Nothing new here


It was fair and entertaining because it was The Beatles, but I had seen it all before in The Beatles Forever and The Anthology and all the little rip-off $1.99 videotapes and DVDs that have been available the last 35 years, stuff like "The Beatles as You`ve Never Seen Them" and "The First Beatles Tour" or whatever. A pleasant rehash is still a rehash.

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Agreed.

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The Anthology is probably the best. This my be a good starter for someone new to the group.

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The Anthology is probably the best.

That's the understatement of the year. It's the best music documentary ever made, bar none.

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Agreed. It was interesting,but there was nothing remarkable about it.

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yeah, agree with OP (no pun intended on Ron Howard). I've been seeing documentaries on The Beatles in one form or another my whole life, and this is just the same old stuff. Howard makes a big deal of his punch line--that The Beatles emerged on the other side with Sgt. Pepper's--but, meh, of course that's true. It's put together well, and is worthwhile if you've never seen this kind of stuff on the Beatles before, but otherwise there's no need to bother with this one.

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I enjoyed it and it was well done but yeah, nothing new here. If it weren't for the big name director, it would have been a TV special

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I've noticed Beatles docos don't mention Seltaeb the merchandising company created to deal with royalties & licensing for vendors. Problem was in the haste of Beatlemania, Brian Epstein agreed to only a 10% cut missing out on millions especially after their three successful US tours. It's as big as the "Bigger Than Jesus" controversy.

The Beatles eventually found out leading to the formation of Apple Corps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seltaeb

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