Film - Cloud Atlas - I squealed (no stars, you can jump for those)

sammo62 said:
Live in America mate, which is how I saw it. Full price at the cinema thank you very much.
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It was more the fact that people were leaving drive by comments without any substantiation, before you get all bent out of shape. :)

sammo62 said:
I will say as for the movie that Tom Hanks' Irish bookwriter was perhaps the worst, most cringeworthy performance in the history of cinema. In fact a lot of Hanks in this movie is just plain bad, which is a shame as I really like him in most other movies.
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I will concur, that was pretty terrible but a necessary casting through the character's development. Know exactly what you mean though, that accent could cut through tempered steel.
 
Originally Posted by randal
I'm loving all these concise and descriptive film reviews of a film that's not even out in this country for another 2 odd months.

So one can only presume that people are watching it via download, which is hardly how the Wachowskis would have intended their film was viewed. Granted the content is still the same, but you're hardly getting the full cinematographic experience.
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The comment is irrelevant .If i'd have watched it from a non legitimate source then I still would have gone the pics a number of times and would still be awaiting the release of the blu ray. The film speaks for itself.
 
Yeah I need to see it again, my mate hated it but hes not the brightest fellow. Just want to see it to see what I missed in the first sitting and to understand the relationships between the past/present/future characters, think I got most of them but its more the innate objects that tied them together as well.

Not sure what I really think of the film, perhaps its more style over substance (well look who wrote it) but I guess as an art form it succeeded. Id find it hard to recommend to anyone, its really marmite. Its intriguing...

EDIT: Just nice to have a 'switch on brain' film than a 'switch off' one for once - I was sat leaning towards the screen :p

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I was wondering where the thread for this had vanished to.
Then I remembered it had been released in the US a couple of months ago - which accounts for around 10% of the people likely to comment and the majority of the other 90% will have just illegally watched it.

Found the time went by really quickly and the "snap shots" of the numerous generations left me feeling like I had actually just watched 6 films - albeit shorts.
I enjoyed looking for links between the stories and of course looking for the same cast in each one - some easier to spot than others.
I found myself getting really involved with the stories and actually caring about them - feeling elated at some and sad at others.

The film drew me in and I really didn't want it to end - even after being sat there for a long time.
 
For those interested, this is available on BR at the Rainforest place for £13. Plus add the discount code of ATLASBLU for a further £2 discount before 12th July. Bargain.
 
Just watched this on Blinkbox.... blindingly amazing film. I have not read the book and I need to watch the film again.

I am wondering if there are different cuts because the start of the trailers where they showed the actors in the different roles I am *sure* I didn't see some of that.

Either way this is firmly in my top 10 of all time movies. Fantastic VFX, score, acting. I will be thinking about this movie for days to come and I love that.

Edit: For those saying it made a huge loss, it did not. $27mil US, $130mil taken worldwide.
 
JBod said:
Just watched this on Blinkbox.... blindingly amazing film. I have not read the book and I need to watch the film again.

I am wondering if there are different cuts because the start of the trailers where they showed the actors in the different roles I am *sure* I didn't see some of that.

Either way this is firmly in my top 10 of all time movies. Fantastic VFX, score, acting. I will be thinking about this movie for days to come and I love that.

Edit: For those saying it made a huge loss, it did not. $27mil US, $130mil taken worldwide.
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A man after my own heart, you have good critical taste sir! :)
 
I watched this movie again last night with a girlfriend of mine. As you can see from this thread, I thought the movie was incredibly moving and thought-provoking, and regard it as one of the most amazing movie going experiences of my life. Luckily, my ladyfriend did too, and can't stop raving about it.

It is simply an achingly beautiful movie, a masterpiece, a timeless classic. After watching it through again I noticed little things that I'd missed the first time, backdrop and story details etc, and if anything the story became even more seamless. Everything ties in together perfectly, and the theme of actions and souls echoing through time is so perfectly expressed that I simply cannot see how it could have been done better. I believed every single setting the movie gave me, and not once did I question anything as being over the top or unrealistic, my suspension of disbelief was complete.

Here is a movie review I found that sums it up completely,it is so spot on that were I to re-write it I couldn't express my thoughts any differently: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/10/story-worlds-cloud-atlas

One of my Top 5 movies of all time. 9.5/10. :eek:
 
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I love this thread.

So divisive.

My only advice, listen to nobody and watch it yourself. At least if you don't like it you'll be so incensed you'll have a good rant to post. :D
 
randal said:
I love this thread.

So divisive.

My only advice, listen to nobody and watch it yourself. At least if you don't like it you'll be so incensed you'll have a good rant to post. :D
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Main problem is pretends (or tries to pretend) to be something it isn't. If it had stuck simply to its face value content it would have been an interesting movie with some imaginative writing and absorbing visuals. The depth and "everything" connected really isn't there however much the directors might try to hide behind rhetoric. Like Oceans 12 or 13 can't remember which it was it tries to tie things together after the fact in a very contrived fashion and the links are generally just too obscure and meaningless - not a patch on the original Matrix in that regard which it tries to imitate in regard to things being interlinked and having deeper meanings.

If they'd concentrated on just the basic bare concept without trying to make it into something it wasn't it would have been 10x the movie.

EDIT: I think that is why its so divisive - if you don't really pickup on the deeper stuff it tries to do and fails it is an engrossing movie but if you do pickup on that stuff it ruins what would have otherwise been a great movie.
 
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If you enjoy the changing scene, past present future style of this film, then I would recommend two things that remind me of it.
The film Mr Nobody, which although confusing as it's a film based on the concept of quantum uncertainty, is a brilliant film imo. Also a TV series which happens to also have Jim Broadbent in called Any Human Heart. It was a 4 ep mini series about a single man at 4 different ages, which is still one the best things I've ever seen on British TV.
 
jcr said:
me too... one for the luvvies
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I would say based on that post that it's possibly a tad intellectual for you. ;)

Rroff said:
Main problem is pretends (or tries to pretend) to be something it isn't. If it had stuck simply to its face value content it would have been an interesting movie with some imaginative writing and absorbing visuals. The depth and "everything" connected really isn't there however much the directors might try to hide behind rhetoric. Like Oceans 12 or 13 can't remember which it was it tries to tie things together after the fact in a very contrived fashion and the links are generally just too obscure and meaningless - not a patch on the original Matrix in that regard which it tries to imitate in regard to things being interlinked and having deeper meanings.

If they'd concentrated on just the basic bare concept without trying to make it into something it wasn't it would have been 10x the movie.

EDIT: I think that is why its so divisive - if you don't really pickup on the deeper stuff it tries to do and fails it is an engrossing movie but if you do pickup on that stuff it ruins what would have otherwise been a great movie.
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When I see this I can't help but scratch my head. What "deep stuff" is it trying yet failing to do? it is about how actions and souls resonate throughout history, and how the choices we make shape the future. It succeeds in that aspect perfectly and ties up every significant loose end along the way. Regardless of whether you like the movie or not, there is nothing really that it tries yet fails to do from a purely storytelling perspective.
 
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