At 03:45 PM 3/10/07 -0800, channinglylethomson wrote:
>It was a terrific night at the big Imax theatre. One thing crossed my
>mind -- celebrating Sparta is a little like toasting Nazi Germany. I
>hope the film inspires young viewers to learn about the reality of the
>times and some of the deeper meanings of the history involved.
I saw 300 a few weeks ago, albeit not in Imax. It was pretty
amazing although, as drama goes, pretty poor. No one
speaks. Everything is shouted. There's pretty much no
characterization. And it's like a video game, except you
don't get to actually play. Half an hour of story set up
followed by level after level, oops, I mean wave after wave of
different enemies come marching toward our heroes who
fight them off. First one kind of soldier than another kind of
soldier than this kind of animal than that kind of behemoth
then that kind of animal. The only interesting parts -- other
than visually -- were the encounters between Leonidas, the
leader of the Spartans and Xerxes, leader of the Persians.
It's visually stunning, well capturing the Frank Miller imagery
from the comic it's based on. The movie will do huge
business with the high school and college set. But it is
strictly a violent popcorn movie.
(A friend said "two hours of homo-erotic action", which it
surely is.)
Craig.
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