"Two Of Us"

[theloveyoutake]

Hi guys

My video rental shop has a movie called "Two Of Us" which it says is about Paul and John's relationship in the 70's. I think it was originally a tele-movie.

Has anyone seen it and could comment on it?



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DaveDownunder

[jtal909]

It is a tv movie full of cliches and that although it does not offer anything startingly unique about the two of them, it is entertaining and worth seeing. It is based on a later day meeting of the two of them and what might have happened between them. It goes to the time that SNL made the offer for them to appear live on the show.


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[mindgames]

I thought it was pretty good myself.

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What about the other film that's out now, or has been for a little while... "The John Lennon Story" I think it is, or something like that. About his early Beatle days. Has anyone seen it, and is it good?

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[joe]

yes, i liked it better,as it wasn't fiction.
it, too, was nothing groundbreaking, but good for the general public, and sad for scruffs.

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Sounds good, I'll be sure to go rent it out then. Thanks for that. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thumbsup.gif

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[jtal909]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
What about the other film that's out now, or has been for a little while... "The John Lennon Story" I think it is, or something like that. About his early Beatle days. Has anyone seen it, and is it good?

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The John Lennon Story is much better. The actor is not a lookalike for John, but interprets the attitude. It's about the formative years which is interesting.



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[beatlesno9]

I saw it and taped it. I think it was good. It's nice to think it could have happened. The ending was kinda sad, though (Damn Yoko!).

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[SF4-EVER]

It had some good scenes (Paul playing the piano and John singing along, the two of them in Central Park) and some bad scenes (at one point, John tells Paul the reason he acts like a jerk sometimes is because his mother was killed when John was a teenager --as if Paul didn't know about that. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif I realize this was written for a general audience and people had to know that fact -- but couldn't the scriptwriter come up with a better way to state that?). Also, it's hard for me to accept an actor in the role of a Beatle -- I spent half the movie thinking, "That's NOT John, that's NOT Paul...."

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[JCB410]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By jtal909:
Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
What about the other film that's out now, or has been for a little while... "The John Lennon Story" I think it is, or something like that. About his early Beatle days. Has anyone seen it, and is it good?

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The John Lennon Story is much better. The actor is not a lookalike for John, but interprets the attitude.


Thanks also from myself on that
one too! And indeed, I believe to that
"attitude" is very important and trying to
achieve a Beatle's "essence" would be key...
I know partially from experience I had where
I used to imitate each Beatle's accent all
the time in high school for example, and with much peer pressure good and bad, I was
able to perfect the accents I think as time
went on. Oh, it was fun(!)
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cool2.gif JC



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Two of us was a nice movie.

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[HMVNipper]

I thought "Two of Us" was also sort of lame -- as Sandra said, I spent most of the time while I was watching thinking about how the actors were NOT John and Paul, and the rest of the time realizing how they were using Toronto (I think it was Toronto, anyway) as a stand-in for New York City for the locations!!!

A friend of mine made the following comment re the casting of Aidan Quinn (whom I happen to REALLY like, btw) -- she said, and I quote: "How come Aidan Quinn is an attractive man, and Paul McCartney is an attractive man, but Aidan Quinn AS Paul McCartney is NOT an attractive man?" And I honestly had to agree with her! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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