I worked on Babylon for 4 days. "La La Land" is my favorite film and Babylon was my most anticipated media project of the decade so far (besides Top Gun: Maverick) before worked on it, this production was a full circle/360 experience. The best job of my life and 1 of the best, happiest and greatest days/times/experiences of my life. This was a dream come true. I watched it yesterday (only 1 in the theater/no distractions), what a surreal/magical experience. I'm also in 4 or so shots 👌. Thanks for watching everyone! Can't wait for all of you to see what we've created!

You should do a Oscar Expert Awards!

i think this film does such a good job portraying messages that aren’t obvious. sure this movie is about hollywood on surface level, but i’ve yet to find anyone talking about the less obvious things. while we were all distracted by the bizarreness of the film, nobody has mentioned how Manuel and Nellies relationship is actually such a good example of a toxic relationship. we root for them until the very end despite them both not being good for each other, which i feel is so powerful. also just the random bursts of emotional moments in the chaos of life, applies to everyone.

This movie seems to be divisive and that gets me excited.

Actually, the official number (budget wise) is 78 million and the box office predictions have been climbing higher, I also think that it will play well internationally (mainly, because Brad Pitt still sells quite a bit - sure, he is half canceled in the US, but that doesnt have that much of an effect outside of the states).

It was sick, twisted, nostalgic, hallucinogenic, manic, hedonistic and over-the-top. And I liked it very much. Being familiar with 1920's-1930' Hollywood and its demons will help as the characters are composites of real people. Reading the book Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger will definitely help. The music is awesome. The film visually stunning.

This seems like a fever dream of a movie… I can’t wait to see what else Diego Calva does in his career. Also I noticed a pattern, in the past 30 years only 3 actors have won the Best actor Oscar without a Best Picture nomination and/or win: Hanks, Denzel, and Bridges, To me I’m beginning to think Colin Farrell is the frontrunner.

Just saw this movie in the theaters. I feel like I’ve had an out of body experience and I’m not sure if it’s in a good or bad way.

This is exactly the type of movie I like to see on the big screen and I'm going to see it in theater. Loved Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and La La Land on the big screen

Best reviewers on YT 👏 the fact that you guys go in so much detail when talking about a film really is great. Keep up the good work! 👍

I mean, the reason why Manuel climbs through the ranks is Hollywood is simply being at the right place at the right time and doing whatever it takes on set. Ex. pushing through to get the elephant to the party, getting the camera for the final shot, vouching for Sidney and getting him into films, finding Jack at the right time, rooting for Nellie and her career, etc. - Any Hollywood executive can look at that and be like, oh, he knows how Hollywood works and he's willing to do anything for the films, and cast and crew, to succeed.

Well well! Good morning you two! Can't wait to see this next week! Merry Crimbus bros!

I've been waiting for this since I tend to agree with your reviews 90% of the time :) Wanted to know if I need to run out and see this or wait till it streams

Hmm, you make it sound like Damien Chazelle made a Licorice Pizza filtered through The Wolf of Wall Street which, not gonna lie, makes it sound even more enticing (I love it when respected auteurs are given budgets to basically do whatever they want and they do something off-the-wall)... it does, however, make me skeptical of its Oscar chance because, while both movies I mentioned were ultimately nominated for Best Picture, they were both quite divisive, which may hinder the nomination count and the wins. Also, the Brad Pitt character sounds like the kind of character who may be an anchor for older voters who can connect to watching an industry they were a part of become unrecognizable, so I wouldn't be that surprised if he does ultimately end up nominated... I sadly won't be able to see the film for a while (it won't be arriving until mid-January), but I look forward to it...

I loved it 🙏 It was a little messy and batshit crazy but I loved it

I really like this movie VERY MUCH!!! I like messy movies…..job well done. The story line was well told. He definitely told the Hollywood story in the rise of it. Some screen made me cry.

How similar is it to Once upon a time in Hollywood?

Of his work "La La Land" I've watched 14 times............. It lifts me up.

if people are predicting elvis for editing, i don't think theres any way they wouldn't put babylon in as well.

I love you guys, but if I may give some feedback, I think this review reveals a bit too much about the film. That's just me though, I don't know if anyone else feels the same. Keep up the great work though, your predictions are the best!

The more I get to know stuff about this movie, the more it seems to me as a new Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" without the depth of that. Don't forget the costumes. Mary Zophres is definitely winning Costume Design.

Well I'm definitely hyped now!

This isn’t anything like uncut gems i hope. That movie literally gave me anxiety. It seems chaotic. Which is fine as king as it isn’t filmed like uncut gems. I need some air to breath every once and awhile

Thanks, OE! Thanks, BB! 🎉 All of your thoughts are valid and I agree, for the most part. I'm just getting back from a screening of BABYLON so my mind is still percolating with it all. I enjoyed it... like a roller coaster ride... but I was really surprised that it evoked such deep emotions in me during the bit at the end (in the cinema as 'Manny' had an incongruous reaction to what the audience was perceiving as comedy and then going esoteric before turning the reaction into something different... illustrating Manny's full emotional journey). I hope Mr. Chazelle's next one is more in-line with LA LA LAND (which I will re-watch in a matter of days)... but, hey, it was an interesting way to spend 3 hours. #TheOscarExpert #DamienChazelle #Babylon #Babylon2022

8 out of 10 is definitely not a mixed bag boys!

Going to see it on the 24. I like movies that are different like "Everything èverywhere".

I’m so excited for this movie! Can’t wait to see it 🙌

Can't wait!

Understandable but personally I absolutely loved it. Honestly my favorite movie of the year and an absolute masterpiece in my mind. My favorite Chazelle

It’s kind of like Moulin Rouge on coke meets singing in the rain on acid

I'm going to need Damien to write a part for a black person that's outside of being a musician.

The movie flopped big time at the movie box office last weekend for the reasons you stated. The movie took in 5 million dollars against a budget of 80 million dollars. Like you I was turned off by the elephant defecating at the beginning and began to think how I was going to sit through this movie for three hours.

Personally, I feel score is a possible win. It has the more in your face style but based on the music released it’s very repetitive and sounds very much the same. I feel a score that wins awards should be diverse in nature covering multiple emotions. Personally based on all the scores that have been nominated and the amounts of music listened in the tracks, I feel this year could be a more competitive than previous years. But time will tell as the winners are announced for the up coming awards. This is just my opinion, but it’s an opinion coming from a student bachelor of music in composition. Don’t know if it gives it any merit 🤷‍♂️

I liked the idea of the ending but it felt sloppily done and tacked on by a focus group for me. The film also often felt more like a tribute to Boogie Nights. But I’m glad I saw it and there were some truly remarkable scenes.

This aged well! Look at the oscar nominations: Babylon is nominated for Production Design, Music and Costume Design!

Nailed this review.

It's like the dark part behind what inspired Singing in the Rain. Not real. It's wild. I enjoyed it.

But the idea for Calva's chatacter is to be a passerby behind the scenes who had a dream, the problem is for him not to be a protagonist enough in his own film hahaha

I loved this film

I think avatar would challenge it regards production design, cinematography and sound

Saw this last night...would only give it 6 out of 10. Some great scenes, but I felt ALL of the three hour runtime. Favorite scene was Jean Smart's character talking to Brad Pitt's character about the decline of his career. I didn't believe Margot Robbie's performance at all...and what was with the 80's style hair on her? But the film was beautiful to look at.

LALALAND X ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

I really like it though I almost had to throw up like 3 times lol it was an out of body experience for sure it never slowed down & it was absolutely ridiculous but it was a good film & didn't feel the 3hr runtime

Bombed at the box office

Hyped to have first comment, big fan of you guys

i honestly feel this movie could have been a killer tv series

You guys are dead on about Brad Pitt's character: he's only given so much screen time because he's played by Brad Pitt. I didn't like the film. Movie anymore are just cobbled together from better older films. The Scorsese sweep from Goodfellas (which was ripped off in Boogie Nights). Scenes that try to be Tarantino--and they're not Tarantino (Once Upon Time in Hollywood is far superior). I thought this movie was a mess. It didn't go all out for its comedy (like Blake Edwards' S.O.B.) and it's not good enough to earn a place with Sunset Boulevard or The Bad and The Beautiful. At the end of the movie, the clips from better movies made me feel like I should've been watching those movies instead of Babylon. Everything was great...except the script and the direction.

cause it look just exactly like a kitchen sink, which we all got one of, but this one is somehow extra... what...? weird?

I’m a little bit disappointed, because I’m a big fan of Chazelle and I was kinda hoping that the movie would destroy everything we knew about the current award season and suddenly be THE favorite for the major awards

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People will be retracting their negative comments in ten years or so. Brilliant movie.

Movie was good, but the trailer is extremely misleading from what it really is. Also, I will die on this hill, but that Nely La Roy was meant to be played by Britney Spears. It’s literally her life.

A talented director who happened to make a film with one too many bad choices. From questionable styling to a botched "Aha" ending we saw a mile away that eventually felt unearned, DC wanted to make an epic about Hollywood excess but ended up with an epic mess.

cole is so much hotter now with longer hair and hoodie.

This movie was satirical entertainment at its finest. Love it or hate it, you’ll leave the theatre saying Wow! Two thumbs way up.

I love la la land and whi[lash but this one did not cut for me.

This film is terrible. Too long. Too chaotic. And just disgusting. Half the audience left halfway through.

The “Old Hollywood” aesthetic is being really overdone lately

Brad Pitt is not a good actor. Fight me!

Interesting how reviews from 2 weeks ago were good and now recent reviews have been more negative and the box office sales bombed, haven’t seen it yet but most say too long, terrible ending and more shock tacticscthan a great script.

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hollywood needs to chill on films about hollywood 3 have come out this year alone

Just saw Babylon, and it’s a certified piece of 💩. Others in the theater walked out, and I had to force myself to sit through the full 3 hours.

save your money & time

It also completely ignored the birth of the Motion Picture Academy and the artists who founded it. That happened, so, yeah.

Three-hour running time and in the low 60s on Metacritic (so far). This gets yanked from the watchlist.

Did you say that an elephant defecates on people in a very Trumpy way?

Pitt? Robbie? Pass.

La land was overrated

This film will get nominated for about 7 Oscar’s, winning none. Too divisive.

Guys, watch Boogie Nights, which puts this movie to shame

This movie is self-indulgent garbage. Three hours? For _that?_ I want those three hours of my life back. This was the most poorly written mess I've seen in a long time. It's hilarious that some pretentious cartoon of a snooty snob character in the movie loftily tells Brad Pitt's character to 'try subtext' and he flips out on her and tries to champion how films have meaning even if they don't have subtext, *but of course the subtext is this particular film doesn't have that meaning.* _Babylon_ is a bloated, angry love letter to the bad old days of Hollywood that literally no one alive can remember or be nostalgic for, because that was literally a century ago. And it tries to depict this cautionary tale in a self-defeating way, because the haphazard attention to period details and over-the-top nature of the 'shock' elements (seriously, is anyone still shocked by this type of thing?) just gives the whole movie an unreality that completely undercuts that message. Unless that was the intent, in which case, go jump in a lake, Damien Chazelle, no one has time for your boring navel-lint-gazing nonsense. Certainly not _three motherforking hours._ This movie just does not work on any level except as a cautionary tale of what happens when you give some 'auteur' director a blank check and creative carte blanche.

It took me about 5 days to get through this movie and it’s a mess. Hard to root for these characters and really impossible to get invested. I’m tired of hearing about this director and how he us great. Sorry not after this mess.

La La Land feels like the only movie he should have made

I worry about the people who genuinely liked this film

movie was trash

They only Chazelle movie I liked was Whiplash. I hated everything else.

It's a mix of WOLF OF WALL STREET - HAIL CESAR - BOOGIE NIGHTS - GREAT GATSBY nothing about it is Original whatsoever .. So disappointed

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