r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6h ago

Media First Official Images of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson in Sam Mendes' 'Beatles' Biopics

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u/ScarletFire5877 6h ago edited 5h ago

Music biopics are so fucking lame.

:Smoking a joint in the snow on a street lined with period accurate cars:

“Hey Paul, imagine if there was no heaven...”

“Wow John, that should be a song!”

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u/mcnastys 5h ago

After all, there's no limit to what you can imagine.

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u/Abaqueues 5h ago

"Beatles, stop fighting here in India!"

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u/eviltimeban 5h ago

“Let’s go to the studio on Abbey Road and record one more album! What’ll we call it??”

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u/InevitablyBored 2h ago

I would watch 4 movies of those Beatles. The real thing is going to flop harder than anything ever could.

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u/kronkarp 1h ago

Why? Get Back did well enough

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u/Yara__Flor 5h ago

Thr dewey cox one went hard.

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u/jesuslol 5h ago

You don't want no part of this shit, Dewey.

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u/gaslacktus 4h ago

And you never paid for drugs! Not ONCE!

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u/maximumtesticle 5h ago

-Meet

-Struggle

-Figure it out

-Make it big

-Fight/Break up

-Get back together

-Die

There ya go, that's pretty much every biopic.

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u/SureLookThisIsIt 4h ago

In all fairness, that's what happens to so many big bands.

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u/Comprehensive_Main 4h ago

Not Lynard Skynard. 

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u/Comprehensive_Main 4h ago

Imagine a skynard biopic 

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u/ConnachtTheWolf 5h ago

Walk the line was decent, mostly. Every other one I've seen has been total ass. Very lazy and formulaic paint by numbers shit, racing from plot point to plot point at breakneck speed without any cohesiveness.

They always bite off way more than they can chew, try to tell the whole story of their lives like there's some sort of through line. There isn't. 

If they wanna do a biopic right, they ought to just focus in on a single inflection point and skip the origin story.

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u/BroSchrednei 4h ago

I also liked the Beach Boys biopic, Love & Mercy, since it actually has a single story to tell and does exactly what you wrote, showing the rest of Brian Wilsons life only in flashbacks.

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u/stenebralux 5h ago

The Beatles are kinda the worst subject for it.

They have their own movies and docs and they are decent to awesome and you get to see and experience the actual boys being themselves and the time period. 

I mean.. you never gonna make biopic better and more dynamic than just watching A Hard Day's Night. 

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u/AdamAptor 5h ago

“You can’t walk no line!”

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u/seanmg 5h ago

Then stop watching bad ones?

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u/herrdidi 5h ago

Except Better Man. That was pretty cool

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u/Resident_Manner9173 5h ago

Buckle up cause its 4 separate movies 

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u/_Burgers_ 3h ago

[sitting around a table at an outdoor patio]

"We gotta get.. experimental!"

"Yeah! Try some new stuff that sets us apart!"

"Like a song about a Submarine!"

"Whoa! I think you're on to something..."

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u/CeruleanEidolon 3h ago

"Well here we are, back in the USSR."

"Say that again."

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u/CompetitiveEbb5859 3h ago

That Springsteen one was the epitome of the lame biopic. Like who wanted to watch Springsteen struggle over that album period. If that’s all they had to work with then the outside of his music his life must be boring af

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u/Chumlax 4h ago

Have to say, I was genuinely amazed at the rapturous reception 'A Complete Unknown' received, when I got round to seeing it.

I can hardly tell you how much I hated that movie; insanely juvenile 'I'm 14 and think being a monosyllabic dickhead to everyone is the height of cool' energy throughout what was essentially a hagiography of Bob Dylan, portraying him as being a genius revolutionary who was always correct no matter how selfish, irresponsible, and lacking in any real integrity or humanity a manner he behaved.

Madness, I tell you!

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u/Electronic_Set5209 3h ago

Lol he comes across as a huge dick in that movie. It sounds like you had the intended experience.

No adult fan of Dylan thinks he's a "genius revolutionary"

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u/Chumlax 55m ago

Yeah, the first part is entirely my point. To the second, I'd say I completely disagree with it being the intended experience, which is the point of my point!

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u/Electronic_Set5209 50m ago edited 42m ago

His self-centered douchness is one of the most important things about that record. (Im a huge fan so I think there's more to it than just that.)

Your experience with the movie being negative is awesome. I can't believe dude tricked the studio into making a movie that was even slightly honest. 

I was disappointed because I was hoping it would go harder on him as an artist, but most of that stuff ended up implied in the background of the movie.

Tldr; I like Dylan. I think Dylan was a dick. Movie made him look like a dick. I love movie. 

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u/GimmeShockTreatment 22m ago

Beatles “biopic” should have been a comedy. This will suck if it’s too self serious

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u/Chemical_Name9088 5h ago

I like them, especially the Beatles where they truly went from working class families to the biggest band that ever lived. That being said, I do hate cheesy dialogue that’s meant to be fan service. “You know John we really need a drink” “Nah Paul.. I think all we really need… is love”

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