With laughable attempts at Shakespearian dialog, this is a film that will appeal only to adolescent fanboys or enthusiasts of greased, half-naked men fighting each other.
What, all this and iambic pentameter, too? Or has Shakespeare become synonymous with not modern?
But come to think of it, I've gotten a hidden professional wrestling fan in me, too, so I might not be the choir being preached to here.
These reviewers are taking the film WAY too seriously. It's a popcorn film for crying out loud - so what it Gerard Butler uses the word freedom in every other sentence. At my screening the audience whooped and hollered and seemed to enjoy themselves.
Wish I don't have a fever so I can go see films Really wanted to see the Jacques Rivette and the Jiri Menzel. Seems like a ton of people in Berlin got this flu which is going around.
I hope 300 is a piece of shit so badly just so I can dismiss all the exclamations I'm going to be hearing that it's one of the best movies ever made. Yet my desire is in complete contradiction with my belief that a film shouldn't be judged by its advertising. I'm genuinely conflicted and torn up. Does anyone else ever get this way?
Highway 61 wrote:I hope 300 is a piece of shit so badly just so I can dismiss all the exclamations I'm going to be hearing that it's one of the best movies ever made. Yet my desire is in complete contradiction with my belief that a film shouldn't be judged by its advertising. I'm genuinely conflicted and torn up. Does anyone else ever get this way?
I find that anything can be hyped up too much through advertising and become irritating when you can't escape the campaigns. It happens to me a lot with television programmes. The first three times I see an advert it is interesting (this goes up to the the first five or six times if it is something I'm interested in seeing). The next fifteen or twenty times I see the same advert grows the irritation until I'm almost ready to boycott the show!
The same thing happens to me with films and music. I think a lot of people's irritation with Celine Dion is down to how inescapable her Titanic song was for a year and a half, rather than the quality of the song! The same could probably be said about Bryan Adams' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves song or Whitney Huston's version of I Will Always Love You for The Bodyguard. A decade on, and heard occasionally, they can be better appreciated rather than just causing extreme irritation when they are played for the sixth time that day!
That is one reason why I like recording programmes and watching them weeks or months later (and why I prefer the DVD boxsets of television programmes). It divorces them from the hype and I can decide what I think of the programmes without being too biased against them!
I still like to see a lot of things for myself and try to keep an open mind until I finally get the chance to see something. Until then I might say I'm excited about a film or make a few cheap jibes against it (see Borat!), but it doesn't mean I'll keep away from something, more that I've got some other films I want to see more. I'm sure I'll catch 300 later on and like Matt enjoy it for the well muscled abs and carnage eye candy it sounds like it was intended to be. It already has the inbuilt advantage to me that I haven't seen the graphic novel source material and it isn't remaking one of my favourite films!
dude, that trailer has Lena Headey topless! thanks for saving me the 10 bucks!
EDIT: After watching those seconds a few times, It is totally worth 10 bucks to see them jiggle in slo-mo on the bigscreen, and I'm guessing they wouldn't give away all the goods in a trailer.
"One thing that definitely sucks about being a woman in Sparta: it's too god damn cold. You can tell because their nipples are always rock hard."
"I bet they're pretty progressive about gays, though. True, some nationality or other gets called a bunch of "boy lovers," and I'm sure it bugs some of these guys that Xerxes has fruity looking painted on eyebrows. But I think most would agree that this movie would make a good double feature with DREAMGIRLS."
I loved it. It was pretty similar to braveheart, in the way they handle the narrative and storyline, but overall it was very entertaining. I'm pretty drunk right now so I can't go into detail.
SncDthMnky wrote:I loved it. It was pretty similar to braveheart, in the way they handle the narrative and storyline, but overall it was very entertaining. I'm pretty drunk right now so I can't go into detail.
Hey, I am having a bottle of red as well!
From the trailer, the film looks almost like animation. It has a surreal unreal look to it that is distancing. It also looks a bit stupid. The film opens up here soon but will probably wait for DVD.
It is definitely over the top, and some of the effects you can really tell that they are such. For example, one arrow that penetrates a spartan movrs round slightly on the skin, instead of staying put. the film also has nearly a thousand slow motion shots (I'd wager) but the battle scenes (which switch between slow and realtime) look very cool.
Really wanted to see the Jacques Rivette and the Jiri Menzel. Seems like a ton of people in Berlin got this flu which is going around.
He does comic books, people.