So awful I don't know what to say

Rating: 1/10 (8 October 2007)

Let's see--I can't choose less than a 1? I don't understand why this movie was made. It's as if someone who had only the most vague idea what context some really good songs were written in decided to spend money and hire actors to re-literalize them. What an odd, odd impulse. It felt like they--she? whoever made this--had to work--expend energy--to keep this film so thin for three hours. If anyone had let up for even a second, some life might have seeped in. So bravo for that, I guess. Eddie Izzard was good; I can't believe Bono was in it; no one ever had such a simplistic view of any time period--second-graders putting on "Hair" would show more nuance. There, I'm at ten lines. If you ignore my advice, go see it, and understand why it is at all (do I have to play it backwards?), please let me know.