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houseurmusic
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States544 Posts
October 29 2012 09:32 GMT
#181
Best movie I have seen in the theaters since inception. Music was so good, and the way they the stories interlaced with each other was amazing. Gotta see it again
tyr
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France1686 Posts
October 29 2012 15:19 GMT
#182
So uh .. Why is this released in March in France ?
"I'm always reminded of how manly Jaedong is every time I see him." -Bisu
Avean
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Norway449 Posts
October 29 2012 15:25 GMT
#183
Not out until december here in norway. But it worries me that in US its only made 9.4 million so far. It cost over 100 million to make it so people are saying its flopped. Wachowski had to beg the studios to accept this movie and if they flop with this its pretty sad.

Doesnt mean the movie is bad, people are saying its the best theyve seen, but if movie goers aint going to cinema to see it then its a problem.

Sucks that people are storming cinemas to see weak scrips like Transformers and not genious movies like this
Its basicly the same as people storming to buy tickets to see Justin Bieber instead of Mozart if he was alive.
maartendq
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Belgium3115 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-29 15:27:18
October 29 2012 15:26 GMT
#184
On October 30 2012 00:19 tyr wrote:
So uh .. Why is this released in March in France ?

And even later in Belgium. Next thing you know producers complain that people download it illegally. Oh well, I was looking forward to this movie, but by May next year I will have forgotten about it.
corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
October 29 2012 15:49 GMT
#185
On October 30 2012 00:25 Avean wrote:
Not out until december here in norway. But it worries me that in US its only made 9.4 million so far. It cost over 100 million to make it so people are saying its flopped. Wachowski had to beg the studios to accept this movie and if they flop with this its pretty sad.

Doesnt mean the movie is bad, people are saying its the best theyve seen, but if movie goers aint going to cinema to see it then its a problem.

Sucks that people are storming cinemas to see weak scrips like Transformers and not genious movies like this
Its basicly the same as people storming to buy tickets to see Justin Bieber instead of Mozart if he was alive.

Yeah cause the Wachowski brothers are the Mozart of cinema T_T
‎numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-29 18:35:41
October 29 2012 18:34 GMT
#186
i saw the trailer in theatres when i was watching looper (pretty bad movie), wasnt so impressed by a trailer in a long time.

its gna be in theatres here nov 15 :o
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
October 30 2012 00:49 GMT
#187
On October 30 2012 00:25 Avean wrote:
Not out until december here in norway. But it worries me that in US its only made 9.4 million so far. It cost over 100 million to make it so people are saying its flopped. Wachowski had to beg the studios to accept this movie and if they flop with this its pretty sad.

Doesnt mean the movie is bad, people are saying its the best theyve seen, but if movie goers aint going to cinema to see it then its a problem.

Sucks that people are storming cinemas to see weak scrips like Transformers and not genious movies like this
Its basicly the same as people storming to buy tickets to see Justin Bieber instead of Mozart if he was alive.

Avatar had a bad 1st week too. I think the storm issues on east coast could be a major reason.
liftlift > tsm
MaestroSC
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2073 Posts
October 30 2012 02:02 GMT
#188
I think its a lack of advertising to be honest.

Not a SINGLE one of my friends or family even knows that this movie exists. Every single person I have talked to on facebook/inclass/in person has no idea what this movie is or that it exists.

They literally did little to no advertising and hype building for this film.

I understand the film budget was insane and they prob had to cut down on adveritising... but most people wont pay 20$ to see a movie they never even heard of.
beachbeachy
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States509 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-02 04:21:25
November 02 2012 04:14 GMT
#189
I find it interesting how people can be so polar opposite on such a movie.

Personally, I hated it. I left feeling uncomfortable. More uncomfortable than I got when watching the second member of the human centipede get a mouth full of shit. It got a 8.3 on IMDB and I wanted to know how, so I checked up on some reviews and the common theme was the emotional attachment and depth to the characters and stories.

The individual stories weren't even stories. They didn't take time to get you to know the characters and as a result you could hardly feel for the characters. When you watch Braveheart, you feel for William Wallace in the beginning slaughter scene, and it puts you against the British. You feel for him when they kill his wife, and you hate the British. The movie grabs you emotionally on a deeper level. Cloud atlas doesn't give you enough to connect with the characters and as a result I found myself not giving a single shit about any of them.

So you might say that sub stories don't make up a story, but unfortunately for Cloud Atlas the stories only connect in subtle ways that have no impact on the 'main story'. So the movie is literally 6 individual stories that only come together to convey morals such as freedom, love, and personal choice.

Each story was vague and superficial to me and I'm trying hard to see some deeper meaning to each story, but nothing comes to the table. The end result just had me bewildered at how you could make a movie so meaningless and mundane.

To those of you that enjoyed it. Please tell me why, because for the life of me I can't find anything appealing about it. Did you enjoy it for entertainment value? Did you consider it a thoughtful film that had you emotionally attached? In regards to being a work of art?
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe
tuho12345
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
4482 Posts
November 02 2012 04:41 GMT
#190
I think the problem with the movie was i felt like it tried too hard to express the sub stories to the audience. It could have been a very long movie if they developed it more carefully and deeper on each character and each of their story. It wasn't satisfied me as I hoped. Also the other reason is all the make ups and costumes were so dumb and ugly, except the gay piano artist's story.
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-02 04:52:45
November 02 2012 04:52 GMT
#191
Read the book to see what this was all about. Went in with high expectations. But I thought it was only slightly above average.

I liked the sonmi and sixsmith parts. The rest of the stories unfortunately bored me, which prolly played a part in me not considering it a great and grand work of fiction.
Zooper31
Profile Joined May 2009
United States5711 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-02 04:59:48
November 02 2012 04:59 GMT
#192
Most amazing movie I have watched in some time. It might even rival my favorite movie with Shawshank redemption.

The story with the old publisher in the nursing home had me laughing my ass off with their escape and the story with the music composer and his gay lover had me shed a couple tears and Somni's ending speech was just as saddening. Fucking Hugo Weaving, Agent Smith in The Matrix, still has epic lines to deliver comeplating life and it's meaning.

Can't rave about this movie enough and I recommend everyone watch it.
Asato ma sad gamaya, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, mrtyor mamrtam gamaya
RiceAgainst
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States1849 Posts
November 02 2012 05:10 GMT
#193
Been trying to get my friends to watch it since I haven't yet but none of them have heard it. And it doesn't help when I tell them it might be confusing/hard to follow...

It's sad because I really expected this movie to do well.
Imperfect1987
Profile Joined August 2010
United States558 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-02 07:37:06
November 02 2012 07:32 GMT
#194
I saw it tonight without knowing anything about it at all beforehand. All I knew was that some of my friends liked it. I feel like it is definitely the best movie I saw so far this year. When you go in to watch it don't expect to understand what everything means, or why they are showing things. Enjoy it for the ride, don't sweat missing the small things and everything will come together in the end. Don't expect the individual stories to be amazing, they are good themselves but a movie can't delve too deeply without dragging on forever. The movies dabbles into a ton of genres and does it well overall and the end message does tie into everything. It's a thinker movie so if you aren't into that don't bother otherwise enjoy! Also the acting/directing/filming/cgi and all the other technical things were really well executed. This movie seems like something that would be good to watch a 2nd or 3rd time to look for the little things missed as well.
The keyboard is mightier than the pen.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33503 Posts
November 02 2012 07:34 GMT
#195
I was entertained, but sad that the movie couldn't totally fulfill its lofty goals
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
zer0access
Profile Joined January 2009
Russian Federation41 Posts
November 03 2012 20:13 GMT
#196
Just got home after watching this movie. It was really amazing, provides food for thought and stands out from all recent "watch-once-and-forget" movies.
ZapRoffo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5544 Posts
November 04 2012 02:30 GMT
#197
On November 02 2012 13:14 beachbeachy wrote:
Each story was vague and superficial to me and I'm trying hard to see some deeper meaning to each story, but nothing comes to the table. The end result just had me bewildered at how you could make a movie so meaningless and mundane.

To those of you that enjoyed it. Please tell me why, because for the life of me I can't find anything appealing about it. Did you enjoy it for entertainment value? Did you consider it a thoughtful film that had you emotionally attached? In regards to being a work of art?


That's something where if you read the book first, you do get a lot more into each story (and in chunks too, the book doesn't cut between them much, each story only has 2 parts max and the post apocalypse hawaii is straight all one part in the center), the movie really is cool as a companion to the book because I have enough built up with all the characters to care. The themes are really grand scale, like connection with others vs. domination of others, the course of history, past->future connections, diversity of living conditions, stuff like that.

I'm not sure how it appears to one not having read the book but I guessed right after I saw it that everything might be too shallow depth to make the impact it tries to make.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man
acker
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2958 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-04 02:45:14
November 04 2012 02:44 GMT
#198
Just watched it. I liked it. But it needed to be longer in order to deepen the themes.

However, I definitely recommend it. A welcome change from movies like Iron Man X.
WniO
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2706 Posts
November 04 2012 02:58 GMT
#199
god this movie bombed so hard at the box office, perhaps a good dvd sales, or last minute word of mouth
ALang
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada288 Posts
November 04 2012 03:01 GMT
#200
Very pretty movie and the make-up was good fun to see throughout the different stories. Sadly, there were maybe 2 good stories (Frobisher and Sonmi) while being comprised of 6. I enjoyed it thoroughly regardless and it was very ambitious but ultimately falls a little short like others have said before me.
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