Imagine (What Might Have Been)…if it weren’t just a movie.

It’s a slow day so I thought that instead of putting in effort I’d let my mind wander a bit and see what it locks onto. Didn’t take long. Thought about a post from a few days ago about Beatles music and remembered the 2000 VH1 movie Two of Us.

The movie takes place in 1976 six years after the Beatles bitter breakup. (Sounds like me whenever I run into an ex). During that time there was tremendous pressure for the Beatles to reunite and Lorne Michaels (the executive producer of Saturday Night Live) even as part of a comedy bit offered the group $3000 to perform some songs on the show. This was all the funnier because not only was the amount absurdly low but he said they could divide it equally or give Ringo less.

So where do we go from here? (This is my first movie review and I’ve got to say that watching them is more fun than writing about them) Where were we? 1976 right. Back to the days before Star Wars and when special effects were still clay animation. So Paul McCartney is now firmly ensconced with his new band Wings, has the #1 song in the country with Silly Love Songs (I always hated that song) and goes to see John Lennon at a time when Yoko Ono is out of town. That should have been a time to get down and boogey, ding dong the witch is gone but no things are more awkward between the two than seeing your mother naked.

Needless to say (but I will) the two spend the day together hamnering out their issues (a lot of them) but can’t really find a way to recapture their old friendship (too much time has passed). As the night goes on they see Lorne Michaels make the offer while watching the show and decide wouldn’t it be great to take him up on his offer (hell yeah it would. People would still be talking about it all of these years later). But just as they’re about to leave for the studio Yoko Ono calls! That bitch screws up everything even in fiction! So Sir Paul waves to Saint John still on the phone with Baba Yaga and leaves. End of story and we’re left to wonder what might have been. But hey let’s not be too upset, after all it is just a movie. I now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.