Disappointed by Babel

[jdc115]

Originally Posted by Blu n Gold

no...

Crash the 2004 Academy Award winning Best Picture is the film Babel is being compared to.

But it did not rip off Crash. Crash already ripped off Amores which came out in 2000. I am just pointing out that the director of Babel already did the same type of movie (about a car crash no less) long before Crash came out.

[Octavio]

Originally Posted by jdc115

But it did not rip off Crash. Crash already ripped off Amores which came out in 2000. I am just pointing out that the director of Babel already did the same type of movie (about a car crash no less) long before Crash came out.

And I repeat: Babel's 1st draft by Guillermo Arriaga was completed back in 2003. That's one year before Crash's theatrical release.

So it's impossible that Babel could be a rip-off from Crash, actually Crash is the one that should be labeled as a rip-off from González Iñárritu directorial debut (Amores Perros) as jdc pointed out.

[DavePS3]

Babel was brilliantly done and IMO says a lot about our current society and attitudes. The separate stories although seemingly totally separate, do mesh into each other. It's certainly not an action movie but more of a study of human character. I liked it.