I’M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT MOVIES these days, and it’s not just the promise of The Hobbit at Christmas-time.  I saw the trailer for Life of Pi at the theater again this Tuesday, and it still gives me chills (and I even know how that story ends).  I’m buzzed about the promise of this weekend’s Looper, too.  But there’s another movie that has pulled me in and whose trailer gives me chills: Cloud Atlas.

Cloud Atlas, like Pi, is an adaptation of a novel.  And moreso than Pi, it’s a daunting story (that I have not read).  Multiple storylines.  Multiple timelines.  My fear is that will be as frustrating as Tree of Life.  My hope is that it will be “transcendent” in a way Tree couldn’t be for me.

So if you have a few minutes: here’s the trailer for a movie that I think will be worth it.  Full-screen it and turn the volume up, and might even give you chills.