Which of the above movies do you like best?


I love Help! Everytime I watch it I notice something new. It always makes me laugh.  :)

I don't like Yellow submarine whoever did the voice of ringo makes me cringe

A Hard Day's Night captures the spirit of the Beatles & Beatlemania itself back in 64 in all its glory.

What does it look like! 8)

Plus I havn't seen help. :'(

Let it be is not on your list.  More of a docudrama but a hard day's night would be my choice here.

Quoted from John@work, posted March 11, 2004, 10:35pm at here

Let it be is not on your list.  More of a docudrama but a hard day's night would be my choice here.

I was going to put Let It Be on the list but like you said, it's more of a docudrama.

I adore 'A Hard Days Night". I have lost track of the number of times I've watched that! It is just so classic and takes you back to Beatle Mania at its height (so younger fans like myself can experience that). Help is also good for a laugh, but I prefer AHDN.

AHDN is classic cinema and groundbreaking in its use of handheld cameras and the faux reality of their lives.  A fake documentary if you will.

The movie just conveys the joy of youth and music and the Beatles so well.

MMT is the dregs, followed by LIB.  Yellow Submarine is great, original animation and stands on its own even without a lot of Beatle input.  Help! is very good as well but compared to AHDN a lesser effort.

Still, fun Beatley stuff!

Voted for 'a hard day's night'...the thing i don't like in yellow submarine is that they didn't even let the beatles do their own voices ::)

AHDN... i liked it better than Help and Yellow submarine and as for MMT, i did not see it

I will go with a hard days night.  It was the best for me.

Yellow submarine is the best imo, followed by Help, A hard days night and then mmt

Didn't AHDN won an Oscar?

Does anyone know if AHDN is still available on video, or whether you can only buy it on DVD now? Are there extras on the DVD editions? Can you still purchase MMT and Yellow Sub, LIB?

Quoted from BeatleMania2004, posted March 21, 2004, 7:42am at here

Does anyone know if AHDN is still available on video, or whether you can only buy it on DVD now? Are there extras on the DVD editions? Can you still purchase MMT and Yellow Sub, LIB?

There are extras on the DVD's but the only deleted scenes available are "You Can't Do That" from AHDN and "Hey Bull Dog" from YS (this was deleted on most versions of the film).

There are some great featurettes on the DVDs though. Help!, MMT and LIB are not available on DVD as yet although Help! and MMT should still be available on VHS which features trailers from the film.

Quoted from lennon-legend, posted March 16, 2004, 4:38am at here

Voted for 'a hard day's night'...the thing i don't like in yellow submarine is that they didn't even let the beatles do their own voices ::)

You get use to it after awile.

Quoted from lennon-legend, posted March 16, 2004, 4:38am at here

Voted for 'a hard day's night'...the thing i don't like in yellow submarine is that they didn't even let the beatles do their own voices ::)

It wasn't that "they" didn't "let" the Beatles use their own voices. "They" would've given their eye-teeth for real Beatle voices.

It was the Beatles themselves that didn't want anything to do with the film. It was a "contractual obligation" thing. Later, when they saw what a quality job the animators had done, the Fabs agreed to do the film sequence at the end, and be more visibly associated with the film.

I wonder if it would have been possible (when they were all alive of corse) for them to make a version with there voices. they could have put it out as a collectors item or something.

i like help the most

its cool

Okay bryan I now declare you #1 spamer. I can do this cuse I'm a mod.

My god... the words "pot" and "kettle" spring to mind! ;D

Indeed.

Being a mod is not the same as being a god.

Quoted from Maria, posted April 6, 2004, 9:22pm at here

It wasn't that "they" didn't "let" the Beatles use their own voices. "They" would've given their eye-teeth for real Beatle voices.

It was the Beatles themselves that didn't want anything to do with the film. It was a "contractual obligation" thing. Later, when they saw what a quality job the animators had done, the Fabs agreed to do the film sequence at the end, and be more visibly associated with the film.

I always heard that they were just too busy and travelling too much to actually do the voices. Ria's response makes the most sense and i'm sure its right, but its just another little tid bit that I should have known and didnt.

Yeah, The Beatles had a 4 film contract with United Artists and somehow Yellow Submarine meant they only had to make one more film... Let It Be!

I voted Help! it's very funny and A Hard Days Night is good but it's kind of cheesy.

A Hard Day's Night

I never knew it wasn't them doing their voices until a few years ago! Shows how stupid I am!! Needless to say, I was very dissapointed!

That was an extremely hard pick between Help! and a Hard Day's Night, I picked AHDN though because I can't help but laugh no matter how many times I've seen it.

A Hard Day's Night
Yellow Submarine
Magical Mystery Tour

Help!

Help! is really popular with some people I've met....I don't really understand it's appeal....it has some decent music videos, but the humor and the band's effort is a big letdown when compared to AHDN.

Quoted from Rowdy, posted June 11, 2004, 12:49pm at here

Help! is really popular with some people I've met....I don't really understand it's appeal....it has some decent music videos, but the humor and the band's effort is a big letdown when compared to AHDN.

i like AHDN but it is cheesy and Help! is more like a regular movie.

I think Help! is funnier than AHDN for some reason. It's just so stupid it's funny. I love AHDN too, but it takes itself a bit more seriously. Help! is like one of those great campy movies. But I think the one I've seen most is Yellow Submarine. That has to be the best non-Beatle involved movie. I love it. Magical Mystery Tour is horrible. They're barely in it! Hey, why isn't Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the list! Bah Hah!! Just kidding. Aerosmith did a cool version of Come Together though.

Quoted from Maccalvr, posted June 17, 2004, 2:30am at here

Hey, why isn't Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the list! Bah Hah!! Just kidding. Aerosmith did a cool version of Come Together though.

Very true.  :)

yello holla

I remember Alice Cooper in the Pepper movie too. Didn't he do Because the World is Round it Turns Me On? Or whatever that song is. Does anyone remember who else was in the movie? Come on, admit it, you saw it too!

Billy Preston is in it supposedly.....and The Bee Gees are the good guys with Aerosmith being their arch nemesis band......weird stuff, I haven't seen it though....

yeah, I forgot about Billy Preston. I can't remember what he sang though. Maybe I am the only one who saw it!! That's part of my Beatle obsession. If a movie has the slightest thing to do with them I have to see it! I'm even ready to watch Cheaper by the Dozen because it has a cover of Help! in it that I'm curious to hear.

Help! is a great movie, everyone has seen a hard day's night...or not. I saw ahdn first, then I saw Help!. AHDN captures the spirit of the 60's, but Help! is funnier. AHDN was a movie with 'in-jokes' (if you know what I mean). I really didn't understand the scene where John says this 'She looks more like him than I do'.

Quoted from Maccalvr, posted June 20, 2004, 5:49am at here

Does anyone remember who else was in the movie?

I've never actually seen it (honest!), but I think Peter Frampton was in it too.

Yeah, Frampton was Billy Shears. Barf!! And I believe George Burns was Mr. Kite? Oy!

A Hard Days Night is still my favorite followed by Help! then Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystrery Tour and Let It Be. I might also add that Let It Be can be almost painful to watch at times. Sad  :(to see a  the group implode.

Yeah, Let It Be is undoubtedly the worst....it's so depressing.....Magical Mystery Tour is next in line because of the nonvideo segments dragging on forever most of the time....I can stand the other three films though, with AHDN and YS being true classics.

Well, YS bores me after awhile (I hate to say), I haven't seen MMT in over 6 years and I remember it being really weird, and I haven't seen LIB, so that leaves AHDN and Help!, but I gotta go with Help! (tough decision!!)... there's so many little stupid things in it that make it hilarious. I love random humor! When my computer starts, I have the sound of the part where Ringo and John are in the elevator play:

R: What was it that first attracted you to me?
J: Well, you're very polite, aren't you?

lol.

i like help, it's a fun, 60's movie,james bond heyday thing, hard days night is second, but it's kinda like a docudrama, really...my 4 year old loves yellow sub....we've seen it a million times lately, he acts out the parts with me...he's so cute....let it be is like watching divorce court

Help has that colourful sixties tinge to it, and obviously the budget has been upped,  with flash effects and a wide-range of settings.
The Beatles didnt care much for the script or making a film, and were seasoned pot-heads by the time of filming. Although this attitude comes across strongly, I still think there are good moments...but compared to A Hard Days Night....it just looks like another Pine-Wood Studio's throw-away.
  A Hard Days Night (apart from being in Black & White..a huge cult/cool factor) the script, settings, and stereotyped roles are all balanced with a fantastic soundtrack. Its moulded a perfect semi-fictional/realistic portrayal of the Beatles as a group and individuals, and has more of a northern theme running throughout.

Saying that, Magical Mystery Tour is good for what it is, and although some scenes are just too surreal to be classed as entertainment, its a great chapter in the Beatles Career.


Yellow Submarine (considering the Beatles input..is nearly zilch) has a clever and witty script, a very styled dark approach to animation and just some original creations. I really wouldnt say this film is aimed at children.


Hard Days Night gets the Vote.

my favortie is Help! still that movie rocks!! \m/

Quoted from Fool_on_the_Hill, posted March 20, 2004, 12:58pm at here

Didn't AHDN won an Oscar?

good question  :) did it?

i gues no one knows...

No only Let it Be won a oscar


April 15th 1971
The Beatles ,though no longer a recording/performing act, receive an Oscar for "Best Original Song Score" for the music in their movie "Let It Be".

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i gues no one knows...

you maybe!!!!!!!!


My Favourite is too Help!and a little Bit of AhDN

because the other movies fail the Humor

1964-A Hard Day's Night nominated was for:

Nominated for Alun Owen (film script original)
Nominated for George Martin (treatment of music)

I think Hard Days Night is better, because of the Black & White (cheap Budget) decision.
Just has that defined characteristic, an instant cult recognition.
Plus, I love the Script.

The Yellow Submarine Film I always feel is Underated.
Its a Pyschedelic Masterpiece, updating Alice In Wonderland, into a 20th Century conception..one that is alot more darker..and 'fab' :)

Quoted from Indica

The Yellow Submarine Film I always feel is Underated.
Its a Pyschedelic Masterpiece, updating Alice In Wonderland, into a 20th Century conception..one that is alot more darker..and 'fab' :)

And it's a good way of getting the kids into the Beatles.  :)

It is a nursery school tradition of all the kids shouting "we all live in a Yellow Submarine"

God bless Ringo.

A Hard Day's Night

Richard Lester was just so innovative!  I saw the movie when it was released.  Nothing like it ever existed before.

Quoted from Child_Robbery

No only Let it Be won a oscar


April 15th 1971
The Beatles ,though no longer a recording/performing act, receive an Oscar for "Best Original Song Score" for the music in their movie "Let It Be".

Kind of ironic that ;D

The BlueMeanie vote goes to...

A Hard Days Night. Has to really. Wonderful movie, brilliantly directed. An historical period piece.

Also always had a soft spot for MMT. I remember watching it on telly the first time it was shown. I was 9 I think.

A Hard Day's Night baffled me the first time I saw it. The accents, the slang, the cultural differences from America-- it was hard for me to get. But I studied LONG and HARD study study study which was grueling but I somehow managed it with the four Beatles running around being adorable. Then I decreed it the bestest of movies and still do.

Help I immediately liked on first viewing, except for the fact that they were all stoned. I just hated those red, puffy eyes. I wish they'd stayed on pills! They were much more up when they were wired. Also, they were working hard in HDN, clearly trying to make a good film, whereas in Help they were coasting. I still enjoy Help, and it's got some great scenes and songs. But it falls second to HDN.

YS can't compete simply because it's not the guys, although I agree it's a classic in its own right and has some terrific, creative moments.

I've never seen MMT, except for a few scenes that people have posted on YouTube. I'm afraid I'm not any more fond of LSD than I am of pot affecting the Beatles' acting. Where are the German waiters with the prellies when you need them? Send them to England, fast!  ;D

Quoted from Indica

God bless Ringo.

did he sneeze?  ;D But umm, there are some days where i prefer Help! and some where i prefer AHDN but i suppose if i need to pick one i'll go for Help since it has more of a story and its in colour

Help!!! It's hilarious with the pub scene!!!!!!!! ;D

^That's a great scene. I love it when the entire city bursts into Beethoven's 9th to save Ringo from the tiger.  ;D

A Hard Day's Night

Quoted from harihead

^That's a great scene. I love it when the entire city bursts into Beethoven's 9th to save Ringo from the tiger.  ;D

I LOVE that !!!!!!!!

My fav movie is Help!
I find it great fun to watch and it was the first beatles movie
i ever saw! Memories!
the Ticket to Rise scene is so funny! George trying to ski
without ski's!!

Help! is my favourite Movie too, i saw him After Johns death for the first time Sunday  December 14th 1980.

A Hard Day's Night was my second and  Magical Mystery Tour the third and the last Movie i saw was Let it Be.

I once heard a reviewer say A Hard Days Night is a great film because it is in black and white.

Quoted from JimColyer

I once heard a reviewer say A Hard Days Night is a great film because it is in black and white.

Ha! It captures the era better in black and white, I think. Whenever I think of that period it's always with thoughs of classic British movies of the time, always in black and white. AHDN would not be right in colour.

Quoted from JimColyer

I once heard a reviewer say A Hard Days Night is a great film because it is in black and white.

It definately gives it that documentary feel, which makes it feel much more authentic than the normal glossy star vehicles rock movies tended to be in those days. Imagine if they'd gone the Elvis/Cliff route and had the band play characters. I think the whole concept was a stroke of genius and fundamental in creating the whole JPG&R thing, which so aided their climb to fame. Blah blah blah.

:)My favorite Beatle film is Help! It was sooooo hilarious! I saw it for a first time a couple of years back with my sister and almost died laughing.

I voted for Help! - I love this movie. It's so funny and all the characters are so great. I love the dialogues, and Help! and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away are among my favourite songs. Whenever I'm stressed or sad, I just watch Help! and it takes me on this humorous, light-hearted adventure  :)

Quoted from Tara_the_beatle_freak

:)My favorite Beatle film is Help! It was sooooo hilarious! I saw it for a first time a couple of years back with my sister and almost died laughing.

Hehe, yeah, when my sister and I watched it for the first time, we laughed so hard during the "toilet scene"! And we still do! Whoosh, no sleeve. Whoosh, the entire shirt disappears, (but the collar stays!)  ;D

I also really like the Ticket to Ride scene... Ringo having an argument with his miniature snowman... awww!  :) And the You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/fight scene part is also great.

By the way, AHDN comes an extremely close second place (love this movie too), then Yellow Submarine, then MMT. I haven't seen Let It Be Yet... :B

Help! is too Great to me.

A Hard Day's Night is just so classic early Beatles. I love it to death. :D Help! was very funny as well, but the plot made it more silly, less realistic from how they would actually behave, I think, and I've heard it said in many places that they enjoyed doing AHDN more.

Help followed by AHDN

I love how Help is a bit more surreal but not alienating like Magical Mystery Tour which I really don't get at all!

I also think they all look amazing in 'Help'

but then they do in AHDN too

Well, Help makes me laugh more  :)

Quoted from tangerine

Well, Help makes me laugh more  :)

Me Too, Tangerine! ;D ;)

Never seen Magical Mystery Tour or Yellow Submarine (I hope not, I enjoy my Subway sandwiches!)

But judging by what I have seen, I like Help! the best.

One thing I liked about the extras included in the AHDN DVD was the entire first draft of the movie, it was interesting to read.

Quoted from raxo

A Hard Day's Night

Quoted from raxo

ooh, great picture, raxo  :)

R: "I can tell he doesn't like me, it's 'cause I'm little... and because he occasionally tries to strangle me!"  ;D

By the way, what language is that? *tries to read* Is it... German?

Quoted from Octie

By the way, what language is that? *tries to read* Is it... German?

It's a bit difficult to tell as it's blurred. I would have guessed German, but the German version was called 'Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!'.



Some of those words could be Swedish, and a few could be Dutch. Bobber? Yoost? The Beatles were always called Die Beatles in Germany anyway.

The underline says: Hilfe! Die verruckten Sechziger sind wieder da!

That's German. Meaning: Help! The crazy sixties are back again!

Must have been designed for a re-issue then.

Thanks Bobber!  :) or danke schon... or dank u  ;D

My favorite movie of all time is AHDN... but i love all there movies...
I quite  enjoy MMT, it is "different" so I think people just view it as a "movie" and not an experience...  people just look at it to hard, its difficult to explain, they spend there time trying to find a plot they forget to just have fun, which i think they tried to bring to the movie, pure fun, it's hard to explain, but i understand it completely! lol!!!!

8)

Quoted from DarkSweetLady

My favorite movie of all time is AHDN... but i love all there movies...
I quite  enjoy MMT, it is "different" so I think people just view it as a "movie" and not an experience...  people just look at it to hard, its difficult to explain, they spend there time trying to find a plot they forget to just have fun, which i think they tried to bring to the movie, pure fun, it's hard to explain, but i understand it completely! lol!!!!

8)

I agree 100%  ;) ... A Hard Day's Night is my favvourite but I enjoy Magical Mystery Tour a lot (I was wetching it only 3 weeks ago: http://dmbeatles.com/forums/b-conversations/m-1077196322/s-1395/ ) ... as you say it's pure fun on images and music and not only music ... it's like a long Strawberry Fields Forever videoclip with a Penny Lane touch but less "serious" than those videoclips ... they trying to be different once a-gain  :) ...

help is the best movie ever...  ;D i enjoy and love them all, but it's like choosing the favourite beatle... it's hard because you can't really compare the movies... they're all really different and deserve the "best" somehow

favourite comedy? help
favourite mockumentary? a hard day's night
favourite flower-power movie? magical mystery tour
favourite animation movie? yellow submarine

difficult... very difficult.

Quoted from komakino

help is the best movie ever...  ;D i enjoy and love them all, but it's like choosing the favourite beatle... it's hard because you can't really compare the movies... they're all really different and deserve the "best" somehow

favourite comedy? help
favourite mockumentary? a hard day's night
favourite flower-power movie? magical mystery tour
favourite animation movie? yellow submarine

difficult... very difficult.

Like chosing one of them, sure!!! ... I love it Let It Be: it's like being there with them!  ;)

I really love Magical Mystery Tour. I remember seeing it on TV when it first came out. But it's a made for TV programme, so that's why I voted AHDN. Love Yellow Submarine too, but you probably realised that!

Hell, they're all good!!

Quoted from BlueMeanie

[...]Love Yellow Submarine too, but you probably realised that![...]

Yep, and they liked you too  :) ... they tasted you, didn't they  ;D ...

Quoted from raxo

HAHAHA!!! what a Legend he is!

Hilarious! Ringo is a great showman!

Quoted from sewi

Hilarious! Ringo is a great showman!

You can shout it out loud!!!LOL!  ;D

^Great find, raxo!  Thanks!

A Hard Day's Night  :)

Help!
;D 8)

I've heard through the grapevine that MMT will be out on dvd early next year & that
Help will be out in October. ain't sure though as we've heard these rumour's before!
What about the Let It be movie??? :-/

Let It Be still causes bad feelings. We wont see it until everyones passed on.

Favorite Beatle movie : AHDN because it ostensibly captures Beatlemania at it's height. According to some
sources (maybe disreputable), Lennon supposedly scoffs at the film as being a phony representation of what really went down in the hectic early days (implying of course that the debauchery was downplayed)--EVEN SO, it's a delightfully funny film w/ great acting and a marvelous Alun Owen script.

(favorite ALL TIME film (i know, off topic, so sue me) is "A Clockwork Orange" because I'm a Kubrick fanatic.but that's another story)

Quoted from Whoever

Let It Be still causes bad feelings. We wont see it until everyones passed on.

That's crazy talk! It's amazing. You're missing out if you haven't seen it.

I voted 'AHDN' even though 'Help!' always entertains me just as much. I guess there's a certain place in my heart for that first real good look we had at these guys (beyond their stage performances, that is).

:)

I just LOVE "Help" because it's all in color............they're sooooo cute!!!!

A Hard Days Night for meeeeeeeee

Quoted from HeatherBoo

A Hard Days Night for meeeeeeeee

and it's 44 years old this week, so happy birthday to A Hard Day's Night!  8)

Happy Birthday Hard Day's Night!!!

I like Help! a lot, you should've seen me when i was nine i watched Help! before going to school,before going to bed and while in the bathroom with a portable dvd player. Till now i liked Help!, Help! was the movie who turned me into a Beatlesfan.

Happy Birthday A Hard Days Night (birthday)

Help!...!

I literally like everything to do with "A Hard Day's Night"
hah

But don't get me wrong, the other one's are fun to watch as well.
Especially "Help!".

i haven't seen magical mystery tour but so far my favorite one is help. very funny

"Magical Mystery Tour" is very weird.
hah
But I like it.
You should watch it sometime.

i cant decide between AHDN and Help! i love them both to much!

I showed this girl I was babysitting Yellow Submarine, and she absolutely loved it. She was like... 3 years old.

^ I've heard that after the Yellow Submarine movie, kiddies would ask Ringo why he pushed "that button" (lol) (lol)



I like Yellow Submarine quite a bit! :)
My favourite is still Help! though, I absolutely love it ;D

Why DID Ringo hit the button? I mean, Old Fred said to not push the button. If the captain says don't push the button, don't push the friggin button! I'm pretty sure the captain knows his own submarine by now that you can trust him enough to not push the button.

Oh, when I was at Ringo's concert, I should have made a huge sign saying, "Why did you push the button, Ringo?"

Quoted from freakchic9

Why DID Ringo hit the button? I mean, Old Fred said to not push the button. If the captain says don't push the button, don't push the friggin button! I'm pretty sure the captain knows his own submarine by now that you can trust him enough to not push the button.

Maybe it's just like with him and levers... maybe he's also a "born button-pusher"  ;D

Quoted from freakchic9

Oh, when I was at Ringo's concert,

.... I'm not going to name names, but *someone* is getting *very*, *extremely* jealous right now...... (and that someone is... me ;) )

Quoted from freakchic9

I should have made a huge sign saying, "Why did you push the button, Ringo?"

Teeheehee!! Great idea!! (lol)(lol)

For some reason I prefer Help! than AHDN.

From the bits I've seen of the movies (I've been YouTube stalking, the quality isn't that great) AHDN made me feel more like I was in the middle of Beatlemania than any of the others, which is a good thing seeing as I was born 25 years after they had broken up. But Help! was really cute too, I loved the Ringo part with the laser...

HELP!(:that great

Im in the extreme minority when I say I like the Magical Mystery Tour the best!

:P

Did we ever discuss why Let It Be isn't on here?  We probably did, but I didn't look through all those pages. Too Lazy. ;)

I think a lot more would like MMT if they started taking LSD.

Quoted from DarkSweetLady

Did we ever discuss why Let It Be isn't on here?  We probably did, but I didn't look through all those pages. Too Lazy. ;)

I think a lot more would like MMT if they started taking LSD.

^ ... or LSD backwards! ;D

Yeh, actually, Let it Be is the only one we don't have at home (because we can't find it being sold anywhere), so whenenver we feel like watching it we use Mr Youtube ;) To be honest I like the other movies better though...

I love "AHDN" the best.  Hubby is a fan of "MMT."

I know it's too late now, but I think "Let It Be" should have been included in the poll...   :-/