The title Get Back refers to the well-known Beatles song and the original name of the album that would become Let It Be. With its sometimes sleepy pace and awkward silences, Get Back makes you sit in those feelings for a while and, to the extent that such a thing is possible, feel what the members of the biggest rock band of all time were feeling. A lot of that time seems frustrating, tense, and uncomfortable.
One of the many things Get Back does really well is to provide a sense of what it was like to float in the orbit of John, Paul, George, and Ringo at a moment when the Beatles as a unit were beginning to disintegrate. Honestly, at least six of the stabs at “Two of Us” probably could have been tossed in the trash without doing major harm to this endeavor.Īt the same time, it would not have made sense to edit Get Back and reduce it to a two-, three-, or even four-hour version. (A few well-chosen title cards would have done the trick.) In theory, there is no need to watch Paul McCartney and John Lennon do a goofy take of “Two of Us” in silly accents and, later, watch them do another goofy take of “Two of Us” sung through gritted teeth. The docuseries definitely doesn’t need its ten-minute opening recap of the Beatles’ career, a portion of Get Back I refer to as Previously, on the Beatles. I could sit here on this very internet and pretend Get Back would not have benefited from some serious trims, but I won’t because it would have. It is not, however, nearly as long as the original or extended versions of The Lord of the Rings (558 and 686 minutes, respectively), which, like Get Back, were directed by Peter Jackson, a man who clearly loves to tell sprawling stories in three parts without much concern for keeping things tight. That’s more than three House of Guccis, more than three Dunes, and in the ballpark of the entire third season of Succession. Like, long long.Ĭollectively, the three episodes add up to 470 minutes, or nearly eight hours of viewing time. The Beatles: Get Back, the three-part Disney+ docuseries that embeds viewers with the Beatles during their famously contentious recording sessions in January 1969, is long.
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