Cloud Atlas AKA The Most Overwrought Trailer Ever Made

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  1. Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant The Moon is red...red like wine.

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    A six-minute long trailer for a movie about twelve distinct protagonists by three directors slated to have a 3 1/2 hour running time.

    What can possibly go wrong?

    It's supposed to address every single emotion ever experienced by a human, if the trailer is to be believed; and Tom Hanks gives a painfully hackneyed running narration, accompanied by some bad dialogue by Halle Berry:

    "Just trying to understand...why we keep making the same mistakes...over and over..."

    I'm formally predicting that this movie is going to be the clusterfuck of the century. Nice cinematography though.
    Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant, Aug 2, 2012
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  2. I AM ERROR ONLY ERROR CAN DEFEAT GANNON

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    I don't know the size of the novel(s) they're basing this on, but it definitely seems like there's too much going on for a single movie...
    I AM ERROR, Aug 2, 2012
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  3. Dr. Flamingo Top Pomeranian

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    Wow it's like the opposite of this:


    That being said, the movie intrigues me despite its terrible trailer. I think I'll check out the novel and maybe even the movie.
    Dr. Flamingo, Aug 3, 2012
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  4. Mr. W CAN'T STOP HERE

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    What I've seen of Run Lola Run was pretty great, but the Wachowskis have one of the spottiest track records I've ever seen.

    Also, it apparently has Hugo Weaving donning yellowface. That can only end well. :P
    Mr. W, Aug 6, 2012
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  5. Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant The Moon is red...red like wine.

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    I actually thought of Movie: The Movie when watching the trailer. Let's see - Cloud Atlas has medieval horseback swordfighting, cheesy romance scenes, 70's drama, racing through the streets of future Tokyo, starfighter battles, British comedy, 1800's treatise on the treatment of fellow man, Oscar-bait story about a musician and his lost love, and old man who has prophetic dreams, and a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    And the Wachowski's are dangerous. On one hand, you have The Matrix and V for Vendetta. On the other, you have The Matrix Sequels and Speed Racer.
    Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant, Aug 6, 2012
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  6. Mr. W CAN'T STOP HERE

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    ^Don't forget about Tom Tykwer, who has a less questionable track record than the Wachowskis for the most part.
    Mr. W, Aug 6, 2012
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  7. Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant The Moon is red...red like wine.

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    Tykwer will be overrun by Wachowskis, you watch. As far as creative personalities go, the more excitable/boisterous will always drown out the meeker, more subtle ones - and the Wachowskis are about as explosive as you can get.
    Gestalt "Galsult the Gaslut" Replicant, Aug 6, 2012
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  8. Dr. Flamingo Top Pomeranian

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    Precisely- they're all introduced as rapidly and unprecedented dramatically as MtM is comedic.
    Dr. Flamingo, Aug 7, 2012
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  9. hybridial Magnificent Bastard

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    I think this just proves what I've been saying for a while now.

    All movie trailers have the same formulaic approach in how they present the content. This movie has too much to show but they believe they have to show it all. Whatever happened to subtlety and mystery?
    hybridial, Aug 8, 2012
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