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IT'S OKAY GUIZE there is a good sci-fi movie out now and it's Cloud Atlas.

So good I don't even know what to say about it. I haven't seen a new film anything like this good in at least two and a half years and this one is better. It is unbelievably full of stuff and time, has the best scene transitions I've ever seen, the central conceit - six different stories in which a bunch of actors each play several roles that vary across age, race and gender - works astonishingly well, the pacing is perfect, the tension is perfect, I loved almost everyone, there are boys kissing and Asian Lady RoboJesus, and by the end I wanted to hug everything ;_;

And then Chris said it has, what, a 55 on MetaCritic? Oh my god, these are the same dumbasses who thought Looper was good. (I would like to reiterate what a sack of sexist shit Looper is.) No. I know, I have a tendency to love gratuitously ambitious story structures & themes more than anything ever but this is really good and the only consistent complaint any of us had was that we could have done with subtitles for some of the more mumbly/esoteric characters. So see this, but you might thank yourself for going to a closed captioning screening, whatever, it deserves your love and money.

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[nods] We can't fight everything. There will be some things that I will put up with because I just cannot be angry all the time, and there are some things that I won't swallow. I happen to be at the stage where I'm consciously trying to imbibe media produced by (and for) other POC because at this point, I'm sick of the damaging messages. It's a privilege to be able to watch what you want and not be hurt somewhere along the line, to love so uncritically -- me included for other axes of oppression. What I hate are people who cannot recognise this minefield or its damage, nor appreciate that some people have to navigate it with a more discerning eye. I thought this post about how to be a fan of problematic things put it well.