Cloud Atlas

[ms_ann_thrope]

Stealer.

 

[RoryN]

Consensus: it's a beautiful mess.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Consensus: it's a beautiful mess.

You sawr it?

 

[blobfish]

If I said that I had a dream there were clouds in my coffee, would you think it was about you?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

If I said that I had a dream there were clouds in my coffee, would you think it was about you?

You're so vein.

 

[blobfish]

You're so vein.

You passed the test.

 

[RoryN]

You sawr it?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cloud_atlas_2012/

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cloud_atlas_2012/

I need boots on the ground.

 

[KRCummings]

Good book, don't much care about the movie either way. Maybe I'll see it later, maybe I won't. Not the sort of thing that screams "great movie!"
The controversy over Sturgess is dumb. The concept requires one actor. Like the few idiots that got upset over Downey Jr. doing black face. The point just flew right over their little idiot heads.

 

[RoryN]

Like the few idiots that got upset over Downey Jr. doing black face. The point just flew right over their little idiot heads.

Agreed.

The real point was that Tropic Thunder was garbage; textbook example of a Hollywood vanity project.

I still have yet to hear a good explanation for why Matthew McConaughey's scenes exist at all in that film. And that's just the tip of the iceburg.

 

[jomar]

The Movie Guy on Sunday Morning said he checked out after about 90 minutes, the halfway point.

Tropic Thunder is pretty funny. And some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

The Movie Guy on Sunday Morning said he checked out after about 90 minutes, the halfway point.

Tropic Thunder is pretty funny. And some of the best acting Tom Cruise has ever done.

nice avy

 

[jomar]

nice avy

Thanks.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I have a date to go see this movie. I better get some popcorn at least.

 

[pete]

I have a date to go see this movie. I better get some popcorn at least.

just be careful when you reach into the popcorn bowl if it's centered on his lap.

it's an old trick, but highly effective. mostly in the midwest.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

just be careful when you reach into the popcorn bowl if it's centered on his lap.

it's an old trick, but highly effective. mostly in the midwest.

Afterwards, maybe we'll go cow tipping...

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Really hard to follow. Got their dig in at big oil. Yellow face white boy had some mad ninja skills. Both pretty and brutal

Once you give up trying to follow what's going on, it's less of a struggle.

And Halle Berry is smoking, literally and figuratively.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The Neo-Seoul storyline was high-end graphics stuff. Maybe my favorite part.

 

[stickwork]

Shit, wrong forum. Thought it read "Cloud Atmas"

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Shit, wrong forum. Thought it read "Cloud Atmas"

Must be the chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

 

[piccicatopolka]

I really don't know how they're going to capture the different styles from the book. Five different directors maybe? Still, I'm not the world's greatest Tom Hanks fan. I'll probably Pirate Bay it.

*blink*

Ah ha ha !

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Oscar for best makeup? I wonder how long it took to paint those freckles on Sarandon. Or maybe that's the actual and then how long does it take to cover all those freckles?

 

[RoryN]

Pretty much all the elements are there for a massive dud.

Time Magazine's Worst Film of 2012

1. Cloud Atlas
By Mary Pols
Dec. 04, 2012

We’re all connected. Human beings repeat the same mistakes, generation after generation. And — man, this part is heavy, so maybe, like, sit down for 172 minutes to think about it — even though bad people try to enslave other people, someone awesome will always try to throw off the shackles. Cloud Atlas is so much like the bong-fueled conversations I had in college that I almost ordered a Domino’s pizza afterward. The problem is there’s no emotional hook in this bloated fantasia of special effects and makeup wizardry; the passion is all in the brute labor of adapting David Mitchell’s novel for the screen. Co-directors Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer flit across centuries and genres in a whirlwind of bloody violence and cross-dressing, ethnicity-shifting performances, but there’s as much opportunity to get attached to characters as there would be watching people go by on a roller coaster.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/...green/?&_suid=1354677209283047546184524960283

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Good book, don't much care about the movie either way. Maybe I'll see it later, maybe I won't. Not the sort of thing that screams "great movie!"
The controversy over Sturgess is dumb. The concept requires one actor. Like the few idiots that got upset over Downey Jr. doing black face. The point just flew right over their little idiot heads.

I picked it up in the bargain bin at Walmart. Watched it again. Still can't follow it.

 

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