Green Day reflections

When asked the question "do you like Green Day", the part of me that claims to be into "good, unmainstream, original" music would definately say no. I don't like Green Day. They sound and look like just about every other American alternative/ punk band. After the four year wait 21st Century Breakdown was exactly the same as American Idiot right down to the colour scheme of the artwork and speaking of the artwork they blatantly plagarised Banksy, again totally unoriginal. Why then at the prospect of American Idiot the movie am I so excited? Green Day's true gift, apart from their lyrics which are so ridiculously clever and interesting they can be read straight from the booklet, is their ability to write a concept album with a plot better than the story lines of most movies around now. The story behind American Idiot, of St Jimmy and Jesus of Suburbia and "a nation under the new media", could potentially be a really engaging film. Watch the Jesus of Suburbia video if you don't believe me you indie Green Day hater. Oh and another thing. If your definition of punk is angry, anti establishment music that is distorted yet relatively simple, then despite what John Lydon may say about them, they are punk. There is no rule that says punk bands can't be successful.