# Cloud Atlas - Movie (Open Spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 28, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloud-atlas-movie-open-spoilers/639163 "2012-10-28T22:38:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloud-atlas-movie-open-spoilers/639163/101 "2013-12-24T20:55:48Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I just saw this last night, I felt it dragged on and on without getting anywhere and I really did not enjoy the movie. It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great. I really like Hanks and Broadbent and they were the best part of the movie. The whiteface and yellowface acting was annoying to me. Much of it seemed a little silly. The plots just didn’t make a lot of sense as plans seemed to be poor.
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> On the boat, the Tom Hanks Doc could have killed the rich guy for his belongings far quicker. If he was conflicted about his actions, they failed to ever portray that in the movie.
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> Neo Soul plot was really dumb. Here is the replicant girl talking very slowly while people are dying in a poorly organize defense of the broadcast lobby. It was bad writing.
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> The post-apocalypse world led me to wonder how such a stupid group of people lived as long as they did.
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> 1. Neighbors are psycho-cannibals on horseback
> 2. Don’t post guards
> 3. don’t build a defensive wall
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> I’m not sure what the book explained that the movie glossed over, but the movie had some really large plot holes. The pacing was pretty slow.

The Doc wanted the rich guy’s death to look natural, from disease. That rules out just killing him right away.

The girl and her defenders had no intention of getting away. They were pulling a propaganda stunt. They knew they were going to be killed.

The post-apocalyptic people were only very occasionally raided by their enemies, until the events in this movie. There are lots of real-life tribes who live this way, being raided rarely, without defensive walls etc.

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