Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
| 01 September 2010 (USA)
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In the summer of 2005, a package arrived at the Hollywood offices of Highway 61 Entertainment from London with no return address. Inside were two mini-cassette audio tapes dated December 30, 1999 and labeled "The Last Testament of George Harrison". A voice eerily similar to Harrison's tells a shocking story: Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in November of 1966 and replaced with a double!

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aliasstone

Horrible and awful. And those are the kind words. Don't waste your time on this one. I watched this after watching Joel Gilbert's "Elvis Found Alive" which was somewhat entertaining (not really), but Gilbert went way too far in making up the myth of McCartney's death. Harrison's accent in this movie was laughable and I'm surprised there wasn't a lawsuit from his estate on how George was used in order to line Gilbert's pockets with a few extra bucks. Again, don't waste your time.

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KillaWhat?

Utter garbage. Yeah, others called it a mockumentary. You couldn't even call it that. The fake George Harrison voice wasn't even close other than an English accent. The clues left are hilarious as is the outstretches from it. I lasted about an hour and had to put it bed for the total crap that was spilling. At least in a mockumentary you'd have some laughs. The only laughs here were the bad voice overs, bad reference. The only redeeming quality would be the TV excerpts that you may (or may not) have seen before on the rise of the fab four. To say Paul (or Faul) switched from playing right to left is ridiculous. Save yourself 1h30m and leave it alone. Just go and watch an old Beatles concert instead. Bloody Amercian theorists.....pffff. Go burn some more albums

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filmchaser

I was a teenage girl when the Beatles hit the music scene in the U.S. and people went berserk, especially girls. Berserk. I never caught Beatlemania to that degree, but did enjoy their music, both as a group, and later as solo artists. I have to admit, this film got under my skin a little because all my friends had been a-buzz with this theory back when we were kids. And Paul McCartney's songwriting is weak compared to the other band members, so I'm thinking...maybe that's because it isn't Paul, it's FAUL. No wonder John was so angry all the time. He was being hounded by, not one, but two governments at the same time. This explains so much. It's all falling, I mean "Faul-ling" into place. And who cares anyway at this point? It's more entertaining that it offended so many die hard Beatle fans. Lighten up, people, it's entertainment if nothing else. And it isn't disrespectful to anyone, other than Paul McCartney, because the film essentially calls him a poser. And everyone is focused on the quality of the narration because it was recorded onto mini cassettes. I use those voice activated recorders all the time in my job taking recorded statements, and depending on the quality of the recorder and the cassette tapes, they can produce very clear sound quality. But all that aside, this film is very entertaining if the audience allows itself to be entertained. Maybe M15 did it because they hate Faul McCartney's music. But what about William Campbell's real family? I smell a sequel.

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Dean George

Firstly, parts of this film contain quite offensive suggestions about The Beatles. However, these can be defended as part of the overall tone of the film and it invites you not take them seriously.This is clearly meant to be a joke, and it is a very funny one if you are watching the film correctly. The film showcases genuine conspiracy "evidence" at its core, but alters the story about The Beatles to make this evidence fit. What you are left with is how the Faul conspiracy theorists must then see the last four years of the band, and it is a laughable view.I found myself laughing out loud at the jumps in logic, especially the vicious attacks aimed at Paul after '66 (and poor Ringo as usual) - especially his use of drugs as if he was the only one who ever did any. I won't give any specifics but you will be shocked at the blatant disregard for facts, and that is exactly what the film is trying to get you to do.I can't award it any higher than 8 because it's not technically that well made. I don't think the tape idea was very good because rather than use excerpts with narration they have George basically narrating the whole thing as if he could see the film in his head when he recorded it. Saying that, it does add to the ridiculous nature of the film because the accent is AMAZINGLY BAD. I found myself laughing at the way the narrator said certain words and it must have been done badly on purpose. One of my personal highlights is the way he says Frank Sinatra. It also jumps from vague Liverpudlian, to cockney all the way to South African.In summary: You shouldn't watch this if you believe any of the conspiracy nonsense, you should watch it if you find yourself seeking out conspiracy theories in order to make yourself laugh. That's the audience for this thing and in my view it does it well.

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