What a waste of $6.50 at the matinee showing.
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Not sure what is worst the filming or script.
Filming annoyed me more.
1) This movie whether it was morning, noon or evening all looked the
same - twilight. It seemed to be in a constant twilight setting. Now
Greece is a beautiful country with nice countryside. One would never
know it seeing this movie. One would think sun never shines bright, land
is a blah color and looks desolate.
This drove me up a wall.
2) Filming of the battle scenes. LOTR:Two Towers, LOTR: ROTK and Saving
Private Ryan showed how to film a battle scene. The filming was almost
too close up and not really taking a full-scope of battle.
Oh even Spartacus almost 50 years ago had better battle scenes - granted
not bloody like in 300.
Also does blood really gush out like droplettes or in a gush? Hacking
off an arm and up like rain - lot of drops of blood.
3) Script: Did George Bush write the script? Lines like "come back with
your shirld or on the shield", "we will not surrender" "we will not
retreat" and my favorite "price of freedom is blood".
Most of the lines by the King Leonidis and his wife seemed like talking
points by the RNC more then natural dialogue.
4) Another thing about the filming. It seemed like every skin blemish
was accentuated. Leno Headley came across as rather unattractive. Nice
figure but with the filming rather unattractive.
5) Did the ancient Persians really have the technology to graft weapons
and skin together to create an arm that is an ax? In the execution scene
the technology used seemed way too advanced. Also did they really
possess the technology to make grenades - granted primative ones but
still grenades.
6) The battle scenes also seemed like a videogame. First wave - practice
with the weakest enemies, second wave better enemies, next a miniboss
battle with that giant mutant, then a minigame of spear against giant
rhino, second minigame of shoving elephants off a cliff, back to
battling masked enemies. Finally ending boss battle.
I know this was a Frank Miller story and I have not read 300 nor did I
read his graphic novel Sin City. The thing is I loved the movie Sin City
- the dialogue was interesting, it was gritty and it was an innercity
locale and rundown sections.
It worked in Sin City. Now you take a land of ancient Greece and the
grittiness of the locale just seems idiotic and doesn't work.
If this movie took place in a post Nuke Greece then the filming would
have been appropriate and on screen good but not about 3000 years ago.
Maybe it worked in the graphic novel but not on film.
Horrible movie. A 1 out of 10. This needs to be nominated as one of the
worst movies of 2007 - well at least for big budget movies.
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Not sure what is worst the filming or script.
Filming annoyed me more.
1) This movie whether it was morning, noon or evening all looked the
same - twilight. It seemed to be in a constant twilight setting. Now
Greece is a beautiful country with nice countryside. One would never
know it seeing this movie. One would think sun never shines bright, land
is a blah color and looks desolate.
This drove me up a wall.
2) Filming of the battle scenes. LOTR:Two Towers, LOTR: ROTK and Saving
Private Ryan showed how to film a battle scene. The filming was almost
too close up and not really taking a full-scope of battle.
Oh even Spartacus almost 50 years ago had better battle scenes - granted
not bloody like in 300.
Also does blood really gush out like droplettes or in a gush? Hacking
off an arm and up like rain - lot of drops of blood.
3) Script: Did George Bush write the script? Lines like "come back with
your shirld or on the shield", "we will not surrender" "we will not
retreat" and my favorite "price of freedom is blood".
Most of the lines by the King Leonidis and his wife seemed like talking
points by the RNC more then natural dialogue.
4) Another thing about the filming. It seemed like every skin blemish
was accentuated. Leno Headley came across as rather unattractive. Nice
figure but with the filming rather unattractive.
5) Did the ancient Persians really have the technology to graft weapons
and skin together to create an arm that is an ax? In the execution scene
the technology used seemed way too advanced. Also did they really
possess the technology to make grenades - granted primative ones but
still grenades.
6) The battle scenes also seemed like a videogame. First wave - practice
with the weakest enemies, second wave better enemies, next a miniboss
battle with that giant mutant, then a minigame of spear against giant
rhino, second minigame of shoving elephants off a cliff, back to
battling masked enemies. Finally ending boss battle.
I know this was a Frank Miller story and I have not read 300 nor did I
read his graphic novel Sin City. The thing is I loved the movie Sin City
- the dialogue was interesting, it was gritty and it was an innercity
locale and rundown sections.
It worked in Sin City. Now you take a land of ancient Greece and the
grittiness of the locale just seems idiotic and doesn't work.
If this movie took place in a post Nuke Greece then the filming would
have been appropriate and on screen good but not about 3000 years ago.
Maybe it worked in the graphic novel but not on film.
Horrible movie. A 1 out of 10. This needs to be nominated as one of the
worst movies of 2007 - well at least for big budget movies.
