A Hard Day's Night defines the Beatles of the early 60's just as much as their first Ed Sullivan appearance & Shea Stadium in fact even more so.  This classic rock movie is a gem for its time capturing John, Paul, George & Ringo at the height of Beatlemania with their haircuts, their attitude & their music in full force.  I saw AHDN for the first time way back in 76 when I was 12 years old which knocked me out as a Beatles fan. I think if it would have been made in color instead of black & white the magic of the early 60's would have been lost personally speaking.  A Hard Day's Night is a solid rock & roll movie which is timeless with the Beatles proving why they are legends before it was true.  

Nope...can't find one thing about your post I disagree with.  Let's just be thankful Ted Turner didn't get his hands on this while he was going colorization crazy with old movies in the 80's.

I agree too.  A Hard Day's Night is a classic by any standard.  Help! lost something by being in color.  The James Bond parody is silly.  The one constant about The Beatles is that they made great records from start to finish.  The Let It Be film is out of print which surprised me.  It shows the group breaking down, but anything about The Beatles is interesting.
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Great movie. Brilliant dialogue.

I just saw it today for the first time (It's my birthday). I don't think it's as good as Help! or Yellow Submarine. I love how Beatles films are always so random though.

lol...well this is the onli beatles film ive seen(which i saw at abbey road!), and think its gtreat, i agree it is random though

I think AHDN is far superior to Help! Wilfred Bramble as Paul's grandfather is the glue which holds the movie together, and it's very funny how John intimidates the "manager", who nervously addresses him as "Lennon" in a futile attempt to maintain authority. In Help! Leo McKern, a fine actor, is woefully miscast in a role which is just annoying.

Help! is really quite a poor film. Some of the actors are woefully miscast, and there is too much actual acting for The Beatles to do. I like it because it's The Beatles. If this had been a movie starring anyone else, it would have got a right pasting.

Quoted from BlueMeanie

If this had been a movie starring anyone else, it would have got a right pasting.

Of course it would, but it wasn't. It's good silly fun, can't we love that, too?

I'm solidly on the Silly Fun bandwidth, Klang! *gives you your ring back*

A Hard Days Night is my favourite movie of all time....i find myself sticking it on when im down and it lifts me right out of it.John cracks me up every time.The bit when he pretends he's  aprisoner is priceless!

As for Help,i have less time for it,but still like it. I think Colour made it less boring than what it would have been without.I reckon the movies lack of greatness was due to the lads being stoned most of the way through it.

Thank god Pauline Fowler never made it into the Help Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Hard Day's Night is my favorite Beatle movie.  Help! was good also, but not nearly as good as AHDN in my opinion.  

i love both of the movies, but i personally like Help! more. this may have something to do with the fact that i watched AHDN first, so i was still trying to figure out who everyone was. i had it pretty much figured it out by the time i watched Help!, which is a relief. also, i like the color in help! it looks great without it in AHDN, but in help! it just belonged. Peace out, ya'll!

Quoted from Klang

It's good silly fun, can't we love that, too?

Any movie which can come up with a contraption like the Relativity Cadenza is OK by me!









"Bad machine...bad!"

I do have quite an affection for help.

I don't know if I must ask it here, but can anybody explain the joke that Ringo is reading the Queen?
I've watched it recently, it's from the library. Till so far it's the only beatle movie I've seen. But I like it!!!

I just popped it on again this weekend.  Still my favorite  

I was wondering the same thing Digna.  I was thinking they were making fun of him because mybe upper class people read it? I could be totally off on this just making a guess here.

Quoted from HeatherBoo

I just popped it on again this weekend.  Still my favorite  

I was wondering the same thing Digna.  I was thinking they were making fun of him because mybe upper class people read it? I could be totally off on this just making a guess here.

I really have no idea what that means...
And I have also no idea of the Queen (what sort of magazine is that anyway?

Quoted from digna

I don't know if I must ask it here, but can anybody explain the joke that Ringo is reading the Queen?
I've watched it recently, it's from the library. Till so far it's the only beatle movie I've seen. But I like it!!!

Queen is/was a magazine for the well off 'upper classes'. So it could be a reference to the class divide between them and someone who comes from a 'working class' background. Also Grandad had earlier mentioned 'sissies' and 'powdered gewgaws', meaning gay men. The word 'Queen' is a popular way to describe gay men in Briton.

Quoted from BlueMeanie

Queen is/was a magazine for the well off 'upper classes'. So it could be a reference to the class divide between them and someone who comes from a 'working class' background. Also Grandad had earlier mentioned 'sissies' and 'powdered gewgaws', meaning gay men. The word 'Queen' is a popular way to describe gay men in Briton.

Thank you, I think I get it right now.

AHDN is my all time favorite movie, Beatle one too.  I agree with the person starting this thread.  AHDN was the Beatles being "Beatles"...........

I love AHDN, Help! and yellow sub!

i like a hard day's night best though

Thanks for the clarification BlueMeanie.

can someone explain to me how they got OUT of the train so fast then back IN.

"Hey mister, can we have our ball back?!"

They actually used the transporter, PaulieBear. But since Star Trek had not been invented yet, Dick Lester was unable to show the transporter effect on screen.

No, they're MAGICAL! They can poof where they want when they want to. They just push Ringo's neb (nose) and POOF! They're gone.

My favorite part was, or one of them is when Paul is in the dressing room with everyone and he says
"...that this too too solid flesh would melt, ZAP"
I LOVE IT

Quoted from PaulieBear

My favorite part was, or one of them is when Paul is in the dressing room with everyone and he says
"...that this too too solid flesh would melt, ZAP"
I LOVE IT

I forgot that part of the movie, what did that mean? Sounds Shakespearean, was there some special relevance to the scene?

Quoted from alexis

I forgot that part of the movie, what did that mean? Sounds Shakespearean, was there some special relevance to the scene?

It's Shakespeare, from Hamlet:

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.

Quoted from Geoff

It's Shakespeare, from Hamlet:

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.

Thanks   I wonder if it was total Beatle's irrelevance, or if there was something in the movie scene that was connected to that Hamlet scene ... ?

Like was he drinking a Mountain Dew  ?

AHDN is a great film in all respects! It is made with such good, perfect taste. It lacks nothing, but I wish the individual scenes with each of the Beatles hadn`t been excluded. As far as i remember some of the scenes were excluded to make the guys appear equal time. For example, Paul`s episode. And the film Help was shot in line with the then fashion of evil men running after good men. It seems a bit stupid now but has anybody said they claim it to be a philosophical piece of art? Its amusing and again in line with The Batman and the like films of those days. And appeals to children.