Across the universe...

yeah, that's what I meant.
wow, I think that is so crazy, who makes a beatles music and use music performed by other artists but The Beatles. That makes no sense.

 

It makes plenty of sense, I mean from a money and marketing standpoint. Case and point... recording covers vs. including original Beatles music in the movie and on a soundtrack.

And we arrive at the crux of why this movie is smoke and mirrors.

 

It suuuuucks how can you all like it so much??? Crazy!!!

 

honestly, when my friends and i saw the trailer for this, we were all completely horrified. i'm sorry, it's like "moulin rouge" with beatles songs. the main character is jude and people talk about his friend max looking like he could kill someone with a silver hammer..... i mean, puns? a punnish musical that's intended to be serious and heartwarming? YEEECCHHHH.

and don't get me wrong, i loooooove the beatles. but i respect them enough as artists to be disheartened at the fact that their art is being sold by our creepy fake-society machine (hollywood).... it's just really upseting

 

Gosh, I was kinda looking forward to seeing this.

But from some of you it sounds like it's the Beatles equivalent of "Mamma Mia!" :-/

 

mama mia!! hahaha!!!!!

you made me giggle.

 

i dont know what i think of the movie. i saw it a couple nights ago... the tripped out scenes were pretty sweet... but then again it was a musical... they broke into song at weird points. just weird. its like forrest gump the musical, without the hilarity.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm just not sure I could even watch it. I really just like to listen to their music and just listen to their music without a movie attached to them.

 

Then just don't watch it... The Beatles are way more awesome just own their own, they made all the songs lame in the movie anyway

 

Saw this yesterday, it was a complete waste of time and money. It couldn't have been more dissappointing. Worst movie I've seen this year.

 

Explained perfectly.

 

i cant believe how many peple dislike this moive... i personally loved it, im def. gonna buy the DVD when it comes out

 

Honestly, I liked it. It wasn't a great film, but it was entertaining.

I suppose I must include that I personally hate the Beatles. While I like the lyrics, I hate most of the music- especially the earlier stuff- and I really love the Across the Universe soundtrack.

 

It's already begun. I saw a cover of a beatles song in a target commercial at a friends house yeserday. Sweeeeeeet.

 

i personally liked the movie...but i do agree with the fact that beatles music is now going to become the "trend", and all these people will be saying oh i love the beatles but have only heard the tracks from the movie...but to each his own i guess...as far as the songs i definately like the originals better, because i've been listening to them since i was 4! but all in all i think it was pretty good...but again i think the songs were nothing compared to the originals....

 

i actually liked the movie. i thought that the singers had good voices and the story was cute, but of course it's not gonna top the original songs. i really hope it doesn't become just a trend.

 

You know the musicians were better than the Beatles, right?

 

perhaps you could make a case for the musicians being better technically. But music isn't all technical. I'm sure several people would agree that John Petrucci (spelling?) is a better technical guitarist than Jimi Hendrix... but does that make John's music better?

Maybe for you, but certainly not for me. Music is something MORE than just notes, time signatures, and meter. It's that something more that this film completely abandoned. That makes all the difference.

 

Come on, guys. "It's Getting Better" has been bastardized in car and cell phone commercials since forever. And the Beatles are already bigger than Jesus. They're not some indie band no one but the few and the hip have ever heard of. They're THE BEATLES. Honestly, I think a lot of mainstream viewers are going to be too weirded out by the more... abstract sequences. I could practically hear the "WTF?" going off in the minds of the girls in front of me, and wondered if they stuck around just because Jude was a dreamboat.

Seriously, they should have just cut out at least half of the non-musical bits. The movie spent way, way too much time setting up the characters before they met, and not nearly enough time in the psychedelic bits ("We're normal and pretty. Hey, this punch is REALLY good, you guys... Hey, let's get on the bus! Oops, we're off the bus. Hey, a circus! Okay, guys, we've had some life-changing mind-expanding trips, it's time to go back to wearing conservative turtlenecks.")And really, the "story" was incredibly weak. At the end, what was the conflict? Oh, that's right. There wasn't any.

But I didn't see it for the story, or for the dreamboat dude (Lucy just looked too... mainstream for my taste, even when she was all "hippied" out). I saw it for Julie effin' Taymor (the director) being totally out there nuts. The movie is at its best when Julie Taymor is at her most masturbatory. Case in point: The "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" sequence. Fantastic. Bizzare. Awesome. I expected more out of her for the psychedelic sequences, although "Because" was beautiful in its simplicity. But anytime the music started and suddenly there were dancers and masks and puppets and people dancing on or under water, I would smile and think, "That's my girl. Good Julie Taymor."

So don't go expecting a good story. Go for the surreal parts. And you might want to go under the influence of something, if you're into drugs. I did. It helped.