Comments on: Babylon A.D. and Vin Diesel, revisited

By: Choko

Choko — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:03:26 +0000

Hi, danke Bez

By: markwilliams

markwilliams — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:53:22 +0000

the Mutant Chronicles- has some close ties to “Sunshine” in the way that most of cast dies in heroic patriotic fashion trying to save the planet!

The design of this film was AMAZING and the effects people earned their money for the “look” although the execution was a little too digitized for me at times, and yes the “plot” had holes you could drive 747 though but its still respectable B level action fare.

The cast are all longtime Sci fi vets with an great appearance by John Malkovic.

Bottom Line: B for concept and design, C-/D+ for script but a fun movie if you’re having a sci-fi “grindhouse.”

By: Erik Huntoon

Erik Huntoon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:39:42 +0000

I haven’t seen Babylon A.D. yet but want to.. and Sunshine for that matter. Another one that is on the list. But I will second the mentioning of The Mutant Chronicles. I enjoyed it tremendously on a variety of fronts. The combination of WWI style trench warfare in the far future right along the heavy steampunk setting and a cast of actors that I enjoy. I’ll pretty much see anything that has Ron Perlman in it. The movie definitely has shortcomings, but all in all, I think they are pretty easy to overlook.

By: David J. Williams

David J. Williams — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:53:11 +0000

I think SUNSHINE’s a brilliant movie. . open up that DVD! I’ll post on the movie next week at some point , as I’ve been mulling various aspects of it over.

By: Justin Kugler

Justin Kugler — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:16:01 +0000

So, I guess this means I finally need to watch that copy of Sunshine I bought and never opened (because my friends and I decided to watch The Fountain on our movie night, instead)?

By: David Williams

David Williams — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:25:46 +0000

And let’s not forget the epic fight in the old Soviet factory. You KNEW Diesel was going into that cage as soon as ya saw it. . . .

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:15:53 +0000

See that? I was so excited by this conversation that I didn’t even finish my thought.

Any movie that wants you to take the snow mobile flipping gunfight seriously is worth the price of admission.

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:14:21 +0000

HA!

I call you brother Dave.

I love Babylon AD. Any movie that wants you to take Vin Diesel flipping a snow mobile in a gunfight seriously.

How do you go wrong with that?

By: David Williams

David Williams — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:04:14 +0000

haven’t seen Mutant Chronicles, but will add to list.

Sunshine, btw, is amazing, but you probably knew that already.

By: Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:54:18 +0000

Another beautiful, horrible movie I watched last night: The Mutant Chronicles. First 30 min is cinematically lovely, savage… and mostly incomprehensible. Then 45 minutes of WIN! And bad writing. And plot holes. But comparable WIN! Then last 30 minutes of incomprehensibility and letdown.

So. Much. Potential.

Awesome, beautiful, steampunk world and concept utterly ruined by poor execution and bad, bad, writing.

It was about what I figured, tho: it was in and out of theaters REALLY fast.