A brief preview of the Peter Jackson film.
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A brief preview of the Peter Jackson film.
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Wow!
Dear Mr. Jackson
I would be prepared to watch a 56 hour film, so please leave it all in.:
Regards
A terribly excited Beatles nut
Given that Peter Jackson managed to expand the Hobbit into three 3 hour movies, you may get a 100 hr film…….
You just beat me to it Mr. Bargepole.
This looks so good. Looking forward to seeing the whole film.
Looks like great quality footage doesn’t it? Really looking forward to it.
It will be after we’ve all been watching washed-out dubs of the 1979 BBC2 broadcast for all these years,..
Looks like they were having a lorra lorra laughs.
Nary a sign of Yoko on that preview.
These two things may be related.
I was intrigued by the brief shot of Yoko and Linda chatting.
“I’m tired of this ‘band’ shit, aren’t you? He never has any time for me ”
“It’s okay, I’ve got this..”
Arf⬆️
Eh? Yoko is rarely more than a millimetre from John and faces Paul as he sings Get Back – with interesting legs apart body language.
I do like the look of this, but I hope we’re not getting a rewriting of history. You can make a lot of different films with 56 hours of footage.
I think it’ll be more redressing the balance away from the long-established narrative.
Yes. From that clip it looks like ‘Let it Be – The Happy Families Mix’.
You certainly can.
hurrrr
Yoko bashing. How predictable.
On a miserable day in a rubbish year, this has put a smile on my face & given me something to look forward to in 2021. Thanks for posting
I’m excited.
You know what stuck out in that clip? The cups of tea and half drunk glass of milk. Rock’n’roll !
I like the bit at about 5:10, where John is hopping about with his jersey pulled over his knees.
Drool.
I was skeptical when I first heard about it – Sorry, Paul, but The Beatles is a story, and Abbey Road can only offer narrative redemption if Let it Be remains “the shittiest load of badly recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever”. But this look and sounds excellent.
“Ooh. I think I just came”.
Any idea when in 2021?
September I think – I read somewhere it was to be delayed by 9 or 12 months.
This teaser though makes me hope it might be early summer.
27 August.
If this is one of those releases where you get an advance review copy, then please let me offer my services as the designated reviewer!!
(Oi, get to the back of the queue, Cowslip…..)
Me excited! Looking great. The original Let It Be went for the fraught moments with little chinks of lightness. This one looks a whole lot more joyous.
Bring it on …
looks fantastic. Things to look forward to in 2021, Part One… (well, and the vaccine as well)
If I had to choose between this and the vaccine…. ooooooh…. tough choice…..
The two go together, you need to have the vaccine to stay alive to watch the film !
On the subject of whether or not the Get Back sessions were tense or joyous, I suggest they were almost certainly both. This was effectively a close, loving, bickering family, with the cameras on them as they were under immense pressure and scrutiny and dealing with all manner of issues that few human beings ever have to deal with. So there will have been highs and lows, and it would have been perfectly understandable for someone to flounce one minute only to turn up again acting as if nothing had happened. You could probably cherry pick the footage to tell any story you wanted.
And that’s why we need a 220 disc Blu Ray edition with all the footage from every angle….:)
Looks very good of course, but I kind of hope we don’t just get an extended grin-fest with Ringo gurning and John doing his silly voices. A wee bit of George telling Paul to fuck off with his directions would be fascinating too.
If you want to be entertained rich young men swearing at each other, I refer you to association football.
I think we all have some, possibly purient, interest in seeing the Beatles argue, if only as a documentary record. It’s part of their story.
The Beatles started the sixties being screamed at… and ended it with people chanting “Fight… fight… fight…”
Yup. The biggest kids in the playground get the most attention.
Needs the balance. Too much of the happy would not tell the tale of the sessions.
Theres a brilliant moment of extremes in Let It Be – all seems a bit tense and stand oafish, and the Macca and John start singing together on Two Of Us. Great moment.
Stand oafish? Is that a square-bashing command? Where’s me old military photographs….
We already had a misery fest in 1970, let’s have a different one in 2021. The original film will still exist and will no doubt me buffed up for a Blu-ray release.
Oooh, a film about a pop group fifty years ago when I was 13.
(I’ll get me bag of boiled sweets)
Choc ice for me please.
Security! We have a Beatles skeptic in here!
Just wait til @twang hears about this…
Arf
More than one. And I don’t like the Rolling Stones, either.
The Rolling Stones were never “likeable” – they never gave a toss if you liked them or not. That’s one of the things that makes them so very, very great.
Oh, I get that, and I can see why they are a great band, but I don’t like the noise they make. The Beatles had folded by the time I was aware of pop music, and although I can quite see what makes them great, their noise doesn’t do it for me either. My loss on both counts.
I can understand why a chap would opt for either one or the other of these popular beat combos, but not being a “fan” of either? Whose recordings do you spin on the Dansette whilst doing the “Twist”?
Yardbirds…or Johnny Burnette…
I’m sorry, I must be a great disappointment.
*covers face with hands, sobs soundlessly*
I’m so sorry, papa, I will join the Legion D’Etranger, and do good works and remove the stain on this website’s honour I have caused.
Here – take this bag of Werther’s Originals as wayside sustenance.
Those sodding sweets. I’m convinced there’s a Werther’s Original – Induced False Memory Syndrome. Ooh, grandad loved these in the war. No he f8cking didn’t; they were called Werthers Echte then and made in Germany. I bet they weren’t even available in the UK until the 1990s.
Ciabatta. 1983. Lymeswold, Shropshire Blue we gave your boys one hell of a beating.
And breathe. . .
Enjoying your authentic Ploughman’s Lunch, Area?
“Those Rolling Stones are just yobs” – my Mum.
That was great, wasn’t it? The Fabs always had Mum appeal – at least until they got “weird” – but the Stones were always – *shudder* – not nice.
My mum was 43 or so at the time.
Was this before or after she had you, MIke?
Fist film i remember seeing in the cinema was Oliver! in Cardiff. I can still remember the sweets we had and what the packaging looked like. I was 6.
How was the film, Mrs Lincoln?
I’ve seen some fist films too, but only as an adult. Hurr?
Well really.
Anybody else looking forward to what Peter Jackson manages to do with the 56 hours of EU/UK Brexit negotiation footage that are no doubt around somewhere? Boris and Barnier dancing around the table etc
“It’s complicated…we’ll custom check, you know, whatever you want us to custom check, or we won’t custom check at all if you don’t want us to custom check. Whatever it is that will please you, we’ll jolly well do it”, etc
“I hope we passed the audition”
“No you haven’t, you mop-haired cunt, get off”
Charlotte Rampling surely a shoo-in for the role of Ursula von der Leyen.
She’s not as sexy, but that would probably be distracting.
Jim Carter as Michel Barnier.
Michael Sheen as Macron, so that he can do another one of his silly voices.
Bunter – Matt Lucas
Frost – David Brent
Michael Sheen would have to be David Frost… he’s played him already 😉
“Ow much is the feesh? Duzz it have cheeps?”
Ursula von der Leyen looks a lot like a girl I knew, who was very lovely. And still is.
I keep expecting Ms von der Leyen to sound pwoppa Essex.
Joke circulating on Twitter saying that the comely Ursula is a gynaecologist in real life, so she certainly recognises what she’s negotiating with.
I saw wot you did there…
Looks amazing, almost brought tears to my eyes.
“Almost”? You cold, heartless brute, you.
Suddenly there is something to look forward to in 2021. Bring it on.
Oh wow!
But what a tease. It feels like years away.
We’re all getting older. Eight months is nowt, the merest flutter of Maggie Mae’s petticoat.
When they crack into the song, it’s a spine-shiverer and no mistake. Even though it’s a song of theirs I don’t particularly like.
‘Get back’ is pretty funky here. Some tasty drum fills.
Ringo is often characterised as a thudder but his lightness of touch on these sessions is often quite delicious.
Are you a
poofsensitive, bookish type, Moose? AFAF.Innee bolllld!
Don’t you find his paradiddles just a soupçon jejeune?
Nooooo, they were bona!
I read a breathless report somewhere that there is previously unseen footage of John walking in carrying a cup of tea. I can barely contain my excitement.
But not the bit just after, where he spills it on Ringo’s drums and John gets decked. George mutters “He had it coming.”
‘Cup of tea’ John channelling his inner Rutle.
The cups of tea are my second-best bits of recording. Plugging things in is tops, obviously.
I am very dull.
It’s like the ginger biscuits never happened…
Similarly, the soundcheck is my fave bit of a gig.
What’s your favourite frequency?
He doesn’t know, he’ll have to ask Kenneth.
600hz since you ask.
I don’t like your tone.
The hue saturation levels are all wrong
Is it in NTSC pal? (Crap video joke)
Never the same crap.
Cheers PAL.
Is that a joke by Harry SECAM?
@fentonsteve your “standards” are slipping.
(Actually, that was brilliant, made me laugh out loud)
I thought I was getting Beta*.
(*) max
Crybaby.
There was someone famous, who hated soundchecks, when, at soundcheck, he’d say ‘this won’t take long, did it?’.
Jerry Douglas maybe?
It’s slightly comical to see them all carrying dainty china cups of tea…but this is how tea was generally presented in the old days, particularly if it came from a tea trolley. Mugs were for tradesmen.
Tony Benn presented himself as “one of the lads” by drinking tea out of a mug.
Hardly china. Bog standard British canteen crockery. China only came out for when the vicar was visiting. No sign of that footage yet.
And not just china – the good china.
There was a lot of teabagging in Hamburg.
Get your sack to where it once belonged
Oh purlease Moose!
Help me out of this miiiiind!
I intend to spend the rest of the Christmas holidays trying to take my coat off like Lennon.
Sadly, that’s the only five minutes of the band getting on that they could find in all 56 hours of footage.