j_cotte
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19 years
Reviews
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005)
Bad over-dramatized one-dimensional movie
Like the title of the film, the summary of my comment says it all. And like you don't really need to read my comment (there are better, more-detailed ones at the bottom), you don't need to see that movie.
It's a German movie trying to be as bad as a Hollywood flick. All the cheap ingredients are in. Moving facts, average acting, music swelling to tell you when to reach for a Kleenex, very one-dimensional or idealized characters, and a script that too- conveniently compacts events together to fit nicely into the time it takes to eat a bucket of popcorn. Sure, it'll move quite a few people and shake quite a few Germans, the ones who won't come out full of pride with the fact that there was a resistance. A nice little mix of sad events and feel-good conclusions. I.e., the usual Hollywood stuff that gets nominated for an Oscar year after year in recent times. Nothing new, nothing realistic, nothing really well-done.
More intelligent things about this time of German history and this particular occurrence could be packed in a 10-minute conversation between intelligent adults than in the run time of this movie. It's good that there are still movies about Nazi Germany, to make sure we never forget that time and its lessons, and it's good that young Germans question themselves about what they would have done in similar conditions. But please let the questions come from better movies as this.
It's a German movie trying to be as bad as a Hollywood flick. All the cheap ingredients are in. Moving facts, average acting, music swelling to tell you when to reach for a Kleenex, very one-dimensional or idealized characters, and a script that too- conveniently compacts events together to fit nicely into the time it takes to eat a bucket of popcorn. Sure, it'll move quite a few people and shake quite a few Germans, the ones who won't come out full of pride with the fact that there was a resistance. A nice little mix of sad events and feel-good conclusions. I.e., the usual Hollywood stuff that gets nominated for an Oscar year after year in recent times. Nothing new, nothing realistic, nothing really well-done.
More intelligent things about this time of German history and this particular occurrence could be packed in a 10-minute conversation between intelligent adults than in the run time of this movie. It's good that there are still movies about Nazi Germany, to make sure we never forget that time and its lessons, and it's good that young Germans question themselves about what they would have done in similar conditions. But please let the questions come from better movies as this.
Der Wixxer (2004)
Not funny, just plain horrible
Clearly not a movie for everybody. Seeing the number of positive reviews this film gets, it nearly feels like a duty to add a negative review to the few already posted, as a warning to potential viewers.
It was just painful to sit through the entire movie. And I like silly comedies, I like "nonsense". I can find redeeming qualities in a movie if it is at least vaguely entertaining or if it makes me laugh out loud a few times. In a word, I'd be a good audience for this type of film, if only it had something good in it, anything. But this was just plain horrible. "I want those 80 minutes of my life back!"TM
I did laugh a few times, but it was really not enough to justify the time invested in watching this. Go rent a "Naked Gun" flick or something by the Monty Pythons ("Hitler in England", for example) instead. Even a Ben Stiller comedy would be better.
It was just painful to sit through the entire movie. And I like silly comedies, I like "nonsense". I can find redeeming qualities in a movie if it is at least vaguely entertaining or if it makes me laugh out loud a few times. In a word, I'd be a good audience for this type of film, if only it had something good in it, anything. But this was just plain horrible. "I want those 80 minutes of my life back!"TM
I did laugh a few times, but it was really not enough to justify the time invested in watching this. Go rent a "Naked Gun" flick or something by the Monty Pythons ("Hitler in England", for example) instead. Even a Ben Stiller comedy would be better.