my turn to rave about 300...
hoping to avoid the 300 wave by coming here? nay. not when this geek is up and about. ok, it's been a week since i watched it, but i'm sticking with the timeframe of missed updates.
well, it was a late show at plaza sing with the freshies and i think no other movie i have watched in recent memory has a more emphatic opening than "THIS IS SPARTA!" before having leonidas kicking the hapless, "i'm-immune-to-violence-cos-i'm-just-the-messenger" persian messgenger in the chest and sending him down the well.
certain bits were over the top, like how xerxes looked like a total faggot on the battlefield (those horrible eyebrows, or lack of it, whichever suits you... and that gold chain mail thong... ugh.), the immortals (surely, everyone disfigures themselves for the sake of the "god-king" and has weapons grafted onto them) and the war rhino (i believe i read somewhere that rhinos were beasts of war... but i don't think the persians had rhinos... i could be wrong... but till i'm disproven, they're not really factually correct), but i enjoyed every minute of it, especially with the really memorable lines from gerard butler's leonidas. as nirwan described it, he brings a good deal of energy to the role.
and to my surprise on coming home and doing some wiki-ing, it seems that frank miller got the history down quite accurately. of course, i'm not surprised that some bits were added in to sex up the story (literally in the case of gorgo's "affair", which apparently wasn't in the graphic novel itself) and to give the whole tale a more familiar comic book surrounding. but all in all, it definitely made for a brilliant story about honour, duty and sacrifice.
and of course, those oh-so-memorable lines which you've seen on people's msn nicks (if not mine, then maybe even your own).
well, it was a late show at plaza sing with the freshies and i think no other movie i have watched in recent memory has a more emphatic opening than "THIS IS SPARTA!" before having leonidas kicking the hapless, "i'm-immune-to-violence-cos-i'm-just-the-messenger" persian messgenger in the chest and sending him down the well.
certain bits were over the top, like how xerxes looked like a total faggot on the battlefield (those horrible eyebrows, or lack of it, whichever suits you... and that gold chain mail thong... ugh.), the immortals (surely, everyone disfigures themselves for the sake of the "god-king" and has weapons grafted onto them) and the war rhino (i believe i read somewhere that rhinos were beasts of war... but i don't think the persians had rhinos... i could be wrong... but till i'm disproven, they're not really factually correct), but i enjoyed every minute of it, especially with the really memorable lines from gerard butler's leonidas. as nirwan described it, he brings a good deal of energy to the role.
and to my surprise on coming home and doing some wiki-ing, it seems that frank miller got the history down quite accurately. of course, i'm not surprised that some bits were added in to sex up the story (literally in the case of gorgo's "affair", which apparently wasn't in the graphic novel itself) and to give the whole tale a more familiar comic book surrounding. but all in all, it definitely made for a brilliant story about honour, duty and sacrifice.
and of course, those oh-so-memorable lines which you've seen on people's msn nicks (if not mine, then maybe even your own).
greg last trudged in on 3/25/2007 12:35:00 am
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