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Drop A Hit, Follow The Link, And Let Your Mind Flow ACROSS THE UNIVERSE!!
You know why I enjoy having my buddy Flmlvr as a friend so much?
Because sometimes, it’s important to know what 14-year-old girls are excited about in the world of film, and no one is more in touch with the taste of 14-year-old girls than Flmlvr.
Not even Herc.
Tonight, I got an e-mail from Flmlvr that contained a link to a trailer that I’ve been waiting to see for a while now. I think Julie Taymor’s a heck of a filmmaker and an interesting visual artist in general. I’m not sure what I expected from her take on the Beatles catalog...
... but it wasn’t this.
It’s a little bit HAIR. It’s a little bit MOULIN ROUGE. It looks beautiful. But those songs carry such an emotional punch on their own that Taymor’s got to hope that she can contextualize them in a whole new way. Can we hear these songs again for the very first time? Can she make them feel fresh?
Time will tell, but for now, enjoy your first look at ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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i want to see this movie so bad
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Looked only so-so till the creepy effects stuff hit. Might be interesting.
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i look forward to taymor's movies, but am inevitably disapointed. the deck is stacked especially high against her here; trying to create a cinematic vision that deserves the beatles' catalogue is a nearly insurmountable task. i can't deny that she's got balls in trying. though.
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Feb 03, 2007 3:16:37 AM CST
I just finished watching "Let It Be" on YouTube,....
by lhombresiniestro
and remembered why I loved the Beatles so much....and now I'm subjected to this? His name's JUDE? HOW CLEVER!!! At least Maxwell wouldn't have been so obvious. And if they followed that song's storyline, it'd be a pretty badass movie. Usually, I'm not the bitchy whiny person on this board, but come the fuck on. It's "Sgt. Peppers" with a big budget and cuter actors.
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yep, it is
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you can find let it be on youtube? awesome : -D
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You can find the first hour, then if you look up Roof Top concert, you can find the rest.
God, I love me some YouTube. -
I dunno. It seems like it could go down the road of sap preeeeetty easily. It looks like it may have been better without actually being a musical. I'll definitely see it, Taymor is certainly an artist through and through and even if she fails it will be a beautiful failure.
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ill look for them, and why are people comparing this movie to the dreadful sgt pepper's lonely heart club band? that movie had no idea what it was trying to be except advanced the careers of the bee gees and peter framton
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This is movie is trying too hard. It needs to get over itself.
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Titus is a personal fave of mine, and I enjoyed Frida too (though it needed a bit more of Taymour's visual style). I'm sure this will be excellent... Taymour thrives on visual overload and spectacle, but she also knows how to take it to a very real place, and she has a great sense of character development. No question in my mind, this will be great.
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cool visuals. I hope the drama is on par with them, but I've seen "1969" already...
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But Where the HEll IS the GYMKATA DVD review!!??!!?!
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I am sure this is NOT news to most Beatles fans, but Across the Universe is a reference to the Beatles' TM experience. Recently got a glimpse into this world again as David Lynch is talking a lot about TM with his new book and touring with his movie, Inland Empire.
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I will go see it.
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Wow, the covers of the songs in this trailer are as lame as the ones in those damn Target commercials. I think the idea of using one band's catalog as the soundtrack for a film is interesting, but either use the actual song (which the actual Beatles probably wouldn't allow) or cover the songs in such a way that they don't sound like overwrought Muzak. I am not looking forward to seeing the trailer for this movie appear on tv a million times.
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he recoups some of the dough spent on recent legal fees. I think I heard that Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles songs, so doesn't he get the profits? And also from the new Target ads. "Let your money earn money" indeed.
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Keep the second, and that's be best trailer I've seen this year so far.
Seriously, that first half almost kills it. Awful Moulin Rouge rip-off starting line, generic 'college romance' montage. But from the halfway point onwards... I had to watch that again, it was like I suddenly switched to watching a much, much more interesting film. Looking forward to this one now. -
Best Beatles sone ever. Why? close your eyes and listen to the Coda...It sounds like early Black Sabbath. The Beatles accidentally stumbled into Heavy Metal. Also, Taymor's 'Titus' was amazing but 'Freda'(I think) was dog shit. This looks amazing and corny. Hippies ruin everything. Thank you.
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Beatles overload will happen on Sunday when the catalog is released on iTunes.
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control of their music....what a piece of shit...
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where is your header?
no more rumblings?
i love yah -
But I won't say what.
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but i say it's booty!
this looks like a pile of fun, but poor julie taymor always misses the mark a little...i don't know why she can't stick with theatre, where she truly belongs. evan rachel wood is a marriage-breaking whore!
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Looks great. Taymor's got my money opening day. Across the Universe is my favourite Beatles track anyways so I was fucked from the get go.
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I saw The Green Bird on Broadway and almost fell asleep. She just doesn't do it for me. Titus was awful and Frida was a bore.
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is my favourite Beatles track as well, but the snatch they played for this trailer didn't sound very promising. The version used in Pleasantville was semi-decent.
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Check out the "I am Sam" soundtrack, then eat my shorts. Rufus Wainwright doing "Across the Universe" alone is worth the price of admission.
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I'm a huge Beatles fan. Just had my first kid. Named her Eleanor. Jude would have been the boy's name. Don't clown on people naming children (or characters) in this way. I'll beat your ass. Anyway, as a huge, critical Beatles fan, I think the combo of Taymor and Beatles looks quite interesting, although the lead actor wouldn't have been my first choice (too pretty). Trailers never do films justice anymore, so I'll wait to see it in its entirety. If it works, it will be one sweet flick. If it is too cheesy or sappy, I'll probably hate it. The visuals look awesome, though. Having enjoyed all of Taymor's previous work, I have hope that she'll keep it dark enough to be good. Titus was nasy, baby. But this is PG-13, so who knows.
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I'm there.Taymor's version of Titus grants her carte blanche in my book. I'll see anything she makes for the rest of her life just cos I love that one so much.
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Or better yet, how about a CGI biopic of the Beatles???
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Julie Taymor is a visual genieus and I think the movie looks spectacular.
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...roll my eyes and think "there's very little Julie Taymor in this Julie Taymor film". Then, the last part blew me away. Viva Taymor!
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I'm just sayin....
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Man, those were the days.
This whole Beatles thing has been done before, Wes Anderson has already done the whole British invasion thing and the plot looks like something I've seen about 100 times so why should I give a darn? The trailer's second half looked interesting but if it's only there to pad a lame story then who cares. -
of white, middleclass suburbanites who drop out and become hippies. How original and ingenious. Throw in a teenybopper romance subplot and you have a veritible clichefest. Taymor may be a visual wizard, but all the pretty pictures and pretty people can't change the fact that this is looks like a hackneyed cartoon of a story.
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Extra lame too.
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I really wanna see it. Looks damn good.
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He's in it.
Which means I'll see it. -
Hippies, your philosophy is dead. You all became yuppies and went to work for Bank of America.
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Only time will tell...
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This is for people who find McCartney's original performances of these songs too drenched in irony and cynicism.
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There are some truly cynical bastards in here. That trailer ruled. I got chills. Some of you guys need to get outta the house. Lub.
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...and they say they liked this movie when it was on Broadway...called "Mamma Mia"!
But the way they take Beatles songs and write a musical around it is MUCH better than Moulin Rogue...or at least I hope so. -
...with images of World War II instead of Vietnam. Then they'd really have something original. In other words, youngsters, it's been tried before, not just that lame Bee Gees/Frampton slopfest (which damaged their careers, not advanced them).
P.S. How much you want to bet "She's Leaving Home" will accompany the scene preceding that empty apartment? If there's a Michelle, Julia, Martha, or Eleanor Rigby in this movie, I'll have to choke back the acid reflux. -
My car doesn't work.
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It's great to see that man getting some solid acting work. You know, besides fucking 'Blueberry'. This week I scored a copy of the pilot to his new FX series at work. The pilot I saw was called "Low Life", which I think has since been renamed "The Riches". It stars he and Minnie Driver (who I've never cared for, but is phenomenal as a cough syrup addict in this) as the parents of a morally blank family of gypsies. So long as they don't do a pre-broadcast overhaul, it is the most promising pilot I've seen in years.
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This movie looks like it's going to kick some serious ass.
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Anyone else see that lower case H in the lower left corner of every page on this site?
Weird.
Ok...no more drunken posting for me. -
Seriously, Julie Taymor has created a bollywood film, westernized for american audiences. Good for her. Hopefully it doesnt suck like most bollywood films.
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Here:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/acrosstheuniverse_hd.html
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I give huge props for whoever crafted this trailer. As people have commented earlier, the first half is kind of subtle, plying you with beatles hits you know, lulling you into a sense that you know what's going on and then smashing you across the face with the beauty that is the last few seconds of the trailer as the world comes apart. Fucking awesome.
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