Killing the Immortal

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 2007)

When I first saw the previews for this movie, all I could think about was the great potential there was to make a great movie using The Beatles songs as a basis. As The Beatles are my favorite band, I became excited to see a movie that was supposed to give an artistic vision to the time period in which they created. What I got was a piece of garbage. It seems impossible to the mere mortal to imagine any scenario under which Beatles songs could be made bad. All you need is good singers and the songs are such classics that they cannot be destroyed. Wrong! These idiots took a bad combination of Beatles songs, threw them together, and selected the wrong parts of individual songs, and tried to form a plot. No one told them that you can't put a plot together by simply using bits of songs. Sometimes, you need to have an original idea that flows as a story. The first thirty minutes put a legitimate setup together for a good story. Then the writers must have said "screw it" and just thrown together a bunch of songs they liked and decided that if they made up some artsy scenes, it would pass for a message. What they made was a bunch of nonsense scenes full of painted people, costumes, and crap. Pick a Beatles song from this movie, any song, and I guarantee you these morons screwed it up. Like "Hey Jude"? Well just wait until you see how they murdered it. Think the rooftop concert was a genius piece of pop culture? Well get ready to cry. If Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr sat down and saw this thing, I think they might go on a murdering rampage. Let it be known that nothing about this movie is better than 2 hour acid trip while listening to the Beatles and being repeatedly beaten. As for people who liked this, just go kill yourself.