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stephbgTonight's viewing pleasure came courtesy of Frank Miller: 300. I came for the art design and abs, and stayed for the surprising revelation that the film didn't entirely suck. It grew on me.
I was expecting it to be a bit Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrowish: first the oohing and the aahing, then the snoring and the drooling. OK, I have a thing about David Wenham, but he wasn't quite as cuddly as usual in this, and he talked through his nose. (Go see The Bank, shoo.) I'll grant that we had a bit of an interval in the middle, and I didn't really expect to stay to the end but I was pleasantly (?) surprised.
I must say something about the nipples. What, I'm not quite sure, but they were certainly attention-grabbing. Man, that set must have been *cold*.
The script skimmed a bit lightly over the special bond the Spartan soldiers shared.
Mocking someone for bringing a blacksmith to a pointy iron-based battle instead of bring a soldier is silly. As is using the blacksmith as cannon fodder instead of, oh, blacksmithery. And who was digging the latrines, eh? Who carried the water supply? Who did the cooking? Lit the fires? Kicked the tyres? Sigh, I'm so easily distracted by such things.
All that blood splatter, and no arterial spray. Have these people never heard of CSI and Dexter? Made up for it in quantity I suppose, but having noted that all the blood made the small battlefield slippery, there really wasn't enough of it lying around.
Of course the whole point of the thing was to animate the graphic novel, which I haven't seen, but I thought they did a lovely job nonetheless. All the shots were beautifully framed and lit. I didn't even get bored with all the slow motion, which was a surprise.
I was a little puzzled about our hero King Leonidas. He'd occasionally break into a thick Scottish accent (William Wallace was Greek?), and sometimes slide from declaiming gruff heroics to casual modern banter. Odd. I blame the director.
As for all the abs and leather codpieces... *giggle*
I was expecting it to be a bit Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrowish: first the oohing and the aahing, then the snoring and the drooling. OK, I have a thing about David Wenham, but he wasn't quite as cuddly as usual in this, and he talked through his nose. (Go see The Bank, shoo.) I'll grant that we had a bit of an interval in the middle, and I didn't really expect to stay to the end but I was pleasantly (?) surprised.
I must say something about the nipples. What, I'm not quite sure, but they were certainly attention-grabbing. Man, that set must have been *cold*.
The script skimmed a bit lightly over the special bond the Spartan soldiers shared.
Mocking someone for bringing a blacksmith to a pointy iron-based battle instead of bring a soldier is silly. As is using the blacksmith as cannon fodder instead of, oh, blacksmithery. And who was digging the latrines, eh? Who carried the water supply? Who did the cooking? Lit the fires? Kicked the tyres? Sigh, I'm so easily distracted by such things.
All that blood splatter, and no arterial spray. Have these people never heard of CSI and Dexter? Made up for it in quantity I suppose, but having noted that all the blood made the small battlefield slippery, there really wasn't enough of it lying around.
Of course the whole point of the thing was to animate the graphic novel, which I haven't seen, but I thought they did a lovely job nonetheless. All the shots were beautifully framed and lit. I didn't even get bored with all the slow motion, which was a surprise.
I was a little puzzled about our hero King Leonidas. He'd occasionally break into a thick Scottish accent (William Wallace was Greek?), and sometimes slide from declaiming gruff heroics to casual modern banter. Odd. I blame the director.
As for all the abs and leather codpieces... *giggle*
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