Babel
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- PonyBoy0
yeah.. and you were behind the wheel there, Andretti...
... learn when to hit the breaks there you creep!
- hardface000
'Babel' was boring and depresive like the mondays... 'Children of men' was brutal, so good!
I like more 'Crash' than the trilogy of Iñarritu.
- ********0
Saw it yesterday! So good! Cinematography was stunning.
The story makes you think about how easily we make mistakes based on deeply embedded and media-hyped assumptions etc. (even on a personal level = Japan)..
Anyone saying this movie was boring, has probably no brains at all.
incredible. all of the audience seemed to be moved by it afterwards!!
- letters20
I'm with Crouwel, Babel is a genius film. beautiful, insightful.
- bolus0
i didn't see it janne, but one of our great columnists Kees Fens quoted Karl Kraus saying: "The show started at 7 o'clock, when i looked at my watch at eleven, it was 8 o'clock"
- ********0
right on, bolus.
speaking of Kraus, love this one:
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
-Karl Kraus
i am guilty. :(
- rafalski0
I liked Amorres Perros, but 21 Grams was pretensiously forced, starting right at the title (even if Benicio Del Toro played great).
I need to see Babel soon, have mixed expectations..
- kelpie0
not seen it yet, really want to, but I have also been told it is the most depressing joyless hours of your life, more brain banteringly glum than even Requiem.
doesn't mean it'd be shit though.
- kelpie0
aye, I hated 21 grammes, BDT was the only reason I didn't turn it off.
- pascii0
overrated film. the same thing like LA crash : (
- letters20
kelpie, I defintely would not say that Bable is the most depressing film you are going to have seen – in fact, I didnt find it depressing at all. Heavy in its content, but not depressing in my estimation.
As for 21 Grams, I won't argue its merit even though I thought it very strong as well – however, while we are giving props to Benicio, don't you think Sean Penn was equally exceptional in his role? I thought the cast's performances overall were outstanding.
- ********0
i think you people see movies too much as a form of simple entertainment.
maybe i should not discuss the very merits of cinematic narration and what potential it has to the human mind.
let's go back to discussing spiderman shall we? and remain ignorant for the rest of our sorry lives.
- kelpie0
stop preaching crouwel, I will virtually slap your tall skinny person ;)
I think I may have found the others in 21 grammes a bit mannered and worthy - I'm not one for earnest performances, Benicio just carries it off well.
ages since I saw it though, so I'm probably speaking out of turn. The movies feel in general turned me off I think.
- ********0
i preach against anything that degrades humanity!
hope that sounded high and mighty.
now i need to get work done
ta ta
- kelpie0
see ya
- rafalski0
In 21 grams characters did not seem to be really motivated to do things they did by anything but the script. The movie creators wanted to tell something possibly important, but you need to have a believeable story to do that, not even a good actor will help if a story is pushed.
It is like.. defying laws of physics in a movie.. people are not going to watch and believe stuff like that! Are they?..
Just like Kelpie, I only saw the movie once, don't remember in detail and might have had a bad day then, but somehow don't have the urge to see it again.
- antoine_1010
yes babel is good. but i liked children of men better, not that they are similar or anything, i just saw them one after the other.
cate is great! brad is kinda boring in it.
- ********0
the main thing that struck me in Babel is the absurdity of reality.
We all have had experiences like this, even on a micro level.
being misunderstood, being judged, excessive law enforcement etc.
- pascii0
children of men was a good flick. fear's still is in my bones..