Tomorrow Never Knows and Yesterday Isn't Much Brighter

There was a pretty good story to be mined from the premise of the 2019 movie Yesterday but unfortunately, screenwriter Richard Curtis didn't feel like digging it up. Instead he used the intriguing premise of his movie -- suppose a person found himself or herself in a world where the Beatles never existed -- as the basis of a rather lame romcom that used almost every cinematic cliché in the book.

It says something about the subtlety of the movie that by the time Kate McKinnon's character showed up to offer the protagonist a life of worldly success, it seemed a wonder that she did not appear and depart in a cloud of sulfur. Indeed, it seemed like the only subtle touch in the movie was how it downplayed the fact that the Anglo-Indian protagonist was in love with a white English woman -- a fact that once would have been considered very controversial but now seemed worthy of little more than a shrug.

Curtis does deserve credit for inserting a scene into the movie that so smacks of chutzpah that one marvels that he had the gall to write it. Then again, I'm not sure "credit" is really the right word I should be using in regard to a scene like that.

Pop Song of the Week: "Dear Prudence"

My favorite Beatles cover. Gracias a Dios that Richard Curtis didn't make me forget it.

Trailer of the Week: Yesterday

Heh. I got burnt out on Beatles music a long time ago yet I still found the idea for this movie to be intriguing. And that's before I found out that it was directed by Danny Boyle and written by Richard Curtis. If nothing else, it certainly gives an interesting perspective to the ongoing controversy over cultural appropriation.

Movie Song of the Week: “All You Need Is Love”

From the 1968 flick Yellow Submarine, an edited version of the Beatles' most famous song. My ex-girlfriend's birthday is this Saturday, and the Beatles were one of her favorite groups. So it only seems appropriate to post this clip.

I hope you all like it.

I Saw a Film Today, Oh Boy

At least I almost did.

I had rented the new movie Across the Universe and I was intending to watch it all the way through. But after I had gotten to the part in which the two couples were saying farewell to each other, the film started dredging up some bad memories for me and I postponed viewing the rest of it until a later date.

It didn't help that the whole movie was about Beatles songs.

And that one of my ex-girlfriend's favorite groups was, of course, the Beatles...