6 minute long "Cloud Atlas" trailer. New Wachowski Bros.

[DMAC]

We were one of only 3 couples in the theater.

And, I was squinting trying to get what was happening quite a few times. I mean, I got the gist of the movie, but ....I don't know. I can't tell you if it was good or not.

Either I tried too hard, or I am just not intelligent enough.

[TrickyNicky]

Originally Posted by DMAC

We were one of only 3 couples in the theater.

And, I was squinting trying to get what was happening quite a few times. I mean, I got the gist of the movie, but ....I don't know. I can't tell you if it was good or not.

Either I tried too hard, or I am just not intelligent enough.

I wish they had subtitles for about half the movie. The "Big Island" scenes especially.

I really liked it otherwise.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by TrickyNicky

I wish they had subtitles for about half the movie. The "Big Island" scenes especially.

I really liked it otherwise.

Yep, got the same thing when I listened to the audiobook. It's all some kind of futuristic Big Isle pidgin. The audiobook helped me a lot, but it was weird, Jack!

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by DMAC

We were one of only 3 couples in the theater.

And, I was squinting trying to get what was happening quite a few times. I mean, I got the gist of the movie, but ....I don't know. I can't tell you if it was good or not.

Either I tried too hard, or I am just not intelligent enough.

Just saw it today. Great movie. This is the kind of movie that I go to the movies for. Very well crafted, very well acted, looks great. Just a very good movie all around. I'm not sure what you wouldn't "get."

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Just saw it today. Great movie. This is the kind of movie that I go to the movies for. Very well crafted, very well acted, looks great. Just a very good movie all around. I'm not sure what you wouldn't "get."

Yay!!

[DMAC]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Just saw it today. Great movie. This is the kind of movie that I go to the movies for. Very well crafted, very well acted, looks great. Just a very good movie all around. I'm not sure what you wouldn't "get."

I'm stupid I guess.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by DMAC

I'm stupid I guess.

I don't know, what were the points that you felt were holes in the story or overall theme? We should probably do spoilers if we're going to talk about the movie though.

[DMAC]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I don't know, what were the points that you felt were holes in the story or overall theme? We should probably do spoilers if we're going to talk about the movie though.

Spoiler!

Oh, I don't think there were holes...I mean, there might have been, but I didnt catch them.

Not sure how all the characters fit into the plot or theme of the movie. Each person was in each time period, sometimes good, sometimes bad. What was the point? That everyone is different with different personalities but look similar throughout time and love someone that also looks similar?

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by DMAC

Spoiler!

Oh, I don't think there were holes...I mean, there might have been, but I didnt catch them.

Not sure how all the characters fit into the plot or theme of the movie. Each person was in each time period, sometimes good, sometimes bad. What was the point? That everyone is different with different personalities but look similar throughout time and love someone that also looks similar?

Spoiler!

It looked to me like each person was developing. Like take a look at the Tom Hanks and Halle Berry characters.

Hanks was actually pretty damned "evil" early on. Hanks sort of works himself from "evil" to "neutral" to "good", I think the boogeyman in his head after the fall represented the remnants of his psychological problems left over from his spiritual journey throughout all the reincarnations. Imagine if he hadn't been blown up on that plane. Berry and Hanks would have gotten together in the 70's, Hanks would have worked his way to "good" much more quickly because of Berry's influence. And then he would have been able to affect more people throughout his lives in a positive way, thus creating more good in the universe.

To me the theme of the movie is laid out in the speach that the Korean replicant gives. That we are all interconnected. That we affect each other, that when we are "good" to each other we create a better humanity because we help others to be "good." The movie likens "evil" to cannibalism. In the sense that "evil" people destroy "good" people and have to be fought so that everyone has a chance to live.

There is more but I don't want to write paragraph after paragraph here, lol. Maybe the movie speaks to me so clearly because I am an agnostic Buddhist.