Said book, is Cloud Atlas.
Most of you have probably never heard of it. I know I didn't until a few months ago. Most people will probably never even read it. It's a fairly long book that doesn't seem to be advertised anywhere(ever) and doesn't have the same word of mouth as certain bdsm and teenage fantasy novels that are circling over pop culture.
But I read it and I enjoyed it. Not so much during the read. Like I said, it's a long read. Not like 700+ page Game of Thrones long. But some sections of the book didn't flow as well as others and ended up dragging out a bit more than I would have liked. Nonetheless I trudged on, finished the book and now looking back I'm glad I did. Not just because reading makes you smrter, but because after thinking about it, I can see how everything flows together nicely and as a whole, it was a pretty unique read.
I didn't just stumble upon the book myself though. I stumbled upon this trailer instead...
... right? Big fucking trailer for something you've never heard of. No sparkly vampires or comic book superheros hidden in there. Anyway, this trailer got me very interested and I promptly went out and bought the book which I then read and am now posting about.
So now I'm even more excited for the movie. It's going to be a long one(IMDB has it clocking in at 164min) but I'm very excited to see what they do with the time they're given here.
And the sole purpose of this post would be to make you, my beautiful readers, aware that the movie known as Cloud Atlas exists. When it comes out on October 26, go see it. Wither it's your type of movie or you're not quite sure if it's something you'll be interested in go see it anyway. It's going to a be a treat for the eyes at the very least and you're probably not going to see another movie like it in a while. And giving every little bit of support to a movie like this will help other unique movies like this get made so we don't have to be subjected to countless reboots and prequels and re-imaginings over the coming years. Shit like this costs money and from what I've heard it's hard to get funding when you don't have James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Joss Whedon or Michael Bay guaranteeing people that this movie is going to make $1,000,000,000.00+(I put the $ amount for the visual of how much of a stupid amount of money that is).
If that little plea didn't convince you then how about the fact the the movie was written(screenplay) and directed by the same lovely people who gave us a little movie by the name of The Matrix and who wrote the screenplay for V for Vendetta. That's got to be worth something. While the sequels were the runny shits, who didn't love(or at least enjoy) the original?
Anyway that's all I got. Later peoples.
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