Kevin's Watch

Syl wrote:What a hollow piece of shite. The cinematography was interesting, but mostly felt like a video game (didn't help that you'd get level one enemies, a boss fight, level two enemies, a boss fight, etc.)

It does seem obvious, now that you mention it. (I've been out of touch with games) And hollow...yep, sums it up...I could delete my previous post and just type in that one word instead.

Not that I personally have anything against the video game style, I just have a problem seeing 300 as a groundbreaking movie.

My wife liked it, though she can't explain why (she smirks when I mention the hardbodies).

I did not enjoy much of it. It felt more like a cliche festival dressed up by its style. The presentation of Persia was almost a freak show. Sure, the movie was based on a comic book, but it's still attached to history.

And I found it hard to stomach Spartans as the standard bearers of freedom and democracy.

Yeah, I wasn't very impressed when I watched it the other day (my ex lent me it and Alexander). aTOMiC explained to me that the story was being told from the perspective of mythology; that this is how the Greeks would have told the story to their children a few hundred years after the fact. That actually helped me stomach it, but I don't see myself watching it again. I did, however, make it through the whole movie, which is a hell of a lot more than I san say about Oliver Stone's 'Alexander the Great', which should have been titled 'Alexander the Slut'.

I enjoyed 300 for what it was and I will watch it again at some point. Mythological is a good way of explaining what is being depicted. If you get too hung up on historical accuracy then you probably don't have much use for the film. I guess I was lucky in that I knew what it was before I watched it and wasn't disappointed. All my wife said when it was over was that she'd become pretty sick of the bloodshed. Heck even the credits were written in blood.

I thought it was fun...I used to be bad at suspension of disbelief. Wish I had seen it on the big screen. However, I was left with a bad aftertaste of Marines and Bush admin ideaology. The oracle did it for me, but then again I'm a lecherous old man.

Good lord; the oracle? I suppose she was cute enough, but how did those Spartans get to be the elitest fighting group ever by wearing nothing but cloaks, WWE underwear, sandals and helmets?

I saw 300 for the second time a couple of weeks ago, becuase a friend who loves it insisted on putting on a pirated DVD of it while he was at my house.

I was even less impressed the second time. The shallow flashiness was harder to stomach this time round, because I knew there was nothing better coming later on. *sigh*

I watched the movie called 300, about King Leonidas of Sparta resisting the invasion of Persian hordes lead by King Xerxes, who wants to be worshipped as a God (and is dressed in an unbelievably gaudy and mist likely hisyorically inaccurate manner). Leonidas and the Spartans resist for a while, defending entry to Sparta through a narrow pass that neutralizes the superior numerical advantage of the Persians. Lots of slow motion bloody violence and a couple scenes of graphic sex. Silly movie, really.

It was silly. But man it looks gorgeous! Glorious schlock.

The sequel is awful.