Comments on: Alas Babylon

By: Captain Mac

Captain Mac — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:14:26 +0000

Anyone remember that Dolph film where he was a cop chasing an alien who was harvesting endorphins from people’s brains, because to him it was a drug? Called Dark Angel I think. Not as bad as it sounds!

By: David Williams

David Williams — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:50:03 +0000

I wish he’d get the green light to do “Hannibal the Conqueror”. Apparently he was gonna do it in Phoenician and Latin, which would have been cool as ##. I can’t believe it’ll ever go through now.

By: NewsCat

NewsCat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:24:48 +0000

I don’t know. Vin Diesel was rather good in The Boiler Room. But he probably get offered bigger money to do silly comedies and big budget action flicks. He’d rather be Arnold Schwarzenegger than an “actor.”

Dwight “The Rock” Johnson seems like his counterpoint who is trying to build up goodwill doing small parts (like Get Smart) so he can be an “actor” and not a joke.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:24:09 +0000

@Paul: well, for me Dolph falls into the guilty pleasure category. I mean, Red Scorpion was awesome. Even though it sucked.

By: paulB

paulB — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:23:49 +0000

I remember watching a Hauer film called Blind Fury, it was great when I was a kid but I caught it again the other day, phew, what a stinker.

I guess after Blade and Hitcher he kinda hit the straight-to market and went down hill.

Reminds me of Dolph Lundgren, I still cant bring myself to watch Jonny Mnemonic again.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:13:06 +0000

@Brian– nice one, dude.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:12:17 +0000

@Captain Mac: agreed. Hauer is a god because of that movie and those lines, and always will be. It’s just too bad his career went so far south subsequently to that. . . .

then again, I always had a weak spot for Split Second.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:52:51 +0000

RT rates it 05%…Ouch!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/babylon_ad/

Saw DK on Imax this evening. Awesome!

By: paulB

paulB — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:45:56 +0000

from what i gather an hour was cut from the film and the director didnt enjoy making it [see link]

http://io9.com/5041725/director-of-babylon-ad-calls-movie-terrible-experience

although the studio is saying different

http://io9.com/378897/160+minute-european-cut-of-babylon-ad-never-existed-say-filmmakers

but i agree that Vin needs to find another agent and maybe concentrate on some smaller indie films and get back to his roots

By: meesh

meesh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:18:53 +0000

i took the advice of this williams guy and went to see vin’s flick.

i have to say that i was sort of taken aback by the beginning thinking it MIGHT actually be an okay film but well, it wasn’t.

i started laughing a lot toward the end and at the end i was laughing probably too hard…..but so was everyone else.

i wish vin would do other movies with actual goodness.

he’s not the greatest actor in the world but the movie makes him look like an idiot.

which i know he isn’t but then again, i don’t know the guy.

but it was entertaining enough and i love laughing…..and the whole audience laughed at the end……i like that in a movie where the whole crowd is as amused as me!

but i am glad i went. always good to see some future shit in a movie that i think could be not so far off from where we might be headed in reality land.