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babelReview created: 05/07/08
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SPOILER ALERT2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
OK, I slept on this one and overnight it lost a star. I can only give this two stars at the most. My biggest problem is that it is very hard to like anybody in the film. The only people I felt sorry for were the little kids and maybe the deaf mute Japanese girl but even she was annoying. I had no sympathy for the parents whatsoever. They are sitting there whining about losing a baby to SIDS and yet you find out that their kids were raised all the way through by their illegal nanny. So, they lose a kid and instead of getting closer to the two kids they do have they head to Africa? Idiotic. They deserved every little bit of suffering they got. What about the kids with the gun? Should I feel sorry for them and their parents? Not really. I don't care what culture you live in, if you have two crazy kids without brains (and the warning signs should have been obvious) you should NOT give them a gun. No sympathy here. The Nanny? Oh, come on. No sympathy whatsoever. She's lived in the United States for 13 years and she doesn't have enough cultural common sense to know that you don't take American kids across the border without permission. I disliked the parents even more after I found that they left their kids not only with a nanny...but an idiot nanny. I really gave this one a chance but after digesting it I realize that it doesn't deserve one
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BabelReview created: 05/08/07
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The movie Babel was OK. It wasn't as great that I thought it was. Babel did win many awards but to me those awards were based on their actual performances while dividing the movie in 3 parts. I didn't like how they broke the movie up into 3 issues. I dicided to buy it because I heard great things about the film. The film was something different from other type of movies but on an over all bases the film wasn't too bad. It just wasn't my type of story line.
Great acting from everyone in this film.
Great acting from everyone in this film.
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this is a nice movie and a must buyReview created: 03/20/07
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This is one of the best movie i have ever Sean i a long time this is a must see i give it 10/10
Nearly every performance of the film is devastating, offering an intimate, emotional experience that would approach melodrama if it weren’t rendered so realistically. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s color palette masterfully captures the muted tones of the harsh natural landscapes of Morocco and the Mexican border, as well as the fluorescent lights of Tokyo that denote another, though equally barren, end of the spectrum. The misunderstandings born of cultural, language, and class barriers are on par with those that occur between family members, depicting a world that, while connected in the least expected of ways, is also faced with a deep-seated crisis that threatens to alienate humanity from itself.
Nearly every performance of the film is devastating, offering an intimate, emotional experience that would approach melodrama if it weren’t rendered so realistically. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s color palette masterfully captures the muted tones of the harsh natural landscapes of Morocco and the Mexican border, as well as the fluorescent lights of Tokyo that denote another, though equally barren, end of the spectrum. The misunderstandings born of cultural, language, and class barriers are on par with those that occur between family members, depicting a world that, while connected in the least expected of ways, is also faced with a deep-seated crisis that threatens to alienate humanity from itself.
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Visually assulting!Review created: 02/19/07(updated 02/20/07)
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A bit hard to follow all the plot lines as they flow though out the film. But they are all intertwined through Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett story. Great acting, and taken apart all the short stories have alot of intersting characters and ideas. I enjoyed the film and would recomend it but it is not at all like the marketing of the movie would protray. This is not a Brad Pitt movie, its more an ensamble of stories that Brad Pitt holds as much or less screen time as Rinko Kikuchi.
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If You Thought 21g Was Slow...This movie is excellent training for people who are planning to switch to the night shift. Much coffee and plenty of trips to the bathroom to splash cold water on your face is about the only remedy for the stretching out of this story into the realm of the absurd. It's really about three twenty-minute stories somehow multiplied into a 2.5 hour yawnfest. If you were on the edge of your seat for the last movie you watched, you are likely to fall off as you drift asleep during the pointless, pointless fluff scenes that have no bearing on the plot of this film (e.g. the five minutes of people dancing to Mexican polka music during a wedding that could have been summed up in a ten second montage).
And this is what kills me about the movie: the story is so damned good! If they could have just cut it down to an hour and a half, I would be singing the praises of the dynamic duo who also brought you the equally stretched-out-for-no-reason "21 Grams." Instead, I have to rail against the stupidity of taking twelve minutes to demonstrate to the audience the difference between a deaf girl having an acid trip (more likely it's X, but you get the point) and a girl who can hear taking a walk through the strawberry fields.
Honestly, I loved the basic story idea. I loved how the relationship between the three tales was not so overbearing, and everyone didn't meet up in the end for a big group hug. I loved Cate Blanchett, and I was able to endure Brad Pitt for the entire movie, only once vomiting in my mouth a little. The Japanese guy from "Memoirs of a Geisha," whose name I'm too lazy to look up (you know - Ken Watanabe's buddy who saved his bacon in Manchuria), was just as good as he was in that far superior film.
Thus I give it a 3, with the knowledge that this film could have been utterly brilliant. Yes, there are moments of great inspiration, but they come about once every 2.5 hours.
Try it out, but make sure you also rented something with a pulse to fall back on. Even that ridiculous "Crank" movie might not seem so bad after sitting through this one.
And this is what kills me about the movie: the story is so damned good! If they could have just cut it down to an hour and a half, I would be singing the praises of the dynamic duo who also brought you the equally stretched-out-for-no-reason "21 Grams." Instead, I have to rail against the stupidity of taking twelve minutes to demonstrate to the audience the difference between a deaf girl having an acid trip (more likely it's X, but you get the point) and a girl who can hear taking a walk through the strawberry fields.
Honestly, I loved the basic story idea. I loved how the relationship between the three tales was not so overbearing, and everyone didn't meet up in the end for a big group hug. I loved Cate Blanchett, and I was able to endure Brad Pitt for the entire movie, only once vomiting in my mouth a little. The Japanese guy from "Memoirs of a Geisha," whose name I'm too lazy to look up (you know - Ken Watanabe's buddy who saved his bacon in Manchuria), was just as good as he was in that far superior film.
Thus I give it a 3, with the knowledge that this film could have been utterly brilliant. Yes, there are moments of great inspiration, but they come about once every 2.5 hours.
Try it out, but make sure you also rented something with a pulse to fall back on. Even that ridiculous "Crank" movie might not seem so bad after sitting through this one.
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Towers Of SilenceReview created: 03/24/07
by: pmills1210-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
Faithful retelling of a Bible story, with a fine ensemble
Faithful retelling of a Bible story, with a fine ensemble
Cons:
Some story elements were unnecessary
Some story elements were unnecessary
One series of events, no matter how minor they may seem, can have ramifications all over the world. In Babel, people in four countries find themselves connected in ways they may never realize. In Morocco, a farmer named Abdullah (Mustapha Rachidi) acquires a rifle from a hunting guide named Hassan (Abdelkaber Bara). Abdullah wants the gun to protect his grazing goats from jackals. Abdullah also expects his young sons Ahmed (Said Tarchani) and Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid) to be proficient in its use when they must tend to the goats. When it is their turn to watch the goats, the boys grow bored.
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BabbleReview created: 04/14/07
by: shopaholic_man-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Movies
Pros:
Acting is good, cinematography is good.
Acting is good, cinematography is good.
Cons:
The story failed to connect with me on an emotional level.
The story failed to connect with me on an emotional level.
I guess I am in the minority here, but I found this well directed trilogy of interwoven stories to be babble, not babel. I am sorry to say but I found this movie to be extremely boring, and not terribly effective in delivering its message. By the way, the message here is what we have here is a failure to communicate Trouble is, what we have in the film is what we have here is a failure to deliver an entertaining movie The three story arcs are as follows: A Mexican woman is employed as a housekeeper and nanny for two American children. Her American employers are out of town, and she ends up...
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Spellbinding Candy for the BrainReview created: 11/12/06
by: bilavideo-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Movies
Pros:
engrossing, compelling, spectacular
engrossing, compelling, spectacular
Cons:
too smart for the average viewer
too smart for the average viewer
"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven .... "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language .... and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. "So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth .... "Therefore is the name of it called Babel ...." --Genesis 10:4-9 Babel is a tour de force, the kind of film that will have you talking about it on...
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Probably spoils some of the plot, so be warnedReview created: 02/24/07
by: paulsavage-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Movies
Pros:
Story in general, acting, particularly with regards to the children
Story in general, acting, particularly with regards to the children
Cons:
One of the storylines seems tacked on for political reasons
One of the storylines seems tacked on for political reasons
Babel is a theme based movie rather than one driven by plot. It has several plotlines that intersect in very tangential ways. The question is whether these themes work. There is the Susan (Kate Blanchett) and Richard (Brad Pitt) storyline: Husband and wife are in Morocco, apparently to patch up a rocky relationship. While the tourist bus they are on is in transit Susan gets shot. This causes a frantic situation where Richard finds himself and his wife the victim of international misunderstandings between the US and Morocco about whether the shooting was by terrorists or something else. Anwar .
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Yeah, just keep Babel-ingReview created: 02/13/07
by: updateghost-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Movies
Pros:
Very well directed. Can be powerful.
Very well directed. Can be powerful.
Cons:
Little character development. Sketchy acting.
Little character development. Sketchy acting.
Bobby and Jane are in love, but Jane gets hit by a car and dies. Rick has a very fulfillling life. Mandy has a very unfulfilling life. Rick's life stops being fulfilling when he hits Jane with the car. Mandy's life becomes fulfilling when she prevents Rick from committing suicide after he kills Jane. Aw, man, dawg. WE ARE ALL CONNECTED! That more or less summarizes the plot of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel. It also more or less summarizes the plot of Magnolia, 21 Grams, and most recently, Crash. And that is Babel's biggest issue: it's been done before. It's okay to use the interwoven...
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