[trailer] (suprise I know :)) Cloud Atlas

It is a 5 minute trailer for Cloud Atlas which I found very interesting. I will just link to Firstshowing.net where it is since the actual video is on someplace called Lyricis.fr which I don't know how to embed.

Here is the link

and here is a synopsis.

"Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another." Here we go. This looks utterly phenomenal. An international trailer for the Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas that runs a full 5 minutes has debuted at Mtime, and while it may not be approved for our viewing, it looks so insanely good I'm saying screw the movie studios, this needs to be seen! Cloud Atlas is the vast, ambitious, epic adaptation spanning six storylines and six worlds millennia apart that we've been hyping up for a while. There's a batch of nearly 20 photos that also debuted, but they don't even begin to compare to the sheer beauty and magnitude of this trailer. Wow. This is the kind of stunning cinema I have been truly waiting for.

Never heard of it until now, but that looks amazing. I can only hope there are no 15 minute underground rave scenes.

Was going to post this later today when the official trailer hits the US (1 p.m. EST, they say).

Cloud Atlas is one of my all-time favorite books. It's comprised of six different narratives that are connected by different texts that appear in each narrative. (The narratives are organized like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1.) Time-wise it spans from the 1800's to an unspecified future date when most of civilization has collapsed. It's a book about interconnectedness, slavery (of all kinds), how the past informs the future, etc. Mitchell is a fantastic writer with loads of ideas and the ability to pull them off with style. It's pretty much THE book I recommend to people.

/gushing

Frankly I didn't think anybody would even TRY to film it. And I really wasn't that thrilled when I saw who was making the movie, but this preview looks fantastic and gives me hope.

Same here, probably fave book next to Kavalier & Clay, and damn does that trailer look magical.

I just grabbed the book off the shelf (the advantage to working in a library) since you all spoke so highly of it.

Sounds like M83 in the trailer, very fitting. Wasn't aware of the novels, got me interested though.

Yup, the song is Outro.

Very intrigued by this now. Thank you for posting. Definitely on my radar. Surprised to see the Wachowski Brothers back not sucking...well, might be too soon to say that. Though unlike Speed Racer, this time around I am rooting for the movie to do well.

Wow, that looks like it could be amazing. Buying the book now!

I saw this film.

For the first hour I kind of hated it. For the two hours after that I was f*ckING RAPT.

It's flawed, but pretty amazing too. I get the feeling the flaws are the result of the compression that must've occurred. I'm very interested in reading the book as soon as possible.

Blind_Evil wrote:

I saw this film.

For the first hour I kind of hated it. For the two hours after that I was f*ckING RAPT.

It's flawed, but pretty amazing too. I get the feeling the flaws are the result of the compression that must've occurred. I'm very interested in reading the book as soon as possible.

same... i'm kinda at a loss to explain what i feel about this movie. Which by itself i believe is a good thing, but i'm still processing.

Just saw it today. I was thoroughly moved by it. I guess I'm in the camp that loved what they did in spite of the flaws.

DSGamer wrote:

Just saw it today. I was thoroughly moved by it. I guess I'm in the camp that loved what they did in spite of the flaws.

Couldn't agree more. Was brought to tears like four different times. The multiple-role conceit worked for me (even though it pulled me out of the story at times), deepening the stories furthest in the future. And, while some of the dialogue was just okay, structurally I thought it was brilliant.

Saw it with a bunch of friends, some who'd read the book and some who hadn't. I, having read the book, enjoyed it quite a bit but only because I already knew the story and what was going on. My friends who went in knowing nothing about it apart from the trailer walked away very confused, and I don't blame them one bit. It was a LOT of information to get through in 3 hours. My personal opinion is it would have been much better as an HBO miniseries, I think the filmmakers did the story an injustice by squeezing it into movie length.

Serengeti wrote:

Saw it with a bunch of friends, some who'd read the book and some who hadn't. I, having read the book, enjoyed it quite a bit but only because I already knew the story and what was going on. My friends who went in knowing nothing about it apart from the trailer walked away very confused, and I don't blame them one bit. It was a LOT of information to get through in 3 hours. My personal opinion is it would have been much better as an HBO miniseries, I think the filmmakers did the story an injustice by squeezing it into movie length.

I was impressed with what they attempted, but even without reading the book you could tell so much was being left out. Was a beautiful film.

having not read the book (heathen etc i know) I still really loved the movie, especially after watching skyfall which the only reason I stayed awake during was my seething dislike for it.

Blotto The Clown wrote:

having not read the book (heathen etc i know) I still really loved the movie, especially after watching skyfall which the only reason I stayed awake during was my seething dislike for it.

Didn't read the book either and loved the movie. Would it have done better as a mini-Series? Perhaps. I thought it was a beautiful movie, though. Lots of heart.

I finished the novel last night, and watched the film this morning.

I'm glad they tried, and I know it was an adaptation and all, and that without Tom Hanks it wouldn't exist at all, and that some streamlining, flattening, and simplification were to be expected, and I wish there were more films this ambitious and not-franchised, and I thought it was ok. But I think some of the casting confused things even while they got sort-of the point across, and that in a few cases they cut off things that were a big point of that particular story, most shockingly in the Sonmi story, which is what I would have said was exactly in the Wachowski wheel-house.

Saw a trailer for this yesterday when I went to see Fast 6. Looks pretty entertaining, but the highlight for me was my fiancee turning to me and saying, 'So it's a Voltron movie?'

We saw this today. To be honest, I thought it was a bit of a mess. Overall I kinda liked it, but it felt like a bunch of stories with similar themes pointlessly shoehorned together by a birthmark, the suggestion of reincarnation, and repurposed actors.

The idea that these were reincarnations of the same few people was pretty central to the story. One of the themes is that the same few souls are inexorably intertwined with each other, even when the nature of their relationships are different each time. The repurposed actors was supposed to make it easier for the audience to get that these are the same few people in each time period.

Stengah wrote:

The idea that these were reincarnations of the same few people was pretty central to the story. One of the themes is that the same few souls are inexorably intertwined with each other, even when the nature of their relationships are different each time. The repurposed actors was supposed to make it easier for the audience to get that these are the same few people in each time period.

Yeah, but the problem I had with it (not having read the book) was that I just didn't care. I just felt no emotional impact from the fact that these people were the same souls reincarnated across different time periods. I felt like that it had no real effect on the story so it was too easily ignored. The movie also didn't explain (that I could see) what made Sonmi-451 so special to the movement.

Sonmi became the voice of the movement. As shown in the post-apocalyptic section where the people worshipped her as a goddess.

If it didn't resonate with you, then... it didn't. No big deal.

Hard for me to talk about it objectively as the book is one of my favorites and I thought that they did a reasonable job getting it to the screen.

No no, I mean why Hae-Joo Chang thought it was so important to risk his life to rescue her.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

No no, I mean why Hae-Joo Chang thought it was so important to risk his life to rescue her.

Because of radical changes from the novel.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

No no, I mean why Hae-Joo Chang thought it was so important to risk his life to rescue her.

Because of radical changes from the novel.

Ha. Yeah. I sympathize with how hard it was to write the screenplay as it stands, though, let alone trying to get all the particulars of each story.

Although I would have loved the hell out of a movie of JUST the Sonmi section of the book.

lostlobster wrote:

Ha. Yeah. I sympathize with how hard it was to write the screenplay as it stands, though, let alone trying to get all the particulars of each story.

Although I would have loved the hell out of a movie of JUST the Sonmi section of the book.

Yeah, I kept in mind how miraculous it was for the film to exist at all, but the changes to the Sonmi sections are just too egregious, I wonder if the Wachowski's got the point in the first place.