Across the Universe...

[RockyBalboa]

Originally Posted by creekster

Not even close. Look at the clips of xanadu that tooblue posted in the other thread. FOr that matter, the first movie to be based on covers of beatles songs (Sgt Peppers band starring the bee gees and peter frampton) was much more 'gay' and much more of a mistake. This one was done pretty well. It was not really meant to be a new plot of profound insights (IMO). It was really just a tribute to the era. They remade the songs, plugged a story around them and made also sorts of refernce to popular culture of the era. I thought bono was pretty good as the Ken Kesey figure and they replayed the famous refusal of Timothy Leary to refuse to meet with him. ANd there were all the refernces to the other beatlews songs; Prudence's freind RIta, Sadie the singer, who max calls sexy, prudence crawlign in through the bathroom window and so forth. I enjoyed it as a trip down memory lane and I enjoyed some of the musical arrangements. I really liked the dear prudence arrangement (esp. the chorus harmonies). I liked the visual of the troops carrying the statue of liberty through a miniature vietrnamese jungle, smashing all the trees all to the tune of "She's so Heavy." But, if you only saw 25 mintues, you missed most of this.

Okay so you're a homo. Thanks for clarifying.