Across The Universe

[serendipityhq]

So, Beatles songs make cranky critics. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it should be rocking at least a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes instead of the 50% it has.

What do I want from a film like this? People dancing around to Beatles music with trippy visuals. This could have been four hours long and gone through the enitre Beatles catalogue (which,

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[embers_log]

I would have only gone to see it if they used the actual Beatles' recordings, from what I've heard in trailers it sounded like the elevator music arrangements of Beatles music and I know I couldn't tolerate that for 2 hours (or 5 minutes).

[serendipityhq]

The music *mostly* wasn't a problem for me. They have two characters, Sadie, who's supposed to be Janis Joplin-y and JoJo, who's supposed to be like Hendrix, who do reaaally annoying versions of Helter Skelter and Oh! Darling and some other songs that kinda pissed me off, and Evan Rachel Wood's voice is uneven, but the boys' voices pretty much make up for them. To be honest, I'd rather hear Jim Sturgess' versions of 'Girl' and 'I Just Saw a Face' then the Beatles. Blasphemy I know.