yesterday is the worst fucking movie ever

ok so i remembered the movie Yesterday existed yesterday bc Yesterday showed up on shuffle (confused yet?) and i was also forced to reckon with my weird emotional reaction to it at the time

like the movie genuinely upset me, somehow, and like ruined the beatles for me (give me a break i was a dumbass kid) but only now do i really see WHY the movie was so shit. its just fucken blind hero worship!!

like ok the central concept is kind of a run of the mill what if but its interesting enough. "what if the beatles happened today." to this question the movie says "idk it'd be about the same but like the record companies would try to fuck w their vision or something" as if that wasn't also true of those in the beatles' time. and then it adds the lame boring ass plot about whatshisface having issues with his girlfriend and feeling bad for releasing music that isn't his; and it ALMOST gets at something more interesting when people hate his music but love it when he plays tracks that are actually the beatles'; so it's like this choice between "do i do what's really 'me' or do i do what makes me successful, but has nothing of my own to share?" and that's a poignant question lots of artists ask themselves and could have been explored, but then the movie just kind of drops that specific question. Sure, it has the angle from those two old people about "well ur carrying on the music so its good, im happy we can still have it" and then once he's released all the beatles' songs he's like "ok my work is done im gonna tell them who it really belongs to; these nobodies who didn't make it in this universe" but neither of those actually have to do with that aforementioned question, they just go to the even less interesting hypothetical than before of "hurr durr what if one guy remembered the beatles but no one else did?"

But that's where the hero worship comes in. By having the whole plot basically just be about "omg no one remembers the beatles and now this dude brings them back how noble" it just shows how hard the creators are fellating the beatles. The guy just magically gets popular and famous for playing the same fucking music, which would indicate there really is something about the beatles' music that's THAT GOOD that the music would always get popular no matter the scenario. its not fun or interesting or thought provoking or anything to watch some dude suck off the beatles for 2 hours, most egregiously the fucking scene where the main guy goes and visits john lennon and starts pissing his fuckin pants about it. ughhhhh. 

One thing i cannot stand is a good idea or a good concept wasted, and that gives me all the more reason to loathe this shitty shitty movie. the idea of "how would it go if the beatles happened nowadays" could be far more interesting if it explored in the opposite direction of how the movie went. Instead of having it suggest the beatles' music is Just That Good, have the guy or whatever totally fail just as much as he did before, even if people like the music just as they do today. By having music so many like fail before it can ever get off the ground, it would go to show how great art so often doesn't get far just because of whether or not it'd be considered 'marketable' or 'profitable' under capitalism. And that would have been so much better, so much more interesting, whether or not it was whatshisface or the actual beatles. GOD i hate this movie ok post over cuz i cant think of anything else to add...