Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on February 19, 2008 at 16:44:52

In Reply to: RE: I agree with all of that posted by Jazz Inmate on February 19, 2008 at 16:30:08

...that Pan & CoM were slighted in critical polls and award noms by what I suspected was 2006's "Crash". And maybe I was hoping for too much.

Babel is a much better movie than Crash, a film I also found pretentious and unsubtle. But after the brilliance of Amores Perros I was really hoping for something special.

OTOH, I was more than willing to give this movie a fair shot, since I'm a big fan of the Three Amigos and Inarritu's previous efforts.

Like I said above, if you don't swing hard, you never knock one out of the park. Inarritu swung hard - and IMO missed. But I like that he keeps on swinging.

The next movie I think will be key for him.

Edits: 02/19/08