You should buck the trend of saying things like that. You’d be owings us an apology.
I was disappointed to find it wasn’t the boys doing the voices in Yellow Submarine. Come on!
I saw YS when it was new, and I was eight. I loved it. I saw it again when I was an adult, I realized you had to be stoned to enjoy it. Or eight. I still think the Blue Meanies and the green apple guys are creepy cool.
Not bad.
The densest crowd I’ve ever been was for the opening of Help!
Sixth grade, tiny neighborhood theater, me and hundred or so middle schoolers all packed together, moving around like a big amoeba…
… and my feet weren’t touching the ground. We were all so squished shoulder-to-shoulder that I just picked up my feet and got carried along with the crowd.
You kids with your mosh pits and Who concerts; we were living with danger before you were even born.
I’ve seen Help! on TV and I’ve never seen A Hard Day’s Night playing on TV. Probably just a fluke, though.
believe it or not the first time I saw a hard days night was on the Disney channel in the early 90s when they actually had things for adults on it still and weren’t trying to be nickelodeon
Loved John’s sunken bed! Always wanted one of those.
Did you ever see the 1970s film he did where he okayed himself as well as his doppelgänger, Ognir Rrats?
I did, I don’t remember much about it now except I think Art Carney was in it and playing his Dad.
Caveman with Shelley Long was silly fun.
I don’t think the Rutles actually made it into a full feature film, just the trailer.
“All You Need Is Cash” was a full length feature film with the Rutles, particularly Eric Idle.
No? Really? /s
I recently watched Help! on Apple TV, and as usual, went to look up trivia about the movie on IMDB.
The boys were completely stoned on pot the day they filmed the curling scene in the Austrian Alps. I thought they looked a bit dazed and confused when I was watching. And BTW, “fiendish thingy” has become a favorite phrase of mine.
George Harrison was introduced to the sitar by the restaurant musicians when they were filming the Indian restaurant scenes, and this started him off on his Indian music interests.
Watch the listings for TCM. That’s where I’ve seen it.
Ouch!
The cover of “Help” showed the band with their arms in different positions. I was probably 20 years old before I realized they were pretending to use boy-scout signal flags spelling out “help” sigh as my garmma said:…" too soon ist vee old,… too late ist vee schaht"
While on the subject of the album, can we all agree that it was the biggest con Capitol Records ever foisted upon American Beatles fans? (Apologies to any Ken Thorne fans out there…)
Which album, and how?
The real turkey of a Beatles movie is Magical Mystery Tour. Granted, it was a TV-movie.
“Mystery tours”, overnight bus rides to unknown destinations, were popular in England as low-budget weekend getaways. Most of this movie was shot in a rented bus filled with friends, acquaintances, Beatles office staff, a camera crew, and a handful of experienced actors, rambling around the English countryside one holiday weekend. Everyone was encouraged to invent his or her own character, let whatever was going to happen happen, and the results would be magical. Unfortunately, most of the passengers “acted” like anyone else travelling on a bus tour. John Lennon and George Harrison spent most of the trip sleeping or avoiding the cameras. The bus, with a hand-lettered “Magical Mystery Tour” sign, attracted curious on-lookers who began following in droves. Suggestions to film the chaos mounting outside were shot down. Lennon ultimately ordered the bus to stop, got out, and tore the lettering off the sides. He later derided the whole program as “The most expensive home movie ever made.” - IMDB
The US release of the album Help! was almost 50% incidental soundtrack music (by Ken Thorpe) and Muzak style instrumental versions of actual Beatles songs.
Yikes. What a rip-off.