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Honestly a Weird Trippy Vanity Project that detracts from Beatles legacy

posted 8 years ago by spawnerdawner2004
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Well, I remember trying to watch this as a youngster and I could not get through it. Too weird and non-linear, just weird.

Now many years later as a adult, I find it absurd and unwatchable. I absolutely LOVE the Beatles but I just don't think this is at all an important movie. It's just pretentiously weird for the sake of being weird and trippy.

I guess you are not meant to watch it when you are not on LSD.

What do the rest of you think?

[–] hallogallo 8 years ago

Other than providing four new songs the Beatles had no input into this movie until the brief live action coda was added after the movie had been completed so calling this a vanity project is kind of silly.

Who's driving this plane? Stan Butler?

[–] spawnerdawner2004 8 years ago

Did you like Yellow Submarine? Honestly?
I can't make it through a full viewing.
Or are you pretending it's an important movie?

[–] skohl632001 8 years ago

Do you understand what a "vanity project" is? Because this is pretty much the opposite. The Beatles didn't want to have anything to do with it at the onset. It was pretty much forced on them to fulfill a film contract their manager had signed several years earlier.

[–] pjmuck-161-277643 8 years ago

I think you need to turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream.

[–] Owlwise (1535) 5 years ago

Of course it's weird and trippy, that's part of its charm!

Perhaps not an important movie, but a delightful one that the Beatles themselves liked very much, after being initially wary of it. It captures the vibe of that time beautifully, as I well remember from my teenaged years. Certainly nothing pretentious about it, as its storyline is straightforward and its message is clear: Love is all you need, all you need is love.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

It's an artifact of the sixties. Very much a product of hippie culture which the Beatles were deep into.

The Beatles weren't very involved in making it, other then the songs the created for it. They did like it a lot, though! I think it's a part of their legacy, and not a bad one, either.

[–] lordofthelake (147) 5 years ago

I love it. I see it like a trip to a 1960s psychedelic museum.

[–] Owlwise (1535) 5 years ago

The world could use a good dose of 1960s psychedelia today!