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Im trying to get a guys night to check this out at the IMAX then head out for drinks in San Fran afterward but Fandango doesnt have showtimes listed for next weekend yet. If i dont get showtimes befor next monday, i'll set it up for the regular showing next weekend. Then off to play Pool and drink pitchers of beer.

I will be sad if the theater I am going to sells out. It shouldn't since it's next weekend though, I think.

*frown*

Nexa

The local IMAX here is sold out as well unless I wanted to see it at 1:00pm in the afternoon. Which I don't.

Next weekend ahoy!

Aside from the fact that, in the promo at least, Gerard Butler seems to have no ability to modulate his voice outside the range of "professional wrestler" and "boot camp drill sergeant" early word coming in from reviewers that I tend to agree with is that it's a bunch of pro-Iraq war propaganda with a huge dollop of misogyny and historical inaccuracy thrown in.

So...yeah, think I'm gonna skip it.



Edited, Mar 9th 2007 12:14pm by Ambrya

Really? I saw two newspaper reviews for it today, both of which were glowing.

I aggree, the movie is based on the comic book, not historical events. The historical events are a significant influence, but in this age of the interweb, we can all find the real history with the click of a button and we can enjoy a story based on that history just in and of itself.

Sometimes the story is added to just to create a better flow. Other times things are left out just because no one would believe it would be true, a good example is El Cid. He was dead for 3 days when they strapped him on a horse and rode him in front of the troops which scared the crap of the enemy and they retreated. The movie showed him dying just before the battle started, because nobody in modern times would believe that people would hold a body for three days for that purpose.



Edited, Mar 9th 2007 4:41pm by fhrugby

Uh-huh. And that's why the characters are actually quoting pro-Iraq war bumper stickers like "Freedom isn't Free"?



Uh-huh. In my lexicon, a "strong woman" doesn't bargain with her body or "allow" herself to be raped.

Sorry, not buying it. Thanks, but I'll pass. Cheerfully.

Oh, I wasn't putting it down. Just commenting & giving Ambrya a chance to read collected reviews.

Thanks. They're pretty much reinforcing the what I had already determined. Good, mindless entertainment for fanbois who are only concerned about the pretty, lame if you're expecting anything deeper.

Review. If you don't want to read, you've been warned. (no spoilers)
























It is worse than Troy. I took an afternoon power lunch and went to see it.

Rating 1-10, I give 300 a 6.1, still worth seeing in the theater, but if you're expecting an epic story the script doesn't do it anywhere justice. For some comparative rates of movies I'd give.

Gladiator 8.2
LoTR 9.6
Troy 7.3
AnyGivenSunday 8.4 (you'll read in review)
Alexander 7.4
Braveheart 9.3
KillBill 9.5

Review (no spoilers)

Music is totally out of era and genre, cheap heavy metal samplings. There is some decent cinemtography, but it borders on the fantasy side rather than the realistic side (as expected). This ain't no LoTR. You'd think there would be a straightforward story to tell, but the script is bad. It tries to rip off the above mentioned movies in obvious ways, and does it badly. You can tell the studios thought this was the next one of those movies.

Of course Smash got it wrong calling the Spartans right wing nutjobs when the Spartans were commies.

It sounded like George Bush sticking his head in the sand when he said the terrorists hate our "freedom". So tired. I agree it seems intentionally scripted as some cheesy Iraq motivation movie. This seems like a movie that was made to inspire NFL players, but comes up flat. I felt like the Chicago Bears stadium big screen bear was used as the roar of the animals, making noise to drown out the crowd silence while waiting for the snap clock to run some before the next play. Top that with heavy metal music you'd hear live at a pro football stadium and it doesn't do it for me. And it's obvious they failed by going way out of the way to tie in some crappy love story angle so there could be a lead female role, and some actress would have the chance to play the same tired female role as in Gladiator and Alexander, with a whoop di doo twist.

There's some great gore and violence and then there's some cheesy gore and violence. KillBill fountain necks worked in KillBill. They don't in 300. The Princess Bride is more badass than 300. It's no where historically accurate enough. The script is crap. But the shower of arrows cinematography is the best yet. Xerxes throne is kick *** too. In the end I was meh, would watch it again on dvd, but wouldn't pay to see it in the theater again like I did with KillBill and LoTR. I was anticipating better, such that I had to stop off at BestBuy afterwards and pick up some good DVDs, Das Boot and Borat.

The History Channel version of this will pwn the movie.

And yeah here's the wiki link for the Battle of Thermopalye:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae