Miscellaneous Movie Musings

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Heh. Well, I'd start threads with a one-liner "meh" review, just because it sparks conversation.

Well and good if anybody else has seen the movie yet. But as we are frequent moviegoers (by which I mean that we see every Oscar contender before the year ends, usually.) There's often little discussion to be had about the movies we just saw that nobody else has seen. Unless I talk to myself.

Oh, that Babel. What on earth was the director thinking with the frequent p*ssy shots of an underage teenage character?

I know. I'm not a prude, but I really like for there to be a reason for nudity when it's used. (Really, I like for there to be a reason for ANY gimmick/concept/idea to be used, nudity or not.)

Yep. one shot would have been OK as she was clearly obsessed with sexuality and trying her darnedest to explore that, but when it gets to six, maybe seven distinct shots of her p*ssy, it starts to feel exploitative and ooky.

Well, at least it made you less bored. Or less annoyed because you were being forced to follow characters you really didn't care about.

Oh, it wasn't just that I didn't care about them, it was that I disliked them and their choices in such a way that made me uninterested in watching them. I actually wanted to leave.

We've never left a movie early, though. Never. Why are we even spending time talking about Babel, Heidi? We hated it.

I dunno. But I definitely don't think Babel deserves its own thread until somebody else has seen it and wants to discuss it.