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Will someone please release it. There's no detail; everything is washed out and faded. This is unjust, and it's unfair to fans who would like to critically assess this film in relation to the Beatle oeuvre.To be sure, Magical Mystery Tour was never a masterpiece, but anyone who has seen "I Am the Walrus" on the Beatles Anthology knows that this film is much better than is generally assumed. What was planned as a series of celebratory music videos featuring some great new Beatle songs and tied together by skits with the thinnest of plots comes across as sloppy, amateurish and self-indulgent.
Will we ever get to see "Magical Mystery Tour" the way it was intended to be shown. My advice: skip this poor quality colorized version and hold out for the real thing. Somewhere out there is the original full color version of Magical Mystery Tour. The film was shot in glorious, 60s-psychedelic color, but most people have never seen this version.
There's no joy or excitement. In the mean time, we'll just have to satisfy ourselves with the snippets that are available on the Anthology. Instead we get this junk: computer-colorized black and white garbage. It looks like it was shot with a cheap videophone and then dropped in a vat of bleach.
A must have for any true Bealtes fan. in the U.K. This film never aired in the U.S. only on T.V.
they are the beatles afteer all great music altho they tried toio hard to be weird, i giv em a pass.
(But I'd email them first for a guarantee that it's truly a cleaned up version).I suspect, though, that after watching the movie, you'll be happy you only spent $10. Third-Party Sellers are offering copies of the movie for $40 and up, claiming them to be re-mastered, &c., but who knows.My advice is to buy the $10 copy first. It is washed out, but you get the gyst of the story and then, if you REALLY like it, shell out the $40.
There are only a couple of scenes where the quality is really bad, most noticeably the bus scenes where the sun is shining in through the windows. I was incredibly relieved when I first watched this, after reading all of the terrible reviews on here. The cover doesn't look like a bootleg by any means, either.If you go in to this thinking of the historical value, and that it is over 40 years old, you will enjoy it.If you go in to this thinking it is going to be Blu-Ray Quality, you're going to be disappointed.Just enjoy it for what it is. I am generally satisfied with my purchase, considering it was brand new for seven bucks. The quality, although not perfect by any means, isn't bad. It is definatly watchable.
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