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America bashing? ok timeout!
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"I usually agree with "cinema rian" but not this time...i really did think it was "enough already" with the "only Americans count in the world" message.. (tell me something i dont know) and as soon as i saw the picture of the Japanese,or was it Chinese? guy with the Moroccan man i worked out the "link" in the story....As only Cate and Brad's thread is in English i didnt even bother with the sub-titles..when i did dip into them,the lines were all "dont shoot"...and "stop him" and basically "aaahhgh"...Every single character other than Brad and Cate is undeveloped,stereotypical,cast as outlaws,unable to explain or stick up for themselves..dont Brad and Cate KNOW they are employing an illegal immigrant?..i really couldnt be bothered with this..The phrase "snivveling load of shit" seemed apposite as the credits rolled,and i was sooo glad i didnt bother with the subtitles...i dunno,maybe i was in a bad mood,but ,for me they even blew the "touching ,comforting" scene between Pitt and B ... "
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Why all the hype??
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"The film was okay, but I simply lost interest... I was bored... "
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Babel (2006)
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"Alejandro González Iñárritu never fails to impress me with his knack for weaving together disparate storylines. Amores Perros and 21 Grams have both taken pride of place on my DVD shelves for a while now, but Babel I would say is his most ambitious effort to date.The story evolves when tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.Is it his best? Not even close. My main doubts after one viewing all lay within the Japanese section of the film. It feels like it's there to serve as plot filler. Japan, compared to the other two stories characters, depictions of the countries customs and cultural surroundings seems a sight more stereotypical and cliched. Nevertheless, all three stories do leave an impact. Babel is a hard-hitting, well acted, socially conscious drama at best. A good conclusion to the Iñárritu/Arriaga trilogy, now to watch them back to back. "
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10 Best Masturbation Scenes
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"Andrew Sarris may be one of the most influential American film critics, but here’s a claim, located within his recent review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss, that may not hold up to some of his better-remembered theories: “Even when we confront 40-year-old virgins of either gender, movies refuse to show them compensating for the lack of a sexual partner. There is lasting shame involved in this spectacle.” Not to ever, ever profess superiority over Sarris, but I’ve nonetheless compiled today’s list as a way of proving the man wrong. There are actually tons and tons of masturbation scenes found in non-porn movies, from the low brow to the high brow, from as indirect as the boy wizard playing with his wand under the covers in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to as direct as the non-simulated masturbation in Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs and John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (which would probably feature my #1 pick, from the sound of it, if I ev "
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Made Sense To Me
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"So I'm checking out some other reviews, and I keep seeing the same basic message, which is along the lines of "complex" and "intricately woven". Really? I don't think it was all that complex if you simply pay attention to the story and to the details. It's just a well thought out story with some great actors in it. In my opinion, this is a MUCH better film than "Crash" in all aspects, as I thoroughly enjoyed this film, while I thought "Crash" was amateurish and the dialogue unrealistic. Watch it with NO INTERRUPTIONS or DISTRACTIONS and I think you'll find it's a fine story (albeit a rather depressing one). "
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Babel (2006)
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""Babel", the latest film from "21 Grams" and "Amores Perros" director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is really four stories related by one simple object: a gun. Husband and wife Richard and Susan (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett) are on a getaway in Morocco when a bullet hits her in the shoulder while riding in a bus. In a land where he does not speak the language, Richard tries to get help for his dying wife. Meanwhile, the young child who fired the "shot heard around the world" is forced to come of age quicker than any child should. Back in California, Richard and Susan's children make a trek into Mexico with their nanny Amelia (Adriana Barraza) for a family wedding. However, on the way back home, they find themselves on the run from border security. And in Japan, a deaf-mute girl struggles with being an outcast in a hearing world. Her connection to the events making headlines around the word? Her father provided the gun to the Moroccans in the first place. The storytelling device of we ... "
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"At last, a film that is critically acclaimed that I do not find totally overrated! While I don't think Babel is a masterpeice as some belevie, it is a very strong film, better than most. It is 140 minuets long and rarely boring, and has a few stirring moments. It is probably the best film of a poor genre (the Crash-ensamble film). Babel is certainly ambitious, taking place in four countries and in four langauges (English, Spanish, Arabic and Japanese). There are also four plotlines: In the first, two Arab kids in Morroco unthinkingly shoot a bus and hurt an American tourist, which is later revealed to be (in the second plotline) Cate Blanchet, who is having an arguement with her husband (Brad Pitt). The third story revolves around a Mexican nanny (Adriana Barraza) who is caught in a bind when the parents of the kids she's caring for are late in returning from a trip and don't send a replacement, forcing her to take the kids along to her son's weeding. The fourth takes place i ... "
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The Human Condition of Babel
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"Babel was my Netflix movie of the week. It is one of the two best picture nominees from last year's Oscars that I still hadn't seen, and that's mainly because I actively put off watching it. I had heard things about it, good and bad, and the bad things deterred me. I knew this would be a movie that was hard to watch and, perhaps, hard to understand, so I felt no rush to watch it. Thanks to the power of Netflix and their program for generating recommendations, there it appeared on my queue, and the rest, as they say, is history.Babel is a complex interweaving and intersection of lives hailing from around the globe; the intersections are at once random and ordained, and the ties that bind focus on the human condition, particularly as it relates to innocent mistakes, careless choices, and the ensuing consequences. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are vacationing in Morocco because their youngest child, Sam, apparently died of SIDS. That's what I ass ... "
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Carlos Reygadas and ‘The New Le ...
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"At The Circuit, John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga offer a number of signs that “the mantle of greatness is rapidly slipping over” Silent Light director Carlos Reygadas. I’m surely not going to argue with that, but I do think it’s interesting that Mayorga and Hopewell make it a point to set Reygadas apart from other hot young Mexican directors, such as Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonz??lez I????rritu, who crossed over to Hollywood success: Reygadas has a niche in a pantheon - not new Mexican cinema; given the accessibility of and interest in film-making worldwide, the very concept of new national cinemas may be arcane - but new, left-field world cinema, up there with other unorthodoz film-makers such as, say, Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Read: he’s making art films for die hards, and that’s never gonna translate to the masses. I don’t know. I don’t want to be an elitist. I feel like I’m a woman of the people, or whatever. But I like it that Silent Light requires work to en ... "
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Just didn't like it
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"This movie was ok it was not the best. The story was good. "
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