Across the Universe

iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
edited May 2007 in Social Entropy++
Seems to be a Moulin Rouge-esque movie based off The Beatles.

It could be fantastic.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/acrosstheuniverse/
A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other.


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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
    edited May 2007
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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    it looks like it'd be alright except for one thing

    guys who should we get to do the music of The Beatles

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  • ThandorThandor __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2007
    You sunk my battleship.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Meh, could be worse. They clearly like the music.

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Who doesn't like the Beatles though?

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    People who like to be different.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    know what though

    if you're shitting on the beatles it's like saying I outright refuse to listen to anything popular ever

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    These are fucking awful covers

    Seriously.
    They are absolutely terrible.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2007
    this thread is my notice that i'm going to bed

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    jesus is it 2:30

    that's what I get for drinking a liter of pepsi at midnight I guess

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  • PakuPaku Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    when i was little i used to listen to all the songs on an album and pretend they told a little story

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Yeah, thats what you get.

    That and bad teeth.

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I am not a fan of the Beatles

    I do not do it to be different, I listen to Led Zeppelin and stuff

    But I can't really get into them. I don't think I'd ever buy a CD of them, but that goes with a lot of bands.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Yeah, thats what you get.

    That and bad teeth.

    well, not really

    you don't always have to try to get a snappy one-liner out, you know

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    I am not a fan of the Beatles

    I do not do it to be different, I listen to Led Zeppelin and stuff

    But I can't really get into them. I don't think I'd ever buy a CD of them, but that goes with a lot of bands.

    I think they released one song for everyone. I know people who dont like The Beatles in general, but really really like one or two songs they did... Which I think is pretty hip.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Skull Man wrote: »
    Yeah, thats what you get.

    That and bad teeth.

    well, not really

    you don't always have to try to get a snappy one-liner out, you know

    I get that a lot.

    I rarely listen.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Happy, your sig is brilliant, though your name is unwieldy.

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    mrpaku wrote: »
    when i was little i used to listen to all the songs on an album and pretend they told a little story

    Pretty much all albums do. Maybe not a running story, but most songs have something in common on an album.

    Most of those songs were written within months of each other by the same people, for the most part.

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I hate the beatles and they weren't even that good, they only succeeded thanks to their gay manager and after he died, so did they (lol lenon)

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Another movie based on the half-imagined circle jerk that is the 1960's?

    Oh yeah, this sounds awesome.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I just got douche-chills watching that trailer.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    IF YOU CAN REMEMBER THE SIXTIES YOU WEREN'T THERE

    MAN

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    everyone that was 12 years old in 1970 and earlier needs to just be erased

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  • Dely AppleDely Apple Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    IF YOU CAN REMEMBER THE SIXTIES YOU WEREN'T THERE

    MAN

    Who the heck here is born or is alive during the 1960s (60-65) dogg.

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  • Dely AppleDely Apple Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I propose an age poll thread!

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  • SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    60's people suck

    they had as many drugs as they could get their grass stained hands on and then when they get too old to do em they're all "ban em!"

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    When I ask my parents what they were doing during all of the craziness of the 1960's, they just tell me, "Working."

    It kind of takes the piss out of the whole mythology.

    And it anyone is even considering seeing this movie, save themselves the trouble and buy the uncut version of The Dreamers. It's a nice bit of nostalgia, with some excellent directing and a full blown Sergio-Leone-close-up of Eva Green's vagina.

    Everybody wins.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    But, guys.

    Eddie Fucking Izzard.

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  • klokklok Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I am not downloading apple quicktime vfuk u

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  • JinnJinn Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    That trailer struck me as reminiscent of Big Fish and Almost Famous. These are two of my favorite films. I hope this turns out to be awesome, even though the covers really were pretty damn bad.

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  • JinnJinn Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    ALSO, fuck yeah The Dreamers is awesome everybody watch it

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    There's a great (awful) cover of I am the Walrus by Jim Carrey.

    A dude I used to work with had this cd that was nothing hut celebrities doing horrible Beatles covers.

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  • denihilistdenihilist Ancient and Mighty Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    The Good News: Julie Taymor
    The Bad News: I heard a rumor that the studio recut the film.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    Manifest wrote: »
    There's a great (awful) cover of I am the Walrus by Jim Carrey.

    A dude I used to work with had this cd that was nothing hut celebrities doing horrible Beatles covers.

    did it have shatner's Lucy in the Sky?

    Because woah.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    also

    god fucking damn I hate Bono

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  • denihilistdenihilist Ancient and Mighty Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    denihilist wrote: »
    The Good News: Julie Taymor
    The Bad News: I heard a rumor that the studio recut the film.
    Turns out that's not a rumor at all. Joe Roth cut about half an hour out of the film.

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  • Jedi RenegadeJedi Renegade Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Bono is a dick.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited May 2007
    I am pretty sure that the word for the male equivalent of diva is "bono".

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  • Jedi RenegadeJedi Renegade Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I can't really think of anybody else who succeeds in both seeming so totally up himself and incredibly moralizing and preachy at the same time, certainly nobody else so highly "respected".

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I want to see Bono and Russel Crowe fight for the title of Most Pretentious Douchebag Celebrity.

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