Yellow Submarine Re-make??

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I used to work for a film studio and recall that for several years while I was working there, the film Yellow Submarine was in litigation and there were lots of problems with who actually owned the rights. I know it was out of circulation for a long time, but that must have finally been settled as I noticed it was being shown on some cable station recently.

I am a big fan of the Beatles, but was never a big fan of the film Yellow Submarine…it just seemed like a poorly executed idea and I guess I never watched it with the correct amount of drugs.

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But it is fun trying to find the correct amount isn’t it?

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I don’t know if this was just a local thing here in NY, but Yellow Submarine used to be shown every New Year’s Eve on TV. This made it seem like a traditional, special event – like March of the Wooden Soldiers and Miracle on 34th Street on Thanksgiving and The Ten Commandments and The Sound of Music near Passover/Easter. So I feel very fondly toward it due to nostalgia, though I wonder if I saw it more recently whether it would hold up. But in a way, I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t. With such music and such artwork, what’s not to like? (At least, to me.)

BTW, I love the beginning of that Rock Band video just as much as I do the post-1:45 stuff. I admit the psychedelic stuff is breathtaking, but I want to give props to the early artwork as well. The sepia tones and paper-work/cut-out look are just lovely.

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Yellow Submarine was restored and re-released by United Artists in 1999.

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…with a HUGE hype campaign and vast quantities of tie-in merchandise. But for all that, they didn’t keep it in print very long at all. It’s been unavailable for years, which I can only imagine is due to legal complications.

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My birthday is 9/11, and my husband wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday this year. I guess I’m getting a new console and game. I don’t know which console yet.

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For Rock Band, the X-Box store is far superior. Wait for the Elite price cut, get the X-Box. The Wii has issues with Rock Band, mostly in that it has no internal hard drive, and the SD cards fill up quick.

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A Hollywood casting director is looking for voice actors with Liverpool accents for an “Untitled Fab Four Project,” produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, that will use motion capture to tell the story of four young Brits who try to bring joy and music to a land that has been overtaken by mean-spirited creatures. Previz shooting is to begin in January.

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Though Peter Max was never involved with the original, there was one name who went on to much greater fame: Erich Segal, who later wrote Love Story

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And Geoffrey Hughes is probably better known to us all as Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances.

Interesting visual juxtaposition…

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TVC was a British animation company, and the film was made in London.

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I was ready to fling poo on the heathens who would desecrate the original but damn, that was impressive. If that was done in 3D it would jumpstart the 3D home industry. I would buy the LCD glasses to see something that creative in 3D and I would probably watch it multiple times in the movie theater for the surround sound. That could easily turn into another Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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With a principally Canadian animation staff.

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What exactly is being desecrated? The original was a cheap cash-in that didn’t feature the Beatles and had shitty animation. This is like crying about not respecting Scooby-Doo.

I want to see this to hear more Beatles music in 5.1. The animation could suck, and I’d just close my eyes and listen and feel I’d gotten my money’s worth from the ticket price.

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The End (The End) is just as impressive, by the way. The interstitials are different, but still good.

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I suck at Rock Band, but every time I start it up, I let that trailer play all the way through. Usually I skip the trailers when I’ve seen them a few times. That one just doesn’t get old.

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Ooooh, trippy.