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Feb 29, 2008 22:01

So I saw Across The Universe tonight. And yeah, overall I liked it. I grew up with the Beatles, they're very close to my heart, and I remember when the Anthologies came out I'd sit with my dad going through the Free As A Bird music video frame by frame, trying to spot the song references they'd sprinkled around (newspaper taxis from Lucy In The ( Read more... )

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thecpexperiment March 1 2008, 17:08:46 UTC
I'm in almost 100% agreement with your assessment of the film (I say "almost" because I couldn't stand Bono, but that's irrelevant). If it just stuck to the surreal scenes, it could have been a really great movie. But nooooo, it had to be a musical ripoff of a terrible NBC miniseries.

It makes you wonder what Julie Taymor's way longer version was like...

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sinisterpixie March 1 2008, 21:59:39 UTC
you're brilliant

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