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Review: Babel

Before I start this, I suppose I should tell Mom that when she called last night and I said I did nothing all weekend, it must have slipped my mind that I had a packed weekend except for Sunday. So when Sunday night came around and I was talking to her, I was zonked from being inside and cleaning all day long that I could not recollect anything of importance that happened in the past weekend. Sorry Mom!

But there were good times to be had on both Friday and Saturday. After work on Friday we headed out to Darcy McGee’s for an after-work pint which turned into a taster platter from Ireland. Awww yeah. I highly recommend buying it wherever you can. It’s good to get a taste of different beers.

Once I hit home around 8PM, I entered just in time to catch Babel on the television, which Mike and Carolyn had rented. Bonus!

All in all, the movie entertained me but I wouldn’t say it was mind-blowingly amazing. I enjoyed the storyline, the characters, the character development and how they tied together in the end. I definitely recommend the movie to everyone but I just can’t see why it was nominated for many Oscar’s. Big celeb Brad Pitt makes an appearance in the film which I hope for his sake that his white hair on the sides isn’t his real hair. Man, that dude looked old!

I’ve noticed that lately in films the big thing is having parties walking around the film and then the audience finds out how they are all connected at the end. This drives the audience wild! “…and then you find out that the post woman was really married to the eccentric millionaire who lost his stuffed bear when he was 7 and it ended up in Antarctica where Tito digs it up while fishing out ice for Apu!” WOW! I must admit that I am also amused when I see a movie that has connected characters in it (but don’t meet within the screen-time) but it makes me wonder what the big fascination with the six degrees of separation is all about.

So…two thumbs up. Check out the film. Supposedly it is part of a loose trilogy of movies where other characters show up in other films. I’ll be checking out the others also.