Yellow Submarine

G

/-=GT=-\

New member
I just got through watching this movie and I liked it, despite its very ...odd visuals. I loved the songs and it was just overall an enjoyable film. Does anyone else around here like this movie?
 
I'd have been a great hippy, except I missed the 60's and most of the 70's. Never much liked the Beetles. But Yellow Submarine I did like and watched it enough to remember it. Weird, but I tend to like weird. Strange that even as young as I was, I related the tall guys with the apples as heavy artillery, the cats as demolition, and Glove as air support.
 
I used to have this movie on VHS and I watched it so many times that eventually the tape broke. Well, not litterary, but I can't play it anymore. I've been trying to get hold of the DVD, but so far my search have yielded no results.

Oh, before I forget: The Chief Blue Meanie was a great villain. My favorite line of his:

"I haven't laughed this much since Pompeji!"
 
One of my all time favorite animated movies. Yellow Submarine was a classic at my house when I was a kid. I enjoyed the Beatles' songs, especially "Only A Northern Song" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (one of my all time favorite Beatles songs). The strangeness was definitely original, but strangely none of the surreal images ever frightened me, except maybe for the Blue Meanie Nazis with the snake heads on their hands.
 
Great movie. Yellow Submarine is one of the things that shaped me into the cartoon-loving oddball I am today. Surreal visuals, Beatles songs and Brit wit. A winning combination.

One of my favorite exchanges:

Old Fred: (as he and Ringo notice Frankenstein's monster) Frankenstein?

Ringo: Oh yeah, I used to go out with his sister.

Old Fred: His sister??

Ringo: Yeah. Phyllis.

It took me years to get that joke, but when I finally did, I laughed my butt off.

Some of my favorite visuals were for the Sea of Time ("When I'm 64"), the Sea of Science ("Only a Northern Song") and the Sea of Phrenology ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds").

Going back to the Frankenstein bit, one clever visual touch in the film that I liked was how each Beatle first manifested himself into movie via how they had always imagined themselves as or as what they personally aspired to be: Ringo Starr first appears as an ordinary bloke from Liverpool, as that's how he's always viewed himself. John Lennon first appears as Frankenstein's monster because he always thought of himself as a monster. George Harrison was starting to go into his spritual phase during this time, so he first appears atop a mountain as an Eastern-style guru. Paul McCartney first appears playing classical piano since he's always wanted to be a classical pianist.
 
It's an amazing film and if anyone's in the mid-Atlantic area this weekend, it's actually being shown in an historic 900 seat theater on an enormous screen. See article here
 
I saw it first as a nine year old on TV, and that's how I got acquainted with the Beatles, though I know I've heard Beatles songs before then and not knowing it was them. Anyway, I have it on DVD and naturally, the best parts were the musical segments, including "Hey Bulldog" one of my favourite Beatle songs which was added to the re-issue. It should have been a single.
 
Back
Top