Description: The actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future in the epic “Cloud Atlas,” from groundbreaking filmmakers Andy and Lana Wachowski (the “Matrix” trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (“Perfume,” “Run Lola Run”).

Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically throughout the story as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.

Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Halle Berry head an acclaimed international cast of actors. The all-star ensemble includes Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, David Gyasi, Chinese actress Zhou Xun and Doona Bae from Korea, appearing in multiple roles throughout the six stories. The film’s length is approximately 3 hours so please plan your evening accordingly.

MPAA Rating Status: The film is expected to be rated 'R.'

I have an invitation to see a screening.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - Showtime: 7:00pm
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336 E. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91101

PM me if you want the code

With that said, I'm quite wary of this adaptation.

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I think I was a little too young and undeveloped as a reader to fully understand it.

After reading Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, I wanted to read this again.

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I can't imagine this working at all well, so I'm going to rely on some of you to check it out.

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All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
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Every hundred years, all new people

or epically bad.

no in between.

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and I think it's more likely to be the latter, sadly.

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Every hundred years, all new people

I liked the Neo-Seoul segments the best. Some of the dialouge wasn't sold too well between Hanks & Halle in a lot of their scenes. Thought it dragged a bit towards the end as well. Enjoyed it for the most part though.

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last time a novel I love was adapted was The Road, so yeah...

I might re-read it before it gets released though, it's easily one of my favorite novels of the past decade

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In a piece about the various financial comings and goings at Cannes, Anne Thompson has revealed specifics about the Wachowskis and Tom Tywker’s ambitious, Tom Hanks-led adaptation of David Mitchell’s multi-tiered “Cloud Atlas,” which screened on Wednesday for international buyers, including details on its running time and domestic release date.

Thompson first mentions the interesting details surrounding the film’s funding – initially the Wachowskis and Tykwer proposed that Warner Bros. finance the entire film (this was the studio, after all, that bankrolled the Wachowskis’ hugely successful “Matrix” films and considerably less successful “Speed Racer”). Warner Bros. passed, gawking at the $170 million production budget, and when they did, the directorial trio got lean (which included getting mega-budget stars like Hanks for peanuts), slimmed the budget down to $101 million, secured financing overseas, and according to Thompson, “got the movie made the way the Wachowskis and Tykwer wanted it on foreign pre-sales.” Oh, and Warner Bros. bought the domestic distribution rights for $20 million - nothing like having your cake and getting to eat it too, for a fraction of the price.

Thompson is reporting that the film clocks in at 2 hours and 44 minutes, which Warner Bros. president Jeff Robinov let slide despite a contractual obligation to have the film come in at 2 and a half hours (or less). Quite frankly we’re amazing that the movie is that short – the novel, which cannot be recommended enough, consists of six interlocking stories that ripple out from one another and interweave in astounding ways (the stories cover everything from a paperback-y seventies thriller to a poetically post-apocalyptic tale of survival). In short: it’s a fucking epic. The script came in at well over 200 pages as well, so clearly a lot of trimming's been done.

What’s more, a stateside release date is being reported, with Warner Bros. opening the film in America on December 6th. This release date (in prime Oscar territory), along with the lax approach to the running time, indicates to us that the film is really, really good, and the fact that the movie is already finished means that Warner Bros. can screen it earlier and get the buzz rolling.


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I cannot believe we don't have a trailer for this yet...in fact I can't believe how little is out there for this movie that comes out in THREE frickin' months.

Anyway, I went on an info dig this morning and didn't find much:

Hugo Weaving has been talking about it a bit:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/matrix-hugo-weaving-lana-wachowski-cloud-atlas-344203?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

There are 3 pictures floating around:
http://www.slashfilm.com/cloud-atlas-concept-art/

Also Drew McWeeny shared some thoughts and there was a very encouraging comment in the replies:
http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/cloud-atlas-gets-a-date-and-now-the-hard-work-starts-for-warner-bros

Here's the comment from Gordo:
"I saw the mostly-finished film last month and it's stunning. I knew nothing about the book, and even less about the film, and now I can't wait to read the book. There are so many places where this movie could fall off a cliff -- you'll see -- and the film is just... fucking great. By far my favorite film from the Wachowskis & Twyker -- I have no idea who directed what, but I can't wait to learn how this movie was made. Hype just makes me queasy, but since I actually saw the movie, I know that CLOUD ATLAS is an early candidate for film of the decade."

Now it's tough for me to take that seriously, but it does give me hope where I once had mostly doubt.

Where's Larry?

Something fell out, but it wasn't the Wachowski's relationship.

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It's been ongoing since 2007.

Now, if he could marry one of the Hughes or Sklaar Brothers we'd get a hell of a move and/or podcast from it.

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looks great

Tom Hanks with a Jon B beard? Yep, I'm there!

The announcement of the themes multiple times aloud in the trailer is potentially unnerving... but them visuals are gonna be hot, like the Wachowskis always do.

And seeing as how I liked Speed Racer more than the last two Matrices, I'm ready for them to kill it again.

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Story-wise it seems like they're going to get the whole book into two hours but just outright explaining the emotions and what not.

As I'm more of a story than visuals guy, I'm on the fence.

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to be fair tho, i thought the trailer that was shown of the OG Matrix at the Superbowl looked wack too. but i absolutely loved that movie.

the trailer was just too much. i admit that i wouldn't have a clue as to shoehorn a movie with this kind of scope in a 2 minute trailer. but my sister (who has great taste in movies and is good at sniffing out bad ones from trailers) has this rule - that any movie trailer over 2 minutes is generally one for a bad movie. i'm not willing to go against her rule in this case.

i just think the story is going to be too meandering and wide ranging to really hold any impactful emotional experiences.

but props to them for trying and getting the movie the filmmakers wanted .

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oh good they arent focusing on the romance with them

cause oh hell no
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Co-directing at that.

Guess I kinda glossed over that in the OP. I just got a whole lot more interested in this movie.

It looks a little goofy in places and as was already mentioned it was a little thick on "telling feelings"

That said, they did a pretty magnificent job getting the concept across in the trailer. And I'm not gonna lie, I got a little choked up watching this. It's great to see this book come to life.

Got a Kubrick/Clockwork Orange vibe more than once.

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YES.

Just finished the book about a week ago and for sure ill read it again before watching the movie

any of the salient pts, recognize some characters, but... might have to re-read. but my backlog of shit to read is too damn hi right now to pick this up again

looks great
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While reading Cloud Atlas I often thought (as I do with most books) about how one would go about getting this kind of scope into a movie, and I think it's almost impossible.

Trailer looks great, but I'm afraid some of the future segments are TOO sci-fi/futuristic looking and there seems to be more focus on action than I remember from the book, which will probably mean the story will have to be explained through lazy shortcuts.

But I'm excited anyways.

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Keep in mind that the Wachowskis almost NEVER give interviews

But this is the intro to the trailer featuring them and Tom Twyker

Very interesting...

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Into a movie, it's not the one I would pick. Like said above, too many characters, time periods - that shit is really going to be tough to pull off. But fingers crossed.

Now The thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet would be an epicly fantastic flik. Much more contained in one setting, compelling characters, fantastic period piece setting. And gotdamn, potentially one of the great cinema villains. Dat Zoet!

Hope some one is already looking not that, but sadly it's probably completely dependent on the success of Cloud Atlas.

Man, this looks extremely good to me. Damn.

Loved the novel. Interested to see if they can really pull this off. The trailer looks outstanding, though. Count me in.

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By DAVID MITCHELL
Published: September 27, 2012 Comment

“So how does it feel?” is the question you hear when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex. Well, first there’s a primal kick: actors speak dialogue you wrote years ago, and all those nonexistent people are now real. They find flashes of humor or menace you never spotted, and soon all memory of how you imagined the character before the actor muscled in is gone.

For a playwright or screenwriter, this is a normal day at the office, but the first read-through of the “Cloud Atlas” script will stay with me forever. With three or four actors unable to attend, the film’s directors — Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski, who also wrote the screenplay — divvied up the spare roles. It seemed rude not to volunteer. I hadn’t been in a group-reading situation since my high-school English class, but instead of my 17-year-old classmates slogging through “A Passage to India,” here were Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent delivering lines that sounded uncannily familiar. The whole experience felt rather like finding Gandhi playing Connect 4 with your plumber in the cupboard under the stairs — it wasn’t so much the individual elements of the scene that were surreal but their juxtaposition.

Yet it soon sinks in that you’ve morphed from being the Creator to the guy who happened to write the original novel. How this makes you feel depends, I guess, on how you feel about the adaptation itself. I’ve never experienced much anxiety in this quarter. I met the three directors in 2008, and their plan to foreground the novel’s “transmigrating souls” motif by having actors perform multiple roles (each role being a sort of way station on that soul’s karmic journey) struck me as ingenious. Some changes to plot and character were inevitable, so that the book’s six worlds could be coaxed into a film-shaped container: the love interest between the (now) middle-aged Zachry and Meronym on postapocalyptic Hawaii, for example, or Cavendish’s epilogue, which appears in the film but not the book. Moreover, the novel’s Russian-doll structure has become more of a mosaic — you can’t ask a viewer to begin a film for the sixth time after a hundred minutes.

Wherever the “Cloud Atlas” screenplay differed from “Cloud Atlas” the novel, it did so for sound reasons that left me more impressed than piqued. (At the read-through, I sat next to Lana Wachowski, and when a line earned a particularly strong response, I’d whisper, “Was that one of yours or one of mine?” The tally was about 50-50, I think.) Anyway, film adaptations of novels are prone to failure not because they are too faithless but too faithful: why spend all that effort producing an audiobook with pictures?

Production! My week on set in Berlin, in December 2011, gave me access to a world I’d heard of but never visited. Look — there’s a clone-recycling unit where there wasn’t one 60 minutes ago; look out, fiberglass mountain outcrop coming through; what, are all high-tech sliding doors in S.F. movies made of painted plywood?

I filled a Moleskine with notes from informal interviews with a range of professionals I never encounter in my solitary-ish novelist’s life: language coaches, script editors, costume and set designers, C.G.I. animators, entertainment lawyers, caterers, extras, a futuristic vehicle designer, stuntmen. I acquired a heightened respect for actors too: There was nothing computer-generated about the water drenching Halle Berry up to her neck; and David Gyasi, who plays an English-speaking 19th-century Moriori islander, riffed from a pitch-perfect Maori accent to Caribbean and then to African with the ease of a man changing hats. Thanks to my cameo appearance, I also learned how many hours are spent in the trailer for every minute on screen. Little wonder some actors become voracious readers.

Tagging along after the Wachowskis and Tykwer for a few days encouraged me to compare my own addiction of writing novels to the relatively vast operation of filmmaking. Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film’s final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made. Funny thing is, not even the author is immune to this colonization by the moving image. When I try to recall how I imagined my vanity-publisher character, Timothy Cavendish, before the movie, all I see now is Jim Broadbent’s face smiling back, devilishly. Which, as it happens, is fine by me.

Anyway, film
>adaptations of novels are prone to failure not because they
>are too faithless but too faithful: why spend all that effort
>producing an audiobook with pictures?

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My hat goes off to Tom Twyker and The Wachowskis for pulling this off. The film and the book stand on their own as the structure is completely different even though the stories are the same. Watching this, I got wrapped up in the stories even though I knew what was going to happen.The make-up (for the most part) works. Alot of that is due to the outstanding performances that this all-star cast gives. Every brings their A game and it shows. The films structure took me 15 minutes to get into as they cut back and forth between all 6 stories to make sure one story doesn't outshine the other. The theme of reincarnation that ties these stories together works as they definitely needed to tie these stories together in a film. I also love how some character pop up in other stories or how one character is reading one's adventure or watching a "Hollywood" version of one story. I'm still digesting this and I can't wait to check it again on IMAX. Finally a big budget indie art film that has something for everyone. Literally.

Also, Lana is very nice and humble for the brief few minutes I got to talk to her she was very kind. All three of them during the Q&A were hysterical. They should do a comedy routine.

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Quick notes:

- I have not read the source material, but these 3 get major props for finding a way to adapt not just a sprawling narrative but also try to work in the apparent major themes of said narrative into their film.

- It's 3 hours. They flew by for me but if you're the type who swears that no good movie is over an hour and 40 minutes, you will most likely suffer. Come prepared.

- Jim Broadbent was terrific, and so was Hugo Weaving. I liked Tom Hanks, Halle, etc just fine, but Broadbent and Weaving were the only two who kept me engaged in each of the stories they appeared in. Ben Whishaw also added some emotional heft that was well-done, and Hugh Grant came off surprisingly well in each story.

- Part of the fun will be trying to figure out who's who in each story. Some folks are almost-unrecognizable, and not just because they're dressed as women, like Hugo Weaving is in one story.

- The 1973 story (Twyker), the 2012 story (Twyker), and the 2044 story (Wachowskis) worked best for me, even though the 1973 story had a few WTF beats that almost threw me out of it. I really didn't care for the 1849 story at sea (Wachowskis), or the almost-dystopian future story (Wachowskis). As far as the future story goes, I have to admit that that's on me, as I was having a hard time following everything that was going on. The story at sea just felt like heavy-handed pandering, and it was also tough to buy Tom Hanks as a psycho heavy.

- That said, I wish I would have seen more of Tom's Cockney thug/author in the 2012 story. He was hilarious.

- Still not sure how I feel about having Tom Hanks all up and through this movie. I liked his performances, but every time he appeared I just went, "Oh, there's Tom Hanks again." Couldn't really get into his characters as a result.

- The overall look of the film is great, as is the score. And I think the movie should get its own special Oscar for editing.

- There were times when I wished we didn't have The Big Themes of This Story drilled into our heads by various voice-overs. I would have liked to have figured more of what the point was on my own.

- It has to be said that there's nothing here that you haven't seen before -- in a straightforward narrative, that is. I enjoyed the interweaving of the stories and the themes overall, though.

- Doona Bae.

- Halle Berry.

- Specifically, 1973 Halle Berry.

- Great action.

- Lots of blood.

- Some nudity.

- I think I missed a LOT of things, so repeat viewing will be a must for me.

- I enjoyed this a lot.

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(IT MAY BE BETTER TO COME IN TO THIS FILM TOTALLY PURE OF ANY KNOWLEDGE... I EDITED SOME OF ZOO'S "SPOILERS" IN THIS REPLY AND ONLY ALLUDE TO THE EXISTENCE OF SPECIFIC CHARACTERS ONCE OR TWICE... STILL, IF YOU VALUE TOTAL PURITY, THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? GET OUT OF THIS POST!)

>- I have not read the source material, but these 3 get major
>props for finding a way to adapt not just a sprawling
>narrative but also try to work in the apparent major themes of
>said narrative into their film.

I've heard the book announces its themes earnestly throughout, much like the movie does. As you noted below, the constant recitation of themes will bother some, and it probably did lengthen the film slightly more than necessary, but...

>- It's 3 hours. They flew by for me but if you're the type
>who swears that no good movie is over an hour and 40 minutes,
>you will most likely suffer. Come prepared.

I agree that it flew by. Incredibly fast paced, yet remained tender and shockingly intimate.

>- Jim Broadbent was terrific, and so was Hugo Weaving. I
>liked Tom Hanks, Halle, etc just fine, but Broadbent and
>Weaving were the only two who kept me engaged in each of the
>stories they appeared in. Ben Whishaw also added some
>emotional heft that was well-done, and Hugh Grant came off
>surprisingly well in each story.

Halle didn't have very much to do compared to most of the male characters, which surprised me. In the final storyline, she's fairly deadpan, and she only really gets to matter in the 70s. (Though some of her makeup is among the best in the film.)

I was surprised by Hugh, who was filmed to seem very large and intimidating constantly, which was a great change-- his role in the final storyline is unreal. I was even more surprised by Jim Sturgess, who normally doesn't do much for me. I wanted to see more of him as the Scottish soccer thug, in which he was hammy and awesome.

Also, you didn't mention Keith David, who's literally great in everything ever.

>- Part of the fun will be trying to figure out who's who in
>each story. Some folks are almost-unrecognizable, and not
>just because they're dressed as women, like Hugo Weaving is in
>one story.

Once I realized they were doing that (thankfully early on), I started keeping an eye out for it. It's a lot of fun.

>- The 1973 story (Twyker), the 2012 story (Twyker), and the
>2044 story (Wachowskis) worked best for me, even though the
>1973 story had a few WTF beats that almost threw me out of it.
> I really didn't care for the 1849 story at sea (Wachowskis),
>or the almost-dystopian future story (Wachowskis).

My favorites were the composer story, the 2012 story, the 2044 story, and the dystopian one. The Halle one's strange beats did throw me, especially because it seemed like the emotional core of her storyline was gonna be Hanks (that scene in all the trailers is great, beautifully acted by both), but then it shifts to something different.

Even though the 2044 love story is likely to really hit hardest for lots of people, the composer one... good lord, man. I was blown away.

As far as
>the future story goes, I have to admit that that's on me, as I
>was having a hard time following everything that was going on.

The dialect was very strange. I did love it, as it really challenged me, and is an INSANELY bold choice as a writer... but it was a challenge and will likely throw many, I agree.

> The story at sea just felt like heavy-handed pandering

Yeah, it was stretched a bit thin, sadly. Great button line to end that storyline though.


>- That said, I wish I would have seen more of Tom's role in the 2012 story. He was hilarious.

HELL FUCKING YES.

>- Still not sure how I feel about having Tom Hanks all up and
>through this movie. I liked his performances, but every time
>he appeared I just went, "Oh, there's Tom Hanks again."
>Couldn't really get into his characters as a result.

This was tougher in some storylines than others, I agree... though I thought he slayed the final one. This was tough for many of the actors, I found, just because we're seeing them CLEARLY as American in one story and CLEARLY as Korean in another, or what have you. The switching back and forth was pretty mesmerizing, but did make it tough to buy at times.

(Awesomest choice of the movie: Keith David with Korean eyes and Fu Manchu soul patch. HELL YES.)

>- The overall look of the film is great, as is the score. And
>I think the movie should get its own special Oscar for
>editing.

Yeah, I was so cocksure that Argo would get the Editing Oscar-- and I still think it probably will, as this movie seems less likely to warm to a mass audience-- but the editing here was also brilliant.

I love weird theatrical ambitious shit, so it should be no surprise to anyone that I really liked it.

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> As far as
>>the future story goes, I have to admit that that's on me, as
>I
>>was having a hard time following everything that was going
>on.
>
>The dialect was very strange. I did love it, as it really
>challenged me, and is an INSANELY bold choice as a writer...
>but it was a challenge and will likely throw many, I agree.

Wow...they kept the dialect faithful to the book!?! That makes me very happy. I was pretty sure they wouldn't dare to that.

Greatly appreciate the reviews guys, you've got me feeling much better about the movie. I'm really looking forward to seeing this on Friday.

Even though the 2044 love story is likely to really hit
>hardest for lots of people, the composer one... good lord,
>man. I was blown away.

Frobisher's story was my favorite in the novel. Really moving stuff.

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Still, I wasn't blown away like I was with the novel. While better than Watchmen, I put this in the same category -- the filmmakers did about the best job they could with dense source material. The editing structure made it much easier to connect the dots than had they followed the book's format, but ... (see: below)

I do give them props for making a "big" movie that actually has some heart. I thought 'ol Georgie came across rather corny ... wish they kept that aspect more subtle. Broadbent killed it across the board, Sturgess was outstanding as Frobisher and Bae was moving as Sonmi 451.

After last night's screening, I have a feeling the film will perform well at the box office but likely disappoint the people expecting a cookie-cutter blockbuster. Many were grumbling afterwards that they didn't "get it."

EDIT: Wish I had the luxury of seeing this without having read the book, as I'd be much more capable of judging the film on its own merits.

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I think its prospects of becoming anything resembling a hit are dim at best.

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... but Hanks and Berry will put enough asses in the seats for it to do *relatively* well. But with a budget of $100 million, who knows if it'll even make it out of the red.

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i dont know what movie you guys saw, this was laughably bad, completely unoriginal and riddled with flaws.

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I haven't seen it, but everything on paper pointed to a disaster. I'm more than surprised by all the positive enthusiasm.

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not that anyone cares, but it looks like a complete piece of shit no one wants to watch. I can't imagine a world where it's a good flick.

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I know its not going to be everybody's cup of tea . I totally understand those who might not have enjoyed film's themes being beaten into your mind as you watched the film,but for me that shit worked - shrugs..lol.

There were great performances from the majority of the cast , loved the visuals - settings and character makeup and of course the beautiful magnificent score - which will definitely get downloaded by me.

I thoroughly enjoyed the interweaving of all the stories - great editing, had the emotional stakes in the majority of the narratives , some may have lacked a little at times but overall in the end everything came together nicely.

I think your enjoyment of this film will depend on your feelings towards the films themes as they are presented to you throughout the film.

But overall it worked for me,shrugs...lol
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for me it would probably be Neo-Seoul, followed closely by Frobisher. Which is surprising since those weren't necessarily my faves when I read the book

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and the frobisher story

lol at Hugo Weaving as the nurse
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it's own film imo
I'd love for neo seoul world to be fleshed out more
that society and the resulting primitive aftermath were the most interesting to me
there's a lot of themes to work with there: totalitarianism, singularity, religion , etc

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Hugo Weaving as white Madea was fuckin hilarious

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... look alien as fuck.

Such lazy film making. It's 2012. So frustrating.


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I had no idea it was the same actors or that they were trying to be Korean, tf? lol

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Halle and Bae both played white women. The horror!

At least for me the energy of that section kept the film moving and propped up the rest of the stories when they lagged a bit.

The film is a noble effort but quite messy, in the end I definitely came out having really enjoyed it. The risk that all involved took to get this done has to be commended and the end product, while far from perfect, is something they can be proud of.

Some spoilers might follow...

Frobisher, Cavendish, Neo-Souel and Sloosha's were my favorites. That doesn't much surprise me because I think the writing style plays a large part in carrying the other two sections in the book (boat & Louisa Rey).

Hanks was really great, especially in Sloosha's Crossing. I hated pretty much every casting decision when they were announced, but I was dead wrong, the performances were pretty great across the board.

I wasn't really emotionally connected to the film for the most part, that is until the Sonmi story looped around to the Ewing story, that was surprisingly effective and nicely done. The voice over diversions mostly didn't work, though they did provide some nice pauses from the ever increasing momentum. The last one with the china shop stuff was particularly hollow.

This is my favorite book, so overall I'd call this a mild disappointment, even with tempered expectations. But I enjoyed it enough that I look forward to revisiting it.

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Hugo Weaving was pretty menacing as the devil on Tom's shoulder as well. Helluva come back for Hugh Grant. Broadbent & Whishaw were good too while Halle & Tom were typically solid. Was pretty impressed the way the 1st 2 hours flew by but the last 45 or so kinda dragged. Had no idea this would be so violent but the action & humor helped pace it pretty well.

Saw it. I really liked it. It was a beautiful-ass movie.

Some may get confused. But...

I "felt so much" after i saw this movie. So many emotions and even though it was almost 3 hours...it rolled by nice and fluidly. It never felt like an almost 3 hour movie at all.

I will be seeing it again. Damn, it's something when you watch a
good-ass movie that actually makes you feel something. Did i mention how beautiful it was?

Great job to ALL of the actors and actresses in this one. Well done. This wasn't a movie, it was cinema.

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The Forbisher story was heavy. Also when Somni was speaking into the camera while the battle was unfolding beneath her at the end......man. That was powerful to me.

It was hard to follow, but I liked it. Even when I wasn't completely sure what was going on, I could feel the emotion being portrayed.

It's a movie you feel more so than understand.

I saw a really disjointed movie. They made a simple concept seem needlessly complicated. For the first hour I could not catch a single plot. I sat bored and confused, completely unimpressed or intrigued.

The comet tattoo, the comet at the end. Just corny as hell. Am I living on the same planet as other people because this movie was total shite and should deserve a massive failure. Terribly disappointed in this hogwash.

I cant even begin to comprehend the praise its getting.

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If I could paint a picture, this movie is a giant sloppy omelette with everything and no discernible flavor or context.

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No individual story amounted to much for me as a self contained story and I didn't see enough of a throughline through all the stories to connect them thematically to give all the stories collective weight.

But then, I didn't like Magnolia for the same reason and yall love that flix.



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this is one of the best movies of the decade.

most ambitious? yes...but one of best movies of the decade? no.

Good:

Halle Berry and Tom Hanks, but specifically, Halle Berry, were outstanding in *ALL* of the characters they played. I do admit Halle as Luisa Rey--got damn, she really looked fantastic in this part of the movie.

I felt I had a stronger connection to the two of them because their relationship through the movie seem the most believable/I could buy the narrative of the movie through their respective character interactions.

Doona Bae as the Sonmi clones, Tilda, Mexican Woman and Meghan's Mom was also fantastic.

Jim Broadbent was great too, as was Keith David, Hugo Weaving and Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon (though if you blinked, you missed her in the movie save for the beginning and the end...) and Keith David.

I can't say the same for the rest of the class: The Frobisher storyline, which is one of the more noted ones in the movie, had no emotional heft for me. Like, I really didn't care at all for that storyline.

I didn't care for the storyline Jim Sturgess was in....

Overall, it was a good movie, not great. It did leave me kind of cold for some reason (I guess it's because I really couldn't invest at all in the Wachiowski's sections of the movie at all; they are the Wachiowski's but emotional, dramatic heft and strong character development has never really been their wheelhouse. And, it showed).

And, I guess I missed the emotional heft others felt.

I did love the narrative of reincarnation and how the decisions we make in one life have consequences in *ALL* of the lives we live. That was something the movie showed pretty well.

I could have done without the comet tattoo. I get it, everyone is connected but did everyone have to have it? Why not have a few have the tattoo/birthmark and others just have a painting of the tattoo in their house? Or a character see the comet flying through the night sky?

I don't know...

But a good movie. One I probably won't remember in six months but still a solid film.


and yay for Tom Tywker (sp?), he's quite slept on as a writer-director (he has put out some strong work post Run, Lola Run) and I'm glad he is a part of this project. his sections of the movie (the weak frobisher segment, 1973 and 2012) were very strong and for me, the ones I liked more than the other ones...save for Frobisher).

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it's over 3 hours long

many people may have been turned off by it's themes

it may have been a bit too complex for some, too simplistic for others

the narrative, though relatively streamlined from the book, may not have been streamlined enough for most movie going masses to follow...

the emotional investment may not have been there for many who saw it?

I don't know...

I'm sure it will be a hit overseas though...or should be.

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The cut I saw ran 2:52

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counting trailers, it runs over 3 hours.

you and I know full well 2:52 is 3 hours to most folk who won't sit in a long ass movie longer than two hours unless its a superhero movie...

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"over 3 hours," which, even with trailers and commercials, does not make the actual film "over 3 hours."

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