Nothing attracts flies like a steaming pile of cash. If you really want to know why they broke up, look to the absolute shafting they endured from Dick James, Allen Klein, Alexis Mardas, and the rest of the self-promoters and music industry white-collar criminals. I’m still struck by the number of leeches and sycophants surrounding the late-stage Beatles. Fifty years on, most people don’t really care or shouldn’t.įor the record, I did see the Let It Be documentary in 1970.

Re-litigating personal drama between the group members? Don’t “Let It Be,” let it go instead. A BBC radio program from the 1960s? Forget it. There are clearly bits that could have been cut without loss. However, nobody - self included - actually watches every second of “seven hours of commercial-free football.” Nobody. I turn it on at 10am, catch the best bits of my favorite teams, read The New York Time, cook and eat lunch, have a mid-afternoon dessert and cup, and wrap everything with the touchdown montage. Watching Get Back is like watching NFL RedZone. Sitting through these parts is reliving every wasted, unproductive, tedious second when you really wanted to be somewhere else. However, much of the film reminds me of every teenage (and adult!) garage rehearsal with much faffing about and no real work getting done. The newly released film has some very good to great parts - sheer genius in a few cases. The preview lifted my spirits and gave me the impression that, at least, we could have a fun, light and tight film. Last December’s Sneak Peek was total fun. George must be looking on Giles work with fatherly pride.įirst, the bait and switch. Beautiful clean-up and machine learning-based extraction. Genuine kuddos are due because that must have been a herculean task. So I won’t be accused of a hatchet job, I must first commend Jackson for boiling Michael Linsey-Hoggs film and mono Nagra sound into eight hours.

Yes, it tastes good, but it took too long to cook and has too many leftover bits. This is an over-stuffed Thanksgiving turkey. As to actual film criticism, the The Guardian review gets it right. You’ll find plenty of fawning reviews on line - this isn’t one of them. Well, I’m about half-way through Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back and I suppose that I should watch all of it before writing a “review.”

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