Category: Netflix

A Hard Day's Night - starring The Beatles

This flick still holds up after all these years. The best way to describe this is by saying, "well, it the Beatles, and it's kind of like an old Marx Brothers movie". Just great fun, and my kids even liked it. The camera angles were innovative for the time, and what I remember then still held true now: it made the Beatles seem more human because you were seeing them "from all angles". The hardest part of watching this was trying to explain to my children how wildly popular the Beatles were.

One other thing I'll mention here. Ringo Starr gets no respect as a drummer. No, he's not an innovator or a power drummer. He is a thorough professional, a minimalist (good for a drummer), and has a super steady beat. He was probably the perfect drummer for the Beatles, in that he never overshadowed anyone else. Perhaps he stumbled into the gig of a lifetime, but he was a talented drummer.