Comments on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at NWFF

The finale is the greatest gunfight in cinematic history!

What's wrong with Magical Mystery Tour C'mon, "I Am The Walrus" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"? Loads better than that piece of crap Sgt. Pepper's. Don't tell me you're one of those "not a real album" people. Of COURSE it's a real album.

Oh, I know it's a "real album," and "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song of all. But if I never heard half of the tracks again--"Blue Jay Way," "Baby You're a Rich Man," "Flying," "Your Mother Should Know"--I'd be okay with that.

I saw this 6 years ago at the Egyptian - the entire "dollars" trilogy - and the sound was way too fucking loud. But yes, it's a visual masterpiece.

You're crazy, Schmazy. "Baby You're a Rich Man" is brilliant. Weird trumpety proto-synth (clavoline, whatever the hell that is), wonderful bass, wonderful singing, mental lyric, the whole thing skidding around the corner like it's on ice-skates and about to crash.... "You're Mother Should Know" is a great pastiche, and one of Paul's finest wide-stepping melodies. "Flying", what a heavy, chunky, thunky weirdness that is. They played it on NPR last night during a segment about airplanes. "Blue Jay Way" -- OK, "Blue Jay Way"'s pretty shitty. but even it's got some really cool sounding string bits. Come on, "Penny Lane"?

The TV movie's a bit much, I grant you, but was an insane, inspired thing to successfully bombard the TV audience with at the height of their powers, and you have to like the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's bit, "Death Cab for Cutie", right? Maybe not. I thought you people took drugs?

FNARF, my goodness, what a reaction from the chlidren re GBU. Perhaps you might want to next introduce them to
Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" It will be required viewing at
my funeral.

---Jensen

I agree with Fnarf re: Magical Mystery Tour. It's way better (i.e., more psychedelic) than Sgt. Pepper's.

Also, MMT isn't a real album; it's a surreal album.

Two things:

1) MMT is WAY better than Sgt. Pepper, but that's not really saying much, is it? After all, the quickest way to tell if someone is a wannabe Beatles fan is if they say "Sgt. Pepper" when you ask them what the best Beatles album is. Yes, MMT is better. That doesn't mean it's good. (When I was in college, vicious fights would break out between the "Revolver" camp and the "Abbey Road" camp. The "White Album" was usually the compromise.)

2) At said college I took an intro to film class. On the day we talked about editing, the prof showed us a clip of "Good, Bad, Ugly." I nearly wept; it blew my fucking mind. And I wasn't even stoned at the time (a rarity that year because Intro to Film was AWESOME when I was baked.)

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