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Reviews
In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000)
Good
John didn't swear at Stuart in this film like he does in Backbeat and Pete Best had an unfair portrayal when those incidents in that film probably didn't happen, in this film John beats up Bob Wooler and hits him with a shovel which didn't happen as he says so in his book and he said at the 2000 Beatle week that he is the only person who knows what really happened there at Pauls 21st birthday party which didn't appear to get mentioned in this film
Remember Me This Way (1974)
before his downfall
Wanted to see the film when it was released only my sisters friends said it wasn't very good, saw it on TV in 1995 and it wasn't that great, saw him live in 1984, lots of young ladies there, he could hold an audience
Man About the House (1974)
Love thy neighbour
Saw it again recently only they cut out the banter between George and Rudolph Walker and Jack Smethurst, Brian Murphy was later in last of the summer wine only he was the same character and no longer called George
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Portrays Meek as a mad man
Telstar seems to be in my psyche one of those tunes which I grew up hearing as it was released the day after I was born when I used to have it in my collection without knowing where the record had come from, my parents always had a pile of old records. The Tornados other tracks sounded similar, is there life on Venus, like something from outer space, there was something there, when The Beatles tend to be more over rated in hindsight, it can look as though sometimes they were better than everyone else from the early sixties Saw this film on catch up on TV, then I could fast forward it, couldn't watch it with my mother like I did the Arena documentary back in 1991, there was too much swearing in this, was that language really so much in use back then or do they just have to use it in films that are made these days? I didn't think James Corden looked like Clem Cattini either and while all that music could have driven Joe a bit crazy, this film didn't seem to do him much justice.