Comments | chickflick1979: Report from the land of "duh!"

chickflick1979

Report from the land of "duh!"

Apr 21, 2009 21:11

"Across the Universe" is an actual musical, like where the characters sing the songs in order to further the plot. Somehow I thought it was one of those movies that just happens to have Beatles songs in the soundtrack, like "I Am Sam." Very interesting concept, but so far the use of the songs has not been terribly creative. (I.e., "Let it Be" as ( Read more... )

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smrou April 22 2009, 02:28:10 UTC

I found the use of the songs in turns uninteresting and distractingly pointless. There were some things I liked about the movie but overall I was not a fan. It seemed like a movie that was trying way too hard to be innovative, without really ever having a solid direction.

duchessdogberry April 22 2009, 03:10:31 UTC

What smrou said.

Although: I had the movie playing in the background one day while I was baking in the next room and only taking very short breaks to sit down near the TV and the movie was much more enjoyable that it had ever been before. So, if you don't pay attention at all, it's an enjoyable movie.

chickflick1979 April 22 2009, 15:15:17 UTC

Yeah, that was pretty much the impression I got, that it would be best enjoyed as background noise. I turned it off in the middle.

It was weird because they were trying too hard to be innovative, but it wasn't at all. So if they had just decided they were going to be a musical just like all the other ones, they would probably have been better off.