Current Movie Online for a Younger Crowd

My most recent online movie watching was Across the Universe. A current movie with a plot line built around Beatles tunes. I have to believe that meant nothing short of a huge royalty fee right off the bat. Good thing Michael Jackson sold those worthless songs to Sony!

The last time I watched a movie that was based on the famous catalog, it was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Universe was a better movie than that. Paint drying is a better movie than that. The talent was there, but the story was too weak and never really made much sense.

Across the Universe does not suffer from the same problem. It is more in the realm of Moulin Rouge. Rouge was an excellent film and one I may to go watch online when I get this post finished.

Universe is still in the same family idea, but it is not quite eating at the adult table, yet. It tries and at times does a great job. Unfortunately, like the Sgt. Pepper's, it suffers a bit from too many convenient setups and namings. Not too much, just a bit.

Julie Taymor directs this tale of a young lad from Liverpool named Jude. Will that lead to a song? You bet it will. Who falls in love with an American lass named Lucy. Will that lead to a song? You bet it will.

They live in New York with a local talented singer named Sadie and another friend one who is named Prudence. Will that lead to a ... you get the idea, don't you?

Not much in the way of pop talent singing in this, but the cast does a good job with the soundtrack and some of the covers are very enjoyable. You can listen to those online too if you happen to have a Rhapsody account.

I don't just hang around my computer and watch older and current movies online. I like the tunes too.

The pacing of Universe is where they lost me. I enjoyed the singing and the arrangements of the songs. I could live with seeing the set up coming from about 3 miles away.

What bugged me was that the movie was about 30 minutes too long. Who knows? Maybe they got a deal when they bought the rights.

Take Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and we'll throw in For the Benefit of Mr. Kite at no additional cost. What a deal! Actual, since Kite was played by Eddie Izzard, it was a deal and quite a bit of fun.

From a visual stand point it was not as pleasing as my recent viewing of Pan's Labyrinth, but I enjoyed watching it just the same.

In the end, I may have been just too old to have thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I understand that the daughter of a family friend loved the movie so much that she went out and bought it and watched it constantly for several days.

Silly girl. It was a good movie and if I saw it again, it would be OK by me, but doesn't she know she could have watched this current movie online?

Current Movies Online

When you are in search of current movies online, you might be tempted to think that there is nothing out there for you unless you go down the path of questionable sources to find what you are looking for.

There are other avenues, so don't dust off your bit torrent client, just yet. I am not saying that you can find everything you want that has hit your local movie rental house, but you can find some and that is a start.

In the past I have reviewed Hulu when covering movies online and while they have many great finds to offer you, you will not see a lot of current movies to help you in your quest.

For that, you have to go to other sources, in my case I often use Netflix to help me catch up on movies that I have not seen because I missed them when they were in the movie theater and current.

Netflix gives me some more recent titles to choose. In fact, it seems that they are adding more all the time.

So, what am I considering a current movie. I would consider them to have been originally released in the last 2 or 3 years. That's current to me.

Recently, I watched a great current movie in this realm, Pan's Labyrinth. This is a foreign language film, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and has sub-titles. Even with that distraction, and it was not that distracting, I was still struck by how visually interesting this film is.

In fact, it was the visuals that drew me to it in the first place. I can remember watching the trailer online or on TV and thinking, that looks great. I was not wrong, BTW.

I think you can honestly say that Guillermo del Toro must have a very active and wild dream life. This guy can think up some weird stuff and that's the best kind of stuff there is.

Since this movie never made it my way (my local theater is not really interested in films that have to be read to follow them) and I never traveled to make it to a theater that allowed people to enjoy what they wanted, I was left wondering about this film. Well, I am wondering no more.

Recently, I was reminded of my interest when I saw that this film was going to be on one of the premium cable channels. The small trailer they showed to announce the soon to be aired program was enough to get me interested all over again. Unfortunately, the air date was not when I wanted it to be, ie NOW! So, Netflix to the rescue and with a few minutes, I was watching a great movie.

Thanks to Netflix, I got to see this relatively current movie online and have an enjoyable couple of hours to boot.