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If you haven't seen a trailer, this movie is a musical featuring all Beatles songs. I'm not a particular fan of either of these things, but this movie is incredible! It's got humor sprinkled throughout, believable romance, well-placed tragedy and strongly judgmental war scenes. It does get trippy at certain parts, but thankfully not often enough to interfere with anything. The music was phenominal; most of the movie renditions are better than the originals.


Tequila Sunrise wrote:
The music was phenominal; most of the movie renditions are better than the originals.

And that, my friend, is where we disagree.


Are you an originals-hardliner or are you just disagreeing that most of the movie songs weren't better than the originals?

I especially like the movie version of Hey Jude, which has always been a favorite of mine except that I've always hated the end where the Beatles get screemy-screechy.

Paizo Employee Chief Creative Officer, Publisher

I thought you were talking about the 1926 Edmond Hamilton Weird Tales serial.

Oh, well.

--Erik


Sorry, Erik, you lost me at "1926". Completely. Did I just demonstrate how young I am?


I'm really excited about this movie. I saw a trailer for it a few months ago and almost crapped myself with anticipation.

Scarab Sages

I saw the trailer as well, but all I could think was, "Great! Yet another movie that glorifies the 60s drug-using hippy movement." I could be wrong though, I'm not really sure this movie is set in the 60s.

Silver Crusade

Hey, It could be worse. Sgt. Pepper's Movie the Bee Gees were in. Someone should have been shot over that one.


Aberzombie wrote:
I saw the trailer as well, but all I could think was, "Great! Yet another movie that glorifies the 60s drug-using hippy movement." I could be wrong though, I'm not really sure this movie is set in the 60s.

It was set in the 60's (at least I think, I'm horrible with dates), but as I said the trippiness is minimal. There is an actual plot, one that drugs don't play a part in at all.


Tequila Sunrise wrote:
There is an actual plot, one that drugs don't play a part in at all.

Then how in god's name does it have anything to do with the Beatles?


Aberzombie wrote:
I saw the trailer as well, but all I could think was, "Great! Yet another movie that glorifies the 60s drug-using hippy movement." I could be wrong though, I'm not really sure this movie is set in the 60s.

Hey! I want more 60s drug movies. There are far too few honest portrayals of how fun and incredibly powerful drugs can be. We would be a much nicer species if we all took LSD and let other people change their heads as they wanted. It is unnecessary to glorify something that is already glorious. To my mind, acid is glorious.

Liberty's Edge

I am VERY upset to see any reference at all the the 1960s. My wife and I were both born well after the 1960s and we have a FIRM, IRON-CLAD POLICY against anything to do with the years 1959 to 1969. The decade of "activities include baking batches of special brownies, ripping crispy bingers and burning bowls followed by the consumption of large quantities of chips, cookies, candy bars, ice cream, pizza, pretty much anything edible and some things that aren't," or anything to do with the Beetles, severely irritates us because we were born after all that was cool; to wit, the 1970s .

Anything that sends the message "the 60s were cool" is not acceptable to me. I estimate I have spent lotsa-lotsa money on 1970s nostalgia memorabilia and associated products in the last year, just in an effort to deny the 1960s. On an unrelated note, I was considering subscribing to your "Pathfinder" periodical, and did so on the first day of availability back in April. If Paizo allows any further reveling of the 1960s, I may need to rethink my choice. OK, that's an empty threat, I concede. Will I subscribe to GameMastery modules? OK, I did...do you see? It's a gateway...something! What's next, Planet Stories subscriptions? That is out of the question if you choose to market and sell the... uhh... wait...what was I saying?

OGL use is a "starter" for almost every other RPG out there.

Ummm....

...errr...

I really hope I can spend money on Paizo products again...

As soon as my wife goes to sleep and I can filch her credit card.

Down with the 60s!


hey man! don't lay such a negative trip on me man! uncool! I don't dig the way you said that man! The sixties were far out man! I guess you had to be there man.

Don't lay heavy trips on people man. I can dig that you didn't get the scene man, but don't like...

Ah forget it man.

Bad vibes from this cat man. I need to like, calm down. You totally messed up my trip.

Spoiler:
I was born in 1973, but my parents are hippies. I still know people who live in a commune in the forest in Knysna and speak like that.

Liberty's Edge

I've got two words:
Fairbanks, Alaska.


hazel monday wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
There is an actual plot, one that drugs don't play a part in at all.
Then how in god's name does it have anything to do with the Beatles?

The movie isn't about the Beatles, in fact they're never even mentioned. It's just a musical that features a bunch of Beatles songs.


Andrew Turner wrote:
I am VERY upset to see any reference at all the the 1960s...

ILMAO!

...wait, that was joke, wasn't it?

Liberty's Edge

I am quite serious, my friend.

Spoiler:
No, I'm just joking, of course. Poor attempt at late night humor; poking fun at a thread from some time ago...It actually works out perfectly that the movie is not about the Beatles...I'm sorry, 'Beetles' (another rib-poker), because I obviously know what I'm talking about, right...I mean, I'm an expert on this!


Ha-The Beatles...beatles. I remember seeing an episode of Bobby's World as a kid. Bobby's parents have a loving reminiscence of the Beatles, and all he can imagine is a bunch of anthropomorphic beatles playing electric guitar...sigh...why did his mother randomly have a canadian accent?

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