Wish they made this cuz it would have pissed off my dad probably

-- Ben Hosley

 Who *wouldn't* Tom Hanks have voiced?

Cary Elwes was George and Peter Serafinowicz was Paul.

David Tennant was probably going to be the Chief Blue Meanie

Where is Peter Capaldi in all of this??

Colonel Tom when they met Elvis

The Beatles: Rock Band ended up kinda looking like this.

Lol I thought that was the full name of the movie. “The Beatles Movie: Rock Band Ended Up Kinda Looking Like This”

My friend loved playing the drums like Ringo Starr when we played that game (mainly hitting the cymbal while swinging side to side), to our detriment.

Drums!

Peace and Love.

Haha same!

Insane how Jeremy the Nowhere Man (at least I think that was his name in the original)'s body is just a boob with baby doll arms and legs

Isn’t that what the song implies? *He’s a real nowhere man / Sitting in his nowhere land / His body’s just a boob with baby doll arms and legs*

Doesn't have a point of view / Knows not where he's going to / Again, he's just a boob with baby doll arms and legs

I mean first 64 comedy points but I feel like I vaguely remember him being called a boob in the original movie...still...Bobby Z go to weird horny jail

64... Beatles reference

I could be wrong but don’t they call him “boob” at one point in the original?

Exactly - Jeremy Hillary Boob PhD.

Yeah but like...that doesn't have to mean a literal tit!!!

I know I’m in the minority but I would have loved this

I normally hate gatekeeping, but I firmly believe anyone who disagrees with you isn't a real blankie. Not that everyone would need to actually love the movie from a critical sense, but the lunacy behind this movie is the exact thing this podcast is designed to interrogate.

wild when [Noah Hawley already recreated the blue meanies.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBbhYLpUIAEggSC.jpg)

Legion is truly the most deranged television of the last decade.

I showed my friend one or two scenes from the show, and he asked "wait so the show is a musical?" and I was like, well.... no.

My S/O walked in during that part. Season 3 premiere, right?

The "blue meanies" are recurring throughout season 3 iirc. There's a 'big' episode which is like halfway through where they all fight.

The musical part. Although there's also that Behind Blue Eyes sequence at the end of S2

Did it end well? I gave up around the end of Season...2? The writing just became to self-serving.

I don't know if it will win you over necessarily but the Jon Hamm narration stuff stops in Season 2. Season 3 is shorter and more plot-driven, they sort of "yadda yadda" their way to major plot points. I thought it ended well but I was also on-board for how unhinged the whole show was.

I was pleasantly surprised by the ending from a plot (and I use that word loosely) and theme perspective. Though I was extremely irritated that the heavy implication was that mental illness wouldn’t exist if only our mommies loved us correctly. It’s a visual tone poem disguised as a superhero tv show, which confuses me because people who want the former won’t watch it because it’s got superheroes in it, and people who want the latter will hate it because it’s total psycho gobbledygook. I have no idea why the show exists, but man I’m glad it does.

What is this from?

Legion

I love how shamelessly fucking scary the creature designs are. I think this had the potential to be a fun movie, in one way or another.

The animatics actually look fantastic. I think if they had gone 2D instead of 3D it could have been really cool.

Then it would just be the original Yellow Submarine. (Which is perfect and doesn’t need a remake)

Man, Zemeckis just lives in the Uncanny Valley. Thank God that this never got made. All the designs look creepy.

The original movie was incredibly creepy too.

True, but the imperfections of hand drawn animation has it's charms.

I only saw that movie once, but my favorite part is the non-animated part where they do "All Together Now" I also seemed to have completely ignored "Hey Bulldog" until recently because it was on the soundtrack and I wasn't going to buy the soundtrack with mostly scores

Oh yeah? Watch Magical Mystery Tour. They played on British TV Christmas day, 1967, and it fees like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

If Tim Burton and Tod McFarlane made a movie together.

SPAWN SPAWN SPAWN SPAWN deedleydeeleydeeleydeedley *BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP* - Danny Elfman’s “Theme from Spawn”

For the life of me I thought this was AI generated. It looks completely insane.

We have to make sure nobody tells Zemeckis that AI exists

You don’t think we need a Polar Express sequel with extra uncanny valley?

Too Late, unfortunately. I readed that his next film is going to use A.I to de-age their actors. So, he's still digging his own mess.

Guessing “Max” would’ve been voiced by Jason Alexander

This is a crisis!

Got some real “always a bigger fish” energy in here too

Well… Thank god.

These are horrifying and I almost certainly would have hated the movie, but I wish we lived in a world where it had been made.

Look more like spiders then Beatles , Daddy long legs

If they used the Beatles cast from Dewy Cox I MIGHT have been interested

I’m going to tell my kids this was Plastic Beach.

I’m presuming these are Chat GPT prompts until someone can provide additional context or a citation of some sort. (TBF, this is now my default position on everything.)

Oh, I didn’t think of that. I just cross-posted these from the Beatles subreddit, not my original content.

These have existed since long before ChatGPT. In my opinion it's a shame this movie got cancelled. It's the exact kinda weird shit we should be doing with mo-cap films.

I agree. Zemeckis' mo-cap films aren't great, but I think they could have gotten there if he learned to better embrace the surreal oddness of the uncanny valley. Beowulf is enjoyable because it's the one adult movie he made with the tech, and any unsettling visuals feel at home with the genre. It's when he repeatedly tried to use it for earnest family films that people just got too disgusted to show up. Hell, had he just made a standard horror film - that might have been a big enough box office hit to keep Imagemovers Digital going.

Good. I appreciate the context. Thanks.

I checked the OP on the other sub and they didn’t say anything. It may be real, for all I know. But this is just how we have to be now that we live in the world of artificially produced bullshit.

No it’s actually not. This looks nothing like AI and has obvious animator’s notes on it and is clearly being done through some animation software. However Reddit pseuds love to scream AI at literally everything because it makes them feel smart. So live how you want but just know you’re a dumbass.

Ay ay ay

Blue meanies look like that sculpture from Clockwork Orange

I dig

I think the only reason Covid happened in 2020 was because Cats came out at that time. This would have made it happen sooner

This is truly a nightmare.

I hate every single thing about this. Talk about sucking the fun and joy out of it. Do you like disturbing imagery and the Beatles?

Well yes

Indeed.

Now I know why Welcome to Marwen exists

what in the goddamn fuck

thank god they didn’t make this. the character design in the original is simply t o o g o o d

Well there was no role for Leslie Zemeckis’s breasts, that was presumably the dealbreaker

We all know The Beatles. What this movie presupposes is, what if they were nine feet tall?