300: A Movie Review

And here is where I confess that I went to see a movie with 400 sweaty fanboys on a friday night. Now, you remember what happened the last time I went to see a non-morning movie alone, right? Ponyboy came out and I got the wrong guy kicked out of the movie theatre.

But, we're having a bit of a rough time at work these days, and I've been working some hellacious hours so I thought I'd reward myself with a film. Since I have teleconferences at 10am saturday and sunday, that meant I had to go at night. So, I went on my way home to see 300.

Here's the trailer.

Did you see Sin City? Same concept, but so very very very much better. Why? I think cause it was an actual event in history brought to life in a way that sort of resembles a graphic novel, sort of resembles a movie, and sometimes looks like a painting brought to life.

Do you remember the first time you saw Gladiator? Do you remember how fricking cool it was? Maybe I'm just a geek, but I don't think I was the only person who watched that and kept poking my friend to say things like "phalanx! that's a phalanx!" and "box formation! that's impenetrable!". Okay, maybe I'm the only woman, and probably the only 25 year old woman who saw it and did that, but I loved that movie.

Remember Maximus walking through the fields, trailing his hands through the wheat as he walked? There's a lot of wheat scenes in 300.

Remember the scene where the gladiators all lock shields and stick out their spears to trip up their competitors (that's a phalanx, by the way). There's a lot of that too.

Remember how the film was sort of shot in shades of brown? 300 was shot in shades of grey.

Remember the blood and guts? I actually said "oh my god that's gross" in the cinema in front of the fan boys in this movie. However, the arterial spray (and it's accompanying squishy sounds) was more cartoonish than graphic, so it was alright. The decaps were pretty revolting though. I stopped eating my nachos about 4 minutes in. I didn't have lunch. You have to know that was pretty raunch to turn me off my food.

I loved this movie. Guaranteed I'm not going to know more than maybe, um, well no other women who are going to see it. But the guys will agree. Right guys? Oh wait, you're all married, so you'll have to find a good time to sneak out and see it. Suckas.

But really? Go. If you can stand the gore, it's different than anything out there. Tres cool.

And for fun, I'm posting the Gladiator trailer. MAX-i-MUS! MAX-i-MUS!! Yummy.

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   DanMac said:

   the IMAX has been sold out for days but I refuse to see it any other way...

   Posted at 10:50 PM, on March 12 2007

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