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Monday, September 1st, 2008 03:02 pm
Just came back from Babylon A. D.

Anyone else?  Anyone read the book, Babylon Babies?  Cause I seriously need to see the point of this flick.

The effects are sweet, if harsh.  The future depicted very stark.  The action was fast, to the point where I was feeling that hey, the choreographers found the best way to hide blunders by making things too fast.  And the movie was pretty coherent.

But...where's the point?  The religious build was evident from way early, and in that light one can pretty much think of a couple points.  But the cut off ending just doesn't work for me.  I felt the same at the end of the second Riddick.

Man.  Shoulda went to watch Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 02:50 am (UTC)
I was excited for this, but the director has already disavowed it, saying the studio messed with it. The studio apparently hates it too. Hard to work up a head of steam over it now. Even with the yummieness that is Vin.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 02:07 pm (UTC)
Yea. Something must have been done like that. I was very happy with it until the last scene. Then they just ended it with the cut-off-the-movie-without-much-explaination last scene, and left it up to the viewers to jump to whatever conclusions they would from it. I can see a couple possible points to all of it, all religious such as the base of the movie, but it was way too vague. It was just -- a cut off.

Very disappointing. Not a solid way to end a good movie, which much of it was.