Also please sit down and give Cloud Atlas your full attention. It's not the kind of film you watch while browsing 2+2. Watch the film, pay attention and it's quite easy to follow.

Saw this at the movies (lolfinland) a week ago. I can't understand wtf the people in this thread were hyping about, would give it 3 stars max.

Tom Hanks used to be funny. Now he may be the most boring person in Hollywood. What a transformation.

This was my problem and I found I didn't really understand it. Maybe worth another watch. Like the Koren fast food story followed by Hanks and Berry next

I doubt you would understand it regardless

It's ok bro, stick to Gossip Girl.

Just watched this movie...I liked all the individual stories, not sure the plot supported the theme.

Question: Was it necessary to the theme to have actors playing multipe roles or could it have been done with unique actors in each role?

Well, regardless of what you think of me, I would say something to dispute this. But since location is anti rape (which I agree with, rape is bad) I'll just let is slide.

But, I will say your avatar is unpleasant to the eye.

hmmm. I'm not sure. It probably would have been tough to achieve the same feel of continuity through time that actors playing multiple characters will give you. And i'm sure that was a big selling point to the talent as well.

I just rewatched Cloud Atlas for the first time on a big screen and, man, it was magnificent. One of my favorite movies.

I really enjoyed this movie even though it was a rip off of The Nutty Professor.

I would definitely rather re-watch season 1 of Gossip Girl than this film.

My biggest problem with the film was that the background story of everything being connected didn't stand out well enough to support having this many meaningless stories that I found it incredibly hard to care about. I know this is based on a book, and I'm sure it works a lot better in book form (I assume it's one long book), but as a movie there's just not enough time to give any of the storylines enough depth because there are simply too many of them. This leaves us with ~6 entirely pointless stories that are all given ~30 minutes of screen time, and all of the stories are way too weak to become meaningful in any way. I didn't give a **** about a single character in entire movie, except maybe marginally for Jim Broadbent's publisher guy and the Neo-Korea story. And somehow this movie still felt overly long and I was relieved when it was over, which probably speaks for the overall quality of the movie. I just don't understand what people see in Cloud Atlas, I'd probably give it 2/5 if I was in a good mood.

Easily in my all time top 5 favourite films

I mean was there supposed to be some kind of karma link between say tom hanks the evil doctor on the ship in the 1800s and tom hanks the scientist in the 1973?

A couple voiceovers mentioned how life trajectories are linked etc etc, but I didnt see it directly in the plots.

bomp

In the Valley scene after returning from the mountain, Hugh Grant's Kona character says something as Tom Hanks "interacts" with him. He repeats the sound "Lah! Lah! Laaahhhh...."

Is there a subtle political message there?

The situation seems as though he would be yelling "No! No! Noooooo...." because what else would a warrior be saying in that instance? And, of all the languages on Earth, one very conspicuous model stands out for using the sound "Lah" for expressing the negative "No".

So is there a point to having a representative from the most brutal collective in the movie saying something sounding very close to the word for "No" in Arabic?

If I am unclear, the moment I'm talking about:

Scripted? A choice by the actor? Reading too much into it?

Got this movie for Christmas and was excited to see it based on this thread.

Did not disappoint. Top 5 movies I have seen

wow still need to see this movie

k giving this another shot....

great film - i watched this back when it came out and at no point during the 3 hours did i feel it was dragging on.

will def watch this again

Late to the party. Finally saw it on HBO. Really liked it. Need to see again asap.

I almost wish they would make an entire sequel/spinoff of the futuristic Neo-Seoul storyline. I think those scenes were my favorite part of the movie. Extremely well done. Nevermind, make this happen Wachowski brothers/siblings!

This film is on hbo go for those that havent seen it yet. Definitely recommend

their new movie, jupiter ascending, is sort of like this.

Watched this on Netflix recently. Really enjoyed it. A ton to digest, going to have to rewatch. The Wachowskis are really good at what they do. Bravo.

Read the book, skip the movie imo