Across the Universe
Sep 8th, 2008 by craig
A few weeks ago we watched “Across the Universe” at our house. Since then:
- J’Neil has learned to play “Hey Jude” on the guitar while she sings it
- Kristin ordered and recieved the complete soundtrack
- Most all of us have loaded said soundtrack onto our computers
- Kristin also ordered and recieved the movie on dvd, which we watched on our drive to Montana
- I’ve been playing “Let it Be”, though I prefer to have someone else sing it with me
- There’ s been a great deal of dialogue in the house about how the Beatles wrote some pretty great music
- Also dialogue about how much better some of these folks from the movie performed those songs than the Beatles did
- 80% of my exersize time has been to the soundtrack of Across the Universe
- We’ve all decided that we really like Jim Sturgess, who plays the lead
- We had to watch “21”, which also starred Jim Sturgess (he was better in “Across the Universe”)
The great covers of Beatles songs really makes this a fun movie to watch. If you’re a Beatle fan you’ll love the covers. If you’re not a Beatle fan, you’ll become one and you’ll love the covers. My favorite may be Joe Cockers version of “Come Together” during which he plays several different characters. Although Jim Sturgess doing “I’ve Just Seen a Face” in the bowling alley is priceless. Here’s a short bit of Jim from the opening scene of the movie:
Thank you for the review, I will be ordering it from Netflix today. I love the Beatles and can’t wait to see this.
There are bunch of great songs. Except “I want to hold your hand”. That one, it didn’t work so well in the movie.