Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
05-23-23, 12:47 AM
#76
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
This is streaming now. I didn’t get around alto it in theaters.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
05-23-23, 12:49 AM
#77
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
This is streaming now. I didn’t get around alto it in theaters.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
05-23-23, 01:17 PM
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
This is streaming now. I didn’t get around alto it in theaters.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
Liked it all the way through. I wasn’t expecting so much of the cinematography and editing to play it so close to Boogie Nights (which is still an all time favorite of mine).
Also, when someone says a movie is meandering, it only makes me want to see it more. The best movies meander. Books meaner. Gives more perspective.
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Why So Blu? (05-23-23)
08-13-23, 01:24 AM
#79
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
Stephen King says this will be considered a cult classic in two decades
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...124205556.html
Stephen King has declared that director Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” could be “acclaimed as a classic” in two decades.
In a post Thursday on X (better known as Twitter), the horror author gave his two cents on the “utterly brilliant” 2022 movie starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
“Maybe this says more about me than the film, but I thought BABYLON was utterly brilliant―extravagant, over the top, hilarious, thought-provoking,” King wrote.
“Might be one of those movies that reviews badly and is acclaimed as a classic in 20 years.”
In a later post, King added, “Sort of like THE SHINING.”
But in the years after its release, it has been rankedamongthebest horror films of all time. In 2018, the Library of Congress even added “The Shining” to the National Film Registry.
Meanwhile, “Babylon” — a tale about 1920s Hollywood — currently holds a 57% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The review aggregation site notes that the film’s “overwhelming muchness is exhausting,” but adds that “its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction.”
Philip Shea, a senior editor at the legal news site Law360, weighed in on King’s “Babylon” prediction, calling the movie an “impending cult classic.”
“Its flaws also make it more endearing, in a strange way,” Shea wrote on X.
“I say, ‘Yes, sir,’” King stated in agreement.
In a post Thursday on X (better known as Twitter), the horror author gave his two cents on the “utterly brilliant” 2022 movie starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
“Maybe this says more about me than the film, but I thought BABYLON was utterly brilliant―extravagant, over the top, hilarious, thought-provoking,” King wrote.
“Might be one of those movies that reviews badly and is acclaimed as a classic in 20 years.”
In a later post, King added, “Sort of like THE SHINING.”
But in the years after its release, it has been rankedamongthebest horror films of all time. In 2018, the Library of Congress even added “The Shining” to the National Film Registry.
Meanwhile, “Babylon” — a tale about 1920s Hollywood — currently holds a 57% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The review aggregation site notes that the film’s “overwhelming muchness is exhausting,” but adds that “its well-acted, well-crafted glitz and glamour can often be an effective distraction.”
Philip Shea, a senior editor at the legal news site Law360, weighed in on King’s “Babylon” prediction, calling the movie an “impending cult classic.”
“Its flaws also make it more endearing, in a strange way,” Shea wrote on X.
“I say, ‘Yes, sir,’” King stated in agreement.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...124205556.html
08-17-23, 05:34 AM
#80
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
Much as I like Stephen King’s books, I always remember he wrote one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life in a theatre, Sleepwalkers.
… as others have said, this was overlong, overwrought and very convinced of its own importance despite being the kind of Hollywood rise and fall story we’ve seen many, many times, just with more nudity and elephant shit and dwarf sex. There were some great isolated scenes and Robbie is terrific but in general this left me irritated and the way it shoehorns in at the ending homage to a far far better movie, Singin In The Rain, only shows it up for how shallow it mostly is.
I feel like this director has gone downhill consistently since Whiplash, myself.
… as others have said, this was overlong, overwrought and very convinced of its own importance despite being the kind of Hollywood rise and fall story we’ve seen many, many times, just with more nudity and elephant shit and dwarf sex. There were some great isolated scenes and Robbie is terrific but in general this left me irritated and the way it shoehorns in at the ending homage to a far far better movie, Singin In The Rain, only shows it up for how shallow it mostly is.
I feel like this director has gone downhill consistently since Whiplash, myself.
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08-17-23, 07:40 AM
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
^ I really haven’t cared for any of Chazelle’s other, more popular movies (Whiplash, La La Land, Babylon) but First Man is my favorite movie of 2018 and it’s barely even remembered by anyone.
03-19-24, 08:48 AM
#82
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
Finally got to see this and enjoyed it overall although it did have flaws. The time period was adhered too somewhat loosely at times and some of the subplots were shortchanged. Had a problem with Robbie's scene in the movie theater as silent films were not shown in silence, they almost always had some musical accompaniment. However I was never bored and I admired Chazelle's chutzpah in making this.
03-20-24, 04:27 PM
#83
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Re: Babylon (2022, D: Chazelle) S: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva
I need to revisit this. I hated the ending but LOVED the rest of it. This is one hell of a film IMO.
