this film really needed more sarah lancashire there's only one thing
that i hate more than a bad film and that's a bad film that looked amazing in the trailers
okay so i'll be honest yesterday was not a bad film as such it was not a poorly made film
however it was quite a disappointing film and after watching it i felt quite happy
but the more i reflect on it and the more i kind of assess it against my own expectations
i realized that it actually really failed in a lot of aspects so i should point out right
now i'm not biased i wanted to see this a lot before i even knew sarah lancashire was in it
when i found out she was in it i was giddy turns out she's in it for about three minutes
whatever that aside i do like the beatles i love the beatles and when i heard that this was going
to be based on the beatles it got quite excited if you haven't seen the trailer or the film
it's about this one musician who is in an accident and when he kind of
regains consciousness he realizes that everybody in the world except him has forgotten about the
beatles the beatles has basically been erased from existence and he decides that he will play
some of their songs and make a bit of money from it because nobody else has heard of them before
and presumably everybody is going to fall in love with let it be and penny lane and everything else
sounds like an interesting premise directed by danny boyle and written by richard curtis quite a
strong team there and then we have hamesh patel in this as well
so on the face of it this film had a lot going for it so the premise does sound incredible
the narrative is not good and the reason i think it's not good is that it's too hollywoodized
now it's not a big budget hollywood production i assume but it's like i can't really say too much
without spoiling it but basically because this person is trying to achieve worldwide fame with
these beatles songs these really fantastic beatles songs it does have a kind of progression towards
america that's all i can really say but i'm sure you'll be able to kind of read underneath that
and ed sheeran is in it and i have nothing against ed sheeran i don't mind ed sheeran
i can name one of his songs that's galway girl which i actually really like but when he popped
into the film i thought what are you doing here this was about the beatles and then he
just stuck around and it kind of became the edge here in film and then obviously we went to um
over to the james corden show and it just suddenly became this non-british feeling film and for
me if you're going to do something like this where you're kind of sending up to the beatles
you need to make it feel like it's being filmed in britain and you know it's the best of british
music and and that's kind of where it led itself down because it did not 100 did not get the tone
right not only did it not get the tone right i feel like the soundtrack was really poor
now maybe that's just because it didn't use a lot of my favorite songs from the beatles it used a
lot of popular ones but there were some that i kind of felt could have used a better song there
but also it doesn't play all of the songs in full um which is understandable but we have snippets we
have reworkings of some of the songs and it's just hard to kind of immerse yourself in the
magic of the beatles because it's so choppy and chaotic and sometimes unrecognizable and while one
could argue that that fits in with the narrative i would argue that it doesn't so in honesty i can't
rate this film at all as i said when i finished watching i thought yeah that was that was pretty
good pretty interesting but then i sat back and thought actually the color the color palette my
goodness the beatles bright happy nostalgic the film was really dark and dingy for most of it
there was no real color to it whatsoever i mean for goodness sake at least when you're singing
yellow submarine put a pop of yellow somewhere just you know to kind of create ambience
color palette did not work i have no issues with any camera angles the directing um staging
apart from the fact that it was you know not always set in the best location in my opinion
but that didn't really you know have an impact on me the acting great no problems there whatsoever
i think the costume worked really well um sarah lancashire could have been in it more but that's
maybe advised uh achieving whatever you know he's just there he could have been in it less
but i think if if he wasn't in it it wouldn't have really been a better film for me the actual
narrative and mostly the soundtrack is where this film really died and this is coming from
somebody who is not the world's biggest beatles fan i love the beatles i really love the beatles
but i'm not obsessed with the beatles like you know some people really love love the beatles
i just admire them but i can't imagine what hard beatles fans think of this
i dread to think if you've seen it let me know maybe you'll surprise me maybe you really loved it
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