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au_gold
09/21/19 4:48:38 AM
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Why is this movie 3 hours long?
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Count_Babula
09/21/19 4:54:43 AM
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the book is 600 pages long
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sLaCkEr408___RJ
09/21/19 5:04:10 AM
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Was the book as dumb as the movie
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au_gold
09/21/19 5:21:57 AM
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It feels like a movie based on a book. Not in a good way.
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MabusIncarnate
09/21/19 5:24:40 AM
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If I could sue for hours of my life wasted, I would sue the people that created Cloud Atlas.

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SoIidLegacy
09/21/19 5:26:58 AM
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I thought it was great.
Not sure what qualifies as an unironically good movie on CE though.

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Crepes
09/21/19 6:28:30 AM
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I really love it. It has it's faults and yes it can drag as some parts but I always feel the last 30 minutes or so are worth getting through the rest.
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averagejoel
09/21/19 8:36:51 AM
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it was one of the coolest books I've ever read

but if I hadn't read it before seeing the movie, I probably wouldn't have understood the movie
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BeyondWalls
09/21/19 9:55:22 AM
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Its a slightly neat idea dragged out for far longer than its worth.
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SauI_Goodman
09/21/19 10:04:42 AM
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i remember being confused as shit and then told myself i'd rewatch it. never got around to it.
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boxington
09/21/19 10:06:39 AM
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one of the most bizarre parts is turning Halle Berry into an old Asian man
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au_gold
09/22/19 2:04:07 AM
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Okay, Im going to try to finish it today. Still two hours left, fuck.
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GhettoFlip
09/22/19 3:17:24 AM
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...
Was the book as dumb as the movie


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century


it's #9


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au_gold
09/22/19 5:57:08 AM
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Im two hours in and I have no idea what the fuck is happening.
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averagejoel
09/22/19 10:42:24 AM
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au_gold posted...
Im two hours in and I have no idea what the fuck is happening.

it's easier to understand in the book because the stories are only in two chunks, except "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Everything After" which is in one part

basically the book goes:
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing -> Letters from Zedelghem -> Luisa Rey Mystery -> Timothy Cavendish -> Orison of Sonmi 451 -> Sloosha's Crossin'

each story stops halfway (Adam Ewing's story literally mid-sentence) and gets found in some form by the protagonist of the next story ("Adam Ewing" is a pacific exploration journal and Robert Frobisher finds it on the bookshelf; "Letters from Zedelghem" is a series of letters that Luisa Rey finds half of; "Luisa Rey" gets found by Timothy Cavendish as a film script in a car; "Timothy Cavendish" is a comedic film that Sonmi 451 watches halfway; and Sonmi's story is a sort of holographically projected video recording). then once Sloosha's Crossin' finishes, they resume and conclude in reverse order. each story finishes with the protagonist finding the remainder of the work that contains the last protagonist and resuming where they left off. Adam Ewing's story finishes off the book.

Robert Frobisher, the main character in the 2nd story, also talks about a piece of music he's composing called the Cloud Atlas Sextet, which has six melodies played on six different insruments that work the same way.

part of the idea is that they're all reincarnations of each other, and they get inspired by reading/watching their past lives. during Adam Ewing's story, his life gets saved by a slave, and soon afterwards he starts a kind of anti-racist social group and writes a dissertation on why slavery is wrong, and that's ultimately the spark that gets carried out through the rest of the book.
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au_gold
09/22/19 9:23:52 PM
#16:


Okay, definitely going to finish it tonight.
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au_gold
09/23/19 12:59:41 AM
#17:


I see what they were going for, but it was translated very poorly to film. That or my attention span is too short. Or a combination of the two.

I feel like the ending should've been cathartic, but I was left confused and underwhelmed for the most part. Maybe it'll benefit from a rewatch someday.
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joe40001
09/23/19 1:07:55 AM
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It's certainly the most movie ever
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iPhone_7
09/23/19 1:11:38 AM
#19:


TC speaks the tru tru
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au_gold
09/23/19 1:45:37 AM
#20:


I wanted to punch Tom Hanks every time he said that.
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