Really enjoyed it. Directed by Danny Boyle and he's usually a sure bet to deliver.
Music was obviously great, storyline fun, even had some good talking points, especially.....
**SPOILER ALERT BELOW**
The bit where he goes to see John Lennon and finds that because The Beatles never existed John is living out his years by the seaside (not shot by Mark Chapman). He's had a good life, done all the things he wanted, loved his wife (who we assume is dead) and thinks the lead character is a complete nutcase as he knows nothing about writing the songs the lead character has penned.
Go see it, you'll have a good time, a definite feel-good movie.
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I love movies of melancholy, this is just swimming in it, they picked most of the Beatles track that are most melancholic, In My Life, Let It Be etc, and I was so happy all the way through.
its a great Love Letter to the Beatles, and Ed Sheeran was pretty good. Actually made me want to listen to some of his music.
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- there is a massive plot hole though.....as with all movies of this kind.
Oasis don’t exist....and in the original universe he sung Wonderwall when he was 14.
later on in the alternate universe he still reminisce about singing Wonderwall?! Eh?
i think they could fix that by making a small joke about him remembering playing Wonderwall whereas Ellie said “noooo what is Wonderwall? it was Park Life, that bus really hit your head hard”.
or something to that effect.
“Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as Gary Sparrow in this time-travelling comedy series. Gary Sparrow lives in London with his wife during the 1990s, but after discovering a time portal he finds he can go back to the 1940s, to the same area, at the time of the Second World War. As he travels back and forth between the two periods, he meets another woman in the 1940s era and begins to lead a double life. Only his best friend Ron knows about Gary's dual existence, and he tries to help him along the way whenever the time traveller struggles between his two worlds.”
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does not not involve time travel.
he does not go back and forth.
no one else knows (to a point) and no one helps him.
its not different time periods, this assumes simply The Beatles never existed. More like he is in a different timeline all of the sudden.
It reads like they are two totally different ideas.
I'm sure Boyle took a bit of inspiration from that story (doubtless uncredited) before he thought, "hmmm how can I make this my own idea ? oh yeah, goodnight sweetheart"
jeez he's such a plagiarist
I know Boyle, I know what he's like, I know who'll be getting the plaudits if it's popular.
this isn’t like a Boyle movie, it’s very much a Richard Curtis movie. It has a character plucked straight out of Nottinghill for example.
And if you wanted to watch GNS now you’d have to tune into the Yesterday channel. Res ipsa loquitur.
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On IMDB, Boyle isn't even listed under writing credits. So all the more baffling why you blame him and not a single mention Richard Curtis or Jack Barth, it reads more like you have an axe to grind, and even some kind of jealousy since all your attention has been directed at Boyle.
p.s. God is the Devil, if he does exist, to watch all these innocent people die all over the world and let all the injustice takes place. Save the judging, he need to judge himself for doing nothing when he has the power to do so. Don't give me that God works in mysterious ways, if it's actually God's intention then Boyle's plagiarism is done on his watch, therefore he allowed it and supports it. If he dislike it so much he would do something about it.
Right?
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