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I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
Theres a really good cover of the song by Rufus Wainwright.
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It really was an amzing movie. Very talented cast(except for Bono) awesome versions of Beatles songs, great plot, good characters.
It's a great movie...especially for a musical.
I'm actually serious about this one...
It really was an amzing movie. Very talented cast(except for Bono) awesome versions of Beatles songs, great plot, good characters.
It's a great movie...especially for a musical.
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The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
Alan Watts wrote:
I am omnipotent insofar as I am the Universe, but I am not an omnipotent in the role of Alan Watts, only cunning
Eske wrote:
I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
I heard it's horrible. Looking over it I love the beatles so much that I refuse to see it. The director is an over the top *** bag that thinks she's hot ****.
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I've seen it. I didn't know it was a musical going in. Wasn't horrible. A little trippy at one point. The people sing the songs well so don't worry about them butchering the beatles' toons.
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Sanothetraveled wrote:
I've seen it. I didn't know it was a musical going in. Wasn't horrible. A little trippy at one point. The people sing the songs well so don't worry about them butchering the beatles' toons.
Edited, Oct 19th 2007 7:55pm by LobsterJohnson
I personally loved it, but that's just me.
The acting and singing was AMAZING. And the movie was just plain well done.
The acting and singing was AMAZING. And the movie was just plain well done.
It was a lot better than I was expecting it to be. That said... I really had no idea what it was going to be about going into it, either. I went with a friend of mine who has listened to The Beatles all his life. He asked if I'd go see it with him. It was quite a drive (over an hour) to actually get to a theatre playing the film. For some reason there are only 3 screens in the whole state that are playing it.
I will say it was good enough where I'd easily consider it worth the drive. I've thought about the movie quite a bit since. Some very memorable scenes, very well done with a wide variety of visual styles all mixed. I wasn't around during the 60's, but the movie takes you through quite a bit and it portrays a pretty good sense of what certain things were like during that timeframe. The whole thing actually gets pretty trippy during the middle of the movie and I was wondering if they just completely tossed out the plot and said "okay, ***** it"... but it turns out that was pretty much part of the 60's as well ;)
By the end of the film it puts you back on track and had a pretty decent ending without being overly cheesy (the guy and girl get back together, awwww <3 )
I guess you'd call the whole film a musical, they break out into song qutie often. Well... okay yeah, fine, it's a freakin' musical. It just helps a lot when it's music you actually want to listen to... not like breaking out into some Disney song or whatever. Big difference between singing "Hakuna Matata" in the middle of a movie and singing "Come Together" to introduce a new character.
My friend got the soundtrack before we saw the movie. When we listened to it, it didn't give me that great of hope for the film because I'm one for liking originals over covers 96% of the time. When in the context of the movie, however, I think the covers work nicely. It also shows they had a good eye for casting. Everybody in the movie could both act and sing... whereas in a lot of movies you get actors that struggle to do just one :p
Edited, Oct 20th 2007 2:29am by Luxx
I will say it was good enough where I'd easily consider it worth the drive. I've thought about the movie quite a bit since. Some very memorable scenes, very well done with a wide variety of visual styles all mixed. I wasn't around during the 60's, but the movie takes you through quite a bit and it portrays a pretty good sense of what certain things were like during that timeframe. The whole thing actually gets pretty trippy during the middle of the movie and I was wondering if they just completely tossed out the plot and said "okay, ***** it"... but it turns out that was pretty much part of the 60's as well ;)
By the end of the film it puts you back on track and had a pretty decent ending without being overly cheesy (the guy and girl get back together, awwww <3 )
I guess you'd call the whole film a musical, they break out into song qutie often. Well... okay yeah, fine, it's a freakin' musical. It just helps a lot when it's music you actually want to listen to... not like breaking out into some Disney song or whatever. Big difference between singing "Hakuna Matata" in the middle of a movie and singing "Come Together" to introduce a new character.
My friend got the soundtrack before we saw the movie. When we listened to it, it didn't give me that great of hope for the film because I'm one for liking originals over covers 96% of the time. When in the context of the movie, however, I think the covers work nicely. It also shows they had a good eye for casting. Everybody in the movie could both act and sing... whereas in a lot of movies you get actors that struggle to do just one :p
Edited, Oct 20th 2007 2:29am by Luxx
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