#the hours and times

[zanephillips]

The Hours and Times (1991) dir. Christopher Munch

[paulmcutiecutie]

There’s some niche audience out there that enjoys the Brian and John art…

[javelinbk]

Sonnet 57, William Shakespeare

[tillthereweretangents]

We have now seen 9 films including or about The Beatles. They are mostly awful. So...

[midchelle]

The Hours and Times + The Waves

@twospiritsdancing @ringospeaches this is all for you

[reetahmeetah]

insane that there are not one not two but three biopics where it’s implied john lennon may have been queer

[filmap]

The Hours and Times Christopher Munch. 1991

Park Parc de la Ciutadella, Passeig de Picasso, 21, 08003 Barcelona, Spain See in map

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[dearly]

HOURS AND TIMES (1991)

[sleeper9]

that version of John from the Hours and Times

[dominik528]

Me, thinking back on the scene from The Hours & Times, when Brian Epstein opens up to John Lennon about the time he was sent to Spain after being mugged and blackmailed, to which John (who'd been making jabs at Brian multiple times prior) simply sits and listens:

[paulmcutiecutie]

The hours and times

[miss-sofia]

just watched the hours and times (1991) for the first time and I'm feeling Very Normal about it! just 58 minutes of john lennon/brian epstein angsty unrequited (?) love fic! david angus as epstein is absolutely brilliant and I wish he had had a long thriving acting career just so I could see him more! he spends the entire movie giving these sad smiles that for some reason really remind me of jeremy strong as kendall??? anyway I cannot begin to imagine the irretrievable damage this movie would have done to my psyche if I'd seen it 20 years ago when repressed queer longing and the beatles were like the two main aspects of my personality!!! back at that stretch when I watched a hard day's night literally every day after school the emotion I was seeking was essentially this movie!!! can't believe it's real!!!

[ringoemoji]

THE HOURS AND TIMES

That's it. Screenshots for the gays.

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Brian Epstein (David Angus)

John Lennon (Ian Hart)

John and Brian

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this cover>>>>>

[tillthereweretangents]

The Hours and Times

We watched The Hours and the Times, and we don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but we hated this movie.

The movie starts in black and white, with what can only be described as “sad olden times music”. It was a full 4 minutes of cheesy music and aerial street scenes before we saw a character. If we didn’t know any better, we would have thought it was from the silent film era…except those movies are done better. 

The actor playing Epstein really looked nothing like him, though his voice was pretty good. John’s actor looked a bit more the part, though he hardly showed any expression on his face during the whole movie.

It was pretentious and artsy for the sake of it, which didn’t do anything for the movie. And by artsy we mean everything from pacing and scripting, to the music choice (when they bothered to include music), to the choice of black and white. 

The acting was bad, the directing was bad, and the script was probably worst of all. 

The opening scene, on the plane over to Barcelona, has a significant section where John is off-screen. It’s not well constructed, and doesn’t feel like we’re focused on Brian’s face for any good reason. It just feels like John’s been cut out accidentally. This happens multiple times: John is in the scene, and speaking, but off-screen for no obvious reason, and it was clearly a voice over. There were times when John was on screen, and his lips moved but there was no audible dialog, and others where the ADR (overdubbing) was comically bad (like bad enough to rival Help!). Not to mention John would never wear his glasses around a girl he was trying to impress, or on a commercial flight at all. 

The conversations were stilted and weird. They didn’t help us understand what the characters had previously discussed, how they felt about one another, or what they wanted. The best one in the film was between John and Cyn (on the phone). Cyn’s voice actor was great, but she was working with some terrible material. The conversation was stilted and not in a “we can glimpse the cracks in their relationship way” in a “the screenwriter hasn’t finished writing this” way.

One thing we really don’t understand is how everyone says it ends on such a sad note. As far as we can tell the film ends with them being a proper couple. They are in bed together, and then back in Liverpool with Brian telling John to promise him he’ll never leave him. That seems very much like a real couple to us. Then suddenly back in Barcelona. Is the sad note the fact that they talk about meeting there in (their future) 1973?

Though in true 90s fashion they don’t make the queer commitment explicit or unambiguous, but it seems kind of obvious all the same.

Side characters:

The gay bar weirdo - terrible Spanish accent, in fact it was more a terrible British accent than anything, unclear why John invited him back to their room, his behaviour was so inconsistent between the bar and the room we were briefly unsure it was the same guy.

The hotel employee - very uncomfortable scene with Brian

The air hostess - best character in the whole movie, potentially a great friend for a confused gay guy to have, very good dancer

The film didn’t once depict Brian and John discussing the types of men Brian was attracted to, it didn’t bring up the conversation about songwriting credit (in fact the other Beatles may as well not have existed) and it didn’t mention Bad To Me, which John finished writing on that holiday and played for Brian one afternoon. And those are the three things we know did happen on that trip. 

The second to last scene was on the roof of NEMS. It felt like it was either a very badly-signaled flash back (or forward?) or it was accidentally inserted at the wrong place in the movie.

If you love this movie, first of all apologies 😬, but please tell us what makes you love it. We’re not promising we’ll watch it again, but we do want to know what you see in it.

Be honest, is it just the (incredibly awkward) bathtub kiss?

[sword-swallower-pin]

did u know that the guy who played john in the hours and times also played the teacher who wore a turban and got possessed by v*ld*m*rt in the first h*rry p*tt*r movie

yes and I pepper this fact into every conversion about h*rry p*tt*r I'm forced into having. Ian Hart will only ever be John Lennon (gay sex version) in my mind. He chose to be type cast as that and I respect him so much for it.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again