Cloud Atlas Trailer #?

[GTaudiophile]

This is either going to be amazing or crap...

But here's the latest trailer.

 

[rockyct]

RT average of 81% with 31 reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cloud_atlas_2012/

It looks like it will be respectable at the very least. I'm looking forward to it. I like to encourage movie studios when they make risky movies like these. I'm sure they only green lit it because of the names attached. Still though, it's based on a novel that would be generous to even say it has a cult following.

 

[Aikouka]

So, did anyone else go and see this movie this weekend? I thought it was interesting, but the overarching message didn't seem very complex. Although, for me, the true testament to a long movie is if it doesn't feel that long.

 

[ImpulsE69]

From the trailers one would think it spans too much of a time arc and story arch to try to compress it into a sensible 2-3 hour movie and have it make any sense w/o cutting much of the things that made the story good to begin with out.

 

[Raizinman]

Saw it last week at a screening. BORING BORING BORING !!!

Too long, didn't make sense. Things just didn't connect. Perhaps if I read the book, but I don't like to read the book to every movie I see. It was 2 hours and 51 minutes long. Way way too long. I'll admit the last 30 minutes was OK and actually had some movement (action), but the rest was a total loser. The comments from others in our group was the movie was 2 hours and 30 minutes too long and just a bunch of actors showing off trying to prove they can play various parts. Let them show off to someone else.

 

[Ruptga]

I saw it the other day. I found the individual stories a lot more compelling than the overarching one, though that isn't exactly a complaint. It didn't feel long, but I did leave the theater wondering what exactly I was supposed to take away from it all. The obvious reincarnation thing is, uh, obvious. But I think the main thing to take away is just how little human nature changes over the centuries. The characters are in widely different circumstances, but they end up dealing with a lot of the same issues.

You do have to go into it knowing it is an artsy and sometimes needlessly complex movie, though.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Roger Ebert gave it 100%.

He's the best reviewer imo, I agree with him 80% of the time. But he had to watch it twice and intends to watch it a 3rd time. He inspired me to read the book.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121024/REVIEWS/121029991/1001/reviews

 

[Robert Munch]

This movie was garbage. Left before the ending.

 

[TecHNooB]

i haven't seen it yet, but i have a feeling it will be both interesting and full of itself. i'm willing to look past the latter.

 

[Anonemous]

This movie gonna bomb? I heard it only got 9M this weekend.

 

[Northern Lawn]

This movie gonna bomb? I heard it only got 9M this weekend.

Wow, by the looks of the trailer it must have cost 2-3 hundred million to make. Another Water World perhaps.

It's getting good scores at IMBD 8.4 i think it was.

 

[rockyct]

From the trailer I decided to listen to the audiobook before I see the movie. I'm about half way through it so far. It's a 21 hour audiobook so it is quite a long novel.

 

[Northern Lawn]

From the trailer I decided to listen to the audiobook before I see the movie. I'm about half way through it so far. It's a 21 hour audiobook so it is quite a long novel.

Game of Thrones was is 28 hours.. I decided to read it instead.

 

[zerocool84]

This movie gonna bomb? I heard it only got 9M this weekend.

It debuted at #3 with 9.4M, not good especially for such an expensive movie. I'm sure people preparing for the hurricane on the east coast didn't help either.

 

[BladeVenom]

This movie gonna bomb? I heard it only got 9M this weekend.

I think it's going to bomb. I don't know how good a movie it is, but reincarnation nonsense isn't going to be popular.

 

[TecHNooB]

I think it's going to bomb. I don't know how good a movie it is, but reincarnation nonsense isn't going to be popular.

i haven't seen the movie yet, but i don't think it's about reincarnation in the religious sense.

 

[Aikouka]

I saw it the other day. I found the individual stories a lot more compelling than the overarching one, though that isn't exactly a complaint. It didn't feel long, but I did leave the theater wondering what exactly I was supposed to take away from it all. The obvious reincarnation thing is, uh, obvious. But I think the main thing to take away is just how little human nature changes over the centuries. The characters are in widely different circumstances, but they end up dealing with a lot of the same issues.

You do have to go into it knowing it is an artsy and sometimes needlessly complex movie, though.

Oddly enough, I didn't really find it to be that complex. The only thing that I hold truetrue was the difficulty in understanding the dialog at times -- especially in the final time period. I thought the most interesting part was trying to determine which actor/actress was playing a role that appeared on screen. I actually missed every cross-dressing role except for Hugo Weaving's large-and-in-charge role; that one was rather obvious.

As a bit of a Sci-Fi fan, I would have liked to see more of the Neo Seoul timeline as the whole dystopian future is a bit intriguing.

This movie gonna bomb? I heard it only got 9M this weekend.

When I saw IMDB list the top performers on Friday at 9M and 3M and Cloud Atlas wasn't one of them, I knew that didn't sound good. However, IMDB states that the budget was only 100 million (estimated). That should be easy enough to recoup, but it surely won't look good.

EDIT:

i haven't seen the movie yet, but i don't think it's about reincarnation in the religious sense.

Well, (by the way, this really isn't much of a spoiler...)

Spoiler

in Neo Seoul when the archivist is having Sun Me recall her time with The Union, he asks her what she thinks Heaven is. She mentions that it is like a door opening.

Now, I saw the movie in religious Alabama with a bunch of old people in the theater, and none of them seemed perturbed. So, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Ns1]

jesus cloud atlas flopped so hard - it's like speed racer part deux. wachowski's never getting another gig again.

 

[BladeVenom]

I actually missed every cross-dressing role except for Hugo Weaving's large-and-in-charge role; that one was rather obvious.

So there's lots of cross dressing? No wonder most people don't want to go see it.

Is that why Tom Hanks is in the movie, he misses the days of Bosom Buddies.

 

[Aikouka]

So there's lots of cross dressing? No wonder most people don't want to go see it.

Is that why Tom Hanks is in the movie, he misses the days of Bosom Buddies.

Yes. I think every actor and actress except for Tom Hanks ( ) played a character of the opposite gender at some point... including Halle Berry. Although, some of the roles were very small, and may have had no speaking lines. The largest was definitely Hugo Weaving's role as the head nurse.

EDIT:

Do keep in mind that I couldn't even tell most of them. At the end of the movie, they show all of the characters that each person played, which revealed a lot of those cross-dressing roles.

 

[Udgnim]

so is this movie a massive bust?

 

[Ns1]

so is this movie a massive bust?

pretty much.

 

[Svnla]

I did watch the movie last week. It was not bad at all but not great by any means. The only "part" that I did like was the new Korea but not sure why the white actors had to do slant eyes.

 

[The_Dude8]

I did watch the movie last week. It was not bad at all but not great by any means. The only "part" that I did like was the new Korea but not sure why the white actors had to do slant eyes.

and that one white guy looks exactly like Neo from the matrix; Too many stories and i don't know what was all the mini stories about.