The new Beatles documentary from Peter Jackson is on Disney+ and I'm about halfway through. I'm a huge Beatles fan, and while the fly-on-the-wall approach Jackson used feels much more intimate than a more didactic one, there's no denying there are large parts that feel like a slog as you watch the band bicker, plunk through half baked song ideas and loaf around shooting the
****. It's not clear exactly
why this needed to be more than eight hours long. Perhaps the idea is to strip away the mythology and show how the sausage is made, which is a long and tedious process punctuated by moments of genius like
this one.Anyway, I've hit the part where Billy Preston joins the band on keyboard and things really seem to be picking up so maybe the back half will be stronger.