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Great movie; really liked it.
Technical aspects, such as editing, visuals, and music, were just brilliant.
Acting was highly commendable; Hanks pulled a different accent in every character he played. By the way, stay a little after the credits start rolling; you get to see (visually) which characters were played by which actors, since most actors filled a plethora of roles (I didn't recognise a lot of them during the movie).
Not an overly complicated plot, but very well told, paced, and directed. Not only each individual tale, but the overarching story as well.
Recommended.
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is it really another 4 months before uk release? -_-
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Just watched. Now that I think about it, I'm not totally sure what the plot was, but actually I never even worried about that during the movie itself, which was extremely enjoyable. Also Zhou Xun is pretty attractive as a primitive non asian o.o
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Liked it, though the format takes some getting used to
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Just watched it with some friends. I enjoyed it a lot.
The six stories all maintained my attention throughout, and they were all uniquely interesting. The ties between the stories were neat, but if you don't pick up on them while watching its not the biggest problem, since each story can thrive on its own independently. Actually, I was thinking about it just now, and it took me a few minutes to figure out how the modern-day/old-person-escape story fit in with the rest. And i'm still not quite sure, but I think the nuclear plant owner was the same person as the old man's brother?
Anyways, the acting was solid. And it was really amusing to watch the actor's play all those different roles in the film. Tom Hanks did great as to be expected.
The visuals were awesome, without trying to be the focus of the film.
The script was good, though I felt it might have got a little too preachy at the end.
I was worried about how the climax would turn out, because it seemed like it would be too complicated to end all of them properly, but in the end they did a fine job staggering and layering the climaxes so the less important ones got done first and the most important climaxes got the prime spot. I was emotionally stirred by the composer's climax, which hasn't happened to me during a movie in some time.
All in all, solid production. Solid execution. Managed to tap into suspense, sorrow, humor, excitement and resolution, while keeping a good balance between them.
8 /10
Would recommend to anyone with an attention span, who can juggle a few different story arcs in their head at once.
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Recommended then? Yeah, I really want to go see this film, hope it lives up to my expectations~ from what I saw of the trailers, it looks absolutely AMAZING.
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Just saw it. I really enjoyed it, and thought it was a great movie. It was with it's flaws, but if you watch movies seriously to any amount of degree you can really appreciate the ginormous task it was filming this movie. They took a really ambitious concept running with so many parallel story lines, and executed it really well, which makes it extremely impressive.
Great cast of actors, brilliant acting from everyone, most of the settings were fairly distinct (with the exception of the 2012 timeline, I disliked the + Show Spoiler +UK setting, it didn't feel distinct at all
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On October 27 2012 18:03 FFGenerations wrote:
is it really another 4 months before uk release? -_-
I'd rather have Skyfall instead.
Cloud Atlas as a "movie with epic story"? More like "epic movie with stories". Grand in many aspects, brimming with sheer ambition. But that's probably as far as my praise goes. The critics are right in calling it "a beautiful mess". The interlocking stories are edited together brilliantly, but on their own, they're rather shallow and unimpressive. And what's tying them all together? Generic platitudes about love and kindness mixed with new age spiritual hocus pocus. Seriously, this movie was all over the place.
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On October 28 2012 16:32 Warlock40 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2012 18:03 FFGenerations wrote:
is it really another 4 months before uk release? -_- I'd rather have Skyfall instead. Cloud Atlas as a "movie with epic story"? More like "epic movie with stories". Grand in many aspects, brimming with sheer ambition. But that's probably as far as my praise goes. The critics are right in calling it "a beautiful mess". The interlocking stories are edited together brilliantly, but on their own, they're rather shallow and unimpressive. And what's tying them all together? Generic platitudes about love and kindness mixed with new age spiritual hocus pocus. Seriously, this movie was all over the place.
It's a movie also meant for the lowest common denominator (they didn't want it to be too abstract for the common person), I agree the stories were shallow, but the individual stories were not the point of the movie, it was the interweaving motifs throughout the simple stories that created the movie. I appreciated the strengths of the movie far more than the weaknesses of it.
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"Yesterday my life was headed in one direction. Today.. (dramatic pause) it is headed in another."
Then the balcony scene... might very well be one of the worst movies ever made xD
Seriously though, it's the Wachowski brothers.
[x] mind blowing CGI/special effects
[x] epic story
[x] epic score
[?] some serious hand-to-hand combat
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[x] redefinitions of the terms "cheesy", "stupid" and "illogical"
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On October 28 2012 16:32 Warlock40 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 27 2012 18:03 FFGenerations wrote:
is it really another 4 months before uk release? -_- I'd rather have Skyfall instead. Cloud Atlas as a "movie with epic story"? More like "epic movie with stories". Grand in many aspects, brimming with sheer ambition. But that's probably as far as my praise goes. The critics are right in calling it "a beautiful mess". The interlocking stories are edited together brilliantly, but on their own, they're rather shallow and unimpressive. And what's tying them all together? Generic platitudes about love and kindness mixed with new age spiritual hocus pocus. Seriously, this movie was all over the place.
Just saw it yesterday, and this sums up my feelings pretty well. It really is a beautiful mess. I feel like, despite it being 3 hours long, at least 2, if not 3, of the stories are underdeveloped. Although i will say that you do not really feel 3 hours passing by whilst watching.
Would I recommend it? Well, yes I guess. But it is not going to win any "Best picture" awards in my book.
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I read a review that it didn't live up to the book and was storyboarded haphazardly.
I'll probably read the book first, so as not to spoil the experience.
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I really enjoyed this movie, I was kind of hyped up for it after seeing the trailer and it didn't let me down.
The only negative aspects I saw with the film was some of the make-up effects were distracting, also the native-speak they used in one of the plot lines was really hard to understand as the accents got ridiculously thick at points.
I haven't read the book but I thought at some point the plots were going to be tied up together which really didn't happen? I don't know I may have to watch the movie again to catch everything, 3 hours long is pretty lengthy for a movie but it didn't drag on at all.
8/10
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Ah, this was what I was afraid of  the idea of the storylines being combined poorly and not having any sort of coherency with this kind of a film... might still go see it, though.
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On October 28 2012 17:28 Aerisky wrote:Ah, this was what I was afraid of the idea of the storylines being combined poorly and not having any sort of coherency with this kind of a film... might still go see it, though.
It did combine perfectly though, the editing was spot on, and it was very coherent, its just the stories by themselves are weak.
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On October 28 2012 18:03 wei2coolman wrote:Show nested quote +On October 28 2012 17:28 Aerisky wrote:Ah, this was what I was afraid of the idea of the storylines being combined poorly and not having any sort of coherency with this kind of a film... might still go see it, though. It did combine perfectly though, the editing was spot on, and it was very coherent, its just the stories by themselves are weak.
Hm I see, but the prospect of a beautiful mess doesn't seem appealing to me. I'm sure it's a fantastic amalgamation and that they really did a good job especially considering the layout of the novel, but not having a theme that isn't shallow/cliché detracts from it. Also you seem to have walked out of the theater with the polar opposite opinion of several of these guys lol, i.e. great stories and combination, all things considered but weak final production vs weak individual narratives but an ultimately perfect combination etc.  oh well, if I have time I'll go out to see it since I do like the premise in the first place.
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On October 28 2012 18:13 Aerisky wrote:Show nested quote +On October 28 2012 18:03 wei2coolman wrote:On October 28 2012 17:28 Aerisky wrote:Ah, this was what I was afraid of the idea of the storylines being combined poorly and not having any sort of coherency with this kind of a film... might still go see it, though. It did combine perfectly though, the editing was spot on, and it was very coherent, its just the stories by themselves are weak. Hm I see, but the prospect of a beautiful mess doesn't seem appealing to me. I'm sure it's a fantastic amalgamation and that they really did a good job especially considering the layout of the novel, but not having a theme that isn't shallow/cliché detracts from it. Also you seem to have walked out of the theater with the polar opposite opinion of several of these guys lol, i.e. great stories and combination, all things considered but weak final production vs weak individual narratives but an ultimately perfect combination etc. oh well, if I have time I'll go out to see it since I do like the premise in the first place.
It's definitely worth a watch. I mean I guess the worst rating it could get was that "it's not perfect", but from what I've heard the biggest criticism, still say it's worth watching, and is above average movie. And I'm pretty sure you and I have watched our share of BAD movies, this is not one of those.
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OMG, this was the most boring 3 hours of my life.....................
On par with Magorium wonder emporeum.....
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On October 28 2012 23:09 Arkless wrote:
OMG, this was the most boring 3 hours of my life.....................
On par with Magorium wonder emporeum.....
bored? really? This moving was many things, but far from boring. Engaging visuals, laced with a combination of action, suspense and humor. At a very base level, it had to be at least amusing to watch the same actors play multiple roles.
The only reason I could imagine you were bored, is if you were completely and totally confused, and thus put off from whatever was happening because you didn't know what was happening.
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Saw this 2 days ago with friends and really enjoyed it. Everything said above holds true- engaging visuals, strong acting, humor, etc. Everyone in my group was super surprised when we looked down at the end of the movie and found it to have been almost 3 hours! So no one was bored at any point.
I did enjoy the movie and I particularly love movies that inspire thought. However, I found myself wishing that there was a more concrete connection between each story. I kept waiting for some kind of key moment where the movie's teaser was made clear:
"one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution."
This quote really hooked me on going and seeing the movie. But after watching it I can't say I witnessed this in the movie. I actually really like what incontrol said about it. He tweeted yesterday something about, the movie was enjoyable but I feel like I needed to take notes and raise my hands several times to truly understand it.
So in the end, yes the movie was enjoyable but I actually find myself wondering if I was supposed to get something more(or not) out of it. I REALLY wanted to see a true connection, cause/effect, etc between each of the plotlines. So this sense of vagueness I got at the end as to the intentions of the directors kind of marred my enjoyment.
Ebert said that he gave up trying to find a logical connection between each of the plotlines after his second viewing, so that makes me a feel a little better. I find myself wanting to watch the movie at least once more.
TL;DR Great watch, enjoyable on a superficial level but hard to find meaning on a deeper level(at least on the first viewing)
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