Comments on: Popspotting Post: Cloud Atlas http://www.popspotting.net/2012/10/cloud-atlas-review/ Pop Culture Podcast Fri, 17 May 2013 08:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: scrivener http://www.popspotting.net/2012/10/cloud-atlas-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 scrivener Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:10:00 +0000 http://www.popspotting.net/?p=1422#comment-2485 We both used the word “gimmicky” to describe parts of this film. :) I agree about the makeup being distracting, but it wasn’t the Caucasian-to-Asian transformation that was really bad; it was the Black-to-White I found freakish. And we have very different reactions to the Timothy Cavendish sequence. I found it dark and disturbing in the novel but oddball and funny in the film. The film gives us a reason for Cavendish’s ordeal but the novel doesn’t, and in the novel one wonders if he is the victim of a prank, a misunderstanding, or something else (but the thought of some kind of revenge never occurred to me while reading the novel).

The film rewards second and third viewings. I’ve seen it now two and two-thirds times (the first viewing was interrupted by the tsunami warning) and am more pleased with it each time. And this is the first (of maybe four or five) film I’ve seen on that huge RPX screen that was worth the higher ticket price. It looks GREAT on the bigger screen.

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