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Summary: Great movie with great music.
Review: This movie is very very funny. Even today, the humor is still fresh and very funny. Lennon is hilarious in this movie about a day in the life (sounds familiar, doesn't it) of one of the greatest bands ever. The Beatles
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Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR ANY BEATLES FAN
Review: This movie shows The Beatles at the peak of their pre-Dylan Mop Top phase. They are adorable. Get it!
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Summary: A Hard Day's Night
Review: I really enjoyed watching this movie.
I am a Beatles fan, and inside this movie thare are some Beatles songs, so it was really fun watching it!
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Summary: Brough Back Old Memories
Review: This movie brought back memories of my early childhood, I always liked the Beatles and this movie. The songs are the best part of the movie and some of the jokes go unnoticed to those not paying attention. This was a classic long before the MTV era, and it shows older is sometimes better.
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Summary: great movie, boring special features
Review: the movie itself is obviously great, and the special features give an interesting look into the making of. but none of the beatles are involved in the special features, and most of them are boring. what would have been really great is if the beatles had been remembering what it was like for the special features, and a commentary with george, paul, and ringo taking about each thing. now THAT would have been REALLY great!
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Summary: Phony Stereo and Not for Mac Users
Review: The movie's still fun, but two things surprised and disappointed me about it.
First of all, all of the songs have been artificially "stereo-ized." This effect is about as convincing as the "Wide" button on a boombox and is pretty cheesy, especially if you listen on headphones. I would have preferred the original mono mixes re-mastered with super-clear DVD audio quality.
Next, as a Mac user, I'm totally shut out of a number of DVD extras I was interested in, such as viewing the movie script. Miramax loses big points for not even considering us Mac users, many of whom are musicians and likely buyers of this DVD. There's no note on the box warning us, and not even a respectful, "sorry, losers." Boo to them.
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Summary: for the original version , "First US Visit"
Review: The five stars I give above I give to Paul, John, George and Ringo...Each new release has value, this is a compilation of interviews, and I have the original DVD release for sound. May I recommend the original: "First US Visit" on Apple....This is a film Done by the Maysals Bros. and is the real live action Richard Lester basically reshot with better cameras and some control
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Summary: Should Have Known Better....
Review: As one of those lucky millions who was cellularly changed when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was so happy when this became available on DVD that I watched it uncritically in one gulp, loving every morsel. Then I watched it again. The picture is wonderful, but the musical sound, as others have noted, is particularly poor at times. It does not seem to blend in to the movie, it seems to stand out in some kind of sterile, sonic relief from the actual film. A very bad sounding echo is added to the TV show scenes, and the sound on She Loves You becomes abruptly, bafflingly muffled and muddy. Very disappointing. Why mess with perfection? I also agree with another person who felt that the visual presentation of the package was poor. Right on--why not stay with some version of the original graphics, which were simple, brilliant, and familiar. This box is sterile-looking and has no resonance with any other visual iconcography associated with the film. Some stupid decisions were made here.... That being said, the movie is still brilliant, still fun, and still exciting to watch. The style is as original as the Beatles themselves. There is plenty of social commentary, and enough thematic & visual motifs to keep the film students working hard. Maybe Miramax will wise up and reissue this in a more reverent fashion. Sometimes change for the sake of change is not a good thing. Messing with this film was like putting out a version of the Bible in some weird font with illustrations by Leroy Neiman.
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Summary: A bloody fine film
Review: The movie is just flat out good. This is a fine piece of film making. It is funny, Lester's eye is wonderful and the music is some of the early Beatle's best. The Beatles themselves are in good form, and even though it has a simple storyline it is still engaging. Anyone interested in the Beatles, film and 60's culture, this is a must see. This movie captures what the Beatles in their early years were all about. When you're done watching this throw in "I Want To Hold Your Hand" just for good measure.
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Summary: Great Movie, Disappointing DVD Release
Review: This movie to me is one of the great feel good movies of all time. I was 7 years old and a true Beatlemaniac when it was originally released and it still puts a big smile on my face and has me feel great whenever I see it. Roger Ebert even refers to this movie (on the packaging) as "One of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies." What is disappointing to me however is the lack of quality of the DVD release itself. The visual quality of the movie does not appear to have been optimized to be its best and as others have mentioned the quality of the sound is very mediocre too. Also, despite the fact that previous DVD releases of the movie have had subtitles available in different languages these have for some reason been omitted in this release. What is great about this DVD are the interviews with the cast and crew who were associated with the movie. This gave me some great additional perspective around everything that went into the making of the movie itself. For example, I was absolutely stunned to find out that Wilfrid Brambell, the actor who played Paul's grandfather in the movie, was only 51 years old when the movie was made. I always figured that he had to be somewhere between 70 and 80 years old at the time. Also, once the actual filming of the movie was complete the editors had only 3 weeks to edit all of the film and music in order to meet the scheduled release date. Despite the greatness of the movie itself hopefully someday we will see a DVD release of this movie that contains all of the features we know are available.
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