Beatles Get Back trailer. Airs on Disney+ November 25 in 3 parts

I saw the ads. Not sure what to think. It looks ok for a watch.

Guess I'll have to get a month of Disney to watch this. I hate the way all of these companies setting up their own streaming sources makes it so easy to miss something good. I'd rather have everything back on cable than to pay for all of the different streams.

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Peter Jackson is a true prodigy amongst filmmakers. And I can't say enough about Andy Serkis playing every member of the band flawlessly. The CG here is flawless. It's so seemless, almost as if it was real.

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I'll watch.

But it's going to be tough to top the Hulu special with Rick Rubin and Paul McCartney (McCartney 3, 2, 1). That shite was absolutely amazing if you're remotely a music fan.

How long is this thing supposed to be? I’m a fan, but just watching them doodle around for 15 minutes at a time gets boring as hell. The only really interesting musical bit in the first 2 hours was the genesis of Get Back. This could’ve been riveting stuff if Peter Jackson had the balls to edit it all down to 3 hours or so.

I don’t know if the clips of Paul playing the Long and Winding Road or Let it Be was the first times for his band mates to hear it, but I would have expected them to be more blown away by how good it was?
I remember Paul saying that in all of their years playing together, John only complimented him once on a song.
I forget what song that was.

As a huge Beatles fan did we need another documentary?

Really good Rolling Stone article on Get Back


Rolling Stone

Great doc. Really enjoying it so far.

Y'all remember when Dewey Cox met the Beatles??

After finishing the series...

(Keeping in mind that this is still Jackson's edited vision of what happened, and he did not want a depressing presentation.)

John - not the dour zombie thrall being puppeteered by Yoko that I'd envisioned. His love and respect for Paul seemed pretty obvious.

Paul - about what I expected. The most creative, savvy, driven of the bunch. I suspect that he "allowed" John to be the leader all of those years to provide a buffer so that he could retreat to being the creative force when needed.

George - heartbreaking to see an amazing musician at his peak, struggling to get his art out while maintaining second-string status in the greatest musical group of all time. Dick Cavett once asked George if John and Paul held him back. George answered, "Subtly." I don't see how anyone can listen to the All Things Must Pass album (that George threw himself into after the breakup) and think that he was just a decent guitarist who was along for the ride.

Ringo - literally the heartbeat of the band. You see him sitting there providing the beat through every nonsensical jam as Lennon and McCartney kill time and get their creative juices going. Never a sense of frustration as he just segues from serious practice to silly parodies, following along and providing the backbone for everything that the leaders do. The fact that Ringo, the most popular and famous of the early Beatles kept his shite together for that decade is amazing.

Yoko - after seeing this I'm wondering if she wasn't the lightning rod that kept the fans from blaming George or any of the other Beatles for the breakup. I still think she was a whacko and a bad influence, but it appeared that her intrusion at this point was minimal.