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I liked it. was good. I figured it would be more stylized in terms of costume design, etc., but mostly it was believable. I loved the Immortals' masks though they were the exception in believability. Pretty violent. But def in the tradition of Homer and so forth. The narration kind of bugged me. But all the other aspects I liked, except a few hokey lines of dialogue.

Decent movie, but the soundtrack was hilariously bad. When the heavy metal guitars came in while they were doing the "slo-mo walk into combat," people in the audience actually started laughing.

Still, the action was pretty awesome, and that's what the movie's really about, so I'll still give it a B.

I enjoyed it too. It's not as faithful as Sin City, but Zack Snyder did a good job of adapting Miller's comic. I thought it was odd that they added to the original story (for example, Leonidas's wife was in, like, 2 panels of the original comic), but I suppose necessary. I actually like that they added the various monsters, if only because it forces reviewers to stop harping on the movie's realism or factual accuracy (seriously, who goes to a comic book movie and then marks it down for being unrealistic? As a quick look at RottenTomatoes shows, apparently a lot of people).

Also:
- 300 grossed more than its entire budget in its opening weekend, which has fastracked Snyder's next project, Alan Moore's Watchmen.
- King Xerxes was played by one of the actors on Lost. Can you guess which one? I couldn't.

Loved it.

I was disappointed with some dialogue points, but overall I was reeeeeally pleased. IMAX was a nice way to see it, too.

This film is too gay for me.

Watchmen movie is a horrrrrrible idea. Unless they use David Hayter's 300+ page screenplay, which won't happen, it's going to be painful.

Pretty sweet movie. It was kind of annoying how they had the whole family in the wheat field scene like in Gladiator. But I guess that's where all Greeks go when they're sad.

I was a bit disappointed. Particularly due to the fact that about 90% of the movie was in slow motion with garments flowing in the wind, which was tiresome and diminished its effect after a while. And much of the dialogue was shouted and/or in slow motion, with some of it way over the top (I guess this may be intentional). I enjoyed most of the battle sequences though, except for the heavy metal soundtrack elements. The "pellets" of blood were distracting. King Xerxes looked like Dhalsim from Street Fighter and the size difference in his first scene with Leonidas looked really strange. I liked the overcast look of the film, but the whole frame looked vignetted and it felt a little claustrophobic as if it were all on a smallish set similar to that of the Wizard of Oz. This could be intentional as well. For me it did not live up to the massive hype.

B-

WeaselSlayer wrote:Watchmen movie is a horrrrrrible idea. Unless they use David Hayter's 300+ page screenplay, which won't happen, it's going to be painful.

If 300 is any indication of this guy's directorial abilities, it'll be horrible no matter what screenplay is used. It should stay a comic anyway.

Calfborg wrote:I was a bit disappointed. Particularly due to the fact that about 90% of the movie was in slow motion with garments flowing in the wind, which was tiresome and diminished its effect after a while. And much of the dialogue was shouted and/or in slow motion, with some of it way over the top (I guess this may be intentional). I enjoyed most of the battle sequences though, except for the heavy metal soundtrack elements. The "pellets" of blood were distracting. King Xerxes looked like Dhalsim from Street Fighter and the size difference in his first scene with Leonidas looked really strange. I liked the overcast look of the film, but the whole frame looked vignetted and it felt a little claustrophobic as if it were all on a smallish set similar to that of the Wizard of Oz. This could be intentional as well. For me it did not live up to the massive hype.

B-

I think you are wrong. Slowmotion looks great and techniquily this movie is real masterpiece. Fight scenes are fantastic and soundtrack is GREAT (btw it isn't heavy metal, it sound more like hardcore).

PS. He, he your right about Dhalsim I was thinking for a long time where I saw similar face, yeah he really looks like Dhalsim.

Just saw this. I liked it, but for a few things:

(spoilers?)

1) Whenever the film tried to be funny, it felt forced and awkward.

2) Every fifteen minutes or so I found myself saying "oh that shot is straight out of [Gladiator/Braveheart/LotR]. And I found it hard to see past that dude who played Faromir (sp?) in LotR.

3) The emphasis in the dialogue on how (or whether) Sparta would be remembered by future generations seemed very gratuitous. I was reminded of a Simpsons episode (like always) when they made that TV movie "Homer S: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber". One of the overcharged lines the victim delivers goes like "If you don't stop I'll scream so loud the WHOLE WORLD will hear".

Other than that, it was quite enjoyable. A friend of mine has some free passes to a theater that's picking up the movie on its second run, and I may well see it again.

jimtyrrell wrote:And I found it hard to see past that dude who played Faromir (sp?) in LotR.

Are you talking about David Wenham? Guy with a beard... gets his eye poked out, "The gods saw fit to bless me with a spare?" guy?

He's an awesome actor, but what was with his accent in this. He sounded more like an English gentlman than a Greek warrior.

I saw this yesterday. I liked it a lot. Didn't quite live up to the hype, but then again, what does? But as a movie, it is quite well done, with an interesting twist on a historical event (yes, yes, i know its Frank Millers twist, but still).

I studied Greek history, and the battle of Thermopoli for almost a year in High School, so it was interesting to watch it from that kind of a perspective.

The guy I went with, he knew nothing about the historical battle, and turned to me at the end and said "I didn't expect them all to die". I just looked at him, and then yelled "This is Sparta!!" at him for ten minutes.

Those Spartans only had one voice volume. Off or shouting, even when the guy they were talking to was standing next to them. I'm surprised they aren't all hoarse.

Saw this again (in Littleton at Jax Jr.) last night.

Yeah, David Wenham. That English accent is what movies use to express ancient times or evil characters. Oh well.

This time was much more fun though, because the lead character kind of looks like Starfinger's old avatar, and one of the Spartans looked a little like Glenn Case, so I spent the movie picturing Songfighters kicking Persian ass. Good job boys. History will not forget you.

I always thought it was weird that English accent = ancient. The Romans and the Greeks both probably spoke with an accent closer to modern Greek than modern British English, right?

I always find it funny when certain characters speak with British accents and others don't.

You know what movie always bothered me accent-wise? Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. What the hell.

WeaselSlayer wrote:You know what movie always bothered me accent-wise? Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. What the hell.

How about Keanu Reeves as the English Gentleman Harker in Dracula? "Verily I say, dude..."

I used to live in Sparta, NJ, so all that yelling about Sparta was really distracting. I mean, I know some Spartans and they're not "all that".

-craig

Keannu royally sucks in Dracula (no pun intended) but that movie is still one of my favorites of all time.

mkilly wrote:I always thought it was weird that English accent = ancient. The Romans and the Greeks both probably spoke with an accent closer to modern Greek than modern British English, right?

In general ancient = British mainly because epic historical drama = shakespeare.

In this case, though, I think that the main character is Scottish, and he didn't really try too hard to force a non-scottish accent.

This is delicious!

My post count goes up too.