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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.
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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Did you like it?
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About yellowface: I totes thought the "purebloods" had been affected by some weird deformity or wasting disease which is why the main "Asian" guys looked so weird, and that the servers were made to look perfect because the general pureblood population no longer looked like that, not that they were white actors trying to portray asians....and i did find it really jarring when suomi was white at the end, 'couldn't figure out if I was supposed to be able to tell she was asian or if I was supposed to assume she was playing a white character. The race-play was all very confusing.
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hahahaha that is a good theory esp regarding Hugo Weaving's Vulcan forehead. It's odd, Doona Bae as Tilda looked super-weird, but she looked fine as the nameless Mexican lady and Halle Berry looked awesome as Jocasta... Idk, Tilda's colouring was just WEIRD. I couldn't work out where they were - they were talking about 'going back east' and it was the Pacific Journal so at first I was wondering if Tilda was an Asian character too because I thought they might be in Japan or something, but I don't think she was o__0 CANNIBAL HUGH GRANT remains the best character.