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100 Years, 100 Melodies (By Vote+) (24 movies items)" ACROSS THE UNIVERSE Kathy. Total Score: 1 point. "
Academy Award for Best Costume Design: 2000s 
Films watched in 2017
Moviewatcher122's 2017 Film Diary: April (15 movies items)"April 23 "Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud enough, it keeps the demons at bay." I heard about this movie around the same time I became a fan of The Beatles, I was mildly interested at first, but when I heard one of the covers from it on YouTube, my 12 year old Beatles fanboy self was like "Oh my god, they just ruined a great song! I'm never going to see this movie!!!" Yeah, I was one of those fans back then. Over the years though I put it back on my radar "
Evan Rachel Wood Films Viewed by Kathy (7 movies items)" Director: Julie Taymor Based on songs by The Beatles Starring: Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luthor McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Bono, Joe Cocker and Eddie Izzard On an excursion to America, Liverpool dock worker Jude falls for Lucy. When Lucy's brother Max is drafted, Jude and Lucy take a stand as anti-war activists."
“Who needs a plot when you can arrange 33 songs by the Beatles in random order and have a series of talented performers do them in a bunch of loosely connected music videos revue style? This is very similar to Mamma Mia, a hastily assembled collage of memorable pop tunes lacking a memorable or even serviceable story. There’s also the triteness of Forrest Gump, our small band of youths just so happen to take part in every single major movement and moment of the turbulent 60s. Across the Universe is only as good as any singular moment since there’s not a clichéd story that Taymor doesn’t use, nor is there a character that exists beyond a mere sketch. Hell, most of these characters feel like they’re named or brought in just to provide an excuse for another song. There’s our lea” read more
Films Named After Songs
Movies the giraffe watched in 2016: August (30 movies items)"First viewing - Aug. 7th Hey, it's one of the rare musicals I actually enjoyed...no doubt largely due to the fact that the music is all Beatles songs, but to be fair there was always the chance they'd make poor decisions for how to present the songs. Fortunately that never happened. Between the visuals and the various cast members the songs are given their due and I thought it mostly worked, the sole exception being Eddie Izzard's vocals which I thought were off. It's a minor complaint though c"
“Jude leaves his home country of England for America in search of his biological father, what he finds instead is a romance and a group of friends that”
“''We're navigators, we're aviators, eatin' taters, masturbatin' alligators, bombardiers, we got no fears, won't shed no tears, we're pushin' the front”
Top Favorite Films of 2007 (66 movies items)"Directed by Julie Taymor Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Eddie Izzard, Bono, Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs, Joe Anderson, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Anglea Mounsey, Bill Irwin, Nicholas Lumley, Robert Clohessy, Bill Buell, Joe Cocker, Harry Lennix, Selma Hayek, Lynn Cohan, Dylan Baker, and James Urbaniak "
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