Kimal9000

I'm a Norwegian. And I have to admit I cringed at several places in the first episode. (which is all I managed to watch) I get a very strong "Attack of The Killer Tomatos"-feeling from the very beginning.

This series struggles to convince anyone. Every second you are avare of the fact that you are watching a play. Sadly not because it is "tounge in cheek", but because it is a bad script, mediocre acting, and terrible directing.

I wonder why those rushed low budget "science" fiction things always have to be so 1950's and "in your face" overexplained...

But it is still a 3 out of 10; It is not a disaster.

Being born when this movie was one year old, I was not the target audience at the time, but I soon was in the 70's and beyond.

But somehow for whatever reason I never saw this movie! I still can't believe how I "escaped" it! But yesterday I sat in front of the television (yes I still watch "linear" television), and saw that A Hard Day's Night was showing on one of the channels, so I thought: what the hell; finally I'm going to find out what the fuss has been all about all these years!

Well, it turns out: absolutely nothing! Except for the Beatles songs of course. This is absolute nonsense. But that's fairly common I hear you say! The bad thing is that this is made-up nonsense to "promote" an album that stands fine on its own legs. It only makes the album worse in my ears.

Listen to the album, and don't watch this dribble if you hasn't already. A good hour wasted like so many times before.

This archive footage is great! Even superb, considering the scientific and historic significance.

But these 90 minutes worth of great footage is thrown together haphazardly, with little or no storytelling other than "oooooh how they looooved each other in a playful way!" And the female narration is so misguided and awful I just have no words. In fact I reached instinctively for the remote several times, but had to force myself to give this a further chance. When half the words in this documentary are said in a half crying and sobbing fashion, someone in the production surely must have objhected at some point? I know I almost shut off this movie several times ONLY because of this womans voice. Big mistake... Movie destroying mistake!

Watching this without the commentary, it is in fact a fine volcano-documentary! Sadly a silentmovie...