When I reach the end of my life I know this is going to flash in as part of my memories and even then there will be no words to explain this. Personally, calling this a once in a lifespan masterpiece is still probably not enough.
Hideaki Anno... I honor you and your work with great admiration.
This movie is, like, simply good, very good, look at the cover for heaven's sake, U need it.
It feels like this film has put a new spirit in me. The day I watch this, it was raining. People are known to feel depress when rain come but not I. What I know is I felt changed within myself from the combination these two. It made me understand more on how we're all a piece of something on this collection of life.
I brought the Redux version of this, and....what to say? Everyone I ask on "how is this movie?" told me it's just plain strange or weird. There is definately something about this movie that makes it haunting and I will gauretee this will change something in you (either your opinion or feelings). War is terrible but Vietnam was different, there is much secrecy we live off because of this era. I can go on but this is definately a masterpiece.
Hell, met most of my expectation but I still feel like I didn't get enough for a 100% satisfactory. But I'll still give it five out of five since almost every fight scene, line, and detail had put a smile on my face. April 21, 2007 is when I saw it and I went back into the theatre to see it again.
This is a pieace of work and is simply beautiful. But the book is the masterpiece. If I read the book before the movie this would never been on my favourites lists.
The performance of this film is nothing less than great. Most people might not have the patience to enjoy this but the personal stories in Babel are heartfelt. If not all at least one the scenarios will have some relevance.
There's nothing I could say to you that this series already has. All I can say is don't judge to much on its presentation because there's more underneath the skin than just blood. Until I understand life better the more Neon Genesis Evangelion will stick to me.
Some can say that this is beta than Saving Private Ryan.
When you see this DON'T ignore it. Rent it.
This movie is intense. It is NOT "just another senseless war movie!" This is a story of a family (mainly the brothers) who got caught up in a war that probly set off the fear in the Cold War and was one of the causes on why America was in Vietnam. The conflict of this war still affects us to this day.
See for yur self!
17 years old is when I watch this and I've watch all sort of horrors including gut-wrencher like Hostel or High Tension but this MOVIE is the back-of-your-mind scary. The type of scare only your own imagination can do.
What is funny about this is that, it's not really a Horror to me. It's more of a court drama which I guarentee it will catch your interest; surround by a girl who suppose to be possessed by demons or metally sick. The real story happen in Germany around the early 1970s; and the way the story is presented, it allows you to determine what is true or what is false.
I say 5 stars I it 4-1/2 since it did give me a fright afterwards.
:( [I know, big sissy aren't I]
Don't think of me as being too naive when I say this; but, I am speechless with enlightenment. This is surrounded with a gorgeous, symbolic nature. The sound, the story, the visual design is a balance of splender. A smile brews within my mind.