Beatles Get Back documentary

I am a huge Beatles fan, watched the first 2 and thought it was stretched way to long. There were some shinning moments like Maxwell Silver Hammer which showed on the White LP and when Billy Preston arrived and everything got much tighter. Paul was in charge and the others were there in body prior to that point.

The high and low moments of the first 2 could have been shown in half the time.

I imagine part 3 will be the most interesting with the roof top concert.

After watching the first episode, I have to agree with Johnto. While some parts are fascinating, there is just too much meandering and downtime. Other than Paul, the other 3 Beatles seemed to lack focus and the episode could have easily been condensed to an hour.

I was really looking forward to watching as a die hard Beatle fan.

I must say that it got interesting when one of the hit songs were developed and played but a bit of a drag in many other parts were they were unfocused or playing seemingly unrecorded or old songs.

Surely, the first several days tracked the evolution of the process but there was a lot that was wasted or otherwise uninteresting and a bit boring.

I felt kind of sad that John seemed to be uninvolved much of the time.

For sure, it would be great to see the Lenon-McCartney writing process!

At least Part One was kind of a disappointment. My expectations were high.

Especially with the expectation of "great film making".

A great narrative film maker is not necessarily a great documentarian.

Wonder what Ken Burns could do with this material?

I remember reading a quote from John Lennon saying something like he thought that Phil Spector had done a great job on Let It Be considering the load of crap that we gave him to work with.

It's simply amazing what Jackson has done with the picture quality.

Looking at Let It Be and then at Get Back and it's hard to understand the difference in image.

One looks dark and grimy and the other looks bright and clear, uncannily clear, (some might say digitally artificial).

Some of the differences are due to the original being shot on 16mm as a documentary and then, shock horror, pan and scanned onto a 35mm film for cinema release to satisfy their contract with United Artists.

I've already signed the online petition for Disney to allow Jackson to release an extended version with 5 /6 extra hours.

Why not?

Nothing else gives a better insight into how the Beatles worked and much of the Abbey Road is here in the making.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-jackson-get-back-extended-edition/