[Movie] Across The Universe

If I wanted a trippy Beatles musical, I'd just watch Yellow Submarine. That film is still visually stunning, funny, and contains original Beatles songs instead of shitty cover versions. I honestly don't see the appeal of Across The Universe at all. If I want to look at pretty things for two hours I'll go to an art gallery or a garden.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I guess I came across as too aggressive in my first post. There's nothing wrong with going to a theatre to see art, I love film, but a good film has more elements than lots of bright swirling colors. That can be good in a film, but when a movie has almost no plot and is just bright swirling colors, what's the point? I guess it's fine, but there's so much unused potential.

I haven't seen this film. I might rent it when the DVD comes out, but from all I've seen, it just seems like an exploitative thing to me. As in, The Beatles are really popular, let's profit from that! It may or may not actually be that, but it gives off that vibe to me.

There are literally hundreds of cover albums already devoted solely to The Beatles catalogue, so different interpretations are pretty well played out. Getting actors to sing Beatles songs with help from Bono just screams cash grab to me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.