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[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I love it! A great visual component to the album. Feel good movie. And much better than the other Beatle’s movies.

[–]Typical_HumanoidMabel Normand 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Very clean.

[–]weakleybailey 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Very fun and funny, I love it! Big fan of the record too.

[–]rx033 10 points11 points  (1 child)

What’s interesting is this movie was released during peak Beatles-mania, meaning they could have released any garbage movie as long as it starred the Beatles and it would have done amazing at the box office due to their popularity at the time. Instead of taking this lazy approach, the producers and director actually strived to make a great movie and succeeded.

[–]GreedyCauliflower 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great point. To me, this is the Beatles at every turn. They rarely took the lazy option, and instead pretty relentlessly chose to explore new creative ground.

[–]Capofin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Never really big into the Beatles but gave it a watch since it was on free preview and really enjoyed it. Feel like I did miss a bit having no knowledge of the band besides some of their songs. The whole scene in the bathroom with John in the bath and them fake shaving made me laugh a bunch.

[–]Grantso74 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I find it really funny that the most commercially popular band in 1964 somehow made one of the first indie films. You’d think the movie would be a bloated, over budget, pretentious mess, but it’s very grounded and basically just a quirky and funny look into the lives of four Liverpoolian dudes. Lovely movie.

[–]cherish_it 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's definitely a neat little time capsule into BeatleMania. Giving pop bands movies is a tradition that still carries into modern time. As for a movie, it's still pretty entertaining, even though John, Paul, George, and Ringo were pretty bad actors haha

[–]_I_am_dog_whisperer_David Cronenberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a huge part of my childhood but I haven't seen it since, partially scared that I won't like it as much now

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s such a fun, cute film especially if you enjoy the band’s early music.

[–]Melvin-joker-brother 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my favourite films, I adore everything about it

[–]Click-Beep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I missed out on half the jokes the first time, I was laughing so hard.

I think this era of movies misses out by sticking so hard to the audio “as it was.” I would love to hear someone attempt to modernize the audio, make it a little clearer. I know you can only do so much, but look what they were able to do with the early Beatles albums that didn’t have surviving multi-tracks and making multi-tracks for Rock Band.

[–]jupiterkansas 3 points4 points  (1 child)

arguably the greatest musical film ever made

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed

[–]RandoPizzaMonster 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That I'd buy it if it was released as a single blu ray instead of dual format.

[–]trentleytenenbaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an extra single blu-ray of it if you’re interested. It came in The Rock Box from Costco a few years ago, but I already owned the dual-format release, which I prefer. It’s in brand new condition, just not sealed, since it was part of the box set.

[–]Eazy-E-40Stanley Kubrick 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I thight it was really fun. My mom, who grew up a Beatles fan, thinks this is their worse movie.

[–]sunny_gym 2 points3 points  (1 child)

AHDN is great but I probably prefer Help! because they lean into the silliness and I like the songs better.

[–]Eazy-E-40Stanley Kubrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with that.

[–]TheShipEliza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Richard Lester is awesome and even though I'm lukewarm on the Beatles this movie is great front to back.