Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by Alex

I got ripped a couple new ones for not saying anything nice about it in my MousePlanet review. One paragraph:



So I agree completely.

There are too many uptight people over there. Not quite so many here.

I need to find the thread where some guy really got upset about RHCP doing the tunes for the two rides. I mean, it was like how some are saying {I received a forwarded multi-person email} that Obama is the anti-christ.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I need to find the thread where some guy really got upset about RHCP doing the tunes for the two rides.

I could not, for the life of me, make this sentence make sense for me. On an off-chance, I highlighted and right-clicked RHCP, followed the "Search Yahoo for "RHCP"" link, and voila! That's what RHCP means and now I know what the two rides are.

So far, I have not received any Obama for Antichrist spams yet. I hope he runs, I've always hoped the Antichrist would be nice. If he does, do you think Hilary will want to be Vice-Antichrist?

[Alex]

Just for the record, I will accept evidence of Obama being the anti-Christ as evidence of the reality of the anti-anti-Christ. So if anybody seems to make a good case, please forward it to me.

[Gemini Cricket]

I have Fellowship of the Ring on while I work on stuff in my apt. I never get tired of this film. It's edited really well in places.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Across the Universe

Loved it.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Across the Universe

Loved it.

Hmm. I think I need to give it another shot. I saw it with CoasterMatt and Rose and I didn't care for it. I got what the filmmakers were trying to do, but I wasn't drawn into it. Maybe upon a second viewing?

Although, no second viewing will mend the ending in my head. I hated that they weren't together at the end. It was as if the producers and Taymor couldn't get them scheduled for the same shot at the end.

[innerSpaceman]

I thought that was very romantic, them on different rooftops but finally back together.


Across the Universe is one of those fascinating Love-It-Or-Hate-It movies. I love that i love it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It's by no means perfect, but I thought they did a realloy fabulous job of not creating some literal visual transcription of the songs but rather took meaning from the songs and ran with it. The story is no Pulitzer-winner but good enough to hang everything together, and I thought most of the vignettes stood on their own as little mini stories. The whole thing felt like a good music album in movie musical form.

And I was prepared to hate it after the intro. I really disliked the bit of Helter Skelter at the front, but maybe if I see it again I'll get something different out of it.

[flippyshark]

Mostly loved Across The Universe. A few scenes made me cringe (Dear Prudence was way too literal, and silly, plus that character went nowhere, and the Mr. Kite sequence, oy) I thought the ending worked great, since by then I was blubbering like a teenager.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I liked Mr. Kite.