people would have had advanced cine-cameras with sound back then. It's just people take video cameras for granted today and perhaps that's the problem?
Either way it's pretty good fun and a reminder of the 1967 Summer Of Love. Plus don't forget Mary Whitehouse tried to get 'I Am The Walrus' banned or at least edited, but it got shown in full anyway.
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People didn't like this movie back in the 1960's when it came out. So I'm looking at it through 1960's eyes when I say it's not a good movie. A Hard Days' Night and Help are well-written, well-directed films. With changes and without the music, they could have starred Peter Sellers or any bunch of great comedians. This was nowhere those two except of course the wonderful music. Some of the actors were good but they're given nothing to do. A waste of their talents. But as Paul said in Anthology, this movie is only worth seeing for the video of I Am the Walrus.
George Carlin: It's all bullsh-t and it's bad for ya.
You could take any four actors or even non actors and A Hard Day's Night would still be a great experience. Help less so... but unfortunately the Magical Mystery Tour is just bad all around. 55 minutes and there are points where even when the 4 Beatles are on the screen it is like there is nobody there. As for advanced cameras in 1967... 16 mm cameras in the hands of a skilled camera man and cinematographer would produce results that would rival most products available today. This was NOT supposed to be a home movie.. it only is because it is so unplanned that better results were not possible.
If a film maker showed up with 2 strings on a bass guitar and tried to play the Beatles greatest hits... no one would say that that director did this really weird but funky and clever musical project once.. they would say... that fool once showed up with an unstrung bass and tried to play songs!!! Same thing here... the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, tried to make a film without putting in the needed writing, planning, and rehearsing and got spectacularly dull results. It's not really fun and really connected. Honestly.. I think, that like Star Wars fans who make remakes of the original films at home, Beatles fans should create their own remakes of the Magical Mystery Tour with Paul's basic visual script.. a handful of Beatles songs and video concepts and try to use basic movie making skills to see if they can actually fulfill the goals McCartney had in attempting this film.
Imho, that question is kind of a red herring. It's a Beatles movie. That's kind of the point. It wouldn't exist without the Beatles. The movie is based around the music of the Beatles, so the question seems beyond hypothetical.
It is what it is, not what it isn't.
'Irregardless' is not a word
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exactly. there is no better way to say it.
Don't take any guff from these fücking swine.
I know, right? It's kind of like saying "if you took the Beatles out of the White Album, it wouldn't be a very good record."
shareBut the Beatles were in it. That's what makes it great.
Four Little Lord Fauntleroys who were allowed to do as they please when it came to art in the 60s.
No-one else would have been able to record Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the way the Beatles were allowed to. That's what made it so great. Their indulgence in the studio.
The movie was an experiment that only they could have got away with. It didn't quite work out as a movie, but hey! It could have!
That was the reaction in the UK when it was shown on the BBC on Boxing Day, 1967.
It was shot in colour but some genius decided to show it in black and white, losing much of the effect.
Other people who dislike it without having seen it in colour are just *beep*
Actually The Beeb didn't air color programming at all until the early 1970s.
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Poor Paul McCartney! The incredible creative and energic man he was/ still is, he just wanted to do something of that opportunity. Without him we would not have "Magical Mystery Tour" and those "first music videos" collection that we see in this film. The more we know about the background about MMT, the more we can enjoy it for what it is. Yes, they were the greatest pop/rock band, but making films?, they didnt get much help with making this....Paul first experimented with tapes and sounds, in 1966, hanging out with William S Burroughs, but also found the S-8 camera a wonderful tool with which he could play around and experiment with. He was such an imaginative guy!
shareI read a Movie Guide's review of this film back in the 70's. I think it went:
"The Beatles film a bus full of eccentric characters on a journey to see what happens. Nothing does."
I never got the impression that they were out to make a "good movie".
I like this movie because it dispels convention while trying to evoke the world that they grew up and lived in at that time (in this case England). There's a great deal of stream of consciousness in the narrative structure of this film and for me it works great because it toys with various human ideas about romance, memories, music, love, hate, anticipation, and above all else the wonder of experiencing something new.
Many criticisms towards MMT is that it's self-indulgent, self-serving, and pretentious as if the Beatles were using their fame and cachet to advance their own ideas about subversion, but for me that couldn't be farther from what they were aiming for here. They were using their fame and fortune to try something new and have fun while doing it. You can certainly see throughout the film that none of the Lads were taking themselves seriously.
I love The Beatles more than any other band to date, but this show sucked. With the money that was spent, I could have directed as well as they did. Even Lennon said that it was the most expensive home movie ever made. In hindsight, it probably saved them more money due to the fact it bombed.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
If you like this movie then it proves to me that the beatles can do no wrong.
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