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27 December 2020
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I really don’t understand why Let It Be is constantly being regarded as a depressing documentation of the breakup of The Beatles. When I saw it in the movies fifty years ago I thought it was joyous. I remember coming home feeling great! So lately I’m thinking that maybe I misremembered. Until yesterday when I saw a link to a fan’s restoration of it on expectingrain.com
I remembered it correctly! It was great. There was that one scene where George seems irked at Paul. So what! That kind of thing probably happened during the recording of every Beatles album! I’m looking forward to the new Peter Jackson thing, but the original doesn’t need any correcting.
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Vera Chuck and Dave, Richard3.37pm
25 February 2020
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I really don’t understand why Let It Be is constantly being regarded as a depressing documentation of the breakup of The Beatles. When I saw it in the movies fifty years ago I thought it was joyous. I remember coming home feeling great! So lately I’m thinking that maybe I misremembered. Until yesterday when I saw a link to a fan’s restoration of it on expectingrain.comI remembered it correctly! It was great. There was that one scene where George seems irked at Paul. So what! That kind of thing probably happened during the recording of every Beatles album! I’m looking forward to the new Peter Jackson thing, but the original doesn’t need any correcting.
Very similar to my own experience, intagliogutenberg.
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intagliogutenberg said
I really don’t understand why Let It Be is constantly being regarded as a depressing documentation of the breakup of The Beatles. When I saw it in the movies fifty years ago I thought it was joyous. I remember coming home feeling great! So lately I’m thinking that maybe I misremembered. Until yesterday when I saw a link to a fan’s restoration of it on expectingrain.comI remembered it correctly! It was great. There was that one scene where George seems irked at Paul. So what! That kind of thing probably happened during the recording of every Beatles album! I’m looking forward to the new Peter Jackson thing, but the original doesn’t need any correcting.
The only correction i’d do to the original is actually adding more footage of the Beatles working on the music. I do not care at all about John and Yoko dancing, Paul explaining how the cameras should move, how George introduced Bill Preston to the others, etc…i’d love to watch them making and talking music. I want to know how and why they did the arrangements they did.
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25 February 2020
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finally going to torrent/watch this
I got bored like 20 minutes in
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28 March 2014
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I got bored like 20 minutes in
Ya, the first half of the movie is the depressing part. Hope you got to see the Rooftop performances.
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Offline Bongo said
Vera Chuck and Dave said
I got bored like 20 minutes in
Ya, the first half of the movie is the depressing part. Hope you got to see the Rooftop performances.
I used to have, on my computer, a copy of the audio that I pulled from the movie. It’s not a bad listen, although the quality was terrible. I don’t have it anymore, but I’ll probably do the same thing with the audio from the remaster, as well as the new movie
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4 September 2019
Offline Bongo said
Ya, the first half of the movie is the depressing part.
Twickenham.
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24 August 2021
Offline I’ve certainly never regarded this film as depressing; clearly that’s just a popular narrative because it came out right after the breakup, because the Twickenham portion of the project WAS the genuine low point for the band but it somehow represents the entirety of the sessions to many people when it wasn’t even close, and the Paul-George argument got really blown out of proportion, when it’s one part of a whole. If any part seemed more tense, it was the part right before the January 31 shoot, when Paul is venting, John’s not saying anything and looks completely bored.
There’s plenty of warm moments in the original film, but the Peter Jackson documentary will really put everything into focus. We’ll get to see not just more moments like we got in the sneak peek, but we’ll definitely see the very real tension there, such as finally seeing the legendary moment George walked out. It’ll be a complete picture.
I know there’s a lot of people who’ve said Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s direction and edits are amateurish, that the lighting isn’t particularly good, and so forth. Is that the truth, though? I’m not sure. Of course, since the Jackson film is purposely avoiding using the exact same footage angles and camera shots as much as possible, it’ll be a different beast altogether, so you can’t exactly take your bootleg DVD of the original film to compare directly to the Jackson one. A Blu-ray release, which has long been hinted for the original film, will give us that chance.
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I’ve certainly never regarded this film as depressing; clearly that’s just a popular narrative because it came out right after the breakup, because the Twickenham portion of the project WAS the genuine low point for the band but it somehow represents the entirety of the sessions to many people when it wasn’t even close, and the Paul-George argument got really blown out of proportion, when it’s one part of a whole. If any part seemed more tense, it was the part right before the January 31 shoot, when Paul is venting, John’s not saying anything and looks completely bored.There’s plenty of warm moments in the original film, but the Peter Jackson documentary will really put everything into focus. We’ll get to see not just more moments like we got in the sneak peek, but we’ll definitely see the very real tension there, such as finally seeing the legendary moment George walked out. It’ll be a complete picture.
I know there’s a lot of people who’ve said Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s direction and edits are amateurish, that the lighting isn’t particularly good, and so forth. Is that the truth, though? I’m not sure. Of course, since the Jackson film is purposely avoiding using the exact same footage angles and camera shots as much as possible, it’ll be a different beast altogether, so you can’t exactly take your bootleg DVD of the original film to compare directly to the Jackson one. A Blu-ray release, which has long been hinted for the original film, will give us that chance.
This YouTube clip puts everything in a whole different perspective:
“So let’s look at what The Beatles accomplished in just 17 days:
- No.1 they got an album out of it that was a No.1 album in both the UK and the United States
- They had three No.1 singles out of it
- They had the Let It Be film
- They basically launched the Abbey Road album with the sessions from this time period as well as demos for John, Paul and George’s first two solo albums
- Then we’ve got the last concert they ever appeared in together
- Plus we’re going to get the Peter Jackson film which is going to be six hours or more of footage
(referring to books) these guys called it a disaster, this is a f***ing miracle”
Put like that it sheds new light entirely.
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Rube, KyleKartan11.34am
18 April 2013
Offline Yoko’s omnipresence is the best part of the film.
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Yoko’s omnipresence is the best part of the film.
She certainly adds something to it. (BTW, gotten to see the alternate history thread yet? If so, tell me privately.)
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Expert Textpert7.52am
3 July 2020
Offline The official Beatles Channels have posted a secretive picture on their channels:
Its speculated/assumed that the remastered Let It Be 1970 movie will be released on Disney Plus
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Offline It’s also on the Disney page.
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3 July 2020
Offline Fairly sure this will be 1970 LIB coming to stream and probably physical home media by the end of the year…
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Rube2.36pm
24 March 2014
Offline It’s gonna be available in Disney+
A big meh about this.
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5.57pm
2 May 2013
Offline Finally! Out on Disney+ in May 24:
Beatles documentary hidden for over 50 years to be released next month (msn.com)
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17 April 2024
Offline I’m excited to see this again. Saw it originally in a Theatre in 1971. I enjoyed it at the time and never understood why some people thought it was depressing. Have got a poor-quality bootleg , so I am looking forward to a good-quality copy.
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3 July 2020
Offline Shamrock Womlbs said
It’s gonna be available in Disney+A big meh about this.
I think it will be released on physical home media too
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Offline Apple have a streaming deal with Disney+ so it’s no surprise ‘LIB ‘ will be there first followed by a home release later. It’s the same process as with ‘GB’ and I hope that means some cinema screenings will be happening.
I think this is a good release as it’s needed to happen for everyone to move on. I agree it’s not the most exciting but it never was going to be, it’s more historical.
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