1. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (70's Mystery saga just so cool)
2. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Hilarious and beautiful)
3. An Orison of Sonmi-451 (Just flat out awesome)
4. Letters from Zedelghem
5. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After
6. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
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Well, I liked all the stories. However, I did like some more than others. Here's my rankings
1. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin After
My favourite story. I loved practically everything about it. We get to see Tom Hanks and Halle Berry together for an extended amount of time. Hugh Grant as a cannibal (unintentionally hilarious). Hugo Weaving as a Demon... It was just flat out awesome.
2. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
Hysterical from the get-go. As a story, it was probably the weakest of the six, but my love of dark comedy elevates this to second place.
3. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
Great story. It was wonderful to see Halle take center stage in this segment. I loved Hugo as Bill Smoke and the chase sequence at the end... This segment and An Orison of Sonmi-451 would be the best bets for full length movies.
4. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
Another strong story. Adam was my favourite protagonist out of the six we are given. This segment also includes my favourite scene of the movie, where Adam confronts Tilda's father (Hugo Weaving)... Seeing Hanks as the bad guy in this story was kinda surreal (has he ever played a villain before?).
5. An Orison of Sonmi-451
I can't help but think this segment is a little overrated. Most people seem to rank this one as the very best, but not for me. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it. It's just that the whole 'fabricant' thing seemed to be a rehash of Blade Runner. I also couldn't help but notice the visual similarities with The Matrix (right down to Hugo Weaving as a bad guy, lol). And finally, the makeup was distracting at some points (I'm looking at you Keith David and Hugh Grant). However, despite these minor failings I did enjoy this story.. The ending scene with Sonmi and the Interviewer was beautiful.
6. Letters from Zedelghem
My least favourite story. I did enjoy Wishaw as Frobisher, and certain scenes were engrossing, but overall, this story didn't grab me in the same way the others did.
h-oates, I concur with your ordering as far as ranking them by quality/skill in crafting.
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I happen to like post-apocalyptic movies and I wished there was much more in this segment. I found the little details fascinating, like the language, Halle's Masai hair-do, and the quest to the mountaintop installation.
I think that An Orison of Sonmi-451 is probably the segment that has the most general appeal (action, sci-fi, sex, stunts, gunplay, and the "fight the power" storyline).
Letters from Zedelghem was potentially the most complex and mature of the stories, yet it disappoints when after all that, it ends with gunplay.
I have read the book and watched the movie and think that this was a very good adaptation which clever transitions between the sextet of stories.
For me the Letters from Zedelghem was the best segment, Whishaw is great as the lead and there is an elegance to the story and its design/setting. I have cut 20min video of just this segemente which I think highlights the beauty of this mini story within the whole movie (Whishaq also has a great voice for voiceovers into the other segments):
http://streamcloud.eu/gt0aprf2d35a
I would then order them as follows:
2) An Orison of Sonmi-451 - a touch of Solyent Green in its mind expanding reveal.
3) Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery - felt like the 70s with a good halfway point cliff hanger.
4) Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin After - I like the sci-fi future world vibes.
5) The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing - well crafted.
6) The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish - amusing and Broadbent is a good lead but a bit slow.
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1. Cavendish
2. Letters
3. Sonmi-451
4. Luisa Rey
5. Sloosha's Crossin' (that's the far future, right?)
6. Ewing
Cavendish's story I think worked the best intrinsically. If you took each as a standalone, that's the one I think was the best. It also breaks up the sombre tone in a delightful way, plus provides nice links.
The next four I found difficult to order. I like them all very much.
I did not particularly care for the ocean voyage of Ewing. I thought it was a bit dull and made the total film a bit overlong. Not awful, but I feel like it was lagging behind the other segments.
I can't say any of the six stories were bad in any way. In my opinion, any six of them would have sustained a compelling full length movie.
However, to rate the six stories from Best to "Least Good":
1. Sloosha's Crossin' and Ev'rythin' After--I loved the post-apocalyptic genre, the island setting, the costumes, the unique language, and especially the Old Georgie character. I also loved how it served as a book end of sorts for the movie.
2. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish--Entertaining and funny. It served as great comic relief. One of the best impressions I got watching the movie in theaters was seeing people laughing out loud from the Cavendish story and a minute later sitting in dramatic silence in one of the other stories.
3. An Orison of Sonmi-451--Stylish and full of action. Loved the futuristic setting, and Donna Bae did a great job creating a memorable character who was both innocent and strong minded. (The makeup was hit-and-miss, though).
4. Letters from Frobisher--Had characters you definitely felt for, all the way up to the tragic end. Ben Winshaw and Jim Broadbent were superb.
5. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing--Not the best story, but engaging nonetheless. Tom Hanks was great as Dr. Goose. The interaction between Ewing and Haskell Moore (Hugo Weaving) at the end was some of the best dialogue of the movie as it built up to the movie's conclusion.
6. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery--The movie's message of overcoming oppression was not quite as clear in this story as in the other five. Still, quite engaging and full of action.
Funny thing, after reading the book, I have a completely different order of preference in the stories:
1. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery--The one section in the book that IMHO was better than how it was portrayed in the movie. Bill Smoke was built up more than just the stock character he was in the movie.
2. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish--Probably the story that was least changed from book to movie.
3. Sloosha's Crossin' and Ev'rythin' After--Some notable changes to the story (Zachry was much younger than in the movie) and it didn't have quite the powerful ending as the movie gave it.
4. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing--The movie didn't change this story too much, but like the Zachry story, it's ending felt incomplete.
5. Letters from Zedelghem--This just didn't pack as powerful punch as the movie gave it. It meanders a bit, and you don't get the feel for the Frobisher/Sixsmith relationship that you found in the movie. And the movie added the most shocking part to the story, i.e., Frobisher shooting and wounding Ayers.
6. An Orison of Sonmi-451--I didn't care for the ending of this one at all. It made the entire story feel completely pointless. The movie much improved on it.
I disagree with you about Sonmi's story. The plot twist in the book was one of the most fascinating parts of the book for me, and overall her character felt more flat in the movie. I read the book first, though, so maybe that has something to do with it.
share1. Sonmi
2. Luisa
3. Cavendish
4. Zedelghem
5. Ewing
6. Sloosha
I would say very arcey
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1. Letters from Zedelghem. (Best in the movie, best in the book by far.)
2. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Tied in BEAUTIFULLY with the Sonmi-451 arch)
3. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After (Tom Hanks and Hugo Weaving were absolutely tremendous)
4. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Tom Hanks and Halle Berry dialogue was one of the best parts but Tom hanks died waaay too early)
5. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (It was silly, but didn't have the emotional puch that the others did)
6. An Orison of Sonmi-451 (The action was my least favourite part of this movie)
1. Letters from Zedelghem
2. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
3. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin After
4. An Orison of Sonmi-451
5. Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery
6. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
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