The wonderful Beatles's first motion picture, very overstated. 1964. Director: Richard Lester.
This film follows the Beatles during one day in their lifes, or something like that. They ride on a train and meet Paul's grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) who's an odd man.
They're then driven to the hotel where they feel trapped. They go to a night club where Ringo dances, well, maybe not so very elegant. But it's not suppose to be elegant, but still he's not much of a dancer.
The grandfather steals a hotel employee's clothes and go to a casino where the Beatles then find him. He's a nasty old man who doesn't listen to people and tries to make people like himself. Irritating fellow. "A villain, a real mixer" as Paul says.
The band is then to attend to a press conference, and then they have to be on a tv show. But they don't listen to their stressed manager (Norman Rossington), especially not the allways joking John.
This film has almost not any plot at all. I do like the cinematography, but the rest isn't so very good, unfortunately. The Beatles are maybe not trying to be actors, because they play themselves, but they still say their lines very badly.
John is awfully charming sometimes, but mostly irritating (but also funny) with his constant jokes. Can the Beatles ever be just a bit serious? Doesn't seem so. It can be fun, but it's sometimes a bit annoying when they seem to be a bit rude to most people. Especially John.
But, as always, the music is splended, marvelous, great, unforgettable! I love The Beatles and listen to them all the time, but even though I'm a Beatles fan, I can help thinking that this film is really, really bad. Everything is just ridicolousy stupid, but the boys are very charming, of course.
One minute they're sitting in a room talking about something, and the next minute they're running around on the streets and nothing is linked. That's the worst part. But if you like The Beatles there's one important reason to see this film; it's The Beatles!
The only part that's really good is the opening scene where they run at the train station to the song A hard day's night. So that's good.
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