300
300 was chosen for the first movie night of the year by process of elimination. Choose the movie with the least bad reviews and go from there. 300 has a lot going for it - nearly naked men, good fight scenes, and a warped sci-fi element to it that makes you wonder if it's really Middle Earth Spartans instead of Greek Spartans. And that's about it.
This was a war movie without a focus. 300 has the basics of a 2 hour visual. There are beginning credits, a bunch of fighting, and then ending credits. For a movie with so much blood, fighting, and loud noises, I found myself slowly falling asleep. The theater was unusually quiet and it was not because the audience was rapt with attention.
Underdog good-looking Spartans have to fight for freedom from the ugly and powerful Persians. That's it. If you go see 300, look for the stylized visual elements of film-making, the costumes, the background, the slow motion blood, the intergration of a graphic novel into live action. It's bloody, lots of head chops, plenty of arrows. Don't go for a plot, a life altering experience, or to come away from the theater thinking "Wow!" (Although the movie does have it's fans who think "Wow!" so more power to them for enjoying 300.)
Gerard Butler who played The Phantom in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera is the lead. He's hot. David Wenham (Faramir from LOTR) is a supporting lead. He's buff too, but I'm not sure how he ended up in this movie. 300 probably won't play well on a small TV so if you want to see it at all, go while it's still in the theaters. Otherwise, give it a pass and save your money.
This was a war movie without a focus. 300 has the basics of a 2 hour visual. There are beginning credits, a bunch of fighting, and then ending credits. For a movie with so much blood, fighting, and loud noises, I found myself slowly falling asleep. The theater was unusually quiet and it was not because the audience was rapt with attention.
Underdog good-looking Spartans have to fight for freedom from the ugly and powerful Persians. That's it. If you go see 300, look for the stylized visual elements of film-making, the costumes, the background, the slow motion blood, the intergration of a graphic novel into live action. It's bloody, lots of head chops, plenty of arrows. Don't go for a plot, a life altering experience, or to come away from the theater thinking "Wow!" (Although the movie does have it's fans who think "Wow!" so more power to them for enjoying 300.)
Gerard Butler who played The Phantom in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera is the lead. He's hot. David Wenham (Faramir from LOTR) is a supporting lead. He's buff too, but I'm not sure how he ended up in this movie. 300 probably won't play well on a small TV so if you want to see it at all, go while it's still in the theaters. Otherwise, give it a pass and save your money.
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