I think this is the first documentary I ever watched in cinema, and it was worth it.
Eight Days a Week is a documentary about the Beatles from 1960 to 1966, or "The Touring Years". We follow them on their tours all through the world, with lots of footage from live concerts, interviews, behind the scenes, and with pictures.
It looked gorgeous. Everything we saw was remastered and looked great. When we got pictures of the Beatles there was still some movement (on a rainy concert we get animated rain, when someone holds a cigarette the smoke moves etc.).
But I didn't feel like I heard anything new. Of course it's not that easy to put 6 years into around 90 minutes, so we never go too deep into the material. We get to see a lot of live footage, showing how the fans went crazy over them, and we got the "bigger than Jesus" debate. But I knew most about that before. The only "new" info I got was a view behind the scenes of their recording sessions, which were interesting to me as a musician.
All in all it was very interesting to see the footage and hear the Beatles talk about it themselves, I just wished there was a little more to learn about them. I'm rating this movie 3 out of 5 stars, but still a like.
Now, one quick info after the official review is over. You might have seen me writing "90 minutes" earlier and you might wonder because the runtime is 137 minutes. Well, if you stay during the credits you get a quick Christmas message from the Beatles and if you stay after that, you get around 30 minutes of remastered live-footage from their 1965 concert in Shea Stadium, in a great quality sound- and filmwise.
That's how you do an after credits scene, Marvel!!!
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