Cloud Atlas and the Amazing Technicolor Thread Title (that angers people)

neville

This movie is amazing. Just came out today and I loved it.
It has a lot of big name actors/actresses in it...

Tom Hanks
Halle Berry
Hugo Weaving
Jim Sturgess
Doona Bae
Susan Sarandon
James D'arcy
Hugh Grant

, but that isn't super important.

Let us discuss this movie and how it is awesome.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYjSPPy08Dg

No Great Name

Pfffffffft @ this title

Mr Fuzzbutt

Should I read the book first?

Antimatter

i heard this movie has yellowface

neville

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

Should I read the book first?

Probably up to you?
I didn't and loved it.

I went with someone who has seen it twice (saw a sneak preview) and plans to see it again tomorrow.
So I'd say it is enjoyable either way.

UnbreakableVow

This movie is divisive as hell, so I am definitely seeing it this weekend

At the very least it looks super ambitious and very pretty

neville

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

This movie is divisive as hell, so I am definitely seeing it this weekend

At the very least it looks super ambitious and very pretty

Most people who were outraged went "Oh. Yeah. Actually it makes total sense" after seeing it.
But don't look for why, just see it first and you'll get it.

UnbreakableVow

Outrage? Wha?

I'm just referring to the fact that it's got a 61% (barely fresh) on Rotten Tomatoes, 40% from top critics

Also, Ebert gave it four stars, and while I don't always agree with him, his perspective is always a nice one to read about and he sounds really into this movie

I loved Speed Racer and Run Lola Run so the directors all have good credit in my book

neville

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Outrage? Wha?

I'm just referring to the fact that it's got a 61% (barely fresh) on Rotten Tomatoes, 40% from top critics

Also, Ebert gave it four stars, and while I don't always agree with him, his perspective is always a nice one to read about and he sounds really into this movie

I loved Speed Racer and Run Lola Run so the directors all have good credit in my book

*I* liked it. What more reason could you want?

Reason for outrage (I wouldn't click unless you really don't care about spoilers):

Is that Jim Sturgess wears makeup / prosthetics to look asian during some scenes.

UnbreakableVow

Oh

Well I assumed most of the people in this were playing characters of different races. Maybe even genders?

I've prepared my mind for extravagance

neville

Also a number of complaints have to do with it being "too complicated" or "Not enough like the book"

Doobh

Robert Downey Jr. has taught me to give that sort of thing a small chance

neville

Trying to keep it in spoilers since some people don't know what it is about!
but yes

Doobh

ah, right, sorry

neville

Dubh wrote: »

ah, right, sorry

Actually I meant @UnbreakableVow
:P

But see it yessss

tech_hunter

This looks interesting, I may just have to check this out.

Gatsby

Antimatter wrote: »

i heard this movie has yellowface

Fuck

Vann Diras

Jacking my thread title's swag has ensured I will never see this

Thanks, I was really excited for it ya jerk!!!!

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Ballman

This thread has inspired me.

Tonight I will go see Argo.

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Sweeney Tom

Man, with all the movies I've got to see, I won't have any money left over for Secret Satans

gavindel

Went and saw it earlier today.

Overall, I feel vaguely disappointed. The movements of the overall story were vast and slow, like an orchestra that forgot its crescendo. Saw some great performances from the actors, no doubt, but the make up was horrendous. I wanted sexy "Mr Anderson" Weavings, not falsetto broomhandle nurse Weavings. I was hoping for a cross-generational fight against oppression and ignorance, but the action only ever seemed to materialize in shots already exploited by the trailer.

I feel like this movie was crippled by its trailer. All of the important plot points were completely transparent if you had seen the trailer more than once. The repetition of the fabricant's mantra lost its staying power by the third or fourth time it snuck into a scene.

I give props for being willing to murder characters across the narrative and intermingle between genres and times. The parts without mangled ethnic make up were pretty. Cute to see the same character shift from useless extra to villain to hero over time. Overall, just kind of okay.

Spectre-x

I was really interested when I saw the trailer before Dredd. I'll definitely be seeing this.

Old Red Ink

Based on the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems like everyone either loves it or thinks it's an overambitious failure. This is actually more intriguing to me than if it was just positive reviews across the board. I've been meaning to read the book for ages, so I was thinking I might hold off on seeing the movie until I read it, but now I don't want to wait.

-Tal

so how does the ratio of How Good It Is:Critic Response compare to Speed Racer's

Cilla Black

Might go see this tomorrow or Monday instead of Looper because I'm a massive sucker for flashy, stylish eye candy and this looks to have more of that stuff.

Butters

Is this the Atlas Shrugged movie?

Larlar

No Great Name wrote: »

Pfffffffft @ this title

x2

Druhim

-Tal wrote: »

so how does the ratio of How Good It Is:Critic Response compare to Speed Racer's

Considering how good it is will vary depending on the individual in question, this seems a pretty arbitrary and meaningless ratio.

UnbreakableVow

Druhim wrote: »

-Tal wrote: »

so how does the ratio of How Good It Is:Critic Response compare to Speed Racer's

Considering how good it is will vary depending on the individual in question, this seems a pretty arbitrary and meaningless ratio.

I can see the logic behind this, but Speed Racer is a really odd movie where it was critically loathed and yet the fanbase for it seems disproportionately high

(Because it is great)

Pony

jesus christ neville could you have picked a less shit-headed title for the thread

like part of me wants to not see this fucking movie now just to spite that kind of stupid bullshit

what's next

a Star Wars vs. Star Trek thread?

fuck sakes

you can like many things without constantly comparing them

neville

I was going to change the title, but if it annoys Pony, it's worth keeping for that fact alone!

Pony

neville wrote: »

I was going to change the title, but if it annoys Pony, it's worth keeping for that fact alone!

because that's mature

Melding

That's what this place is known for.

Maturity.

Vann Diras

Pony wrote: »

neville wrote: »

I was going to change the title, but if it annoys Pony, it's worth keeping for that fact alone!

because that's mature

He said, apparently oblivious to his juvenile tirade

Uriel

What's this supposed to be about?

I feel like I am supposed to have some idea but I must have forgotten.

Also BRB making a thread about the enterprise getting into a space battle with a star destroyer.

UnbreakableVow

The problem with Star Trek is that it doesn't have Lando Calrissian

Uriel

The problem with Star Wars is it doesn't have Jonathan Frakes.

Virgil_Leads_You

Uriel wrote: »

What's this supposed to be about?

I feel like I am supposed to have some idea but I must have forgotten.

Also BRB making a thread about the enterprise getting into a space battle with a star destroyer.

Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principles of uncertainty, phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourself to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=163103260

Spectre-x

Vann Diras wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

neville wrote: »

I was going to change the title, but if it annoys Pony, it's worth keeping for that fact alone!

because that's mature

He said, apparently oblivious to his juvenile tirade

It's not really juvenile to point out that the way this thread's title is constructed could be read as kind of goosey