Beatles '64
11/29/2024, Disney+
via IMDB:
Captures the band's electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan Show to over 73 million viewers.
Overall the thing's fine but I think that if you have enough rare footage of The Beatles themselves during this time period to qualify as a film then just show that instead of making us pretend to give a shit about some non-celebrities' stories; the random interviews with kids in the streets were really fun & added to the spirit of the whole thing, but then who were these people we kept having to go back to throughout for their story, that nobody gives a shit about? Dafuck - JUST SHOW US ALL THE BEATLES FOOTAGE YOU HAVE!!
They REALLY leaned into the whole JFK assassination thing in the beginning; I couldn't help but make a "oh great we've barely started and it's already 1-0 England" joke.
If I have to give the film credit for something, they never pulled the trigger on pushing the new release of the band's American albums, of which you people already know my opinion FUCK YOU DAVID DEXTER. 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 I was bracing myself for it to be a bit of an infomercial, but it wasn't.
Why so little new Paul and Ringo? If you had hours of them on film from you specifically interviewing them for this film, why do we only get a few minutes total of each, somehow fucking fewer than (insert name of one of the aforementioned non-celebrities here)? 😡 😡 😡 😡
I mean I'm always glad for anything new Beatles but this was just a grade-C version of Ron Howard's Eight Days a Week, with just barrels of wasted opportunity sitting there.
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