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| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
| Notice: | Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie! |
| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
| Total number of notes: | 16012 |
565.0. "Backbeat" by 17617::MAYNARD (The Front Row Kid) Tue Jun 07 1994 15:04
This was a disappointment, in a lot of the same ways that Oliver
Stone's chronicle of the Doors was. The story line is billed as
the Beatle's early days, specifically in Liverpool and Hamburg. While
most of the action does take place in these locales, Paul, George and
Pete Best are simply cardboard cutouts or sounding boards, for Lennon
and Stu Sutcliffe. The real storyline is the "triangle" between Lennon,
Sutcliffe, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid.
The pacing is slow,and the music isn't particularly interesting (50's
standards like Good Golly Miss Molly.)
Only for hardcore Beatle fans, and nostalgia buffs, although some
of the historical inaccuracies are pretty glaring...
Jim
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| 565.1 | Cross-reference, Beatle::Beatles, topic 677 | NETRIX::michaud | Ringo | Tue Jun 07 1994 16:20 | 3 |
| FWIW, this film has several reviews, etc in the Beatles conference.
Press SELECT (or KP7) now to add it to your notebook. The topic number
is 677 once your there.
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| 565.2 | 2 Thumbs down. More if I had any. | 28958::F_MUELLER | HOME but not forgotten! | Thu Jun 23 1994 00:06 | 6 |
| I took my 18 year old son to see it. I was really embarrassed.
I was really tempted to walk out a couple of times. I guess I kept
hoping it would get better. It didn't.
Frank M.
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