Reviews

don't see this movie! please!

yesterday I read two reviews by some movie critics from munich, who both bashed this movie. http://www.artechock.de/film/text/kritik/3/30defi.htm I couldn't believe that this movie could be that bad, so I went with 2 friends nevertheless. I liked sin city and was hoping for a similar movie experience.

and yes, the grafics, the pictures, the visuals, are great. They could have been taken from the comic book and brought to life.

but everything else is so incredible stupid: the unbearable dialogue, the over-the-top-acting, the non-existent-script, the whole topic of the film: only men, who fight without thinking, are real men. and of course: they are not allowed to show any sign of weakness or handicap or emotional flaws. but of course the enemy has all this flaws... (there was not one "normal" looking guy on the persian side)

oh my god! who wrote this crap? I am a big comic fan, but only glanced thru the 300-comics by Frank Miller. I should have stayed far away from this movie.

btw one of my friends left the movie early. he just couldn't stand it

it rarely happens that I want to walk out of a movie theatre in the middle of a film, but this time it was very close. I was hoping for a second movie after this 55 minute one, that's why I stayed. this movie is a movie experience gone totally nuts. extremely loud (my ears still hurt) and extremely bad guitar music to fast cut scenes of a man faking to play guitar in the wildest possible moves (he discharges the electric energy in him into the the guitar, electric network, etc.). I am a Manga fan, but this movie (btw it is not an animation movie) has nothing to do with good manga films (Mononoke Hime etc.). Is there anything good I could say about this movie? Nope....

I have seen the movie yesterday and was quite moved by it. I did not expect much (because usually I am not the documentary type), but the mixture of old film footage and photos (with some 20s and 30s music) and interviews of a few of the survivors (7 homosexualls, 1 lesbian) was very interesting. The big thing about this movie is to get to know about what happened in that time, because no one spoke about this when we were talking about the second world war in history class. it is unbelievable that the paragraph 175 existed even till 1969. this is a must-see film !