Re: 300- The Movie
AROO!
:rockon:
Oh yes. Did I like this film.
It killed ***, for kicking it would be too pansy arsed.
While the beginning was a bit poor (crap use of voice-over narration), the death of the son was retarded, and the political sub-plot is a little too disconnected from the central plot, this film is rockin'.
I ran out of the cinema yelling AROO! AROO! and when I played football today, I was **** in goal (11-1 to them) because I was too busy imagining jumping into the strikers and spearing them through the throat. I WAS WEARING LEG-BRACERS! (Okay, 'shin pads'.)
I love the fact that every villain got properly *****-slapped throughout the film. Yessir! Take that Xerxes you make-up wearing ladyboy! You are owned, Theron you manipulative, traitorous cur! Take that messenger guy who I forget! Choose your words! AROO!
This had the same feeling of righteous fury The Punisher film should've had but didn't.
The final thing is this - Zack Snyder (is that right?) kicked *** as the director. Okay, so he made, what I think are, a couple of mistakes, but y'know what? He did the job right. Case in point - I've never seen someone try to adapt the
spatial time of comics onto the screen. Remember how the film speeds up then suddenly slows down to a crawl, repeatedly, in a rhythmn? I'm sure what Zack Snyder did was slowed the film down for the panels, the sped up parts being the closure of the gutters of the comic book page. I think that's marvelous. It not only made 300 visually distinct, but it allowed for the fighting to use slow-motion to properly allow the audience to consume the choreography
without slowing the pace (Matrix, I'm looking at you).
Directorially, I think he did a great job.
And the voice-over - I hate voice-overs. It's lazy, hack writing. See Adaptation to know what I'm talking about. The voice-over must have a purpose
besides exposition. For it to be worthwhile, if it were removed, something, other than information or 'empathy', must be lost.
Thankfully, in 300, this is the case. While there is too much narration, the use of narration is actually a well-used tool in this film because it pays off. The final scene, where we see 30,000 troops led by 10,000 Spartans defeating the Persian army and we realise their sacrifice saved their people, doesn't work without the narration. Play it in your head. Imagine, no narration, then at the end, we get a bit of speech, then they charge. It seems tacked on, it seems contrived, forced, and sentimental. But by having the voice-over carry from the beginning, it ties that scene, emotionally, directly to the causality of the 300. Without it, they disconnect.
So, yeah, I'm really impressed with this.
I actually think Watchmen might make it.
:lol:
