[Movie] Cloud Atlas

For some reason I'm getting a The Fountainish vibe.

I'll end up seeing it.

 

I hope not. Separate narrative over-time movies like The Fountain and Sucker Punch were be epic fails to me.

I didn't mind Crash or Traffic though. It just has to make sense when it comes together and not heavily use metaphoric and ambiguous mumbo jumbo to replace the art of filling in the blanks with visual or verbal cues.

If the main catch is style over substance, then the movie shouldn't minge it's way back calling ambiguity "artistic license".

 

Cloud Atlas

Dogs**t.

Sometimes the critics are right.

Should have ignored that voice saying, "Go see it, better to see an ambitious movie than a Taken 2."

Hell, at least Taken 2 had Maggie Grace in tight shorts or jeans running away from the camera. It was PARTIALLY watchable.

Meanwhile, Tom Hanks' career falls to Earth like the Hindenburg in slow motion (The DaVinci Crock, Angels and Dips**ts, Larry Crud, Extremely Awful and Incredibly Insipid).

My own fault. I freely admit.

 

Curious what was wrong with it?

 

Seriously? I just saw it and thought it was great, really ambitious and engaging.

 

(Bad taste)

 

Really? When i left i felt confused as the next person but its all coming to me today. Acting, score, feel, story were great. Just the tempo was off. They tried the whole Prestige thing and it got overdone!

 

They mixed a handful of genres and I think it's a bit jarring but I found it easier and easier to digest as it went along. Personally found it the quickest 3 hour movies I've seen.

 

Just got back from seeing it, it's really impressive, incredibly ambitious. I loved it.

 

Deep film. Sophisticated yet simple. Loved almost every minute of it. There were however some uncomfortable parts in the movie.

 

I saw it last night. Thought it was good but can't put my finger on why. I wish I could understand more of what people were saying though. But, I'm been trying to piece together everything since and figure out the gist of it all. But, maybe I'm over-thinking it.

 

Sub-titles in certain parts would have been nice.

 

I agree. Especially during the tribe scenes.

I really enjoyed this movie. Any movie that gets me to think outside of the movie theatre is always a plus. Still trying to figure out what everything meant.

 

Were y'all able to get past Tom Hanks hair?

 

Does this movie have an intermission?

 

It's going to be a polarizing movie.

I appreciate the attempt to be ambitious, to touch on interconnectedness in humanity, but too much intercutting, chop-chop-chop on the editing.

Just strained too much to put all the threads together for a unified whole.

Kinda like Prometheus. I felt let-down.

 

I enjoyed it. Saw it at Alamo with my wife. Some parts were pretty graphic. I laughed out loud a few times.

Soylent Green reference and I know, I know guy, FTW!

 

Believe me it's not bad, compared to Nick Cage in Knowing.

I liked a few of the makeup jobs in the movie, a few not so much.