cloud atlas

[Kuya]

was p cool

would recommend it

[Kuya]

thread might have spoilers at some point btw

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

going to see this today

[Kuya]

I've found that it's love/hate, but more people love it than hate it. You will get confused initially, but you'll get used to the scene changes. If you're a guy who likes movies that experiment with formula, then you might like it.

prepare for feels

[Kuya]

what i liked to do most during the film, was to try and find the connections between the different time periods. I'm still not sure i caught them all. Some are more obvious than others.

[Churchill]

I saw that this got really bad reviews when it came out and then Obama.

[Tajin]

was p cool

would recommend it

Would you? Huh?! Huh?!

No but srs would you?

[Kuya]

yes

[Tajin]

Right-o this week skyfags, next week TWILIGHTFUCKINGKILLMEPLEASE and the week after cloud atlas, assuming is on mexican teathers by then.

[Kuya]

what

[Tajin]

Movie schedule, moving house happened between skyfall and twilight saga; sadly it only delays the imminent.

[Howie Roary]

I've found that it's love/hate, but more people love it than hate it. You will get confused initially, but you'll get used to the scene changes. If you're a guy who likes movies that experiment with formula, then you might like it.

prepare for feels

I was really stirred up after the movie, feelings of love and sentimentality mingling with rebellion and a sense of justice and the meaningful value of a drop (or millions of them) in an ocean

in all honesty, had I been at home and in private, I would have liked to have a good cry, just to release some of that, it was pretty overwhelming to feel so many things at once

[Howie Roary]

what i liked to do most during the film, was to try and find the connections between the different time periods. I'm still not sure i caught them all. Some are more obvious than others.

Spoiler: show

I was straining to recall the interactions of all the actors who played lovers that were paired up throughout the movie and I am pretty sure no matter the appearance or gender of the character played, the actor played a lover that felt a kinship (realized or not) with the lover played by the respective paired actor

this became cohesive in my mind (if true across the board) when Sun-Mi spoke of not necessarily reincarnation, but of doors opening where one closes (very similar to my lay understanding of reincarnation and past lives, souls reuniting etc), and her vision of a heaven/what she'd like to see when she dies

this morning, two days after the fact, I realized that the god they worshiped hundreds of years after Sun-Mi's death, was not only not a deity but created by humans but was in the image of humans (hmm, and as I'm writing, I realize with her quotes of Solzhenitsyn and others, her "gospel" was a collection of other people's works)

[Kuya]

i thought you might like it since you liked that stupid movie with the tree and the guy and the different lives with his dying bitch girlfriend that he was trying to find a cure to. Given that, i had thought i would hate this movie, but i was pleasantly surprised at how its possible pretentiousness did not turn me off

[Howie Roary]

the truly bizarre thing is my girlfriend noted the similar story telling as The Fountain yet I did not

I was too busy trying to keep up with the threads of the story, which for the first 30-45 minutes was quite overwhelming in detail, Tom Hanks' pidgin-speak notwithstanding. Plus the fact that it wasn't so blatantly the same people across 3(+) time periods nor did the relevance of the same actors become clear until later. Also they rarely looked the same, Hugh Grant even changing his voice for his initial character back in 1849, so much so that I thought perhaps someone else who resembled him played the part

in any case, shockingly bad form on my part and

[Howie Roary]

also, noting the similarity, and the amount it had moved me, I wondered if after 10 years, a movie might jostle my unquestioned favorite movie (I don't even number it, I let the others quibble for the top 1-10 that exists among mere mortal movies) from its place on high, or at least have the audacity to bear wax wings toward the sun

why do I talk like this?

[Kuya]

i will crew with you on this one, howie, this movie rustled my sentimental jimmies

[Kuya]

that stupid asian bitch made me feel hopeful

[Howie Roary]

now if only I knew which blatant injustice to rebel against

[Kuya]

well i don't know about your white heterosexual ass, but i am going to rebel against the fact that i can't marry my bf if the abominable thought of marrying ever for some illogical reason possessed my little head