{"id":1714,"date":"2019-10-22T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T16:04:07","slug":"movie-yesterday-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/22\/movie-yesterday-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Yesterday (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/9e\/Yesterday_%282019_poster%29.png\" alt=\"Yesterday\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\">Yesterday<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 2019<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 116 minutes \/ 1.93 hours<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the first trailers for&nbsp;<em>Yesterday<\/em>&nbsp;(2019), I had some high hopes for this movie. The premise of only one person remembering The Beatles in a world where this famous band didn\u2019t exist was intriguing enough by itself to warrant a watch. Plus, with Danny Boyle directing, I had perhaps anticipated more than what I actually got. It\u2019s hard to hate a movie with such a great soundtrack full of Beatles songs, but the execution of the entire idea left me wanting a bit more and breaking my suspension of disbelief on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Back in high school, I had a history assignment to perform a thought experiment similar to&nbsp;<em>Yesterday<\/em>: what happens if The Beatles didn\u2019t exist? Instead of just being a weird gap in the cultural zeitgeist, I think this movie would have done better to see the amount of influence the band had throughout the music industry. Sure, some moments highlight how The Beatles wouldn\u2019t be able to do what they did back then in today\u2019s music recording environment, but I don\u2019t think this went far enough to show how revolutionary they were.<\/p>\n<p>On top of everything else, other loose ends seemed to be added in with no real explanation or reason. I would have been fine with just one person remembering the Beatles, but the movie thought otherwise. Similarly, why are several other famous brands and pop culture items missing from this world? These seemed to distract from the main thrust of the film, which should have been exclusively about The Beatles. I also didn\u2019t appreciate the hackneyed romantic subplot that was so far from realistic as to be an insult to all relationships everywhere. In the end, I was disappointed with the result of a great idea that was never fully explored.<\/p>\n<p>A disappointment with a killer Beatles soundtrack, I give&nbsp;<em>Yesterday<\/em> 2.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Year: 2019 Rating: PG-13 Length: 116 minutes \/ 1.93 hours When I saw the first trailers for&nbsp;Yesterday&nbsp;(2019), I had some high hopes for this movie. The premise of only one person remembering The Beatles in a world where this famous band didn\u2019t exist was intriguing enough by itself to warrant a watch. Plus, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[1576,2048,2049,13,163,2050,8,2047,714,2046],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1576","tag-across-the-universe","tag-danny-boyle","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-music-industry","tag-review","tag-the-beatles","tag-what-if","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}