tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post2876817476627471248..comments2009-02-11T15:42:07.263-05:00sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01054413520223145494noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-17760547395365103312009-02-11T15:42:00.000-05:002009-02-11T15:42:00.000-05:00Hahahaha. Okay, I'll try my best :)Carahttp://thecurvature.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-53337894105831083042009-02-11T15:16:00.000-05:002009-02-11T15:16:00.000-05:00You're right, of course. But I think w/o the Beatles focus, then there probably would have been a plot. And then I wouldn't mind the disjointedness in rom-coms, I think they need to be revamped anyway. I dunno, I try to be optimistic. =)<BR/><BR/><I>Haha, that's uh, pretty lofty company you're placing me alongside!</I><BR/><BR/>Dude, whatever, BFP comments on your blog, no fair! And *ahem* Yoko Ono LINKED TO YOU! WTF, have you forgotten? There's no modesty allowed on this blog. YOU ARE AWESOME. Own it.frau sally benzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01054413520223145494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-510510361546323892009-02-11T15:09:00.000-05:002009-02-11T15:09:00.000-05:00Well I think that it would just be a silly little rom-com, honestly. Which is fine for some people, but not what I'm into. The movie just doesn't have much of a <I>plot</I>, you know? Which works fine for what it is, but not so fine if you try to make it into something else. If that makes sense.<BR/><BR/><I>Also, omg, Cara just posted on my blog. If we can get BFP and a couple of others up in here, my life would be perfect.</I><BR/><BR/>Haha, that's uh, pretty lofty company you're placing me alongside!Carahttp://thecurvature.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-84808454615649849362009-02-11T14:59:00.000-05:002009-02-11T14:59:00.000-05:00Poor Lucy, I wanted to like her, I really did.<BR/><BR/>I don't think the movie itself was so bad. It certainly wouldn't be my favorite without the music and visual artistry, but I think there is something to the disjointedness in Julie Tamblyn's work in general that I really like. It's different and it keeps you on your toes. Or, me, anyway. Apparently it keeps people like eloriane at home and not in the theater lol.<BR/><BR/>Also, omg, Cara just posted on my blog. If we can get BFP and a couple of others up in here, my life would be perfect.frau sally benzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01054413520223145494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-90925730897128413972009-02-11T14:31:00.000-05:002009-02-11T14:31:00.000-05:00I definitely agree on Lucy . . . she was boring, wishy-washy, naive and I don't know. Just unengaging. I also thought that she had by far the worst voice of all of the actors in the casts. Everyone else's singing is so amazing, and hers is just . . . blah. Though her If I Fell is great.<BR/><BR/>Though I did like that she left Jude without doing some whole melodrama thing, even if she did go back to him in the end. Because even if he was right about the Jerry Rubin-esque revolutionary guy (Pablo? Paolo? Can't remember.), he also totally deserved to get his ass dumped after acting all violent and then trashing the apartment.<BR/><BR/>I think it's hard to defend a lot of ATU on non-musical and visual artistic grounds. I mean, frankly, you take all of that away and it's a pretty shitty movie. Is there really any debating that? I <I>love</I> the film, but it's because I'm a Beatles dork, it's cute, it's super pretty, it's funny, the music is amazing, and Jude is super cute :) But as soon as you take the Beatles element out of it, for me at least, there's really not much left. I think that kind of has to be taken into account when evaluating the movie.<BR/><BR/>As for Max being hot . . . uh, this lady would totally do both Jude and Jojo, but Max? Not.<BR/><BR/>Oh, one last thing in this epic comment! I think it was Eloraine who said in her other post about Lucy not getting to declare her own love at the end, with Max doing it for her by singing "She loves you yeah yeah yeah." But that's just a total Beatles joke! (There are <I>so many</I> in there if you know what to look for!) At the end of All You Need Is Love, which the Beatles recorded live, John starts singing that as a joke, Paul joins in, and it's really cute and funny. One of the things I love about the music for the movie is how true they stayed to the originals while changing them so much at the same time, and it's really considered such a part of the song for us Beatles dorks that the couldn't take it out . . . and I thought they used it to great effect.<BR/><BR/>Maybe she totally knew that already and still thinks that it sucks. Which is fair enough. But I thought I'd point it out regardless. :)Carahttp://thecurvature.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2291200544675330796.post-56539143449227727082009-02-10T20:15:00.000-05:002009-02-10T20:15:00.000-05:00Hi, it's eloriane!<BR/><BR/>OK, so I <I>finally</I> got my thoughts together and it was, like, ten paragraphs, so I posted it <A HREF="http://gendergoggles.com/2009/02/10/across-the-universe-more-thoughts/" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>Short version: I don't think you were just "making excuses"! There was a lot going on in my reaction.<BR/><BR/>Also, Max was <I>totally</I> hot, and if I was a lesbian surrounded by straight people in decidedly unsupportive times (like I <I>am</I>!) I'd probably sleep with him, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com