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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-08-28 11:13 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-08-28 11:13 pm
Maybe I'm thinking too hard about shitty movies.
So I got home from work today and my brother was watching 300 on Pay-Per-View. I hadn't actually seen 300 when it came out, so I settled down thinking that if nothing else I could just watch Gerard Butler's abs...
Oh boy did that movie ever rub me the wrong way. Even if you take it as a dumb gorefest popcorn flick, it... really wasn't that great. It was trying. It was trying really, really hard to be awesome, or at least convince the audience that it was awesome. And I think it was the trying too hard that ruined it. The slow-motion, the uberdramatic cinematography, the dramatic one-liners ripped shamelessly off Herodotus, all trying desperately to convince you that this was The Important Dramatic Scene. Except... every scene was like that. Way to utterly fail to build tension, guys. By the way, what did those poor Photoshop filters ever do to you?
And frankly the content pissed me the fuck off. Not even the twisting of the original tale, that I can deal with if it's done for a reason. Right when the narrator started going off on the weird mystic pervert dudes that I refuse to call Ephors, I started thinking, "Oh, fun, an unreliable narrator, now maybe we'll get to see how Leonidas' hubris led to his fall at Thermopylae! Not accurate, but fun!" Hahaha no. No unreliable narrator, or at least the creators didn't intend one. Everything meant to be taken at face value. Lots of stupid stuff meant to be taken at face value. Ugh. Not cool.
Won't even get into the Deformed and/or Randomly Ethnic Because Of Course There's No Difference!Persian Hordes, or the women who were only there for sex, or... you know what, why am I raising my blood pressure over a movie based off a fucking Frank Miller comic? I should just go calm down and watch one of my Les Mis DVDs or something.
Oh boy did that movie ever rub me the wrong way. Even if you take it as a dumb gorefest popcorn flick, it... really wasn't that great. It was trying. It was trying really, really hard to be awesome, or at least convince the audience that it was awesome. And I think it was the trying too hard that ruined it. The slow-motion, the uberdramatic cinematography, the dramatic one-liners ripped shamelessly off Herodotus, all trying desperately to convince you that this was The Important Dramatic Scene. Except... every scene was like that. Way to utterly fail to build tension, guys. By the way, what did those poor Photoshop filters ever do to you?
And frankly the content pissed me the fuck off. Not even the twisting of the original tale, that I can deal with if it's done for a reason. Right when the narrator started going off on the weird mystic pervert dudes that I refuse to call Ephors, I started thinking, "Oh, fun, an unreliable narrator, now maybe we'll get to see how Leonidas' hubris led to his fall at Thermopylae! Not accurate, but fun!" Hahaha no. No unreliable narrator, or at least the creators didn't intend one. Everything meant to be taken at face value. Lots of stupid stuff meant to be taken at face value. Ugh. Not cool.
Won't even get into the Deformed and/or Randomly Ethnic Because Of Course There's No Difference!Persian Hordes, or the women who were only there for sex, or... you know what, why am I raising my blood pressure over a movie based off a fucking Frank Miller comic? I should just go calm down and watch one of my Les Mis DVDs or something.