Postby tifosi77 » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:45 pm
Finished up Get Back last night. Didn't realize PJ had been characterizing it as 'a documentary about a documentary', but that was my first thought. My second thought was "470 minutes of burying the lede".
The film chronicles events of Dec '68 - Jan '69. Let It Be wasn't released until May 1970. In fact, Abbey Road was recorded, mixed, and released in between the events of the film and the release of Let It Be. (Although they do show the genesis of some Abbey Road tracks - Octopus's Garden, Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, etc)
They also ignore the whole John-became-a-heroin-addict thing. He showed with almost no new material to offer, and in reality aside from comic relief was largely creatively useless for these 8 weeks.
When they were interviewing people on the street and the lady was like "They woke me up!", Mrs Tif and I both were like "I DON'T LIKE SPAM!" So that was a good laugh. I mean, the lady had the voice and everything.
Previous remarks notwithstanding, it was highly worth watching just for the 'Eureka!' moment John had when hearing Two Of Us on acoustic guitar the first time. Seeing a creative genius recognize greatness in the moment was exhilarating.