Across the Universe

[King Bob]

I actually went to the movies, first time in over a year. And I enjoyed it, although it is perhaps a bit slight, and I thought it dragged a bit in the middle. There was some great imagery. The reworkings of the tunes were interesting and almost all worked.

If you are a purist for the Beatles' own work, you will no doubt find it bad.

[Drunk Monk]

There were definitely some cool visuals and cameos, but it failed to captivate me in the end. It reminded me too much of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which also had some cool cameos. That was a film that ED once took us all to for his B-day when it opened ('78 according to IMDB). Actually, he made us all go. It was his B-day. For a while, ED had this tradition of taking his friends to the crappy movie of his choice. I think we only did it twice, SPLHCB and Garbage Pail Kids (the movie), if memory serves, then we all decided that it wasn't a good idea to support ED in this endeavor. Anyway, Bono was funny in AtU, as was Salma Hayek (missed Joe Cocker), but they couldn't hold a candle to Steve Martin, Alice Cooper, Billy Preston and Aerosmith in SPLHCB (and I hated that film if for the George Burns scene alone). Maybe if I had more psychedelics on board, I would have liked it better.

[King Bob]

Joe Cocker sang "Come Together" and was the pimp, bum, etc.

[Drunk Monk]

...so I was tuning into it in an on-again, off-again way. Maybe I was in the potty for Joe.

I think AtU would make a great double feature with SPLHCB...