Wilson attempted to re-create in his laboratory the wondrous early-morning cloud effects seen in the Scottish Highlands.
One day, you'll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another.
This background has no doubt helped in fashioning some mind-blowing vignettes that augment reality into wondrous sci-fi moments, like clouds floating on a human hand and generative 3D organisms rippling in the air.
(Dargis) 'Cloud Atlas' David Mitchell's wondrous novel — a 6-stranded tour de force spanning centuries of past and future history and nearly every novelistic genre under the sun — seems an unlikely candidate for a movie, to put it mildly.
His imaginative dishes may take a surprising, or even wondrous, form – flowers suspended in a "cloud" of spun sugar, flavours captured in a shard of ice – but one thing is constant: they show great respect for the essential flavours of the raw ingredients from which they are created.
(Neil Genzlinger) 'Cloud Atlas' (R, 2 52) David Mitchell's wondrous novel — a six-stranded tour de force spanning centuries of past and future history and nearly every novelistic genre under the sun — seems an unlikely candidate for a movie, to put it mildly.
(Genzlinger) 'Cloud Atlas' (R, 2 52) David Mitchell's wondrous novel — a six-stranded tour de force spanning centuries of past and future history and nearly every novelistic genre under the sun — seems an unlikely candidate for a movie, to put it mildly.
(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'Cloud Atlas' (R, 2 52) David Mitchell's wondrous novel — a six-stranded tour de force spanning centuries of past and future history and nearly every novelistic genre under the sun — seems an unlikely candidate for a movie, to put it mildly.
So warm a response is wondrous to hear, and the best thing about "Cloud Atlas" is that it could, and should, turn into a properly divisive film, touching off feuds between the fervid and the splenetic, but one has to ask: does it allow for immersion?
In the blue vault of the sky, clouds gently gather and turn all shades of red at daybreak; they are beautiful in wondrous hues that fill space with their canopies and banners.
