Babylon A.D. – Directors Cut Needed
So I went to see Babylon AD this weekend. I like Vin Diesel movies, so I thought I’d give this one a try, even though it looked like it might not be that great.
And it turned out that the movie was pretty bad. The camera motion especially. During fight scenes and car chases the camera jerks around so much that you can’t even tell what’s going on. Maybe people think that jerking the camera around makes the movie more exciting, but it doesn’t. It makes the movie nauseating. And while I won’t spoil it for people who have yet to watch the movie, I hated the ending. It was lame. The weird thing was, the whole movie seemed kind of disconnected and not quite right. It seemed like the movie could have been much better. I was reading about it on wikipedia and stumbled onto the fact that the movie was taken away from the director and royally screwed up from what it originally was. Here’s what wikipedia says about it:
Director Mathieu Kassovitz has expressed outright disgust with the distributors, 20th Century Fox, for removing the movie from his control and altering it significantly. He described the film as “pure violence and stupidity” and that “parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24.”
This makes me wonder, if a directors cut was ever released would he fix it back to how he intended it to be and make it a good movie, or did 20th Century Fox remove the movie from his control early enough to make it so that it’s not salvagable.
Anyway, if it is possible, Director Kassovitz, it would be great if you would release a directors cut and save us from the bad movie Babylon A.D. has become.
