BABYLON is in theaters now! Catch Li Jun Li, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, and more in this truly wild ride of a film. Here’s a brand new featurette for you with the whole ensemble on the making of the movie! New film footage adn interviews featuring the boldest ensemble of the year.
Paramount Pictures Presents
A Marc Platt / Wild Chickens / Organism Pictures Production
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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Maybe as a result of lowered expectations I enjoyed it more than I thought I would after the somewhat negative reviews.
It still feels excessive but there were some captivating scenes like the parallel movie making montage and crazy ones like the rattlesnake fight.
And maybe less would've been more, but to follow the story arcs of Manny, Nellie, Jack, Sidney and Lady Fay wasn't uninteresting.
I wonder if Olivia Wilde's role at some point was meant to be more substantial.
[It’s] a wildly maximalist fever dream epic of bravura filmmaking in fictionalizing much of Hollywood history’s truly decadent past. Chazelle films this like it’s the last movie ever made and put he puts every idea he has on the screen. It's an extreme response to the nostalgic themes of La La Land to the extreme. Its biggest flaw is also its chief aim in a commitment to over-the-top theatrics fuelled by lurid excess (and tons of cocaine).