Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Visually, ATU was pretty. I really liked the draft exam sequence. I, too, liked Mr. Kite. But I wasn't moved by the movie.

I didn't connect with the characters in the same way I did the sort of similarly-gimmicked Moulin Rouge, for example. But I think Ghoulish Delight got nailed it best as a visual album watched and listened to with 60's/Beatles vignettes strung together by a connective-tissue-paper-thin story featuring appealing actors.

Interestingly, I love all the covers of the Beatles songs as they appear in the visual album of Across the Universe, but dislike them greatly as merely cover songs on the CD from that movie.


So the visual album style is unique and, imo, marvelous. It's not a film I can connect with in the same way as a conventionally plotted or executed musical ... its form is unique and its road to appreciation also unique, and perhaps a little more challenging.


But, sheesh, it's like 2 minutes between numbers ... and I enjoy every single one of the musical numbers, with a handful being fantastically excellent.