more "overkill" than necessary.

genius.

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/index.html

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300 again

When the digital effects technology looks old and outdated, is there anything left to make the movie great? In short, will it be remembered? Probably not, not with Sin City available. Sin City does a better job in both reproducing the graphic style and delivering the substance, the essence of the source material. 300 just seems to be copping a style, riding someone else's coattails.

cliche effect: film tinting (not sure the official name of that process)- Lord of theRings did it. The Matrix did it (subtly). Oh Brother where art though did it.

cliche effect:lens flare.

As much as i have to gripe about 300, it reproduced the images of the graphic novel to the screen as faithfully as i've ever seen. So technically very well done. The Art people, awesome. But they're not the problem. they've never been the problem.

We're expected to believe that a battle-hardened Spartan, hearing his father call his name, will suddenly fail to hear a horseman approaching him at full gallop, blade leveled at his neck.


In places the movies was just so serious it was pompous. I think the music didn't help. Pompous music, practically Wagnerian. So yes, Hitler would have loved this movie. But mainly for the beautiful men. He loved beautiful men.

But the music, jesus. Those electric guitars during the battle scenes, yech, it just doesn't match. It's a disconnect & it brings me out of the picture.(i'm sure for every one who recedes, four advance(is bothered by it, buy into it(go 'cool')))


It's like if that scene with Leonidas chilllin' eatin his apple had him listening to his IPod. You go 'honk!'It makes a record needle screeching sound (even though none of the audience really knows what a record needle looks like.)

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goofy monsters: in 300

1. Fat fish executioner-dude. No lines. his scene's about a minute long. He has no role in the battle.

2.War Rhinocerososes- not in graphic novel. Added most likely because of War Elephants in Lord of the Rings.

3.War elephants. And then there are war elephants too. just like in lord of the rings.

4.Evil goat-head orgy dude- not in graphic novel. i love this scene. Ooh, he's being tempted by the dark side! Amputees and goat-headed guys and oh my god, are those women kissing? edgy.

5. I totally forgot about the troll dude who cuts Leonidas' helmet. He looks just like... yes, the troll in Lord of the Rings.


The only 'monsters' in the graphic novel are the hunchback and the oracle priests.

300 -why the monsters?

the movie 300 i mean.

It's really dumb. dumber than the comic book, which is pretty cerebral as comic books go.
I really don't get why they felt the need to put in all those goofy monsters that aren't even in the comic. It's like they have this impression that comic books are crap. Or they have the impression that people think so.
But here's the thing: The comic books that make it to the movie stage (achieve such popularity that movie people are aware of them) are different from other comics. They stand out from the crowd. They're not typical comic books. To take that and then just throw a bunch of what you think is typical comic book stuff in... 'because people expect it'

fuck that. have some guts. For a movie that's about guts.

Speaking of guts, in the graphic novel the spartans all fight naked. Cause they're that tough. The movie gives them brown trunks. What would really take some guts is to be true to the comic. But there could never ever be male nudity in a movie- even an R-rated movie. I guarantee no one considered it even once.
Maybe that's a good thing considering how many people commented on the "nudity" in the movie.

other lame thing: bad guys all have piercings. ooh, scary. To old people, maybe.

firemen

these guys seem to me to have a warlike perhaps better to say soldierly mentality.
I don't think that's bad at all. i mean that in the most positive way. And of course they're doing good stuff. Heroic stuff actually. They're real life superheroes. Kind of like tow truck drivers. Rescuing people in jeopardy.

I wonder why that is. Maybe it's normal for anyone, any group, that's gone through something horrible together.

modified pacifist

Some on e who believes in avoiding conflict whenever possible, but has a limit beyond which violence is permissible.

Amdittedly, much of thisa knowledge is received through movies and comic books.

stilll...


To me this is a workable strategy because;

A. It admits to there always being grey areas in the world. Nothing can be correct all the time. We cannot predict the future. It seems precipitate to make such pronouncememnts.


2. violence is almost always detrimental. Some shit always gets fucked up. It should also be pretty clear that cooperation gets you farther than fighting. Wastes resources(in terms of comflicts like a war(i know. wars stimulate the economy.))

ollll nite 'r

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a zenlike question

I need to make a sound for light.

I need to create a sound effect for a golden gleam of light.
You know. Wouldn't look right without that sound.

So anyways, what sound does light make?


one hand clapping goes... fup... fup... fup...

drag... wait... drop... wait...

time to get another hard drive.