Yesterday (Danny Boyle)

dreamers75 · 13-02-2019 12:46am #1

Probably showed the entire movie in the trailer but looks watchable.

El Duda · 13-02-2019 9:03am

Was sold... then I saw Corden and Sheeran

Bacchus · 13-02-2019 11:11am

El Duda wrote: »

Was sold... then I saw Corden and Sheeran

They look like cameo spots TBF, and Sheeran is having the piss taken out of him so it's not all bad

Movie looks good, a nice light feel-good comedy. The soundtrack for this should be great

Dades · 13-02-2019 11:13am

Look more Richard Curtis than Danny Boyle... but probably a predicable, feel-good couple of hours. With all the cynicism in the world we need a few movies like this.

pixelburp · 13-02-2019 11:53am

Ha, what a fun premise, I like the look of that. I agree though, it looks more Curtis than Boyle in its tone for sure. Maybe Boyle can restrain the writer's worst excesses of saccharine'ness.

Man, people sure are easily ... triggered by the presence of Cordon though :P

Arghus · 13-02-2019 2:11pm

Big fan of the beatles but that trailer made me sick in my own mouth.

salmocab · 13-02-2019 2:19pm

Looks like a movie for watching on a plane. Real brain candy and light with a good soundtrack.

cian68 · 13-02-2019 2:24pm

I loved 'About Time' so I'm on the Richard Curtis bandwagon even if Love Actually is pure sh*te

homerun_homer · 13-02-2019 3:10pm

I liked the idea of a film where "what if the Beatles didn't exist". But to try and think of how today's music world would look if that was the case is a tricky thing to do. You can't just still have Ed Sheeran and Coldplay in the trailer because how many bands wouldn't exist or have been influenced by the Beatles in all the time in between.

But in a 'leave your brain at the door' way, this still looks awful.

salmocab · 13-02-2019 3:16pm

homerun_homer wrote: »

I liked the idea of a film where "what if the Beatles didn't exist". But to try and think of how today's music world would look if that was the case is a tricky thing to do. You can't just still have Ed Sheeran and Coldplay in the trailer because how many bands wouldn't exist or have been influenced by the Beatles in all the time in between.

But in a 'leave your brain at the door' way, this still looks awful.

You may be over thinking this.

Agent Coulson · 13-02-2019 4:09pm

Produced and written by Curtis so that does explain the look and feel.

A fun lighthearted couple of hours just what we all need.

Dades · 13-02-2019 4:34pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Produced and written by Curtis so that does explain the look and feel.

That explains it!

Still seems odd for Danny Boyle to be directing a Richard Curtis screenplay.

Arghus · 13-02-2019 6:58pm

I guess he'll probably stick to singing palatable stuff rather than going full on I Am The Walrus or Revolution No. 9.

Technocentral · 14-02-2019 11:08am

****! A huge drop down from the edginess of Trainspotting, awful looking crap, plus it has Ed Sheeran and James Cordon, aaagggh!

Sad Professor · 14-02-2019 12:43pm

Blah. Premise is dumb. You can't extract The Beatles from the '60s. Popular music is popular because it captures the mood of a particular time and place. This seems like someone got the right to The Beatles catalogue and this was the best they could come up with on short notice.

Vinculus · 14-02-2019 2:59pm

28 days a week

Dades · 14-02-2019 4:50pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

Blah. Premise is dumb. You can't extract The Beatles from the '60s. Popular music is popular because it captures the mood of a particular time and place. This seems like someone got the right to The Beatles catalogue and this was the best they could come up with on short notice.

Of all the biggest bands ever, the Beatles music is so timeless - and eclectic - that it could be given a bit of 21 century lipstick and still sound fresh.

I like the premise. Every budding songwriter or dreamer has probably wondered about this scenario.

Mr E · 14-02-2019 9:10pm

Clever idea. I like the look of this.

Out the end of June...

JP Liz V1 · 15-02-2019 1:07am

Is that Tamwar from Eastenders?

Wheety · 15-02-2019 1:23am

I remember day dreaming before if you were a singer song writer and you could pick any songs from the past as your own. Obviously couldn't take all of The Beatles ones but would have to have a few

Think I'll go to see this one though. At least I'll like the music and looks harmless enough.

JP Liz V1 · 17-06-2019 10:37pm

Himesh Patel aka Tamwar from Eastenders is playing the lead character Jack

d8491prj5boyvg · 18-06-2019 10:20am

If a band came out with Beatles songs nowadays they would get nowhere. It's all Icy T and Snoopy snoop doggy doog.

bullpost · 18-06-2019 10:32am

Kori Nervous Heat wrote: »

If a band came out with Beatles songs nowadays they would get nowhere. It's all Icy T and Snoopy snoop doggy doog.

They might just scatter Ed Sheeran and Coldplay to the four corners of the earth

TheIrishGrover · 18-06-2019 5:45pm

Dades wrote: »

Look more Richard Curtis than Danny Boyle... but probably a predicable, feel-good couple of hours. With all the cynicism in the world we need a few movies like this.

Can't be Richard Curtis. There is a non-white person in the cast........ But then again they are mostly very posh so........

Conall Cernach · 19-06-2019 6:56pm

Gary (Nicholas Lyndhurst) in Goodnight Sweetheart used to do something similar in 1940/41.

Acosta · 20-06-2019 2:08pm

It looks painfully twee

pixelburp · 20-06-2019 2:09pm

It does, but sometimes it's nice to just enjoy a sugary treat.

NIMAN · 20-06-2019 2:12pm

If ever a film more or less showed you the entire film and what is going to happen, that was it.

Bacchus · 20-06-2019 3:32pm

NIMAN wrote: »

If ever a film more or less showed you the entire film and what is going to happen, that was it.

Personally I'd like all films to show more or less the entire film. I hate those films that redact huge chunks of the film, leaving you with a film barely 3 minutes long.

Outlaw Pete · 20-06-2019 4:30pm

Seen it yesterday (funnily enough) and it's a bit meh overall.

The most annoying thing for me is that the female lead, just before he sets of to conquer America, says to the guy that if he loved her he'd stay

And that makes the character very unlikable which I felt was an odd thing to do given that they are written as a very decent lovely person in every other way..... seems just lazy writing to me.

Also...

The end of the film should have been him waking up from a coma ffs as the plot is pure madness, obviously.

:P

Not a bad lighthearted film for couples or families of a Sunday afternoon at the flicks I guess.

branie2 · 24-06-2019 6:29pm

I'll be seeing it on Friday

Yesterday (Danny Boyle)

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