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When the digital effects technology looks old and outdated, is there anything left to make the movie great?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.)

Zwoip!