Wachowskis debut new film, and btw Larry's a girl now

[Teggy]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-cloud-atlas-trailer-and-lana-wachowski-make-debut-20120726,0,4731527.story

What a strange and winding path these guys have taken since the original Matrix.

[CeeKay]

an actual film title in the thread would be nice, or is it 'and btw Larry's a girl now'

[Teggy]

As a title, I think that would be a winner.

Movie is called Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name.

[metallicorphan]

Keanu looks like he wants to say something




I hate Quicktime,so i got the extended trailer from here.
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/beautiful-extended-trailer-cloud-atlas/

[JayDee]

Wow, this was a really unique book and I thought it would be almost unfilmable. But the trailer looks good. Will check it out.

[morlac]

Trailer was spectacular.  I don't trust trailers but hot damn sign me up.

[EngineNo9]

I personally wasn't as big a fan of the book as many other people, but hopefully the movie turns out well.  I'm not willing to watch a 5 minute trailer to find out, I'd rather just be teased than totally spoiled.

I also agree the thread title should reflect the actual movie name...

[Ironrod]

That looks great. A little reminiscent of The Fountain, but hopefully without all the suckage.

[Crawley]

I haven't read the book or even heard of it. So just going by the trailer it just looked like a bunch of random stuff. I couldn't make heads or tails of the plot even though that trailer was so long.

But yeah did have sort of a "the fountain" vibe to it - which I actually didn't hate.

[kronovan]

Damn, I can't believe the cast for this film - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Ben Wishaw, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant...! That Ben Wishaw is in it means I'm IN for this opening night!   

[USMC Kato]

This is one of my favorite books of all time. IMHO I really like what the W-Brothers direct or are involved in. I loved the first Matrix, though that V for Vedetta is brilliant, Speed Racer (apart from some extremely cheesy moments) I believe has a lot of heart and entertaining moments. I know a lot of people will disagree and that's cool. When I watch a movie, any movie, I always focus on the positive experience and never dwell on the negative. This "talent" comes from watching anything, repeatedly, while deployed overseas 

[Pyperkub]

As a title, I think that would be a winner.

Movie is called Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name.

Cloud Atlas is going to be really difficult to do justice to as a film.

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[hitbyambulance]

saw this last night - i think it was good for some of the casting experiments (though i noticed there are no white people playing black people, only asians... that's kind of a cop-out!) and the overall theme, but it really didn't hang together otherwise. the original story probably works better. also, ... i think i haven't really formulated my thoughts on it. the Wachowskis are weird in that their films have Hollywood-y trappings, but i don't hate them like i would with those.

[Isgrimnur]

I saw it a while ago, and I was underwhelmed.  The stories were tied together only with the loosest of threads in most cases.  And since the genres were mashed together as well, it was really like watching 6 different films.

[CeeKay]

saw this today and thought it was decent enough.  I wonder if they could have gone really experimental and fleshed out each story to make is a sextet of interrelated movies.  of course I probably would have only ended up wanting to see the Neo Seoul chapter in that case.

I liked how they showed each actor and actress in their different roles at the end.  Most of them I caught (Hugo weaving in drag was obvious) but some I was surprised at (High Grant as the leader of the marauders).