oh my... i don’t know if i’m more irritated by the movie or in myself, for sitting and watching the whole 133 minutes of it. “across the universe” was supposed to be this beautiful movie filled with beautiful songs by a beautiful band. and it did have those beautiful songs... those beautiful songs we all grew up with. but they should never be turned in to covers. they are great originals from a truly unique band, and they should stay that way. no one else could ever do justice to the magic created by those four young brits we know as the beatles.

the movie wasn’t a complete disaster. i did find myelf intrigued by some parts of it. the colors and cinematography were a vision. and maybe what kept me watching were the sights of jim sturgess (jude) and joe anderson (max). they were pretty good looking! i was really annoyed by the girls in the movie... evan rachel wood (lucy) made me want to puke whenever she’d open her mouth to sing the obvious song for the scene... much less likable was dana fuchs (sadie) - what an awful voice. she sang the one song - “don’t let me down” - and i remember saying to ed, “you know, whenever this song pops up on the ipod, i wanna just take the ipod and throw it at someone?” and all the movie did was put a face to that horrid voice. the only girl i could stand to watch and listen to was t.v. carpio (prudence) - and she had a role as a lesbian, constantly searching for love. it might have been a coincidence that the reason she was my favorite female character was because she only sang about two songs, and her role was very minor.

but enough about the characters. the plot was obvious - with a war base. however, the movie was more like this:

1. •i have an idea! let’s write down all the beatles songs we know!
   

2. •okay, now let’s make a movie out of all of these songs.
   

3. •we’ll need about four characters, and then we can just play like connect the dots... but with the songs. you get it?
   

and the final product? well, it reminded me of a cinematography student’s final thesis. it was like some little rich movie student took the above formula, and made it their final project. and at the end i thought “well that was pretty... pretty much a waste of time!”

two thumbs down from me... way down... and i don’t care if i’m not a critic. in the end i share the same view as the above quoted critic in his last sentence... “I wanted to turn the sound down on them and say rude things.” but what do i know? i’m just irritated.

feel free to leave your comment in the form of a beatles song... hehe...