It's ALL CONNECTED MAAN Babel/21 Grams/Amores Perros (the latter was OK once, I guess) Thread

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'babel' sounds like absolute bullshit, like '21 grams'. has anyone seen it and can anyone refute?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have seen it but cannot refute. Overwrought, self-important, admittedly well-made nonsense.

― chap (chap), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to like this sort of thing but am growing weary of it, since it's pretty much Arriaga's only trick. Innaritu has hinted that he won't be working with Arriaga in the future (these three films having constituted a trilogy for him), which is probably good news, since I think he's a talented director otherwise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

i rather luv teh soundtrack cd's.
haven't seen teh movie, howevah.

― t**t, Monday, 26 May 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

Watched Amores Perros a couple weeks back. Watched Edge of Heaven a couple days ago.

Thought they were rather similar. Liked Edge of Heaven much more though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_of_Heaven_(film)

― please vote contrarian in 09. we need your support. (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 5 January 2009 02:40 (seventeen years ago)

i really hated 21g!

― Surmounter, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:46 (seventeen years ago)

i really hated amores perros!

― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Monday, 5 January 2009 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

amores perros is ok, but it looks worse in retrospect because everything bad about it got magnified and amplified in 21 grams. and maybe in babel too, i disliked 21 grams enough to keep me from actually watching babel so far.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

I loved Amores Perros, and 21 Grams even moreso! Babel only had one or two good threads in it, though.

― Nhex, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

point of edge of heaven wasnt really "all connected" ish tho

― Lamp, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:48 (seventeen years ago)

Amores Perros was quite fine, if I remember correctly. Haven't seen it since it came out.

21 Grams would've been a pretty good movie too if it hadn't been for the non-linear way the narrative was told, because there was no proper reason the story couldn't have been told in a chronological order. The way it was done now made some of the scenes lose their emotional weight, because the characters' motivations for their actions and reactions were only explained afterwards. It seemed the only reason for the story to be told non-chronologically was that it was more "arty".

Babel was very thin and pretentious, it felt like the director thought he was saying something profound, when he really wasn't. The story about the deaf girl was quite good though, but it had little to do with the rest of the movie.

― Tuomas, Monday, 5 January 2009 07:57 (seventeen years ago)

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