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A Hard Day's Night is great because it's basically just them goofing around. The rest of the Beatles films have their charms, but they're not actors. I really can't imagine that the idea was to do a straight LOTR adaptation, it must have been some kind of parody. The whole appeal of the Beatles on screen is that they're funny.

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No doubt, Help! also fits into the Beatles goofing off schema, and I think a Beatles LotR would be similar, but admit it, it would be fun, like the 1967 version of Casino Royale.

Yesterday painted them as literal Gods, instead of just decent musicians at the right place at the right time.

To this day I go out of my way to ward people away from that terrible film.

Did we watch the same movie? It was more about their cultural impact than painting them as gods

Imagine you have a friend who plays a nice song for you, and is dumfounded -nay- awestruck to the point of murder - that you aren't moved to tears by the performance because he believes the song was written by the angels themselves.

That movie overglorified the Beatles beyond credibility, and it was genuinely painful to watch.

I think the dumbfoundedness didn't arise from the inherent quality of the music, but his shock at the fact that five people in England didn't know who the Beatles were.

That said, I do think this movie missed out on a lot of potential, by not exploring what the actual significance of the Beatles to the world would have been: it never really asks what the world would be like had the Beatles never existed, which I think is a really interesting question, and instead develop a typical Hollywood plot.

I did find the lack of cigarettes amusing, so I'm guessing the parallel world really had nothing to do with the Beatles at all, they were just a byproduct

The premise of these realities being almost identical means that they had no cultural impact.

I thought that movie was fun for what it was.

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