The 1965 Mini-List

An ongoing project to survey the best films of individual decades, genres, and filmmakers.
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Re: The 1965 Mini-List

#126 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:47 pm

dustybooks wrote:
Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:28 pm
The humor in Help! is obviously not going to work for everybody but it lands for me to an extreme degree
I could’ve sworn I saw this as a kid, but it’s hard to say whether I actually did or just watched A Hard Day’s Night an endless amount of times.. Either way, I watched it today, and while not as good as the earlier film, it’s definitely a lot funnier than I anticipated, due to its surprisingly hard leanings into somewhat risky absurdist humor. While the narrative eccentricities are going to be the loudest pieces to highlight and gags to unpack, the bits that worked best for me merged subtle situational absurdism with deadpan humor- like Ringo’s early monotonous delivery of “I thought she was a sandwich”

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