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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Yesterday (2019) in Movies

May 3, 2020

Yesterday (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

7.3

(50 Ratings)

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Enjoyable to a point

I love Danny Boyle, he's one of my favourite directors (and he's a local lad) although I have to admit this is probably one of my least favourite films of his so far.

Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle working on the same film should be a match made in heaven. However the result is this enjoyable but sadly rather predictable romcom. Himesh Patel is a likeable lead, but I found the romance aspect with him and Lily James entirely corny and completely predictable, even for Richard Curtis. The music is good, it would be seen as it's the Beatles, however I did find it odd that in the story Himesh finds out about a number of bands and things that no longer exist (some are quite funny), yet only decides to choose the songs from the Beatles. Could they not get the rights for anything else?

There's a few laughs in this although not as many as I'd expected, and I loved the nod to Love Actually. Overall the film is enjoyable and your typical feel good Brit flick, however I don't think it's particularly memorable or exceptional.

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Butch Vig recommended Goodbye Jumbo by World Party in Music (curated)

Goodbye Jumbo by World Party

1990 | Rock

7.0

(1 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I love the songs on it and I love Karl Wallinger's singing. I fell in love with it cause he sorta took all the influences that he loves from the sixties and seventies - I guess from The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan - and somehow he made it into his own style. I don't think anybody really heard this album in the States, I don't think it had any commercial success at all. It's a great record. It’s a record I played to death and it still sounds as good now as when it came out."

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