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CarlyK

This movie was amazing. By far the most ambitious project I've ever heard of yet they pull it off almost effortlessly. The moral of the story is beautiful, one that I can appreciate. I think you like this movie if you're a modern thinker, love diversity and appreciate a bit of philosophy in your movie. If you're a negative person naturally and don't like to have to think about a film (and I don't mean this in a mean kind of way): you will hate it probably.

11 years 5 months ago

bitchypixels

Cloud Atlas is easily one of the most ambitious films ever made, and yet it somehow, with only a couple slight issues (makeup, story relevance, etc.), delivers on multiple levels. I could go on for days about the cast, themes, and that beautiful sextet you just can't stop thinking about, but you're just going to have to see for yourself. I can't recommend this film enough. Watch it.

11 years 5 months ago

Rohit

Hugo Weaving is a treat to watch. A tad lengthy but still a good film. I never thought I'd say this but Hugh Grant was amazing as well

11 years 6 months ago

vahabov

Love it 10/10.

7 years 4 months ago

locovoco

CLOUD ATLAS is the CITIZEN KANE of the 21st Century...and that's the True-True!

as a side note to dombrewer:

In addition to your reference of the use of 451 in the novel, I would like to add 1 more Revelation:

New Testament:

Revelation 4:1 'Then as I looked I saw a door standing open in heaven, and the same voice I had heard before spoke to me with the sound of a mighty trumpet blast'

Revelation 5:1 'And I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals'

(count how many stories are going on within the movie...you said six..you forgot one...the untold story...that makes seven...I'm just saying...)

7 years 7 months ago

locovoco

CLOUD ATLAS is the CITIZEN KANE of the 21 century and that's the the True-True

a side note to dombrewer: you're also forgetting this,

in accordance with numbers, Revelation 451 can also mean this:

In the Bible, Revelation 4:1

'Then as I looked I saw a door standing open in heaven and the same voice I had heard before spoke to me with the sound of a mighty trumpet blast. The Voice said, 'Come up here and I will show you what must happen after these things'

In the Bible, Revelation 5:1

'And I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals'

(count how many different stories are going on within the movie...)

7 years 7 months ago

Groovy09

This ambitious epic of a film by the Wachowskis is probaly one of the most polarazing movies in recent years, where one gruop of people have called it one the biggest masterpieces of our time and another group say it's a pretentious piece of garbage. Personally, i am more in the middle on this one.

First of, the increadible amount of scope and detail in this movie can not be denied as being really impressive, as well as the ideas and themes that it tries to explore, such as reincarnation, freedom, slavery, life and death. All the preformences are really good and the special effects and set-pieces are excellent, but the problem I have with this film is the narrive.

The movie is told through 6 multiple and interconnective storylines that spands
through six diffrent time-periods. The first one is set in 1849 on the Pacific Islands, the second 1939 in Edinburgh, the third 1973 in San Francisco, forth 2012 in London, fifth in 2144 in the city of neo-Seoul, which is run by a totalitarian police-state and the final 106 years after an unknown apocalypse. I am not going to go into detail what they are all about, other than that they all have some short of a connection to each other.

As much as i love that concept, the narrive is the main issue here. I did not think any of the stories where as interesting as they could have been and most of the characters i didn't really fealt much for as i sould. The film also swifts to quickly between the stories, which does that the stories themselfs losses their focus and does not become as well structured as if there where longer transition between them.

Dispite all my complaints and problems i have, the film stil managed to keep me entertained and engaged becuase i really admired the Wachowskis for what they where trying to do with this movie. With a budget of around 102 mio dollars, it's a very brave move and even tough it wasn't as well executed as it could have been in my opinion, i still could't help but a feel a little impressed.

So do i recommend Cloud Atlas? Yes, but only to people who are willing to go into it with an open mind and with a bit of caution, since this film is almost three hours long. You will probably either love it or hate it or come out with the same feeling as me. But no matter what, it is a film that demands a viewing at least once.

8 years 6 months ago

Siskoid

A 19th-century lawyer harbors an escaped slave on a sailing ship. A gay composer contemplates suicide. A journalist comes across deadly information about a nuclear power plant. An out-of-luck publisher is imprisoned in an old people's home. A genetically-engineered waitress becomes the figurehead of a freedom movement. A primitive Vall'ysman agrees to help an advanced Prescient on her quest to reach the stars. Six very different stories, two of them science-fiction, spanning hundreds of years, and yet all connected in some way. This is Cloud Atlas, a rather experimental film for its big budget courtesy of the Wachowskis. The film is about interconnectivity like Magnolia, Crash and Babel, but across time as well as space. It's never boring, the transitions and thematic links work very well... it's an amazing achievement to have translated the book's structure into film language at all, never mind this well. Cloud Atlas' stories are all about freedom in some way, but as a structure, it's about how everything we do has a rippling effect on the world. What keeps it from being truly spectacular is the conceit of having the same cast of actors playing different roles across time in each of the stories. While it's got a point to make and was, according to the short promotional featurette included on the DVD, one of the things that attracted the actors to the project, it rather calls attention to itself. Maybe if the make-up had been better, but it is often rather terrible, with actors usually playing different ages, races and even sexes! Even when you couldn't recognize a particular actor, you're always thinking "who's THIS now?". Very distracting.

8 years 10 months ago

Larkspire

Amazing, beautiful film. The pacing and editing were brilliant, and I probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for the jumps across timelines.

Shame about the creepy yellowface, though.

9 years ago

Kenneth McMahon

I'm not seeing what everyone else seemed to like about this film. I genuinely thought it was horrendous.

9 years 4 months ago

Zolex

I have been avoiding this movie for over a year. Nothing made me think this could be a good movie, so I did not watch it before I was bored enough. What a mistake! I should never have waited.

This is a masterpiece. I'd go as far and say that this is among the best movies ever made. There is so much right about this movie that it cannot be described in short.

10/10.

9 years 6 months ago

dr love

in no official lists? :S

it's a very special movie, filmed very well.. i enjoyed most the future stories..

10 years 4 months ago

xxNicollable

Am I the only one falling asleep during this movie? It is so complicated and because of that really boring. I am now half way through, but I just can't bring myself to watch it any further. I also have the feeling like nothing is actually happening. What kind of storyline is there? And why do we see tons of people with tons of makeup on their faces? I am sure the book is really good, but this movie is impossible to watch if you haven't read it.

Edit: Okay, I gotta give it some credit. The music is really nice.

10 years 6 months ago

meysam_a

Superb makeup!!!

10 years 11 months ago

cheesebook

Beautiful. Beautifreackingful.

10 years 11 months ago