Heat: 7.3/10
I watched this because a friend has been telling me to watch it for the last 3 months and finally got around to it. It was definitely not a bad movie! But, it was a bit hard to follow and was a bit slow at the beginning I thought, I mean after the first action scene anyway. The characters were pretty interesting though, they had a lot of depth.
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watched Cloud Atlas recently. Id give it an 8/10 overall rating, and a 9/10 relative rating.
I liked the characters, they were well done, not extremely deep or anything, because there just wasn't enough time for them to be extremely deep, but, they were well done, making up for it
The entire plot is focused around the lives of several people, living in the same timeline, but during different ages, and it tells all of their stories. They are all connected in small ways-which was cool-but also what I found most frustrating TBH. The "connections" were very subtle sometimes, or, nonexistent physically, but only spiritually (so to speak). Thus, I found myself wondering how one story would reflect or build on another. But, they were all really well done stories, thought out, dramatic, interesting, genuine.
I like using the word "genuine" to describe the movie. Because everything about it felt genuine-real. It brought some tears to my eyes, it just did what it wanted to do well. While, I wish they had tied the different stories together better-that was not at all the objective, and I realize that now. The objective was to compare them, to show different emotions, outcomes, or that's what I took away from it.
In all, there were 6 separate stories, and, I liked all but one of them (and only because I didn't really see where it fit in, but, I think I can *sort* of understand now).
It was good, I liked it, I would see it again, it's nice to see a movie like that in this day and age. I know it's based off a book, but, it's very original, which is rather special in a movie