300 movie review

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not what I expected but hilarious none the less:

no need for spoilers:

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There?s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he?s got Rosie O?Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (?DUDE-ITY?)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they?re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31520

:LOL:
 
sounds bad, trailer had a good look to it though
 
so is bad?

one thing I dont like is that everything looks like too digital
 
Hmm. I'll be seeing an advance screening this weekend, so I'll keep you lads informed. For the record, this review looks good.
 
The movie is not intended to be historically correct. The movie is only based on the comic, so there would obviously be some out of sense stuffs in the movie. (Seriously, you people think the Persians really had trolls?)
 
The guy who did the review seemed to love it. 2 hours of pure ass kickery? Sign me up.
 
I just get this feeling that people want to hate this movie just for the sake of hating it.

None the less I should be seeing this on IMAX and loving it.
 
Does anyone think those persian troops reminds you of the Harad army from LOTR with mumaks and everything? Xerxes reminds me of the Mumak rider from Return of the King.
 
My most anticipated movie of 2007. CANT ****ING WAIT!!!! IMAX HERE I COME!
 
Combine Hybrid said:
Does anyone think those persian troops reminds you of the Harad army from LOTR with mumaks and everything? Xerxes reminds me of the Mumak rider from Return of the King.
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Cept it's based off of a graphic novel that I'm almost positive was written before the LOTR movies.

And yeah, all but one AICN reviewer loved this movie, although the guy who didn't (I want to say it was Massawyrm?) gave a pretty convincing case of why it sucked. I'm still ultra-optimsitic though, between this and Black Snake Moan, it looks like Q1 of 2007 will actually be a good quarter.
 
That review was obviously a joke, the comic had no ninjas, wizards, or the like.
 
As my myspace profile says (which obviously makes it a fact) it is my favorite move ever. Even though it isnt even out yet. And to prove it, here is some red sauce on pasta:

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Krynn72 said:
As my myspace profile says (which obviously makes it a fact) it is my favorite move ever. Even though it isnt even out yet. And to prove it, here is some red sauce on pasta:

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ROLF!:thumbs:
 
You're rolling on a laughing floor? Well, I can imagine it was hard to keep your balance.

TONIGHT, WE DINE IN HELL!
 
Hey folks! Thunderclap here, having just returned from an advance screening of 300! In all honesty, that reviewer hit it on the nail. :LOL: The Spartans really do fight ninjas [Immortals], wizards [naptha throwers], and an ogre miniboss [an ogre miniboss]. There wasn't that much dudity as the reviewer said.

In all honesty, I'd give it an 8.5/10. It wasn't sheer awedropping awesomeness as it was hyped to be. I still liked it, don't get me wrong, but I wasn't going ZOMFG the whole time. I had a similar reaction to Snakes on a Plane. Both good films, but not the film to end all films as everyone thought they'd be. The last time I was genuinely awed by the silver screen was the Siege of Minas Tirith in LOTR:ROTK.

This may or not have something to do characters. Like the reviewer says, no one is going to 300 for the damn character development. I certainly wasn't. Still, I felt little emotional investment in any of the characters, except for David Wenham, and that was mainly because he was David Wenham and he had a sporty beard. I forgot his character name, he was the bard in the comic. For the time being let's call him Sergeant Faramir.

The art direction was stunning, no need to tell you that. Some of the Persians were pretty...out there. Xerxes stood about 9' tall, and had a voice that made James Earl Jones sound like a little girl. The Immortals resembled ninjas with Kabuki face masks and even had the Darth Vader respiration. The Persian executioner looks like something out of a fantasy novel. When Ephialtes in conducted into the royal pavilion, there is an African courtesan wearing an alarmingly huge afro. I assume afros existed back in the day, but I still found it rather jarring. :afro: All in all they made the Persians very alien, which added to their mystique.

In the end, despite what I've said, I still recommend this good but terribly overhyped movie. I'm still looking for the film version of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire which had a massively superior plot and character development.


EDIT: Oh, almost forgot! I counted. There are no less that four, count 'em, four parts where Gerard Butler is not shouting (two scenes of manly brooding, and two scenes of simmering, barely controlled barbarian rage). I was astonished.
 
I can’t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN’T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.
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rofflecakes!
 
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