Babel - the movie

[Syringer]

I personally thought it was a great movie with good insights into several different cultures. Not quite 21 Grams or anything, but solid nonetheless.

 

[BrokenVisage]

I thought it was great too, lots of people bringing it down on here though.

 

[purbeast0]

it was nothing special at all and very overrated. it was pretty slow and it probably could have been shorter.

had it not had brad pitt in it I doubt it would have gotten as much commercial praise as it did.

 

[torpid]

Good, not great. The other three Arriaga films I've seen were all much better (21 Grams, Amores Perros, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada).

 

[Starbuck1975]

I had high expectations for this film, but found it utterly boring and a bit cliche.

I understand the premise of the movie...but the intent of the movie, and the intertwined storylines were not particularly interesting, and the ending was a bit ridiculous.

I have been to my fair share of "art house" movies, and I found Babel very forgettable.

 

[SmoochyTX]

It was a little bit too long but overall I liked it.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

This movie was crap

 

[grohl]

Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
I had high expectations for this film, but found it utterly boring and a bit cliche.

I understand the premise of the movie...but the intent of the movie, and the intertwined storylines were not particularly interesting, and the ending was a bit ridiculous.

I have been to my fair share of "art house" movies, and I found Babel very forgettable.

 

[Crucial]

crap. slow and boring. I didn't even make it through to the end.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
I thought it was great too, lots of people bringing it down on here though.

Because almost any highly rated movie the geeks like to pretend that they saw every plot twist and had it all figured out from scene 1.

Most of the kiddies here like Sailor Moon and Pokemon type movies I think.

 

[dbk]

Just let the story tell itself...don't try to second guess anything...

 

[Special K]

I thought it was worth the rental, but 21 Grams was much better.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
I thought it was great too, lots of people bringing it down on here though.

Because almost any highly rated movie the geeks like to pretend that they saw every plot twist and had it all figured out from scene 1.

Most of the kiddies here like Sailor Moon and Pokemon type movies I think.

Honestly, I think there are at least a few people on here who will come into every single movie thread they see and say the movie sucks. This trend is even more noticeable on imdb.

I guess the technical term for that would be trolling

 

[jeffrey]

As long as you look back at the movie and the common connection of communication barriers it was a pretty solid movie.

 

[TheChort]

I thought Crash was ok ... didn't deserve to win the Oscar though

 

[iversonyin]

Can't stand it. Would not recommend it to anyone. Its a very long boring artistic film that bring out a simple idea. I don't understand why anyone to like it. The style isn't exactly new neither.

But I guess if you haven't seen Syriana or Crash, this would be something new. Personally prefer Syriana over this one

 

[SmoochyTX]

I thought Crash was much better than Babel. I haven't seen Syriana.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

In the past week, I have seen The Machinist, The Fountain and Babel. Babel was barely an hour ago.

I honestly enjoyed 'The Fountain' the most. It's trippy, deeply romantic and screws with your mind in a cool way - and I imagine it can only get better with some drugs. The Machinist's ending was pretty disappointing but the movie had great atmosphere and it was hard not to appreciate the effort Bale put into his character.

For a two-and-a-half hour movie, it is mildly annoying that Babel doesn't even have an ending.

Oddly, it was the Japanese story-arc (the one everyone seems to like the most) that I didn't like at all. This is just my opinion but Morocco and Mexico was all this movie should have really been about. The overall theme of the movie is best captured as 'sometimes, bad things happen to good people thanks to normally-good people who sometimes do bad things because they had a long-overdue stupid-moment.'

While both 21 Grams and Babel are about death and tragedy, I liked the revenge/redemption theme of the former far more than the communication-breakdown study in Babel. 21 Grams was simply perfect, five-star material. This, I would give three at most.

 

[DeadByDawn]

I thought it was meh.

The fountain was a WTF! movie

 

[daveshel]

It was pretty good. I watched it last night and am still waiting for the point to percolate. I had the same problem with 21 Grams.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
I thought it was great too, lots of people bringing it down on here though.

Because almost any highly rated movie the geeks like to pretend that they saw every plot twist and had it all figured out from scene 1.

Most of the kiddies here like Sailor Moon and Pokemon type movies I think.

by the same token, a lot of geeks here like to think that only due to their superior intellect they were able to understand and 'get' the movie. the rest of the people just aren't smart enough to understand the movie.

 

[cyclohexane]

terrible movie.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

i thought it was well done and liked it a lot.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
I had high expectations for this film, but found it utterly boring and a bit cliche.

I understand the premise of the movie...but the intent of the movie, and the intertwined storylines were not particularly interesting, and the ending was a bit ridiculous.

I have been to my fair share of "art house" movies, and I found Babel very forgettable.

x2

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
i thought it was well done and liked it a lot.

18 month bump

nice