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The Beatles Celebration

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4 star:		(3)
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2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

Garbage-- don't waste your money on this one lads. The only yucks out of this video were those provided by the narrator's phony British accent. Might I recommend Yellow Sub if your in the mood for a little of the Fab Four.

I wish I could give this disc a 0 star because that's how bad this disc is. The quality overall is horrible, sound is very distored and the video is fuzzy through the whole thing. Not only that but its incredible dull and boring, the interviews are really drab and reveal nothing new or even remotely interesting about the Fab Four. And the commentator needs to do research on them before he even speaks about them again, he was so inaccurate that I totally died in laughter at times because of his stupidity. Advoid this disc and get something that really show's who the Fab Four are really - like Help! :-)

As an inveterate, long term Beatles fan, it was only natural that I would want to view this video. Needless to say, I was highly displeased with the quality (or lack thereof) and Mr. Guiliano's long established career of smearing the Beatles. Mr. Guiliano is not well loved among the Beatle literati and this video will certainly help explain the reason for this.

The interviews are lackluster; the filming quality is poor. Take the advise of all the other reviews and skip this one. Watch the Beatles First U.S. Visit, a Beatles' film or any other Beatles' related video instead.

While no one can fault Giuliano for his research on the Beatles, this one should have remained in the dark! He has absolutely NO sense of production and the crew he assembled to shoot and edit this mess doesn't seem to have a clue on any level! When you hear someone talking about Yoko Ono, you see footage of Paul.. and that sort of "presentation" runs through the entire DVD!

Sound levels are awful and Giuliano brings absolutely nothing to the screen when he wanders around Liverpool, pontificating ad nauseum.

About the ONLY redeeming element in this mess is the segment of Pete Best.. and even that is obviously shot on home video and bumped down several generations at that.

Wait for the Beatles Anthology on DVD -- THAT will be worth the wait and the money!

Luckily, I wasn't the unfortunate buyer in this case, but I feel bad for my friend who thought she was buying me a nifty Christmas present... The blurbs on the packaging promises a great documentary along the lines of The Compleat Beatles, and even during the initial scenes it's still easy to hold out hope for something good, but slowly but surely the realization sinks in that this documentary is all about stirring up anticipation without ever giving a payoff. One major strike against this film is that it contains no Beatles music, and the only exclusive interviews are with bit-players connected to the Beatles. The rest of the film consists of boring location shots overlaid with meaningless commentary interspersed with equally dull footage of random press conferences with solo Beatles... Geoffrey Guiliano has achieved what I would have thought impossible, in creating a boring film about the Beatles

This so-called Beatles Celebration is just the same as the Alf Bicknell DVD in that it's just a man talking about the Beatles with scant footage on them.These cheaply made DVD's just have the person standing in front of different spots("and here is Strawberry Fields")and talking.Here's hoping that the Beatles Anthology DVD will finally get released along with A Hard Days Night so that that Beatles fans will finally get something worthwhile.

Paraphrasing a line George Harrison spoke in "A Hard Day's Night": The author of this DVD is a "drag, a well-known drag..."

Laserlight, the distributor of this DVD, handles cheap-o, marginal programs, at budget prices. But this is a new low, even for them. To saddle up with infamous Beatle-leech, Geoffrey Guiliano (the Jerry Springer of Beatles "experts"), and distibute his childish and smarmy "Celebration" is below even their standards.

Even for the price shown, this is a complete waste of money. There is absolutely nothing of value, interest or entertainment on this DVD. Purchasing it will only cause Guiliano to do this again.

Avoid...

This DVD completly stinks! It is truely terrible! I can't put into words how disappointed I was with it. I was appalled that there was no music, and Ringo (The cutest of them all) was hardly even on it! Save your money, don't buy it! If you already have bought it, return it. And do it now!!!

My favorite moment in this DVD is near the end, when Giuliano does a voiceover, lamenting the proliferation of cheap knock-offs and other products meant to exploit the memory of the Fab 4. He should have added the phrase, "including the piece of crap you're watching right now."

A couple of notable tidbits: Danish TV interview with John and Yoko around the time of their wedding; The entire interview with Paul conducted the day after John's death -- source of the infamous "It's a drag" quotation. Those I hadn't seen before.

Naturally, no Beatles music. Not even any Beatles-like music, with the exception of some sitar noodling.

The current-day footage is poorly shot, poorly edited, and looks like a junior high school video production. I had to watch a couple of episodes of the Beatles Anthology to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

I paid $6.99 at Tower for this. However, I'm much more upset about the hour of my life I'll never get back. Beware.

A "Raspberry" is an award given each year to the worst or most lame film - this could not even fit into that class. Film schools produce pieces that are beyond the loftiest peaks of this 'film'!
The following paragraph perfectly sums up one's perception on the maker (G.Guiliano) of this project:
- "The host is so obsessed with them that it becomes scary. You feel like you are watching a home video tribute done by a stalker; producer/director Geoffrey Giuliano."
I've read 2 other books of biographical content by Mr. Giuliano and you get this notion that sources for his material came from eavesdropping on teenage pajama parties!
Apart from the process for gaining the material for this project, this is an amateurish newsreel like "pin the tail on the donkey" edit job and torture test!
If it were not for the subject, this would not have made it out of the basement in the first place!