Ugh, Bad

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 2007)

I loved Sin City. I thought it was a cinematic triumph full of action and great conversation. I saw 300 the day it came out and was extremely disappointed. It seemed like the entire movie was in slow motion. It literally took seven seconds just to cut off the leg of some random foot soldier. Slow motion should be used to show a complex move that the viewer would not be able to follow in real time or to show a slow down in time from the perspective of the focused character. I don't think there is any need to slow something down if it's something that the viewer can obviously see and there is no complexity to the moves that were slowed. Cracking a whip is not complex nor emotional. Flying through the air with a sword is not complex nor emotional. Kicking someone into a giant hole in the ground is not complex nor emotional. The other big reason I hated 300 was the dialogue. It seemed like the entire movie is spoken in one liners just to be repeated among prepubescent, teenage boys. The action is ruined by constant slow motion. There is no thought to this movie, unlike Sin City. I would put this as one of the worst movies ever made.