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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012



I thought this was supposed to be better than Jupiter Ascending.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

What didn't you like about it, inri222?
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Originally Posted by RocShemp
What didn't you like about it, inri222?
It wasn't better than Jupiter Ascending. Duh.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Hrmmm. I think Cloud Atlas was fucking great. It's ambition, it's scope, it's theme, etc. Just glad that it exists. It's that special of a film.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Boring as hell and their way of storytelling didn't do it for me. It might have been different if the stories had been interesting.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Originally Posted by RocShemp
What didn't you like about it, inri222?
Just about everything, from the overacting to the hokey new age theme of were all connected. All style and shallow substance pretending to be something deeper than it is (sound familiar). All my opinion of course.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Originally Posted by inri222
Just about everything, from the overacting to the hokey new age theme of were all connected. All style and shallow substance pretending to be something deeper than it is (sound familiar). All my opinion of course.
I hope you didn't think I was asking just to tear down your complaints. Although I personally loved the movie, I like to read differing opinions.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

I honestly would love to read more people's critical breakdowns for a lot films here. Sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't.

Damnit. Now I'm putting in the BD to this.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

I find it to be an extremely flawed film and agree with some of the stuff in these articles :

https://kylebstiff.wordpress.com/rev...la-for-a-turd/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-cannibal.html
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Only $7.98 for the BD at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Atlas-Bl...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Penny cheaper than my BF price.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

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I honestly would love to read more people's critical breakdowns for a lot films here. Sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't.

Damnit. Now I'm putting in the BD to this.
The soundtrack/score is fantastic as well. I went out of my way to buy it right after seeing it in theaters (saw it twice at theaters too).
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Yeah, I need to buy the score.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

One of my favorite films of the year. Just thinking about it makes me want to watch it again.
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That sextet. Just beautiful.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

I'm just so aware of Tom Hanks' presence in any movie now that, for me, it detracts from the story.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

So you're the problem in your own evaluation of the film?
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

I actually put this flick in my vudu wishlist because of all the good talk about it on here - just haven't found the time to watch it yet as there were other movies I wanted to catch up on.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

The movie feels great. The story is ambitious and the filmmaking is adventurous. There were some misfires, including angry Scottish Hanks the writer (or whatever it was ... it has been awhile).

That's what I took away from it.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Originally Posted by Troy Stiffler
The movie feels great. The story is ambitious and the filmmaking is adventurous. There were some misfires, including angry Scottish Hanks the writer (or whatever it was ... it has been awhile).

That's what I took away from it.
He's supposed to be Irish.

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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

So after seeing a lot of gushing over this flick here I decided to give it a spin....like a couple of months ago but just never commented on it.

Little too cartoony and hokey for me (although I did dig Tom Hanks in all of his roles). I got how it pretty much all came together at the end but as a whole I just didn't like it very much.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

I thought the movie was ambitious and unique, but definitely suffered from somewhat poor execution for a lot of it.
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

Originally Posted by Rival11
So after seeing a lot of gushing over this flick here I decided to give it a spin....like a couple of months ago but just never commented on it.

Little too cartoony and hokey for me (although I did dig Tom Hanks in all of his roles). I got how it pretty much all came together at the end but as a whole I just didn't like it very much.
Did you like the story in the future where everyone speaks Pootey Tang?
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Re: Cloud Atlas -- D: The Wachowskis S: Hanks, Grant, Berry, Weaving -- Fall 2012

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Did you like the story in the future where everyone speaks Pootey Tang?
Yeah, that was excellent
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Yeah, that was excellent
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