So, should I let Amber and Alice see the Beatles' "Help" film?

oh yeah that is def something that seems sorta self-aware

Oh, one I forgot back from the second time we watched it..

Yes, the meta commentary on the casting, yes. Even to the point of "oh, we've got a real one in there, havent we?"

When that guy sees the ring, he goes all nervy and has to lie on a bed of nails to calm down. At which point, Alice said "Oh, you did that once, didn't you Dad?" And I had to recall it and yes: There was a museum somewhere, a bloke doing a chat about the bed of nails and asked for volunteers, so Amber and Alice shoved me up there. Yes, I had indeed, but I didn't take my coat off and no damage was done.

I laid down on a bed of nails at a museum once when I was a kid younger, so much younger than today. There was a plexiglass platform with holes in it that you would lay down on, and then a motor would raise the nails up. I remember it as being very comfortable.

I just finished Get Back and Eight Days A Week, so I'd been wanting to watch Help! this week. It's not available on any of the streaming services I subscribe to, but fortunately, it's up on Dailymotion.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5rsp4o

The one thing that annoys me:

At the end, where the lads are singing along while the credits are playing, George notices his song credit is on screen and yells out "I Need You, George Harrison!".

I used to laff at that one. I don't now, as the credits have been re-done, and he yells out at a complete random point now.

I dunno. Remaster that one, I say!

I dug out the most recent Blu-ray and George's credit and reaction are in the right place.

He does say it a minute later as well, so maybe I had it wrong all this time!

i saw this for the first time the other day! (a hard day's night too.) i loved the godardian color filters and superimposed text and the have your cake and eat it too aspect of making a completely off-the-rails musical comedy spy film. i didn't enjoy the nonspecific racism in its depiction of an "eastern" death cult (it's a parody of bond films but in this way i think it reinforced bond tropes instead of undermining them.) it also kinda suffers from having only one plot point. but boy is the cinematography gorgeous. also: the exciting adventure of paul on the floor is probably my favorite thing that happens in either film

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Sunday, June 3, 2018 11:34 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I watched this last week and definitely agree with Brad on the racism and white casting of Asian characters. It's a shame because the Beatles themselves are very charming and hilarious throughout.

I've never watched A Hard Day's Night before, but I have to check that out while I'm on a roll.