One of Hollywood’s most preachy directors goes on a rant against fans of The Beatles

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To the millions of fans who’ve enjoyed their music over the past six decades, The Beatles will forever and always be regarded as the greatest rock band in history. In fact, they remain such a cultural force that the surviving members of the quartet recently used AI to polish off one final song — a song that will be up for two Grammy awards in 2025. All that said, however, the release of a new documentary about the band today on Disney+ has sparked one of the most annoying, preachy, and self-important Hollywood directors to tap out a few angry posts on X about the band.

That’s right, folks: Adam “look how smart I am” McKay is back at it again.

“Nothing is lamer/funnier than white liberals’ never ending fascination for the Beatles,” McKay tweeted , in a post that’s gotten 4 million impressions on the platform so far. “It’s so Neo-liberal. ‘They’re the best, right? So let’s never stop micro-focusing on them.’”

His rant continues: “Liberals always operate from a ‘must get the right answer on the test’ list of approved culture. It’s so lifeless and flat. Like yeah, Happiness is a Warm Gun and Day in the Life are great tunes but let’s move past age 13…” He then proceeds to bash the new Disney+ documentary, Beatles ’64, linking to an Associated Press story about it and commenting: “Like, really? This is something that we need at this point?”

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I don’t know about you, but it’s hard for me to take seriously a diatribe that Beatles fans need to grow up from the director of Step Brothers. Seriously, you could actually unpack a lot of what people hate about Hollywood today from his newest tweet thread. The sanctimoniousness, the attitude that we are the tastemakers, that we know better than you, and that people can’t be trusted to decide for themselves what makes for great art — it’s all right there.

When I think about why the story of The Beatles is so endlessly fascinating to fans like me, I always find myself … Read More