Yeah. But… Some people just want to watch the world burn. 
I’m profoundly triggered by how that list has all the Alien films in alphabetical rather than release order, it just looks so wrong aaaaaaarrrggghhh…
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I saw that post. I think I saw ads for the film way back when, and thought…no!!!
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Stumbled across an Eric Bana/Rick Gervais comedy called Special Correspondents on Netflix last night. Remembered it got so-so reviews when it came out a couple of years ago. Gave it a go and was more than ok. They play reporters for a radio station commissioned to go to Ecuador to cover an emerging conflict. They end up not going and fake it from an apartment across the road from the radio station. A few good laughs and quite enjoyable.
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Just watched “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years”
It’s easy to forget the actual phenomena that they were both as musicians and bringers of cultural change.
A really enjoyable watch.
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I saw that about 6 months ago. Was pleasantly surprised by it. Definitely worth a watch.
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Late 70’s Lenon with Yoko?
Probably 10 years sooner than that.
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It’s the recording of The Beatles abandoned album ‘Get Back.’
They then went on to record Abbey Road, and Phil Spector went through the Get Back sessions to piece together the Let It Be album.
The chronology of those last two albums is a little confusing.
The preview is really interesting because those sessions have always been described as a depressing nightmare, and that footage doesn’t convey that at all.
And seeing them in colour is a shock.
Ono was with Lennon definitely as far back as The White Album+, perhaps earlier. Not sure.
- The Ballad of John and Yoko is a bit of a hint.
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Fair enough
The bloke who shot Lennon in front of Yoko is a piece of human garbage and I hope he dies in jail
Will definitely give this a watch not really a beatles fan but music docos like this on how artists/bands record thier albums interest me.
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It’s amazing to me how much they aged in 6 or 7 years. Paul looks like a completely different person. I guess that’s what a crapload of fame, touring and drugs will do to you. :jealous face:
I happened to watch the Eight Days a Week doco that @swoodley mentions above. Really enjoyed it but it focuses (as the name suggests) almost exclusively on the touring years. Would love to see more on the post touring years when they were making their best music. Get Back appears to tick that box.
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Watched a few movies recently
Greenland- disaster film. Not the usual CGI fest, more focused on the humans and the main family and them trying to get to safety. Really tense stuff. Felt very realistic in terms of how people would behave and act if something like that was to happen.
Mystery Road- Aussie crime/thriller/mystery set in the outback. Young aboriginal girl has been found dead, cop comes back to the town where he grew up to investigate.Normally i don’t like slow burns, but this was really good. I was gripped from beginning to end.
Goldstone- i think it was a sequel to Mystery Road. Really enjoyed this as well. Cop goes to look for an asian girl that has gone missing in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in australia. Slow burn again but i liked this more than mystery road.
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Paul McCartney said that the Abbey Road sessions were actually really good. He said that there was a tacit agreement to “put away the boxing gloves” and just concentrate on making a really great album, which it is.
According to Wikipedia, Lennon met Ono in November 1966. He divorced his first wife Cynthia in 1968 and married Ono in 1969.
Then you might like these… if you haven’t already seen them. Not sure if these particular docos are part of a series on classic albums.
Yoko is an absolute nutjob, check out the Chuck Berry clip on YT and also Bill Burrs commentary on the same subject.
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I’ll check them out but I don’t need convincing
She sure can’t sing. She makes the Plastic Ono Band live in Toronto album a thing to be avoided with her horrible, nonsensical wailing.
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