I don’t think we will need a special edition or “extra content” Blu-ray to see the rooftop without the street scenes. They can give us a “create your own adventure” type cut, within the BR, with the option to just show the concert without those parts using just the footage that was already in the series.Beatles4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:15 am As for any huge BD set coming....I wouldn't hold my breath.
While the series was great for the content we got, they managed to kill it with the rooftop concert which is the whole point of these sessions to begin with. We got treated to side by side by side thumbnail sized alternate footage rather than full screen concert goodness. We now know exactly what is in the vault and we will still never get to see it in it's uninterrupted glory.
The rooftop concert was the one thing we have been waiting for for decades and PJ dropped the ball on this one. The lack of full screen footage and the voice over content while the Beatles were playing should have been included as an extra....and not part of the main event. I was hoping we would see all of the Beatles come through the door onto the roof and that we would see everything that took place on the roof rather than taking particular interest in the goings on of the police and the people in the street. It's interesting in it's own right but the Beatles playing for the last time ever as a live group is the historically important point to this and the footage is in the cans.....we simply were not treated to the full content. Although watching John slip Yoko his bag of drugs on the rooftop before leaving the roof was something I was surprised they left in.
I’m going to fantasy land for a minute, but it would be an interesting marketing exercise to put all the camera rolls on YouTube and let fans create their own directors cut of the show. Like what happens these days where people mash up all the available cell phone videos made at a show into a relatively sophisticated film of the concert.
Yeah PJ basically kept the same story line as MLH which is that the roof was the climax and no need to go any further after that. Coincidentally I felt he ended the Lord of the Rings the same way - deciding the last battle was the place to end the trilogy but leaving out some of my favorite parts of the books afterwords when the hobbits come back home as battle hardened studs (lol!). At the end of the day it was an artistic decision since he must have felt he didn’t want the viewer to go back into story mode after the climax. It’s a decision for the 99% and I understand the reasoning. It’s a trade off.Beatles4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:15 am My last gripe is....why didn't we get Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road and Two Of Us performances that followed? Snippets of those performances were rolling during the credits. That made zero sense to me considering they were included in the original film.
This is the real question. The number of people willing (and able!) to put out hard money on this type of stuff is dwindling. My kids don’t even consider buying physical music or films. Since Paul/Ringo/kin don’t need the money, there has to be another reason for them to even consider it. I would think one reason is control - they only have so much time left to influence these types of releases, and overall, I think they’ve been pretty generous with the Deluxe Editions and this film. But I am with you wanting more…Beatles4Ever wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:15 am Speaking of original film....there has been nothing reported on giving us the original movie remastered.
So what happens next with all of this footage. PJ and his crew are the only people to ever see the films in their entirety since they were canned 50 years ago.
We are the last generation of people who actually care about all of this stuff. The cash cow will eventually fade......there is no time like the present to grab the cash now or let all of this footage rot in a vault until it turns to dust. What a shame and a waste of such historical footage.
