This time of year happens to be my favorite, because it's oscar season. It's the time of the year when all the great movies start rolling out and all the theaters here in Oklahoma become increasingly empty, so not only do I get to see great movies I get to see them in a theater all by my lonesome. Now I know to most of you out there that sounds incredibly weird, but for me that's the closest thing the therapy I'll ever need. And what was my form of therapy this last weekend? What movie do you all get to hear me go on and on about? That movie was none other than Cloud Atlas.
It has taken me a few days to even really begin to talk about this movie, because really it has a lot of big ideas and it is quite complex, but not at all in a bad way. If there were more filmmakers taking risks like this and making these types of movies, well maybe movies wouldn't be becoming more and more of the extinct nature. I mean almost every single time I walk into a theater I am blown away by somebody else's vision.
The sad thing about a movie like Cloud Atlas is that even though there really are all these basic concepts and stories going on throughout the story itself seems so complex and overwhelming that people just won't go out there and see it. And really that's just a shame. It really is to bad that we live in a world where people literally need to be slapped in the face with and idea to understand it and want to see it. I mean if the movie was named Chase scenes and Car explosions I'm sure everyone would want to go see it. Or if Channing Tatum took his shirt off in the preview perhaps.
The thing that is great about this movie for me is that it's this epic movie with so much basic human sentiment throughout. I have been know to be a big fan of those human emotional moments. This movie is exciting, it's funny, it's action packed, it's personal, it's sweet, it's daring, it's thoughtful, it's insightful, all rolled into one and does it ever pack a punch.
I am almost certain that come oscar time this movie will be nominated for all sorts of technical awards, from make-up, to special effects, to editing, and even score which for me was so very beautiful it was one of my favorite parts about the whole movie. But let me tell you that the acting in this movie is top notch and should not go unnoticed. I mean Tom Hanks is in it so really that is just a no brainer as far as I'm concerned, I mean this man makes a living out of being anybody that you need him to be. I believe him 100 percent in every single role that he has ever played in, and it this movie like all the other actors within the movie he plays so many roles.
With movies like this sometimes I will admit that they can be a little heavy handed and they can bog you down with so many ideas that can be so heavy for you to think about that by the time the movie is over you just leave the theater with a headache. Movies like The Fountain, or Tree of Life, or even The Master which I saw this year automatically come to mind. Don't get me wrong, because I personally love all there of the movies that I just mentioned, and I think that they are all Masterpieces in their own right. But I will also admit that right off the bat among first viewing of them all I didn't quite get them, they were all made by much smarter men than me.
Cloud Atlas is not like that at all, sure it's complex and you have to pay attention to what you are watching, but there is so much humor and lightheartedness in this movie that it isn't very hard to do so. You don't feel as if you are getting hit over the head with all these big ideas at all. Quite frankly it wasn't until after the movie was over with that all of the complexity of the movie came back to me and made me think for a little while. I must say that I absolutely loved it and that I think that everyone should go out and see it. So instead of going out this weekend and watching Paranormal Activity 4 or watching Alex Cross go out and watch Cloud Atlas, it is a can't miss I promise you, and if it does miss for you Bite Me!
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