Your review is spot-on. I had been expecting an extended US First Visit, Ed Sullivan performances & Washington Concert all cleaned up. Ideally a Get Back type documentary where The Beatles are front and centre. Sadly a real missed opportunity in my opinion.
Not sure what Apple is doing by not giving any of those performance a proper release already, all the first generation fans left are gonna pass away before they finally release them.
Good summary! The problems with this show were also in the Ron Howard film - things like the interviews with fans at the time (Whoopi etc) that might have been fine on a youtube short but were very boring in a cinema. But the Ron Howard film did have a number of payoffs like the Washington concert and then the tag-a-long cleaned-up version of Shea Stadium. The new documentary doesn't have much for us well-versed Beatles fans.
@@bluebellbeatnik4945Yeah I agree with their point, but I liked a number of the interviews from the Ron Howard one, but the Beatles 64 not at all really.
I just wish they’d stop retelling the same story over and over again with these documentaries and biopics. The Beatles did so much more than coming to America and playing in Hamburg.
Thank you for being so honest, it shows you’re a true fan, which I appreciate. Me thinks they are coming up with product for the sake of coming up with product! Even though it was advertised otherwise, I knew there wouldn’t be any new footage of them. Earlier documentaries already covered this era quite well, a la “The Beatles First Trip To 🇺🇸.”
Really not sure what about it that I didn't like. It just didn't hold my attention. The Compleat Beatles doc from '82 and Anthology are both infinitely better.
That was a very accurate review. Whenever the Beatles are not on screen, which is a lot, the movie feels static and lacking in energy. The interviewees are totally upstaged by the Beatles footage, which I guess is not really their fault. You would probably have to jump off the Empire State Building to not get upstaged by the Beatles, and even that might not do it. And I think "Beatles 64" was made mostly for newbies, the grandchildren of Beatles fans, etc.
I seem to like it more than a lot of people do. I absolutely love hearing people who were there at the time talking about why they loved The Beatles. But yes, it could’ve been better. There should’ve been more insightful interviews with Paul & Ringo and it’s definitely all over the place in terms of what kind of story it’s trying to tell.
The archival material of the Beatles and the fans/nonfans was great, but everything else felt like fluff to get the runtime up. If I took a shot every time someone said a variant of "Beatles cool" I'd need a new liver. There are decades of material saying how great they were, and this felt like it had nothing else to really say about them.
Unfortunately for the neo Marxist they're weren't enough black people (with the capital B) In the original footage. So they got to be shoehorned in somehow.
I really dug the back car scene when macca was listening to “til there was you” on his transistor radio and you see the kids running outside, chasing them something surreal about seeing it as a pov
Very astute and insightful observations and I generally agree, having attended a special preview of the film. But I think the answer is just to relax and enjoy it... after all, it is The Beatles!!!
A good, truthful review. Sadly, I was totally underwhelmed by this effort. I fell asleep the first time I tried to watch it. So I tried again the next day, and fell asleep again! The editing was sketchy, and truly an embarrassment. I'm surprised that Scorsese keep his name on it. I was really expecting a day-by-day account of their first US visit, sort of like the Get Back documentary, except using whatever outtakes exist from the original Maysles Brothers documentaries, as well as full performances. For their older fans, as well as Paul and Ringo, we're running out of time waiting for something more definitive. This was a huge step backwards, and is unfortunately, non-essential viewing.
You are spot on all points nothing more to add! I believe you should have been the producer and director!!!!!!!!!! Apple could have hired you and saved millions $$$$$$ this documentary was lame! Please give Apple a call and let them know they screwed up! I love The Beatles there is no entertainers who come close Apple And Disney blew it! I know all 4 Beatles and family agreed. To this I wish you could have given your advice on what to do I hope Apple is watching your videos because they need to learn how to put together something fans would be talking about for decades this is a forgotten documentary who is making the decisions at Apple because they seem to be amateurs!!!! Thanks only my opinion
Getting really annoyed with how they keep teasing with the live footage only to show a couple seconds every single goddamn time, and it's not just Apple, every music documentary does this. Just give these performances a proper modern release already.
Phew, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who was underwhelmed by this documentary. I agree that it needed to focus on The Beatles' perspective of conquering America. I want to see the entire Washington Coliseum concert in HD. Beatles '64 may be of interest to young fans who haven't been immersed in the Fab Four for decades like myself.
Frankly it sounds awful and you are not the first one to give it a scathing review. I think I’ll stick with the updated First US Visit. That one was so well done I still pull it out occasionally and rewatch it.
enjoyed your review. I liked it.. it wasn't terrible, but like you said a bit scattered. to me my view is that I felt like 2024 tried to insert itself into 1964 and tell it, its way, not the real 1964 era of what was happening. they coulda talked more Dave Dexter Jr and how Capital had to course correct.
It had a story to tell...... and it didn't tell it ! It was a mess ! It needed to follow the time line of the visit. It needed to show how (unlike in the uk) the Beatles exploded onto the American scene, out of nowhere ! It was a gradual build up in Britain. But for America they must have been like a startling smack across the face. And Beatles '64 just didn't convey that properly. It was all over the place !
Spot on review - my feelings exactly. The Maysles Brothers stuff, performance footage and 1964 interviews with fans was great. A sound and picturescape of just that with perhaps some explanatory captions would have been much better. I found the new talking heads footage often irrelevant and sometimes downright self-indulgent. What Little Richard thought of Pat Boone is an interesting anecdote but didn't really have any place in this film.
You're right....My wife and I watched it....we thought it was a big nothing. They just mixed up the expanded version of the Beatles First Visit to the US with the Washington DC show film which was already available. Mixed in were old clips from the Anthology film and the now obligatory "Head shot" interviews. Some of those were interesting. Each segment used from the "First Visit" was too long and many of them weren't any good. They show at least 2-3 scenes of girls trying to get into the hotel where they were staying. There were many odd and out of place clips, like the one with Leonard Bernstein "conducting" a tape of "She Said She Said". There didn't seem to be a guiding "theme". It was more like they took a bunch of random stuff from TH-cam and mashed them together at random by a high school AV class!
Disappointing…..but my expectations may have been too high. I liked the Howard film and interviews with people. This though didn’t work so well. Rewatching Anthology!
I haven’t seen it yet but to be truthful, as much of a diehard Beatles fan as fan as I am, I feel a bit inundated by all the Beatles related stuff that’s been coming out over the past few years. It just doesn’t feel as special. It’s almost like back in the 60s with Capitol putting out a new album every few months, except there isn’t really any new material.
The Granada tv, British documentary, shown circa 1983, just concentrated in the footage, no talking heads, no narration, no fast edits, it just let the magic of the footage speak for ifself. (the Beatles in the back of the limo, their quips as they’re being chased by fans and the police horses galloping alongside is an all time favourite piece of film) I was hoping the new film would just clean this up, add sone lost footage and nothing else… Oh dear ! I truly feel that before these big companies release anything else, there first needs to be an OK from a Beatles fan quality control unit - with yourself and a few select TH-camrs who know their stuff !
The album for this documentary is a stinker. The music is great but they did not remaster the songs that haven't already been remixed by Giles, which makes the album a big missed opportunity since i dispise the 2009 remasters and many others do too.
If the documebtary is called ‘64 then I expect a documentary in what that year was for them; it was the busiest, craziest year but it only focuses on one thing that Eight Days a Week sort of did.
Beatles '64 was a disappointment. How do you make a documentary about The Beatles first trip to America without including Ed Sullivan's famous introduction of the group? I would love a remastered version of The Compleat Beatles from 1982.
This documentary was obviously made for younger fans who don’t know about The Beatles (it’s on Disney +, after all). So it’s trying to be the Wikipedia version of The Beatles’ story-thus too much in too little time. It’s trying to be all things to all people, and that always fails. The truth is, unless you were around in 1964, you really don’t know the whole impact on the culture that The Beatles had-certainly not from first hand experience. It was indescribable. They literally overhauled music overnight, not to mention fashion and men’s hairstyles. I fully agree that both the 1982 Compleat Beatles and the Anthology series are the go to documentaries on The Beatles. If someone hasn’t seen them, they’re definitely worth checking out.
The only thing I really liked about the documentary was seeing the footage of black Americans reacting to The Beatles when they first arrived. I had never seen that before and it was interesting seeing the opinions of black teens and adults. But otherwise, it was a waste of time. Same old rehashed stuff we've gotten. If you've seen the original documentary, then no need to see this. I was skipping a lot of the talking heads.
I'm a meh...... we'd seen the Beatles footage before....... From the intro, the old JFK- Beatles healing America old chestnut, yawn.... to the McCartney telling the story (again) of him playing She Loves You for the first time to his dad (yawn), but the moment I knew it was meh, was when I had to sit through a FULL performance of Smokey Robinson singing the 1965 song Yesterday in a mid sixties TV show, that's when I knew the documentary about THE BEATLES in 1964 had lost focus.... hey and the Jack Douglas bits,? What was that in there for?
I purposely have given this a wide berth as The Beatles/Apple Inc Corporation has devolved purely into a cash-grab operation - "Now And Then" anyone? Who seriously plays "Free As A Bird" regularly and says, 'Wow this is such a great song"? (Anyone even remember "Real Love"?) - and those cash-grabs were from 29 years ago!!! Apple Corp is now running on the "There's more than one way to skin a cat" principal with the endless re-masters, re-packages, "new" doco's - but they don't get my money anymore...
You’re right: it was derivative and slapped together…I don’t care about what some fan has to say about how he bought memorabilia. I wanted an inside story with some of the backstories: what happened to those girls who snuck in? What did the cops recall?
The fans clips on the documental was bouring, I prefer anthology chapter 3, the us fisrt visit dvd is much better, eight days a week movie was more intersting. The Washington concert has still a bad sound, but I think at the end of this documental should be included complete.
So far I've never seen a Beatles documentary that placed the viewer in any of the live show's or concert's audience. Probably, if the testimony is accurate, you wouldn't hear a friggin' note from The Fabs... which would be the whole point of doing so. Isn't that a weird thing not to include if you wanted to make a proper doc' of The Beatles? By the way, the film shows a bunch of black kids so excited by the group, but if you look at the Billboard R&B charts from the sixties, NOT ONCE do The Beatles make a showing... not even in the bottom numbers!
The R & B charts measure the sales OF R & B records, not the sales of records TO black people. Certainly there is a correlation between the two, but not a perfect one.
@@harmonium8198 All I know is that Elvis Presley in the late 1950s appeared on Billboard's R&B charts many times; in the Top 20 and in the Top 10. The Rolling Stones appeared in the R&B charts a couple of times. PAUL ANKA, of all people, had his 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders" show up in the Top 20...! The Beatles (considering their status on the Top 100 Pop throughout the sixties) didn't appear even once on the R&B!!!!!
Apple is running out of stuff to cash in on. Eventually there will be nothing left. Well, until the Hologram can be Projected into your Living Room. Imagine the Beatles Playing in your Front Room.
well they are making 4 new beatles movies coming out in 2027 with actors playing the beatles. but im upset its not a series or just one movie about the beatles career. i think making 4 movies from each of the 4's perspective is a really bad idea.
Just a quick pay day for Scorsese. Just because his name is on something doesn't make it good. A cleaned up Maysles "What's Happening" film with some some full Washington and Sullivan performances caught the experience first hand and perfectly already. No need for this at all.
I'm a Beatles obsessive but I'm not going to seek this out. Sounds like a total nothing burger. Just get Peter Jackson to finish the Star Club tapes...far more interesting
I thought it was very good. It was better than the film it was generally taken from, "the First US visit". I think you're a little overr critical, but each to their own opinion of course.
This film was made for everyone. They never said it would be made for just Beatles people. I’ve been a Beatles fan since 1964 and I liked the perspective from the Motown artists. I showed this to someone who didn’t know much about The Beatles except for what I’ve shown her so far and she absolutely loved it. We found the going to Liverpool story and the other stories interesting. Not every film that comes out about The Beatles is going to be just for Beatles people. Enjoy the film for what it is. It was very well done
“We didn’t learn anything new” My man, love you but have you ever considered that, at some point, there is nothing new to make about a band that disbanded in 69?
Your review is spot-on. I had been expecting an extended US First Visit, Ed Sullivan performances & Washington Concert all cleaned up. Ideally a Get Back type documentary where The Beatles are front and centre. Sadly a real missed opportunity in my opinion.
Yup. That's what I expected as well.
I agree 100%
Not sure what Apple is doing by not giving any of those performance a proper release already, all the first generation fans left are gonna pass away before they finally release them.
Get Back spoiled us for these types of documentaries. Talking heads at this point are not gonna satisfy
My thoughts as well.
Good summary! The problems with this show were also in the Ron Howard film - things like the interviews with fans at the time (Whoopi etc) that might have been fine on a youtube short but were very boring in a cinema. But the Ron Howard film did have a number of payoffs like the Washington concert and then the tag-a-long cleaned-up version of Shea Stadium. The new documentary doesn't have much for us well-versed Beatles fans.
Well boring for you maybe but i loved the whoopi interview. also this isn't being shown in a cinema (not for us in the uk anyway).
I heard there were (and still are?) rights issues with the Shea footage, having to do with the concert promoter.
@@bluebellbeatnik4945Yeah I agree with their point, but I liked a number of the interviews from the Ron Howard one, but the Beatles 64 not at all really.
I just wish they’d stop retelling the same story over and over again with these documentaries and biopics. The Beatles did so much more than coming to America and playing in Hamburg.
Thank you for being so honest, it shows you’re a true fan, which I appreciate. Me thinks they are coming up with product for the sake of coming up with product! Even though it was advertised otherwise, I knew there wouldn’t be any new footage of them. Earlier documentaries already covered this era quite well, a la “The Beatles First Trip To 🇺🇸.”
Really not sure what about it that I didn't like. It just didn't hold my attention. The Compleat Beatles doc from '82 and Anthology are both infinitely better.
That was a very accurate review. Whenever the Beatles are not on screen, which is a lot, the movie feels static and lacking in energy. The interviewees are totally upstaged by the Beatles footage, which I guess is not really their fault. You would probably have to jump off the Empire State Building to not get upstaged by the Beatles, and even that might not do it. And I think "Beatles 64" was made mostly for newbies, the grandchildren of Beatles fans, etc.
Nothing beats the Anthology project, imho. Thanks for the review...✌️
I seem to like it more than a lot of people do. I absolutely love hearing people who were there at the time talking about why they loved The Beatles. But yes, it could’ve been better. There should’ve been more insightful interviews with Paul & Ringo and it’s definitely all over the place in terms of what kind of story it’s trying to tell.
The archival material of the Beatles and the fans/nonfans was great, but everything else felt like fluff to get the runtime up. If I took a shot every time someone said a variant of "Beatles cool" I'd need a new liver. There are decades of material saying how great they were, and this felt like it had nothing else to really say about them.
It should have just been a restored release of the original documentary footage with extended / new footage as available.
Unfortunately for the neo Marxist they're weren't enough black people (with the capital B) In the original footage. So they got to be shoehorned in somehow.
Agree 1000000% my friend
I really dug the back car scene when macca was listening to “til there was you” on his transistor radio and you see the kids running outside, chasing them something surreal about seeing it as a pov
Very astute and insightful observations and I generally agree, having attended a special preview of the film. But I think the answer is just to relax and enjoy it... after all, it is The Beatles!!!
exactly. why am i watching smokey robinson cover a song in 66 or 67 that was written in 65? like....what were they thinking?!
A good, truthful review. Sadly, I was totally underwhelmed by this effort. I fell asleep the first time I tried to watch it. So I tried again the next day, and fell asleep again! The editing was sketchy, and truly an embarrassment. I'm surprised that Scorsese keep his name on it. I was really expecting a day-by-day account of their first US visit, sort of like the Get Back documentary, except using whatever outtakes exist from the original Maysles Brothers documentaries, as well as full performances. For their older fans, as well as Paul and Ringo, we're running out of time waiting for something more definitive. This was a huge step backwards, and is unfortunately, non-essential viewing.
Great review. I haven't seen it but now I know what to expect if I ever do.
You nailed it!
You are spot on all points nothing more to add! I believe you should have been the producer and director!!!!!!!!!! Apple could have hired you and saved millions $$$$$$ this documentary was lame! Please give Apple a call and let them know they screwed up! I love The Beatles there is no entertainers who come close Apple And Disney blew it! I know all 4 Beatles and family agreed. To this I wish you could have given your advice on what to do I hope Apple is watching your videos because they need to learn how to put together something fans would be talking about for decades this is a forgotten documentary who is making the decisions at Apple because they seem to be amateurs!!!! Thanks only my opinion
Magical Mystery Tour was a better film. What does that tell us?
I couldn't agree more.
Agreed and most Beatles fans I’ve heard had the same complaints (especially about the talking heads’ segments).
Getting really annoyed with how they keep teasing with the live footage only to show a couple seconds every single goddamn time, and it's not just Apple, every music documentary does this. Just give these performances a proper modern release already.
I suggest you're correct
Phew, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who was underwhelmed by this documentary. I agree that it needed to focus on The Beatles' perspective of conquering America. I want to see the entire Washington Coliseum concert in HD. Beatles '64 may be of interest to young fans who haven't been immersed in the Fab Four for decades like myself.
Frankly it sounds awful and you are not the first one to give it a scathing review. I think I’ll stick with the updated First US Visit. That one was so well done I still pull it out occasionally and rewatch it.
yes, the doc was boring
pacing was off
enjoyed your review. I liked it.. it wasn't terrible, but like you said a bit scattered. to me my view is that I felt like 2024 tried to insert itself into 1964 and tell it, its way, not the real 1964 era of what was happening. they coulda talked more Dave Dexter Jr and how Capital had to course correct.
Good Review! Beatles '64.... the U.S. visit was just one event for 1964.... more like 'Beatles U.S. 1964 featuring Some Random Stuff'
It had a story to tell...... and it didn't tell it ! It was a mess !
It needed to follow the time line of the visit. It needed to show how (unlike in the uk) the Beatles exploded onto the American scene, out of nowhere !
It was a gradual build up in Britain. But for America they must have been like a startling smack across the face. And Beatles '64 just didn't convey that properly.
It was all over the place !
Made it through about fifteen minutes and haven’t bothered resuming. Why does this exist?
i have something i think you will enjoy much better. i call it the compleat beatles remake documentary.
I knew we were in trouble when a minute into it there was a talking head of some guy crying about nothing.
Spot on review - my feelings exactly. The Maysles Brothers stuff, performance footage and 1964 interviews with fans was great. A sound and picturescape of just that with perhaps some explanatory captions would have been much better. I found the new talking heads footage often irrelevant and sometimes downright self-indulgent. What Little Richard thought of Pat Boone is an interesting anecdote but didn't really have any place in this film.
I saw it, it was more 'meh' than good. I much prefer Ron Howard's documentary "Eight Days A Week":
The length and substance of the Smokey Robinson segment was absurd. I thought his version of Yesterday would never end.
I liked it. But I agree that it was way too broad and I wanted streaming services releases of Ed Sullivan and Washington Colosseum.
As always Eric, I think you nailed it. Still glad I didn't shell out for Dizzy+.
same old recycled crap, Apple don't have the first clue about documentaries
So right Ray, Apple drops it-AGAIN!!!
You're right....My wife and I watched it....we thought it was a big nothing. They just mixed up the expanded version of the Beatles First Visit to the US with the Washington DC show film which was already available. Mixed in were old clips from the Anthology film and the now obligatory "Head shot" interviews. Some of those were interesting. Each segment used from the "First Visit" was too long and many of them weren't any good. They show at least 2-3 scenes of girls trying to get into the hotel where they were staying. There were many odd and out of place clips, like the one with Leonard Bernstein "conducting" a tape of "She Said She Said". There didn't seem to be a guiding "theme". It was more like they took a bunch of random stuff from TH-cam and mashed them together at random by a high school AV class!
Well said. Glad I got the Beatles First US Visit on DVD
This is a very fair review.
Disappointing…..but my expectations may have been too high. I liked the Howard film and interviews with people. This though didn’t work so well.
Rewatching Anthology!
dont you think its about time you see something new. i got just the thing.i call it the compleat beatles remake.
I haven’t seen it yet but to be truthful, as much of a diehard Beatles fan as fan as I am, I feel a bit inundated by all the Beatles related stuff that’s been coming out over the past few years. It just doesn’t feel as special. It’s almost like back in the 60s with Capitol putting out a new album every few months, except there isn’t really any new material.
The Granada tv, British documentary, shown circa 1983, just concentrated in the footage, no talking heads, no narration, no fast edits, it just let the magic of the footage speak for ifself. (the Beatles in the back of the limo, their quips as they’re being chased by fans and the police horses galloping alongside is an all time favourite piece of film) I was hoping the new film would just clean this up, add sone lost footage and nothing else… Oh dear ! I truly feel that before these big companies release anything else, there first needs to be an OK from a Beatles fan quality control unit - with yourself and a few select TH-camrs who know their stuff !
The album for this documentary is a stinker. The music is great but they did not remaster the songs that haven't already been remixed by Giles, which makes the album a big missed opportunity since i dispise the 2009 remasters and many others do too.
"It's what the music does, it stops the bleeding"
My opinion is that the Beatles ‘64 documentary was AMAZING! Mr Stickermania
Nice suit! 😎
Absolutamente de acuerdo, se siente algo más oportunista que sólo busca el interés comercial.
Agree
If the documebtary is called ‘64 then I expect a documentary in what that year was for them; it was the busiest, craziest year but it only focuses on one thing that Eight Days a Week sort of did.
are they showing Roger Moore (007, James Bond) with the beatles in this film?
Beatles '64 was a disappointment. How do you make a documentary about The Beatles first trip to America without including Ed Sullivan's famous introduction of the group? I would love a remastered version of The Compleat Beatles from 1982.
i did that. in fact i remade it.i call my version, the compleat beatles remake.
This documentary was obviously made for younger fans who don’t know about The Beatles (it’s on Disney +, after all). So it’s trying to be the Wikipedia version of The Beatles’ story-thus too much in too little time. It’s trying to be all things to all people, and that always fails. The truth is, unless you were around in 1964, you really don’t know the whole impact on the culture that The Beatles had-certainly not from first hand experience. It was indescribable. They literally overhauled music overnight, not to mention fashion and men’s hairstyles. I fully agree that both the 1982 Compleat Beatles and the Anthology series are the go to documentaries on The Beatles. If someone hasn’t seen them, they’re definitely worth checking out.
you should check out my compleat beatles remake documentary, i think you would really enjoy it.
Sounds like a Disney product
The only thing I really liked about the documentary was seeing the footage of black Americans reacting to The Beatles when they first arrived. I had never seen that before and it was interesting seeing the opinions of black teens and adults. But otherwise, it was a waste of time. Same old rehashed stuff we've gotten. If you've seen the original documentary, then no need to see this. I was skipping a lot of the talking heads.
I felt the same way about it. It seemed like a forced collage piece..it was weird. It is as right it just was all over the place.
I'm a meh...... we'd seen the Beatles footage before....... From the intro, the old JFK- Beatles healing America old chestnut, yawn.... to the McCartney telling the story (again) of him playing She Loves You for the first time to his dad (yawn), but the moment I knew it was meh, was when I had to sit through a FULL performance of Smokey Robinson singing the 1965 song Yesterday in a mid sixties TV show, that's when I knew the documentary about THE BEATLES in 1964 had lost focus.... hey and the Jack Douglas bits,? What was that in there for?
I purposely have given this a wide berth as The Beatles/Apple Inc Corporation has devolved purely into a cash-grab operation - "Now And Then" anyone? Who seriously plays "Free As A Bird" regularly and says, 'Wow this is such a great song"? (Anyone even remember "Real Love"?) - and those cash-grabs were from 29 years ago!!! Apple Corp is now running on the "There's more than one way to skin a cat" principal with the endless re-masters, re-packages, "new" doco's - but they don't get my money anymore...
I believe you!
You’re right: it was derivative and slapped together…I don’t care about what some fan has to say about how he bought memorabilia. I wanted an inside story with some of the backstories: what happened to those girls who snuck in? What did the cops recall?
Agree with all the points you raised,
It was far to Disney.... More indepth content needed #Highflyingbird 🐦
Why would your title say that the movie was "good," when it was obvious to you that the movie was not good? Being wishy-washy will not help anyone.
The fans clips on the documental was bouring, I prefer anthology chapter 3, the us fisrt visit dvd is much better, eight days a week movie was more intersting. The Washington concert has still a bad sound, but I think at the end of this documental should be included complete.
You nailed it! My thoughts exactly. And why have Smokey Robinson singing Yesterday from 1965??? Definitely a let down. 👎👎
Thanks, I agree! I have the earlier docs and they are better, in my opinion, so I'm not buying this when it comes out on DVD.
So far I've never seen a Beatles documentary that placed the viewer in any of the live show's or concert's audience. Probably, if the testimony is accurate, you wouldn't hear a friggin' note from The Fabs... which would be the whole point of doing so. Isn't that a weird thing not to include if you wanted to make a proper doc' of The Beatles?
By the way, the film shows a bunch of black kids so excited by the group, but if you look at the Billboard R&B charts from the sixties, NOT ONCE do The Beatles make a showing... not even in the bottom numbers!
? The Beatles Made huge number ones through the country
The R & B charts measure the sales OF R & B records, not the sales of records TO black people. Certainly there is a correlation between the two, but not a perfect one.
@@harmonium8198 All I know is that Elvis Presley in the late 1950s appeared on Billboard's R&B charts many times; in the Top 20 and in the Top 10. The Rolling Stones appeared in the R&B charts a couple of times. PAUL ANKA, of all people, had his 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders" show up in the Top 20...!
The Beatles (considering their status on the Top 100 Pop throughout the sixties) didn't appear even once on the R&B!!!!!
Only so many times you can watch the same story again and again
Apple is running out of stuff to cash in on. Eventually there will be nothing left. Well, until the Hologram can be Projected into your Living Room. Imagine the Beatles Playing in your Front Room.
well they are making 4 new beatles movies coming out in 2027 with actors playing the beatles. but im upset its not a series or just one movie about the beatles career. i think making 4 movies from each of the 4's perspective is a really bad idea.
Just a quick pay day for Scorsese. Just because his name is on something doesn't make it good. A cleaned up Maysles "What's Happening" film with some some full Washington and Sullivan performances caught the experience first hand and perfectly already. No need for this at all.
It was a disappointment for sure. Maybe rushed to coincide with the release of the new box set.
Seriously nobody is going to talk about how pathetic was not to add THEIR EPIC DEBUT WITH "ALL MY LOVING" AND ED SULLIVAN TALKING TO THE AUDIENCE
you call yourself a disney and beatles fan but you're not interested in my channel which has both.
It’s a Disney thing. Totally DEI.
Thanks for saving me time from watching this documentary man
And it's only on Disney+! I don't care!
vinyl rewind, it would mean the world to me if you would review my compleat beatles remake documentary
The documentary is really boring, i switched it off half way, and I'm a massive beatles nut.
I preferred the Rutles to the Beatles.
Unfortunately because it's 2024, it had to be run the the DEI washing machine so inevitably you get pointless garbage.
Boring. We've heard it all before.
It felt really dry
Ничего удивительного.
It was just ok
😃
I'm a Beatles obsessive but I'm not going to seek this out. Sounds like a total nothing burger. Just get Peter Jackson to finish the Star Club tapes...far more interesting
Yiiiiiiiiiikes
I saw it, it was more 'meh' than good. I much prefer Ron Howard's documentary, "Eight Days A Week": th-cam.com/video/0fFyZzqPDws/w-d-xo.html
I thought it was very good. It was better than the film it was generally taken from, "the First US visit". I think you're a little overr critical, but each to their own opinion of course.
First
This was another Beatles cash grab. Really getting tired of this!!!
And BLM... Usually only security at rock concerts these days.
This film was made for everyone. They never said it would be made for just Beatles people. I’ve been a Beatles fan since 1964 and I liked the perspective from the Motown artists. I showed this to someone who didn’t know much about The Beatles except for what I’ve shown her so far and she absolutely loved it. We found the going to Liverpool story and the other stories interesting. Not every film that comes out about The Beatles is going to be just for Beatles people. Enjoy the film for what it is. It was very well done
Disappointing, Enough trying to scam fans with this rehashed stuff.
“We didn’t learn anything new”
My man, love you but have you ever considered that, at some point, there is nothing new to make about a band that disbanded in 69?
Didn't bother to watch it. After watching your review, now I really don't want to watch. They need to restore the Anthology doc which I have on DVD.