Post by Christian on Feb 22, 2004 10:53:37 GMT -5
Hi all!
Some time ago, someone mentioned this film as it contained many Carpenters songs aswell as several mentions of Karen. A few days ago, I was in a dvd store and they had this film on sale so I had to pick it up.
The story is about a group of friends and all the things going on in their life, basically trivia in everyday life such as finding love, loosing love, all the basic stuff.
One of the main characters is a huge Karen Carpenter/Carpenters fan and there are several refences, some of them very funny. The dvd also has bonus material and there is one cut scene which contains a long monologue on how great Karen is.
4 songs were in the film although none of them were Carpenters performances. They were:
Sing: mostly music, but some children chorus also.
Top of The World: The Shonen Knife version from If I Were a Carpenter album
Close To You: A very different version, but one of the best version I have heard of the song. But offcourse, not as good as the Carpenters.
We`ve Only Just Begun: Same performer as on the previous one but this song is a plain copy of the Carpenters version.
it was truly a nice movie and definately one that I would recommend. It is a shame though, as several of my friends also commented on, that they didn`t use the Carpenters versions of the song as there are so many references to them. But it was great to see them mentioned so often. And the cut scene(which is called Karen Carpenter) has a great monologue which I felt was very accurate on how Karen must have felt.
So, go and get this warm film people and watch it with an open mind. I am sure you will enjoy it
Christian
Some time ago, someone mentioned this film as it contained many Carpenters songs aswell as several mentions of Karen. A few days ago, I was in a dvd store and they had this film on sale so I had to pick it up.
The story is about a group of friends and all the things going on in their life, basically trivia in everyday life such as finding love, loosing love, all the basic stuff.
One of the main characters is a huge Karen Carpenter/Carpenters fan and there are several refences, some of them very funny. The dvd also has bonus material and there is one cut scene which contains a long monologue on how great Karen is.
4 songs were in the film although none of them were Carpenters performances. They were:
Sing: mostly music, but some children chorus also.
Top of The World: The Shonen Knife version from If I Were a Carpenter album
Close To You: A very different version, but one of the best version I have heard of the song. But offcourse, not as good as the Carpenters.
We`ve Only Just Begun: Same performer as on the previous one but this song is a plain copy of the Carpenters version.
it was truly a nice movie and definately one that I would recommend. It is a shame though, as several of my friends also commented on, that they didn`t use the Carpenters versions of the song as there are so many references to them. But it was great to see them mentioned so often. And the cut scene(which is called Karen Carpenter) has a great monologue which I felt was very accurate on how Karen must have felt.
So, go and get this warm film people and watch it with an open mind. I am sure you will enjoy it
Christian