300 Spoilers
Saw 300 with Steph and Dorski. We’re the last three people on earth not to have seen Grey’s Anatomy, but always first in line for sword battle movies.
1. It IS a comic book: the ultimate fanboy wet dream. Visually impressive, storyboard is by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.
2. Is it Gerald or Gerard?
3. Half the movie is in slow motion, including scenes that don’t require slow motion. (She’s scooping water…meaningfully.) Approximates page-turning speed.
4. And you thought gladiator movies were gay.
5. Remember that scene in Gladiator where Maximus is walking in a field of wheat? Now you can see it from all angles!
6. The 300 Spartans are so insanely ripped, you don’t see their faces anymore, just their abs.
7. Trolls! Oliphaunts! Faramir! Wait, that’s a different movie.
8. The queen’s wardrobe: Versace as executed by the window dressers at Carolina’s.
9. Dominic West (McNulty in The Wire) looks like Stephen Boyd, star of camp classic The Oscar.
10. From out of nowhere Rodrigo Santoro (King Xerxes the Drag Queen) snatches the Bella Flores Eyebrow Acting trophy from Thandie Newton in The Chronicles of Riddick and Sheryl Cruz in the telenovela Bakekang.
Kong’s review of 300
Husband: Where are we eating?
Wife: At home.
Husband: Tonight we dine in hell!
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March 7th, 2007 at 23:40
your daily randomness: Milton’s Paradise Lost now a movie pitch. If it pushes through with Daniel Craig as the devil, I say, count me in.
March 8th, 2007 at 02:55
ripped, thighs that has a life of their own, tight bum and olive skinned hot men! 300 is a gay flick and i love love love it!
tsk! should’ve brought rice instead of cheetos when i saw this flick.
March 8th, 2007 at 17:47
I wanted to see this flick,only because of its violence ala Kill Bill!i’ve seen its spoilers and they didn’t impress me at all!
March 9th, 2007 at 09:29
The spoilers for this movie have been in existence since the 5th century BC. :-D
Visually stunning. They really tried to make it a moving comic book. Even the graininess evoked comics. That’s the reason for all the slow-motion shots–so it won’t be too far away from posed, unmoving comicbook panel illustrations.
March 9th, 2007 at 18:26
he ru paul villain with the funny evil voice is distracting.