Agreed. When I said the movie could easily have been trimmed by 30 minutes, the entire Toby Maguire sequence would be my first nomination to hit the cutting room floor. It's not that it's a bad sequence, but it's completely unnecessary and stops the movie cold.
I personally loved Babylon, but I will concede that almost every criticism I've read of it has been perfectly valid: it is too long, too vulgar, too self-indulgent, and way over-the-top (those are also the things I liked best about it, other than the "too long" part: it could easily have been...