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300 (2006)
The mutants ruin this otherwise excellent film
I have been expecting this movie for a long time and at first it was announced for the autumn of 2007. I couldn't wait that long and i'm glad I didn't have to. I felt thrills down my spine for at least half of the movie and some parts were really moving, breathtaking and monumental. Frank Miller is brilliant in some ways but has a few obsessions that he should, in my opinion, get rid of. I would have appreciated a lot more a pure historical film done in this manner, because the film making and the battle scenes are absolutely brilliantly done. My favorite history/drama movie is The Gladiator. If 300 had the seriousness and the deepness of that movie, it would have been the best history/drama movie ever made. If it weren't for the monsters and mutants, it would have truly been a masterpiece... I am looking forward to seeing other graphic novels by Miller get screened because they have that darkness that is somewhat unique. I loved Sin City, but some scenes involving Mickey Rourke, Benicio del Toro and the Yellor Bastard ruin the splendid scenes done by Bruce Willis or Josh Hartnett. It it weren't for that absurd sci-fi - fantasy touch, these movies would have beep quite deep. Frank Miller, grow up man, you're wasting your talent and the genius inside you continues to be a little too childish...
Filantropica (2002)
The best Eastern European movie ever
I saw the movie for 4 times and I truly believe that,although Romanian filmography had many masterpieces,this is perhaps the greatest of them all.Nae Cramfil proved to be a genius and after a period of living outside the borders of his native Romania,he came back to shoot this extraordinary film about the harsh life of Bucharest and about how low can a human being get to survive.(it can get as low to the point where it isn't a human being anymore).The movie shows in a bitter funny way the lives of beggars and the lives of the people ,rich people who profit and thrive because of the beggars.The plentiful life of those who are so cruel that they base their entire existence on profiting from the mercy showed by other people towards the poor or homeless.And Gheorghe Dinica's line at the end of the movie :'If you have mercy,your money is mine" is absolutely brilliant as well as the entire screenplay.