And, it’s the Fab Four (or is it the Fab Two?) again….
The Beatles.
Instead of focusing on their own musical legacy and giving fans what they want (a Rubber Soul deluxe reissue or the Yellow Submarine film in 4K), the Fab Fools are once again trying to appeal to Gen-Z knobheads and ‘compete’ with modern stars like Taylor Swift (sorry Macca. But Taylor has a far nicer arse then yours).
What is the latest brainwave from Apple to reel in the young ‘uns and idiots?
A Beatles biopic. But, it’s not just one biopic…. It’s bloody four of them….
Each Beatle is getting their own film, and it’s apparently all official and has the (remains of) the bands’ blessing. For a start, why four films about one group? Will all four actors appear in all four films? Not to mention all the others who figure in the story (George Martin, Brian Epstein etc). What is the fucking point of doing four times the work?
Also, the fact that this is ‘official’ rings big fuck off alarm bells. Is each film going to be an ego wank to appease each Beatle or their widows? Yoko Fucking Ono is too old and doddery to do anything nowadays. But her son Sean is well involved in this project. And George Harrison’s widow has become mega uppity and ‘voiciferous’ in the Apple corridors in recent years. The films will probably be sanitised to fuck and leave out anything nasty that they did (sacking Pete Best, the appalling treatment of Cynthia Lennon, John and Yoko’s list of cuntery, Macca belittling and bossing Harrison, and George shagging Ringo’s Mrs).Many old timer fans are dreading the biopics. Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody showed the world that you can write any old made up and never happened shit you like and call it the official story, history and facts be damned. Because you can place bets now that’s what will happen.
Then, there’s the actors themselves…. All four look nothing like the original Beatles. The Ringo one looks Chinese from where I am sitting. And, will we get the usual caricatures? The sneering sarky like a Scouse Vera Duckworth piss and vinegar Lennon (see you, Ian Hart)? The wobbly headed wide eyed fruity voiced thumbs aloft McCartney? And, the other tow will probably be the most difficult to portray (accurately, that is).
I also wonder what the woke quota is going to be… Of course, a film set in the 1960s shouldn’t have one. But I bet it does. That awful Queen biopic had hecklers at an early Queen concert calling Freddie Mercury a ‘Paki’. According to those who knew the band and who were there, nobody ever referred to Mercury by this name. Freddie was born in Zanzibar. Off the coast of Africa. Nowhere near Paki bastard Stan. One of Mercury’s ex gay lovers in the film also said on TV (in the film) that Freddie was just a ‘scared little Paki boy’. No such interview was ever broadcast or even happened. But ‘Paki-itis’ crept into that film with a vengeance. The Beatles have already been bitten by the diversity bug Some treeswinger hip hop twat no sod knows doing an ‘essay’ for their box set of Revolver. So, it wouldn’t surprise me if the amount of black faces in these films is considerable.
Anyway, I reckon these films are going to be a disaster.
Nominated by : Norman
Any spa§tic doing that fucking stupid ‘peace’ V-sign should get their teeth kicked in.
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Calm down, Thomas, .. it may only be an empty, pointless gesture, but trite gesturing(that and being purposely evil cunts) are what separates ‘us’ from the animal kingdom.
After all, did the Lord not send Moses a lowly earthworm to comfort him in his torment?
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He did indeed, Cuntem`. But he ate it, for he was so starved.
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(Leviticunt, 7:93).
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Hang on Thomas! Mr. Churchill stuck 2 fingers up for a beer commercial darn south, promoting the Shepherd Neame “Bottle of Britain Campaign.” Circa 2005. Spitfire Ale! “That’s two more pints please!” Downed all over Kent. Just like the Luftwaffe.
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Yes I remember when the cunt kept saying peace, love, peace, love.
Probably the words most boring drummer still thinks it’s the 60’s.
I liked The Beeckles, until the The Kinks and Pretty Things arrived.
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Good photo.
The Beatles’ best drummer and Richard Starkey.
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So will he be known as lingo starr..
Macca played by Paul mescaline, that fellow is more wooden than Heather Mills leg.
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I preferred them in their younger days when they were just The Larvae.
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Old pop singers (McCartney, Rod Stewart) look so camp, Eddie Izzard could play them. The soiled nappy look would be so him.
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That Izzard creep is becoming more and more like Judith Charmers.
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Nope 😂
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Still big in Mexico, I’m told.
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/26423280-mexico-star-flag
Gringo Starr.
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Following on from the huge success of the ‘Abba Voyage’ show, I’m surprised that Macca, with his eye ever on a buck, hasn’t tried to do something similar for The Fabs.
Morning all.
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Oh, it’ll happen, Ron.
When they’re all dead, they’ll be Beatles ‘tours’.
And mongs on social media will boast about seeing then ‘live’.🤣
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I saw them live. Twice.
Er….
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Sorry Norm, I can’t fully concur with this cunting as I’d rather watch a film about English people with decent music than the schlock we have to endure. Yes, the Irish cunt playing Ringo looks like a Chînkzilla and Lennon looks nothing like him, but at least there isn’t a crowbarred-in darkîe playing one them or a tránnie weirdo. You can bet your mortgage that some dreary turd like Idres Elba or another flavour-of-the-month Nigerian “Brit” was considered.
I agree about the Quern film, though. Taylor and May were “executive producers” hence the woke, sanitised script.
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I reckon that this could kick off a whole new round of rock biopics. How about Tilda Swinton as David Bowie, or Sam Smith as that cunt Boy George? Cillian Murphy could probably do a half-decent Mick Jagger, and Suzy Izzard would be great as Dusty Springfield.
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Alas Ron, you’re way out with your casting.
Lenny Henry as Bowie
Peter Dinklage will be Mick Jagger
Eddie Izzard will be Boy Grirge
Rosie Jones will play Dusty Springfield (both doughnut-slurpers)
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The one playing McCartney has blue eyes….
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But surely, it depends how it’s done and who does it, Captain?
They will probably be sanitised, wokeified and filled with made up never happened bollocks.
The Brian Jones biopic was shite of the highest order. It had a knobhead in an egg yellow Jimmy Savile type syrup as Brian, calling everyone ‘Ducky’ in a John Inman style voice. People who knew him said Brian never ever used the word Ducky. It also showed Jones being ‘murdered’ in his swimming pool. When nobody knows for sure how he died. Absolute crap.
The George Best one was the same. Brown eyed John Lynch playing the famously blue eyed George. Then there was Best leaping over road barriers as he leapt out of Sinead Cusak’s flat. and giving a Wolfie Smith fist salute to the press. He actually escaped the TV and press by sneaking out the back and getting a lift back to Manchester. Nobby Stiles arguing with Tommy Docherty at the Cliff. Nobby was long gone before Doc arrived. Fabricated shite.
And, the less said about the Freddie Mercury biopic, the better. Announces to the band he has AIDS just before they go on stage at Live Aid. Mercury caught the Big A two years after the Live Aid gig. And that’s one of many inaccuracies and lies in that film.
I am just going on what I’ve seen from other biopics, Which are mostly shit. Will these Beatles ones tell it like it was? Will they show what complete bastard Lennon could be? And what a devious opportunistic cunt Yoko was? Will it show Paul as a control freak who treated George like a hired hand? Don’t think it’s likely, I’m afraid. If these films are on Disney Plus and want to appeal to Gen-Z, the Beatles ‘brand’ will be protected and kept clean.
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Fair points. However, you’ll never have a biopic that’s even 50% true. I saw the Dylan one recently and it was so-so, but omitted so much. Even the half-decent Nowhere Boy was full of holes and misplaced romanticism.
I’d still rather watch a sanitised biopic than a shite Marvel “movie”.
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Spot on about Nowhere Boy, Captain.
Then again, a stupid bloody woman did that one.
Walk the Line, with Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash is good as biopics go,
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Liked the Ian Dury one Andy Serkis nailed him.
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Joaquim Phoenix as George Best would be good. If it was done right.
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The Best biopic was shite.
Jerome (as in Robson and) as Bobby Charlton. Patsy ‘Fried Egg Tits Starfucker’ as a Bestie Broad, Ian Hart as Nobby Stiles. Absolute arse.
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Fuck off not interested. We are on a war footing after all
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The Beatles were boring. And they still are.
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The blackjacks are old hat and will never be given the title of classic like some. Only Harrison did the right thing by going into cinema.
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And George was a right ladies man. They reckon he even screwed Madogga on the set of Shanghai Surprise. Well know now that he did Ringo’s Mrs. His first one mind. Not the gorgeous Barbara Bach.
But while Macca chained himself to Linda and John had a very warped way of life with Yoko Fucking Ono (she even ‘chose’ his bit on the side for him), George was rutting like a polecat and marriage did not stop him doing it. Stout fellow. Bravo, that man.
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On a recent visit to the Liverpool Exhibition Centre I had a couple of hours to spare. Situated on the waterfront and close to the Exhibition Centre are the Beatles Museum and the Slavery Museum. Therefore I had the choice of learning all about the Fab Four or Britain’s shameful history of colonial exploitation..
So I went to the pub instead.
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Isn’t there a thieving museum to celebrate the culture of Liverpool.
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There was one, but all the exhibits were nicked!
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‘Dey do dat dont dey 😂
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Best acts on the Apple label were the great Badfinger and Jackie Lomax.
A Badfinger biopic, about all their highs and lows, and how Pete and then Tommy unraveled and then left this world would be very interesting.
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The Modern Jazz Quartet did two LPs for the “Under The Jasmine Tree” (1968) and “Spacecraft” (1969). Not a lot of people know that,
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Or David Peel And The Lower East Side “The Pope Smokes Dope” (1972)
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Go to Rhino Records, on Westwood Boulevard.
Go to Rhino Records, on Westwood Boulevard.
You can get Herb Alpert and Jackie Lomax
For 40 cents…
Da doo da doo, da doo da doo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfgy60OZ3Fg
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a decent biopic of Steve Marriott would be good and all.
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For the sheer enjoyment they gave the world between 1963 & 1970, the Beatles and their legacy remain unsurpassed.
Paul died in 1966, Mark Chapman did us all an favour in 1980, and Ringo’s now getting ready for the rocks.
Apart from that, hard to imagine why anyone would give a rat’s arse.
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Easy pass for me
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I wonder if these films will get a cinema release?
In these hard times, how many cinema trips can ordinary people afford?
It’s a dear do, going to the pictures these days. Times that by four and it will be eye watering.
Then again, they will probably be on the monster that is Disney Plus.
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Sam Mendes(Kate Winslet’s ex) is directing.Dog turd.
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And I bet that the horror story that is Yoko Fucking Ono will be portrayed as the following….
A. She will be played by an actress much better looking than Yoko.
B. She will be portrayed in a positive light and and as an actual ‘contributor’ to the band.
C. She will be well liked and popular with the other three Beatles.
There will be no sign of the Yellow Beatle Eater we all know and don’t love/.
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I heard that she wrote several of the songs on ‘Let It Be’, and advised George on how to play guitar when Macca got on his neck.
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Fuck It, I will just watch the monkee’s biography instead.
Lenny Henry,Diane abbott, Doreen Lawrence and David lammy.
Two hours of tyre swinging, faeces flinging and piano moving.
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The Fantastic Four and now the Fab Four.
The only four that gives me a buzz are the Four Seasons, composed by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi in the early 18th century and still as uplifting today.
Unlike the childish jingles churned out by the Beatles.
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Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. ‘The Night’ from 1972.
A Northern Soul classic.
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They were fucking shit, though not as shit as Oasis for copying them.
She loves you yeah yeah yeah, fuck off you cunts.
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Never heard of em.
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‘Each biopic will be from the individual Beatle’s point of view’…
Oh, so will George Harrison’s film have him saying Macca was a bossy controlling cunt, who dumbed him down and belittled his guitar playing?
Should do, but I don’t think it will somehow.
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Love and peace man ..!
https://youtube.com/shorts/gP0_2b9Mkos?si=wndg-dkglR0nEl9I
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