Ebert and Maltin Consider This Great??

I'm not a Beatles fan, I don't dislike them, I've just never been into their music. It's a glorified Music Video from the 60's with horrible acting.

2/10, huge waste of time, and highly over-rated.

Some of the songs were repeated, come on, at least have all different songs... they have enough of them that are good. I loved "Across the Universe" but this was bad.

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Well, not just Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, but almost everyone else who has seen the film considers it great....except for you, of course. The film was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release. It should judged against the rock and roll films that came before it. Most rock films that preceded it were the sub-par Elvis Presley vehicles or the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon "Beach" series of films.

Film critic Andrew Sarris summed it up best when he called A Hard Day's Night "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals".

And please don't dismiss your lack of appreciation of the film by saying-- "Well, I guess it was before my time." It was before my time, too.

Lol but The Beatles ARE in it.

Look at that turtle go bro!

Although I love the film, I can understand why someone who wasn't a Beatles fan wouldn't enjoy it. I don't really know what to say to fans who didn't enjoy it though, I guess it depends whether you love the four of them themselves or whether your sole interests lie purely in the music.

It's one of the most critically acclaimed films of perhaps of all time, it's not just the two of them, it has a rare 100% on rottentomatoes with 74 reviews, that's freaking incredible.

You have to take the film in context when it was released, if you do that, it's actually one of the most groundbreaking films ever made, the stuff they do with narrative and comedy was very original at the time.

It's alright to not like it, but the film is very important to film and culture in general, it captures a time and a place like few movies do and it features the most famous band of all time being themselves.

If Humphrey Bogart hadn't been in The Maltese Falcon, would it have been as good?

If Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell hadn't been in His Girl Friday, would it have been the same movie?

Would anybody think Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid was a great movie if it didn't have Newman and Redford in the lead roles?

Would Gone With The Wind be a classic if there hadn't been any actors on screen?

All really interesting questions, I suppose. But the movies are what they are because they DO have who they have in them. And that's sort of the point.

The film captures the essence of the Beatlemania, it's not because of the band's presence. I would give Help! only 5/10 but AHDN is the solid 10/10.

"Hello I'm Frank, give her a donut"