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Cloud Atlas The Movie

swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
edited July 2012
Will it be terrible, amazing, or both?

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  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    WHATTTTTTTTTTT

    ON EARTH
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Kind of seems like tooooo goddamn much. Movies like this, I can't settle in and feel anything because they're slamming so many characters and "stunning" things in my face. I feel more watching a James Benning film where it's just a shot of an empty lot and then after four minutes a school bus rolls into frame and lets out a bunch of kids and then drives off.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I just looked at the wiki page for the novel. Feels like if I read that first maybe I could appreciate this film. I might do that. Did people here read and like the book?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I really enjoyed the book! Time-bending in a cool and unique way.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    I also really enjoyed the book. But having a hard time conceptualizing the movie as a pleasing thing.
  • 12341234
    I will commit to not reading the book and watch the movie and report back.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    I will commit to not watching this preview, and continuing to enjoy my memory of that awesome book.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    edited July 2012
    woah!
    production on these anthemic soaring post-rock m83 videos has gone WAY up
    #gamechanger?

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    The book is amazing. One of the greatest books of our generation thus far. Infinite Jest and Cloud Atlas are my personal top two at this time in my life.

    Having a very hard time conceptualizing the movie as a pleasing thing. This kind of movie usually doesn't work anyway, for me (tons of characters/story arcs vaguely related) and when based on a really complex book my hopes become less high.

    SUCH A GREAT BOOK.
  • DeathDeath
    This looks like a spectacle. I am into spectacles. I have that book on an older Kindle my aunt gave me. I should pull that Kindle out of my closet and give it another shot. I seem to remember Cloud Atlas has a nice cover though? Is this one of those instances where it might be better to read the book after watching the movie? Like, am I going to have a pretty good movie ruined because I read the much better book? I had that happen with Everything is Illuminated and it was sorta frustrating.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited July 2012
    Same voice as from dat movie Anchorman: "I love book. I love movie."

    I never heard of this Cloud Atlas but I think it looks cool so I'm gonna read it.

    Personally I am "off" linearity in story telling. I love a spoiler, I love to read a book and stop 10 pages before the ending, I love to catch a movie in the theater 10 minutes late.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    A special book with a special structure... a structure that I think would feel contrived and disposable in film.

    Movies are so much more disposable anyway, it makes me bummed to see a work of literature reduced to spectacle!

    #grouch
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    yeah, a really special structure. A structure that makes you think about "book" in a new cool way. Can not imagine it making me think of "movie" in a cool new way, not sure why.

    RCH I think you would really like this book.

  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    But you guys, have you ever seen the MATRIX? These guys (well, one of them is a lady now) made the MATRIX!
  • DeathDeath
    also Speed Racer...
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I saw THE MATRIX
    but I also saw MATRIX 2: SEX MATRIX or whatever
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Speed Racer!! They should play that in the theater every week.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    "woah"
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