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Well, that's progress I guess. A year ago, we would've had a three page rant about how it would've been "worse".

"Different" is ok. It's a step forward.







I'd almost forgotten that brilliant argument.

So I take it that that's the reason Al-Qaeda isn't attacking American targets anymore, right? Cos you left Saudi Arabia and Bin Laden is now a happy bunny?




Give it a couple of years, and even you will come round to it, in the end.



The perfect premise for a healthy debate.

Sorry to necropost somwewhat, but I finally saw 300 on Friday, and...

Well, first, the good:

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAA !!!

Now, the bad:

It has to be the worst film I've seen in the last couple of years. Easily.

Now, to put it in context, I knew it was going to be "silly". I was not expecting an intelligent film, nor a historical adaptation, I had read the comic before, so i knew what I was getting into. Not only that, but I was drunk, stoned, and with 20 over-exctited Greeks. In other words, I was in exactly the right kind of mood for that kind of entertainment.

Well spank my *** and call my Betty.

They basically took the comic, and shot each frame exactly as it was in the comic. They changed nothing: the dialogues were the same, the angles were the same, the "athmosphere" was the same... But in film, it just doesn't feel right. It looks extremely cheesy. It sounds awful. It's has 0 nuances, 0 grey area, 0 surprises, everything is always what you expect. Always.

Even the battle-scenes are cheap. They don't feel "epic", they're not even really gory. They're just a spear going through a body, repeated for almost 2 hours.

What's worse, is that the battle scenes are the best thing about this film (except the end credits, maybe). When they're not fighting, they're engaged in some of the worst dialogue and wooden acting I've seen in a long time.

Even the Spartans are not that cool. They look like a bunch of He-man on steroids, spending the whole film running around in their tiny briefs. To be perfectly honest, I would not be surprised if this film became a gay cult classic pretty soon.

So, all in all, disappointed. I thought it was a lazy and careless adaptation of a good comic. That everything good in the comic was lost because a movie is more than just flashing images across a screen. It was not even gory. It was boring, predictable, cheesy, and gay.

I was talking to a Greek mate afterwards and he said "Well malaka, it's not like French movie wherenothing happens for 2 hours", to which I replied "True, in this one, the same one thing happens over and over for 2 hours".

And that "thing" is a spears going through a body.

Like I said, gay.