I liked Across the Universe because of the music. A lot of the music was by this one band called "The Beetles." They are from, like, the sixties. The turbulent sixties. On the one hand, yeah, it was good because of these great songs by this band I mentioned before, these "Beetles" but the plot was the lamest thing I have ever heard of. I cried like four or five times though, mostly because of the very nice and emotionful music by this band from the sixties. Also, I laughed many times and I liked the strawberries. I could look at strawberries all day long!
On the other hand, it made me sick to see these young and beautiful and talented people (evan rachael wood has an EXTREMELY lovely voice) acting out this FUCKING BABY BOOMER MASTURBATION MOVIE! Just stop it right now! The Beatles music ALREADY WAS THE SOUNDTRACK OF A GENERATION AND OF AN ERA!!!!! Why not try out telling a new story with it? Maybe try not talking about FUCKING VIETNAM ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Maybe try not asking OLIVER FUCKING STONE TO WRITE YOUR FUCKING MOVIE WHEN YOU ARE JULIE FUCKING TAYMOR AND HAVE MORE INGENUITY IN YOUR RIGHT NUT THAN OLIVER STONE HAS IN BOTH HIS TESTICLES COMBINED!!! (Oliver Stone didn't really write it, it just seems like it)
Selma Hayeck was great. The two main guys were great. Evan Rachel Wood was blank faced but good. Everybody was great. Even Bono was great and I hate Bono. Fuck Bono up the ass. Joe Cocker was Extra Great. I loved Joe Cocker. And Prudence! The actress's name is T.V. and she was kind of a sucky actress but she had a very interesting voice. And anyone named T.V. is okay in my book. And I want to see Eddie Izzard in Julie Taymor's "The Music Man." Now THAT would be a crazy show to totally revise and make interesting to revitalize the movie musical. (Nothing will ever revitalize the move musical, woe is me)
You know what this movie was? This movie was like if Disneyland had a "SixtiesLand" or "HappyHippyLand" or "LSDLand" and used every single stupid cliche and stereotype about the sixties and hippies and The Beatles and the Baby Boomers and Vietnam and painted it all in loud colors and made it all into overblown shapes and sizes like Toon Town. That's what this movie was like.
But like I said, I really liked it.
BUT THE BEATLES TRANSCEND THESE CRAPPY FEW YEARS OF BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ Almighty.
November 8, 2007
Across the Unitardimous Jones.
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i wanna see that so bad! I'm also going to see Darjeeling Limited this weekend.
Mandy, you are weird.
Aunty Tuney hates when I bash the boomers.
No. I don't hate it when you bash the boomers, I just don't understand it. But don't get ME started on how anyone who didn't grow up watching the body count on the evening news and watching the lottery for your peers getting closer and closer could begin to understand the hopelessness that accompanied the musical innovations and such and therefore probably would get tired of hearing about it. There actually has not been nearly enough written and spoken about Vietnam because if there had been - or if the right things had been written or spoken - intelligent people born in a later generation would not be so fucking flippant about it. I suppose you think there's too much blabber about the holocaust and why can't we just listen to Glenn Miller without having to think about slaughtered Jews and dead soldiers.
P.S. My grammar could have been a little more correct in that last post. My apologies. I am, of course, excused because I'm at that age where the alzheimers is kicking in, and I think I'd better go see several specialists and get on a long-term treatment plan which will carry into my medicaid years thus depleting and hopefully wiping out the funding so anyone born after 1955 will have to go to Cuba for medical treatment.
Exactly. Damn Boomers. I have diabetes!
OK, fine. How about if you just eunthanize HALF of my generation so you can get your stinking diabetes medicine. Sheesh.
yeah, the Reilly half.
I'd prefer to think that component is less than 1%.
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