My favourite "non-Beatles" Beatles movie!
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Recently dragged out and revisited the 1978 film, I Want To Hold Your Hand. What a marvellous way to spend a couple of hours. For those not familiar with this film, it's an early Zemeckis/Spielberg collaboration that at times hints at what was to come with the Back To The Future trilogy. Not to say it's similar - just in the joyful way those times in 1964 are presented. It's in the SPIRIT of Back To The Future: great fun and the era is faithfully reproduced. The story follows a group of teens who drive to NYC determined to secure tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show. Made on a small budget, with a cast of unknowns, the performances are all great and The Beatles music in the film is the ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDINGS. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it! Of all the movies that have a Beatles related storyline, this is by far my favourite.
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Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
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Does anyone else like Backbeat?
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Nancy R:
Does anyone else like Backbeat?
It lost me when it depicted John singing Long Tall Sally (IIRC)
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Nancy R:
Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
Oh!!!! AND you get your wish for that Sullivan show in colour...sort of.
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Nancy R:
Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
A shame in some ways it didn't come out after BTTF. I'm certain it would have been a much bigger success. It deserved to be.
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Nancy R:
Does anyone else like Backbeat?
It lost me when it depicted John singing Long Tall Sally (IIRC)
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Nancy R:
Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
Just occurred to me how this film and BTTF use lightning strikes to great effect! Geez Zemeckis, get some new material!!!
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To his credit though, Bob Zemeckis didn't have The Beatles wandering around blurting, "Great Scott!" I think they do in the King Features cartoons.
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moptops:
Recently dragged out and revisited the 1978 film, I Want To Hold Your Hand. What a marvellous way to spend a couple of hours. For those not familiar with this film, it's an early Zemeckis/Spielberg collaboration that at times hints at what was to come with the Back To The Future trilogy. Not to say it's similar - just in the joyful way those times in 1964 are presented. It's in the SPIRIT of Back To The Future: great fun and the era is faithfully reproduced. The story follows a group of teens who drive to NYC determined to secure tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show. Made on a small budget, with a cast of unknowns, the performances are all great and The Beatles music in the film is the ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDINGS. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it! Of all the movies that have a Beatles related storyline, this is by far my favourite.
I own the movie on DVD, LOVE IT!!!
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Nancy R:
Does anyone else like Backbeat?
I like Backbeat, its a pretty cool movie!!!
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Has anyone seen Nowhere Boy? That's a DEEP movie!!!
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When I was a kid I used to watch a lot 'John & Yoko: A Love Story' (1985) that had in it a very young Mike Myers playing a very small part. This movie also had original songs in it IIRC. Another one I really like is 'Two Of Us' (2000), specially the piano impromptu performance scene. It's a great fiction of how the 1976 meeting between John & Paul could have been.
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moptops:
Recently dragged out and revisited the 1978 film, I Want To Hold Your Hand. What a marvellous way to spend a couple of hours. For those not familiar with this film, it's an early Zemeckis/Spielberg collaboration that at times hints at what was to come with the Back To The Future trilogy. Not to say it's similar - just in the joyful way those times in 1964 are presented. It's in the SPIRIT of Back To The Future: great fun and the era is faithfully reproduced. The story follows a group of teens who drive to NYC determined to secure tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show. Made on a small budget, with a cast of unknowns, the performances are all great and The Beatles music in the film is the ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDINGS. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it! Of all the movies that have a Beatles related storyline, this is by far my favourite.
Great choice moptops - i LOVE this film!! And i was at the BTTF cast reunion talk in july and Marc McClure gave this a mention as to how both he and Wendie Jo Sperber just fell into their BTTF parts as they'd been in Zemeckis two previous films so weren't asked to audition. It's tragic that Wendie Jo Sperber died 10 years ago.. she was so great in i wanna hold your hand, totally captures that complete lust for Paul.
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Eeee Cor Blimey:
moptops:
Recently dragged out and revisited the 1978 film, I Want To Hold Your Hand. What a marvellous way to spend a couple of hours. For those not familiar with this film, it's an early Zemeckis/Spielberg collaboration that at times hints at what was to come with the Back To The Future trilogy. Not to say it's similar - just in the joyful way those times in 1964 are presented. It's in the SPIRIT of Back To The Future: great fun and the era is faithfully reproduced. The story follows a group of teens who drive to NYC determined to secure tickets to the Ed Sullivan Show. Made on a small budget, with a cast of unknowns, the performances are all great and The Beatles music in the film is the ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDINGS. If you haven't seen this film, I highly recommend it! Of all the movies that have a Beatles related storyline, this is by far my favourite.
Great choice moptops - i LOVE this film!! And i was at the BTTF cast reunion talk in july and Marc McClure gave this a mention as to how both he and Wendie Jo Sperber just fell into their BTTF parts as they'd been in Zemeckis two previous films so weren't asked to audition. It's tragic that Wendie Jo Sperber died 10 years ago.. she was so great in i wanna hold your hand, totally captures that complete lust for Paul.
Thanks for sharing that. Interesting. And I had no idea she passed away.
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Nancy R:
Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
Oh, my favorite scene was when the hotel cleaning lady shook her dust mop out the window and all the girls down on the street started screamed thinking it was one of the lads!!!
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jl4761:
Has anyone seen Nowhere Boy? That's a DEEP movie!!!
Yes, I have it. A few inaccuracies though, like John never struck Paul and knocked him down. The kid they got to play Paul was way too short as well!
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FlowersInTheGround:
When I was a kid I used to watch a lot 'John & Yoko: A Love Story' (1985) that had in it a very young Mike Myers playing a very small part. This movie also had original songs in it IIRC. Another one I really like is 'Two Of Us' (2000), specially the piano impromptu performance scene. It's a great fiction of how the 1976 meeting between John & Paul could have been.
The guy who played John was so ugly though (in Two Of Us) They should have gotten Tim Piper who was in The Linda McCartney Story. I'm biased though--he's a friend of mine!
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Beatles4Ever&Ever:
Nancy R:
Robert, I SO agree! I about peed my pants during the scene where the girl jumps out of the moving car to get to a pay phone to answer the Beatles trivia question that was on the radio !
Oh, my favorite scene was when the hotel cleaning lady shook her dust mop out the window and all the girls down on the street started screamed thinking it was one of the lads!!!
That was a very clever and inspired scene!
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
Has anyone seen Nowhere Boy? That's a DEEP movie!!!
Yes, I have it. A few inaccuracies though, like John never struck Paul and knocked him down. The kid they got to play Paul was way too short as well!
(Paul himself even commented about that!)I must confess, I did not like the guy that played Paul! Why did they get him to play Paul? He looked like a dead corpse!!!
