Thu, 15 Mar 2007

300 - ***

Well, maybe that tranny story I told had some subliminal truth to it. Let's see how Sunday's events go together. I drove to the Castro to pick up Angie. We went to the movies to see 300. I had a Queen CD in my car stereo. Yeah, all three of those things go together (not that there's anything wrong with that. . . ).

I feel guilty that I wanted to give this 2 stars originally. But it's true. When I came out of the theater I was flying high thinking- oh, this will be four stars for sure. Either I need to see it again, or the 3DMT ™ has worked its magic.

The good: respects the source material; good acting; visually stunning; good stunts*; excellent sound (they had the sound cranked up at Daly City 20); entertaining. . . .

The bad: extremely predictable story and cliched bad guys

Notes: chicks will love this- tons of eye candy for the men; I of course lovedappreciated in an artistic way the nudity of the Oracle, the Queen and the few Persian dancers, except that Boxing Helena one. . . (aww who am I kidding, I'd still date her)

Is it worth seeing in the theater? Yeah, it is. Would I see it again? Sure. Do I have much more to add? Not really. A reluctant 3 asterisks.

Angie thinks it will go into semi-permanent rotation at the Castro Theater soon.

*For some reason, I dunno, maybe because of Tae Kwon Do, I really like movies that are shot like 300 where they slow down and speed up the stunts. 300 was filmed in 50fps I think (I could be wrong on this) and it was great how they could really slow down the action as a massive punch was landing or a spear was stabbing. But what impressed me was when they were fighting the bad guys, I wound up watching how the bad guys acted after they had been stabbed or hit (or lost limbs) really nice flips, spins and hard landings.

One other thing- Gerard Butler's assaccent was really distracting at times. When he was talking about Sparta, it reminded me of ME doing a horrible impression of Eddie Izzard impersonating Connery as Bond. "Ehr, Mish Moneypenny . . .Dish is Shparta!"

15 Mar 22:42 | /movies | 2 comment(s)