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 Posted: Fri, 19th Oct 2007 21:36 Post subject: [NR] Babylon A.D. (2008) |
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Oct 2007 21:47 Post subject: Re: [NR] Babylon A.D. (2008) |
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Oct 2007 21:50 Post subject: Re: [NR] Babylon A.D. (2008) |
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aww shit 
in any case, the novels don't really sound that much alike ..
| Quote: | A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Serbian Mafiosi, Babylon Babies has as its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Thoorop who is hired by a mysterious source to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. A garden variety job, he figures. But when Thoorop is offered an even higher fee by another organization, he realizes Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and the possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is carrying a mutant embryo created by an American cult that dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah, a dream that spells out the end of human life as we know it.
Inspired by Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze, and other extrapolationists of the future, Babylon Babies unfolds at breakneck speed as Thoorop risks his life to save Marie, whose brain -- linking to the neuromatrix -- loses all limits and becomes the universe itself. Exploring the symbiosis between organic matter and computer power to spin new forms of consciousness, Maurice Dantec rides Nietzsche's prophecy: "Man is something to be overcome." |
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10615
Book Review - Babylon Babies by Maurice G. Dantec
http://www.sffworld.com/brevoff/252.html
it is curious that those sons of bitches changed it from Canada to China for the movie 
EDIT: nvm, seems IMDb fucked up, he will end up in new york according to
| Quote: | | The adventure goes "across war-torn Eastern Europe to a slightly surreal New York 20 years in the future... in a close future dominated by mafias, media and technology" |
http://michelleyeoh.info/Movie/babylonad.html
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jun 2008 23:07 Post subject: |
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That's the one with tons of Parkour scene's in it?
Anyway, it looks fucking sweet! 
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Jun 2008 01:34 Post subject: |
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looks like XXX goes Sci-fi
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| Posted: Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 10:28 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 'Babylon' Director Badmouths Film
Is there a French translation for the phrase, "Don't bite the hand that feeds you?"
Director Mathieu Kassovitz -- best known in this country for his acting turns in movies like Amelie and Munich -- is an award-winning filmmaker in his native France. He spent the last five years working on his dream project, an adaptation of the French sci-fi novel "Babylon Babies," got a Hollywood studio to co-finance it, and scored a big American movie star to headline it. So now that the movie is coming out, why is he so angry?
In an uncommonly open interview with SciFi Scanner, Kassovitz said, "I'm very unhappy with the film...I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience."
The movie tells the story of Toorop (Vin Diesel), a mercenary charged with protecting a genetically altered young woman from Eastern Europe to New York. Kassovitz said he was interested in what the original book stated about the changing nature of global politics and redrawing of national borders. But he now feels the movie doesn't communicate any of those themes.
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"It's pure violence and stupidity," he admits. "The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters... instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24." >> Read the full interview.
The production was plagued by delays, weather problems, and budgetary concerns. But Kassovitz is now most upset that the studio, 20th Century Fox, edited down his original cut to a short 93 minutes. Vin Diesel jokingly asked if he was still in the movie after all the edits. The director said that he's happy with some of the scenes in the final product, but mostly he feels regret. "I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn't allowed to work...I should have chosen a studio that has guts." |
 Welcome to the wonderful world of Hollywood , Mathieu Kassovitz .
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| Posted: Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 10:58 Post subject: |
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lol they knew an intelligent movie wouldn't work so they have to make pretty explosive action scenes for teenage retards
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| Posted: Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 11:04 Post subject: |
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well , Children of Men who had most of the same themes floped at the boxoffice and that movie was really good
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Sep 2008 20:19 Post subject: |
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children of man , well i guess im older than you guys or have a really bad taste on mmovies
Cyborg:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097138/
"Gibson Rickenbacker is a hired fighter living in a plague-ravaged apocalyptic America where a plague has infested most of the United States and the rest of the world. In New York City, Gibson encounters a woman named Pearl Prophet. Pearl reveals to Gibson that she is a cyborg who is carrying vital-information for a group of scientists in Atlanta who are working on a cure to the plague and Pearl hires Gibson to escort her back to Atlanta."
| Sin317 wrote: | | while you can't "turn gay", you can cut off your balls. believe me, you'll never think of women again. |
| zmed wrote: | | Or just a defense mechanism. If you fart, you'll most definitely smell it so your brain tells you it ain't bad as strangerfarts. |
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Sep 2008 20:31 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | But Kassovitz is now most upset that the studio, 20th Century Fox, edited down his original cut to a short 93 minutes. Vin Diesel jokingly asked if he was still in the movie after all the edits. The director said that he's happy with some of the scenes in the final product, but mostly he feels regret. "I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn't allowed to work...I should have chosen a studio that has guts." |
Well, what the hell, pussies, make a stand and disallow the release of the movie (or threaten Fox to dis it at every chance, which is basically the same). But, yeah, everyone are such pussy wussies, afraid for their necks...
20th Century Fox...  Why does anyone even want to do films with them anyway. |
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Sep 2008 22:43 Post subject: |
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What happened to Vodka anyway? Gets people to do work for him then fucks off? 
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Sep 2008 01:13 Post subject: |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Sep 2008 02:16 Post subject: |
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What a pussy ass thing to do imo
Atleast tell the people you cant pay them or something. Pure scam
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Sep 2008 02:28 Post subject: |
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innocent!
cockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcock
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Sep 2008 04:43 Post subject: |
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if he's innocent, how come Nuclear hasnt received any money yet? 
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Sep 2008 04:49 Post subject: |
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its in the post
cockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcockcock
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| Posted: Fri, 3rd Oct 2008 22:40 Post subject: |
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Babylon A D R3 XviD-AKCPE
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 06:22 Post subject: |
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how much money was he gona get anyways?
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 11:23 Post subject: |
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Petit girls are the best.
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 11:28 Post subject: |
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So which is better, the dvdscr or the R3?
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 11:42 Post subject: |
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the DVDscr is nuked
Nuked: no.english.subtitles.for.russian.dialogs_p2p.source.reencode_tinyurl.com.5ywpga
I hope there are not a lot Russian dialogs.
But they say that the picture and audio are great.
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BTW Hi Juba! Knew you'd come again. |
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 13:43 Post subject: |
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| Phluxed wrote: | | Movie was terrible. |
Goes without even seeing it. Cheap trash future Sci-fi with Vin Diesel...common, what else to expect. I bet you there is a bout 10-20 explosions per every 5 min or so but, Hollywood trash at it's best. |
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 13:47 Post subject: |
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No, that's the problem. The action was dull, at best. If it was at least entertaining with big explosions, I would've enjoyed it.
The whole thing was a pretentious attempt at social commentary and angst with religion. Pass if you can.
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