They took a sad song, and made it better, better, better...

This movie looks like pure grade-A crap.

El Freak: This movie looks like pure grade-A crap.

Dude, it's a musical. The great ones are always the worst ones.

Everything looks cooler when it's filmed in slow motion.

Yah great soundtrack but the movie was 3 hours of pain

El Freak: This movie looks like pure grade-A crap.

Seen it, it wasn't. At least to my tast.

And, although I loved how they repurposed most of the song, this one came to me as the perfect example of repurposing a song. "I want you (she's so heavy)" was also perfect in that regard, as a recruiting song the US Army.

Man I hate that warbly R&B vocal style that every chick under the age of 30 feels obliged to adopt...

cryptozoophiliac Quote 2008-02-09 05:36:08 AM
Man I hate that warbly R&B vocal style that every chick under the age of 30 feels obliged to adopt...

she doesn't add any warbles that the Beatles didn't already put there. Maybe you hate her tone but that's a different thing altogether (now).

Okay, like was she singing to the cheerleader or the football player?

Cause if it was the cheerleader, then its a tragic lesbian romance.

If it was the football player, then it's stupid broad whining.

/Hoping for the cheerleader on cheerleader action!
//Save the lesbian, save the movie!

Christian Bale: cryptozoophiliac Quote 2008-02-09 05:36:08 AM
Man I hate that warbly R&B vocal style that every chick under the age of 30 feels obliged to adopt...

she doesn't add any warbles that the Beatles didn't already put there. Maybe you hate her tone but that's a different thing altogether (now).

Actually, I listened to the whole thing, and she has a nice tone. In one sense, she brings more actual meaning to the song than it originally had.

Could be however that I'm not much of a fan of Beatles covers.

(Exceptions: Ella Fitzgerald's cover of "Savoy Truffle", Los Lobos live cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows", Earth Wind and Fire's "Got to Get You in to My Life".)

Christian Bale: cryptozoophiliac Quote 2008-02-09 05:36:08 AM
Man I hate that warbly R&B vocal style that every chick under the age of 30 feels obliged to adopt...

she doesn't add any warbles that the Beatles didn't already put there. Maybe you hate her tone but that's a different thing altogether (now).

I just listened to both. The cheerleader version sounds like she almost graduated from the Christina Aguilera school of vocal styling. She had the croaking from silence into a soft note down pat, and also the sloppy scooping into a note (aka inexperience). All she needs is to replace more of the longer sustained notes with more scales and she'll have Aguilera down perfectly.

Across the Universe entertained me. The soundtrack was great and a most of the musical sequences were fantastic. But the parts in between the music left a lot to be desired.


Overall, not a terrible movie.

"iiiIII think you'll understand" - She's got that phony cigarettes and whiskey grind goin' on.

Only thing worse is the McLachlan/Morissette yodel.

What a bunch of crappy, crap, crap.

I, for one, am sick of the deification of the Beatles and John Lennon particularly.

I'll take the bobblehead version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GqQHHNPglE

/smithereens
//meh

that was awful

Yeah, but does it surpass this Beatles musical in cheese?


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She was singing to the cheerleader. I saw the movie and overall I would say mediocre script, great music.

I'm a huge fan of The Beatles and in general I hate covers, but I absolutely loved this movie and the musical performances. Evan Rachael Wood does phenomenal versions of "Blackbird" and "If I Fell." The version of "Let It Be" done in the movie almost brought me to tears. It's a great movie worth seeing over and over.

Started out too whinny but got a bit better.

like the movie, one of the only musicals i enjoyed (along with the new producers and RENT)

I kinda wished they included Sgt Peppers or LSD or I Saw Her Standing There in the beginning.

Does it make it more interesting when you find out that the "girl" singing, Prudence, is a T.V. in real life?

I've never seen this movie and hope I never do. Every outtake gives me the impression that it would be painful to sit through. I would probably want to slit my wrists before the movie is over -- that's after I finished jabbing an icepick through my eardrums so I couldn't hear anymore crappy versions of great songs.

TheSkill05: I'm a huge fan of The Beatles and in general I hate covers, but I absolutely loved this movie and the musical performances. Evan Rachael Wood does phenomenal versions of "Blackbird" and "If I Fell." The version of "Let It Be" done in the movie almost brought me to tears. It's a great movie worth seeing over and over.

THIS, a million times this.

This song, however, did *not* need to be included in the film. Totally cringe-worthy.

mfaby: What a bunch of crappy, crap, crap.

I, for one, am sick of the deification of the Beatles and John Lennon particularly.

OMG the beatles and john lennon were GADS, I say, GADS!

i hate that freakin' britney spears-esque constipated sound that female singers think they need to make today. you know which on i'm talking about?

just like mariah made everyone think they needed to sing gospel.

I'm not an overly reverent Beatles fan, so I'm really not sure whether or not I'll like this movie more or less for that fact.

It looks like Moulin Rouge only with Beatles songs. That's not exactly a selling point.

Neither is this clip.

Mr. Skin told me T.V. Carpio was naked in Sucker Free City.

There were some great county covers of Beatles tunes. A particular fave is the Dillards doing I've Just Seen A Face. The Dillards played the Darlings on Andy Griffith in many of the episodes with Ernest T. Bass.

Country singer Baby Bare does an incredible cover of The Last Time by the Stones. Hard to find but worth a listen. Those English boys were heavily influenced by American country music and it shows.

so yeah...this is super, super farkin' old news.
the DVD just came out; the movie was released to theatres like, what, last summer?

Secondly, since i see some doubters--Across the Universe not only did not suck, but in fact ranks among one of the best movies of 2007. Don't criticise it until you've seen it.

Also--it's worth noting that while this song was good, it was by far no where near the best song on the soundtrack--find a clip of "I want you," or "oh!darling," and you'll see why this movie is so great.

I have a great deal of respect for The Beatles, but to be honest, their early stuff was well executed but not significantly better than say, Herman's Hermits. Good, but not great.

This cover adds something to the song. I don't regret listening to it.

You detractors honestly don't get it. Think of it as a tribute to the great original music, rather than "crappy covers". It's a very well-done soundtrack, and perfectly in the spirit of paying respect to the original masterpieces.

As for the movie overall, it's a matter of taste. I enjoyed it as a creative visual and aural experience, and didn't think of it as a "narrative" movie. I can easily see why others wouldn't like it.

mfaby: What a bunch of crappy, crap, crap.

I, for one, am sick of the deification of the Beatles and John Lennon particularly.

Its tough not to deify rock gods. Really, whos is more deserving of rock deification than farking john lennon?

How can you not like this song? (new window)


Absolutely beautiful...

LindenFark: I have a great deal of respect for The Beatles, but to be honest, their early stuff was well executed but not significantly better than say, Herman's Hermits. Good, but not great.

I think you might be wrong.