Classic Kermode: Babel

The Good Doctor wants everyone to know that he hated Babel before anyone else.

Category:

Comedy

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• mark
• kermode
• simon
• mayo
• babel
• alejandro
• gonzalez
• inarritu
• brad
• pitt
• cate
• blanchett
• rinko
• kinkuchi
• gael
• garcia
• bernal

[jamchew1982]

he loved Crash tho which was INCREDIBLY self-important and manipulative

[TulseLuper]

@jamchew1982 True...well, nobody's perfect.

[xonkonog]

This guy doesn't like anything, does he? Theres always something to complain about.

[TulseLuper]

@xonkonog Yeah, he doesn't like any films at all.......except The Exorcist, It's a Wonderful Life, Brazil, The Assassination of Jesse James, Pan's Labyrinth, There Will Be Blood, A Matter of Life and Death, No Country for Old Men, The Godfather, Let the Right One In, Blue Velvet, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Citizen Kane-- would you like me to go on?

[shrunkard]

I agree with Mark, but I'm still glad I saw it for the ecstasy/club sequence. The director should maybe consider making music videos instead of movies.

[TulseLuper]

@shrunkard Did you see the Nike commercial he directed for the World Cup? It was fantastic.

[TulseLuper]

@luvpump1 Of course he's self-opinionated. He's a critic!

[ElizabethKall]

i liked the japanese girl sequence, that was the only interesting part of the film to me. it's probably cause i was a teenage girl when watching it and thought it a good picture of teenage life and felt for the girl. it could have cut the last bit where she gets naked for the policeman, that was just icky, and the bit in the cafe, actually. the problem with the film was that it was boring, one can get away with being self important and pretentious, their work just needs to be good enough

[yeoldsid]

@enigma19833 Let's get this cleared-up, shall we!?

A - Critics are NOT failed filmmakers (the vast majority at least).

B - Kermode has spoken about not being able to make films himself (in his autobiography).

C - Babel IS self-important, plodding, unremarkable trash!

and finally...

D - YOU'RE AN IMBECILE.

[Regenmacher175]

@enigma19833 if everyone's a critic, everyone's scum is that it?

[enigma19833]

ALL FILM CRITICS ARE JUST FAILED FILM MAKERS WHO ARE BITTER AND JEALOUS AT THE ONES WHO WERE ACTUALLY GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE IT AND SO THEY SPEND THEIR TIME JUST ATTACKING THEM FOR DARING TO CREATE A WORK OF ART!

KERMOD IS SCUM!

[mrpossibilities]

Gee, I don't know... I really don't feel like the director was trying to say "You know, in the end we're all part of everything, blablabla". I think Kermode is reading waayy too much into the movie, and actually putting words on the director's mouth (Unless I'm wrong and the director actually said this, which I doubt). I never found it to be condescending nor about sending a message to the audience. I found it to be an experience about how things can easily get fucked up in a matter of seconds.

[attenbergdvd]

Im a big kermode fan, i agree with him about 80% of the time. Babel is an exception as I love it and he hates it. But examples:

a film I love that he loves: Pans Labyrinth

a film that he hates that I hate: Borat...

a film that he loves that I hate: No country for old men

a film that i love that he hates: BABEL!!!!!!!!!

differences of opinion are cool

[louiscfc93]

@xonkonog Because most things made these days are shit

[Raymint]

@jamchew1982 Nah, wasn't it the other 'Crash' - Cronenberg's?

[cuntscab555]

i quite liked babel. usually agree with kermy

[SmokiSounds]

@jamchew1982 Crash made a good point.