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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:00 pm | |
| Just got back from watching Babylon AD, the latest Vin Diesel film. Didn't know much about the plot or production beforehand, but the from the trailer it seemed to be the usual apocalyptic, psychic powers, quasi-religious type film. But it wasn't really. The trailer was quite misleading looking back on it. It gives the impression that the films plot is on a global scale, when it isn't, besides the characters making a journey from Asia to America. The basic plot is that a mercenary, Vin Diesel as "Toorop", is hired to take a girl, "Aurora", from a convent in Mongolia (I think, can't remember) to New York. And along the way there's some action scenes, a dash of sexual tension, and little bit of plot. Then they get to New York, and there's some action, and a whole lot of plot. There are religious elements to the film, but not the type you;d expect from the trailer. It's more the organisation side of religion, stepping in to make sure things go to plan, etc etc. As a whole it doesn't work well, and it's tossed away at the end with no explanation. The action is fairly standard, as is everything else. There's nothing particularly special or memorable about the film. My basic problem with this film is that not a lot of it makes sense. No while the film is progressing, this doesn't really matter, as building up some mystery is exactly what films like this do. The trouble with this film is that almost none of that mystery is resolved within the film, although the film seems to think everything is wrapped up nicely. So, as you can tell, I didn't like the film much. I'd give it 3/10, because it wasn't hard to watch. Not a good film, but also not a film that I hated watching (at least not until it was over). Now then, on to the specifics of the plot and why I didn't like it. All the plow twists revealed within - Spoiler:
Well, now to explain some stuff. As they journey across Europe and Asia, weird shit happens involving this girl. She knows things she's never experienced, we learn she could speak 19 languaged by the time she was 2 years old, she can feel when people are dying. The usual latent psychic powers stuff. She's being brought to America by the religion she belongs to, the Neolites. It's a new religion that has sprung up at some point in the future and has become succesful. The big twist is, this girl is an arificially enhanced human, able to process information like a super computer. She's also pregnant, while being a virgin. The Neolites used experimental technology to engineer her as a miracle to promote their religion. Basically it's a massive publicity stunt.
Now then, the way her mind works is explained in the film (to an extent). A scientist was working on putting artificial intelligence into babies, so the Neloites went to him. As a foetus, Aurora was taught to think like a super computer. That's the extent to which it is explained. How she knows languages without ever hearing them or can feel people dying is anybody's guess. The mechanism by which the pregnancy is engineered is also unexplained. We are told that a doctor came to visit her in the convent 3 months ago, and that since then she's been acting weird. Once they get to America, the same doctor shows up, and that's when we find out she's pregnant with twins.
Oh, also, the unborn twin foetuses have instinctual psychic survival skills, also not explained. That scene from the trailer where the rocket explodes in front of the girls face? Yeah, it was the unborn babies that stopped it. All we get told about this is that "the twins have a survival instinct far beyond anything else. They're guiding her now". So once they get to America, the head of the Neolites wants to collect her, obviously, but the scientist who designed her wants her to live safely. He gets killed though, so no need to worry about him. Vin Diesel tries to protect the girl from the bad religious guys.
This leads to a car chase, and 3 vans full of faceless henchmen are killed. Cut to sixth months later in hospital, with Toorop and Aurora. Apparently the Neolites have given up searching (we're not told this, but it damn sure feels that way). Aurora tells Toorop he is now the father of the babies. Cut to about 5 years later, and Toorop is living in the hills with the twins (one's white and one's black by the way). He says there's a storm coming, and they walk back to the house. Cut to... OH WAIT! THAT'S THE END!
After the film, I had some questions. Not the least of which was why the needed a bloody mercenary to bring the girl from the convent to America in the first place! They can fly a doctor out there and back, but they can't just bring the girl back with him? They have to hire a mercenary to tke her on a tour of Europes refugee camps. Bullshit.
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Baal Shut Up and Jam
Posts : 26828 Joined : 2008-07-31 Age : 32
| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:03 pm | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:28 pm | |
| teaches you to watch vin diesel was this at the cinema? | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:30 pm | |
| - Superbuu3 wrote:
- teaches you to watch vin diesel was this at the cinema?
Of course it was at the cinema. I didn't expect much from the film anyway but I expected more than that. | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
Posts : 41040 Joined : 2008-07-31 Age : 2023 Location : Nosgoth
| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:51 pm | |
| i meant i hadn't even heard of this film you should've just watched hellboy 2 or summat | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:53 pm | |
| I've seen Hellboy 2. Wasn't that good either. But better than this. | |
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Baal Shut Up and Jam
Posts : 26828 Joined : 2008-07-31 Age : 32
| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:56 pm | |
| That'll teach you to watch a Vin Diesel movie. | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:02 am | |
| - DevilKingBaal wrote:
- That'll teach you to watch a Vin Diesel movie.
Pitch Black was good. And from the trailer it looked at least passable. Like I said, the trailers make it look like some apocalypse type scenario, with some psychic girl as human weapon but she doesn't know it or something. That's what I would have guessed the plot was from the trailer. But it wasn't that. | |
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Golden Boy Style Icon
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:22 am | |
| Someone has a thing for Vin Diesel. | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
Posts : 41040 Joined : 2008-07-31 Age : 2023 Location : Nosgoth
| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:23 am | |
| he like the muscular type he was asking if he could feel my biceps earlier o_O | |
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Golden Boy Style Icon
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:25 am | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:27 am | |
| yeah i keep thinking of turning his name back to a horny moose but that might encourage his behaviour | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:27 am | |
| Back to a horny moose? Was it that before? | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:28 am | |
| yeah don't you remember maybe you were too excited at the time to realise your actions | |
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Golden Boy Style Icon
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:29 am | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:45 am | |
| he clearly is out of control | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:58 am | |
| This film popped into my head randomly today. I couldn't remember what it was about or what it was called. | |
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Superbuu3 Raziel
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:12 am | |
| Was this connected to that sci fi series of the same name. If it was that might explain the lack of a coherent plot. | |
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A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:14 am | |
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Dr. Chocolate Spartan
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:41 am | |
| - Baal wrote:
- *Laughs*
- Superbuu3 wrote:
- teaches you to watch vin diesel was this at the cinema?
- Baal wrote:
- That'll teach you to watch a Vin Diesel movie.
Fast and Furios was ok I like some Van Damme movies, is this just as bad or worse? | |
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Eevil-Psycho Captain Spaulding
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| Subject: Re: So, I just watched Babylon AD... Or "That was a shitty film" Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:34 pm | |
| Van Damme movies are better | |
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