A Hard Day's Night Behind the Screen
Added 9/24/2009
Great insight into the making of a classic film. Very well done; factful let entertaining. Makes watching the actual film that much better.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
Magical Mystery Tour and Help
Added 1/7/2008
What is important here is both Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Help! is from the same remastered 1.6 to 1 ratio source as on the new 2 disk set, however this is reduced from that original 1.6 British version to the 1.3 TV image ratio using side to side pan and scan. If you compare this to the new 2 disk set, you'll see that frame for frame the picture and sound is from the same remastered 1.6 source. So you have a choice between this hack job and the hack job on the new set. I prefer this full top to bottom view with the sides cut off in this version to the full side to side view with the top and bottom cut off (fake widescreen) on the new 2 disk set, but it is sad we have to choose between these two. Why they can't release the full 1.6 image is beyond comprehension.
Magical Mystery Tour is the main reason to get this set. It is remastered from the best possible prints of the film and there is no comparison between this beautifully remastered version and the piece of doo doo that is currently out there. The MMT disk also has two interesting vintage 1967 newsreels about The Beatles; their trip to India to study under MM Yogi and the opening of the Apple psychedelic boutique. Get a copy of these films if you can.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
|
"For Those of [Us] in the Cheaper Seats, Clap Your Hands" [for an Affordable Beatles' Collection]
Added 10/16/2006
The value of this collection is in some ways priceless. "Imagine" a collection that could get us all five Beatles' films for an affordable price. The two-star rating isn't for the very good release, 'Help' or for the flawed, idiocyncratic, random, but sometimes groundbreaking and interesting 'Magical Mystery Tour' and all of the gravy of the accompanying "rockumentaries". Hopefully, the capitalist version of trickle down economics will materialize--the way it did for C.D. players and Walkman--when the prolitariat will be able to afford all five Beatles' (movie) DVD's, either separately or together. By the way, although the bickering on 'Let It Be' (not included here--or barely anywhere else) is legendary, so is the music. For those who have seen the last Beatle film, the strife is enlightening, but overrated. Can we have that movie, please? (For myself, I only saw it once: At a Mark Lapidos' Beatles' convention in 1980.) I hope trickle down theory works, and someday the rest of us will get the movies we want.
1 out of 4 people found this helpful.
|
Inside story
Added 9/20/2005
What a great piece of film. I have to watch it during the day, because it gets me too charged up at night so that I can't sleep. Getting the producers and directors views on working so closely with the 4 are riveting. John has always been my favorite, and their are a lot of candid moments with him. This film shows they were/are human. LG
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
Fans of the wonderful Beatles will be ecstatic!
Added 1/25/2004
"The Making of A Hard Day's Night" is a very interesting 'Making Of" (well, of course its a Making Of!) and is hosted by Phil Collins. The Beatles are in their usual charming and funny selves and, YAY, this video introduces a song which was cut out from the film, which is, "You Can't Do That." It is one of my favorite Beatles songs and I just love the guitar intro. "A Hard Day's Night" is a great Beatles movie and it definitely deserved a "Making Of." The Beatles are very entertaining in it and in this VHS as well. John, Paul, George, and Ringo! Aaah! The reason why I added a four star is because I would have liked more of the Beatles. After all, they are the main cast. But then, I do understand why they didn't have them in this, because they weren't there at the time and they probably didn't have much of their behind-the-scenes stuff. Also another reason is because I think only a Beatles fan would love it. (Ahem, that reason leads me to the fact that tells me that only Beatles fans would get this...) Some parts were rather boring, but that's the only complaint I have. My favorite part in this VHS is Abbey Road Studios where the Beatles are composing their songs for the film ("A Hard Day's Night"). John and Ringo are hilarous in it. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. Haha! All in all, I enjoyed most of this one hour (and 5 minutes) "Making Of" with the writer, producer, director, and cast members of "A Hard Day's Night." I definitely recommend it for Beatles fans.
6 out of 8 people found this helpful.
|
