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- Disney+
- Nov 25, 2021
- Disney+
- Nov 25, 2021
Summary Peter Jackson's three-part Beatles documentary features hours of edited and restored film from 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg as the Fab Four created the songs that would appear on Abbey Road and Let It Be.
- Disney+
- Nov 25, 2021
- Disney+
- Nov 25, 2021
Summary Peter Jackson's three-part Beatles documentary features hours of edited and restored film from 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg as the Fab Four created the songs that would appear on Abbey Road and Let It Be.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
85
89% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Glorious. ... “The Beatles: Get Back” is an astonishingly up-close and engrossing view of Paul, John, George, and Ringo and their creative process.
Seeing all of this footage is a revelation, not just for how it provides a necessary counter to the prevailing narrative, but also because the visuals look like a total dream, pristine, sharp and clear, with no fuzz or distortion.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 66 User Ratings
8.5
85% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 66 User Ratings
8.5
85% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
8% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
8% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
This is really fascinating. You genuinely get to see exactly how the Beatles worked which is so interesting. It's also really psychologically interesting, as you watch 3 creative people trip over each other a bit, and where the tensions came from. Also, it looks incredible
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This is heaven for Beatles fans or anyone who is interested in any sort of creative process and seeing under the curtain. I do however think Peter Jackson should have edited this into a 2-3 hour documentary and then given us this as an extended version. They do play the same songs over and over, especially in the concert at the end, and even I as a huge Beatles fan was thinking "you could have tightened this up a bit, Peter." That said, the more Beatles the merrier.
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What’s startling about “Get Back” is that as you watch it, drinking in the moment-to-moment reality of what it was like for the Beatles as they toiled away on their second-to-last studio album, the film’s accumulation of quirks and delights and boredom and exhilaration becomes more than fascinating; it becomes addictive. ... In the end, “Get Back” is better than good. It’s essential, an extended love letter to everything that made the Beatles real.
A hypnotic treat for music scholars and Beatles megafans. But even with the absorbing undercurrent of suspense around the band's fate, Get Back is still eight hours of watching some guys sitting around in a room.
The Beatles: Get Back is clearly a labor of love for director Peter Jackson, but it plays as one of the clearest forms of fan worship there ever was, letting the band members act and speak for themselves in a natural format true to even the smallest moments of this crucial period in their history.
A Beatles buff won’t need any salesmanship to know Disney+ is the place to be this weekend. And even a more casual fan might want to drop in on “Get Back,” just to get a peek at what all the fuss was about and why they still seem relevant over fifty years later. Because “where they once belonged” is where they’ve always been.
‘Get Back’ is not even definitive as a documentary about the making of the Let It Be album. If anything, it’s the definitive volume of footage about it, but as a coherent, watchable story, this ain’t it.
If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall while Paul, John, George, and Ringo created masterpieces, then you should watch this documentary because that is what it is like.
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Three hours of watching and listening to the Beatles in a studio is really boring for anybody who lived through the Beatles era. There is nothing new here and I simply jumped through each episode then I was through all episodes.
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SEASON 1
I wanna like this so much more than I do. There are some truly remarkable moments watching them write songs, knowing where they're going, but also a lot of boring moments. You can totally see the cracks forming, surprisingly between Paul and George, which was unknown to me and sadder than between Paul and John. Worst is Yoko. She is so clingy and cringy. Her even sitting in the circle is so frustrating and obnoxious. However, I blame John for that. He should have put her in her place and kept her out of the process. She had no business being there.
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OK - I'm not a hardcore fan of the Beatles - but I am a music lover and own all of their albums for the music they contain is often sublime. However watching them jam for the best part of four hours is, and I am sorry to say, damned tedious. More than any other music documentary I have ever watched this one is aimed squarely at people who are just happy to watch the fab four doing reality TV in a studio. Except nothing ever happens. Sure we hear embryonic versions of some classics, often the same song many times, but as entertainment, for me, it fails. The Audio / Visual quality is superb though. The remastering of the source material is truly amazing, it looks as clean is if it were shot yesterday and if my rating was based on the amazing job Jackson and his cohorts have done it would be a straight 10. However unlike other reviews I'm not marking that, I am basing my score on how entertained I was. Thankfully the final episode allows me a "get-out" from drawing a sub-par conclusion, as the roof top show is easily the highlight of the eight odd hours. I fully "get" why the length is as it is, hardcore fans want to preserve every moment, but casual or even minor fans are just going to get bored.
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