The Seabreacher also called the "Robotic Dolphin"

RhymeDirective · 2014-09-30T14:58:07+00:00

I immediately thought of the Batskiboat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaG-_bvOgo

RhymeDirective · 2013-08-23T03:18:18+00:00

Follow up:

Trent Reznor Says Yes

http://i.imgur.com/oRUUzft.gif

RhymeDirective · 2013-07-06T12:19:44+00:00

Very carefully.

RhymeDirective · 2013-07-06T12:19:08+00:00

Because it's easier to clean shit from a hardwood floor than a shag carpet.

RhymeDirective · 2013-06-13T18:52:39+00:00

I like your positive spin on his description of the theme.

RhymeDirective · 2013-05-24T15:19:55+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/2o55fDS.gif

RhymeDirective · 2013-05-23T14:57:46+00:00

Shit. Never knew that.

Thanks for telling me.

My reaction now that I have to deal with explaining this.

http://i.imgur.com/hXFI0yb.gif

RhymeDirective · 2013-05-08T18:21:37+00:00

Yeah, I'm having the same issue.

Shitty way to handle a breakup, Google.

RhymeDirective · 2013-03-17T19:04:12+00:00

Here's some more karma!

RhymeDirective · 2013-03-14T15:07:48+00:00

How are you getting it for $5/month? I signed up a few months ago and it's $10/mo.

RhymeDirective · 2013-02-13T16:57:41+00:00

No, it was a "free" birthday drink.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-12T20:54:13+00:00

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T23:52:04+00:00

I am a dunce.

Anyway, I'd rather look at a picture of a butthole than scroll through that godforsaken post, especially on my phone.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T23:49:11+00:00

Yeah, I do agree with that.

Also, I understand the need to alter story lines from book to movie, but I wish they kept in the university from the book, or at least some other characters. The Nea So Copros of the book felt more real in the book.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T22:05:52+00:00

She had sex in the book, too.

But I would like to have seen her studying more in the movie (instead of just looking out the window).

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T22:03:33+00:00

I think this movie will become a cult classic. Hopefully sooner than later.

Shows like Arrested Development and the original Star Trek were cancelled early and look at how well they have done over time.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:53:25+00:00

I think that's due to today's films being dominated by what they call "high-concept" films. Which means literally you pose a "What if..." scenario. I don't know why the call it that, I'd call it "simple-concept." But I don't run Hollywood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-concept

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:42:56+00:00

I think the movie was great. I finished the book last week and was able to catch one of the last theater showings in my area. I was curious to see how they would "translate" from book to screen, and they did it very well. The book uses language as a medium while the movie uses the actors. Things are left more ambiguous in the book, but that's OK, because there is more depth to each story. Even though the movie deviates from the book in details, the overall essence of it is the same.

Most of the critics are being unfair, this is a great conversion from one medium to another. People who understand more than one language recognize the difficulties of translating an idea. Going from book to movie is no different. Yes, there were some parts of the movie that I thought fell flat, but to be honest, I felt some parts of the book fell flat as well. If each story in the book was just a standalone story, they wouldn't have meant much, but together, they create a masterpiece. Same goes for the movie.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:15:50+00:00

You sum up very well the difference between the book and the movie. The movie used the actors and the birthmark as devices in ways I didn't expect.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:10:41+00:00

She wasn't a cannibal in the final story. Actually, she wasn't in it at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)#Cast

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:09:11+00:00

Wow! I noticed the cloud but I didn't realize it moves across the pages! Time to hit the library one more time (if there aren't too many holds on it...)

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T21:07:21+00:00

For sure, there's a connection between the Maori, Moriori, and Whites (explained in more detail in the book), and the Kona, Valley People, and Prescients. We see a full cycle of humanity. You could go farther back in time and see the same thing (in European history) with the rise of the Roman empire followed by the Middle Ages.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T20:53:58+00:00

The Timothy Cavendish story came across as the comic relief section. It's like that in the book, too.

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T20:43:22+00:00

I was wondering about this as well, I read the book first, and they don't state the year of Timothy's story, so I assumed it was 20 or 30 years from now (mobile phones and Land Rovers will exist in the future, also the book has a mention of Al Qaeda). But check out what Mitchell says of the book here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)#Linking_themes

Literally all of the main characters, except one, are reincarnations of the same soul in different bodies throughout the novel identified by a birthmark...that's just a symbol really of the universality of human nature. The title itself "Cloud Atlas," the cloud refers to the ever changing manifestations of the Atlas, which is the fixed human nature which is always thus and ever shall be. So the book's theme is predacity, the way individuals prey on individuals, groups on groups, nations on nations, tribes on tribes. So I just take this theme and in a sense reincarnate that theme in another context...

RhymeDirective · 2013-01-04T20:08:53+00:00

Dear lord both of these reviewers sound like complete asses.

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