Watching '300'...

[elisi]

It's... extra ordinarily awful. Everything is sepia tinted and stylised (although very pretty) and the script makes everyone sound like fratboys. Plus the accents are *really* weird - I don't believe anyone for a second. It's like... watching a really OTT & camp & ridiculous send-up of LotR. (The amount of guy-liner is seriously impressive!) Although reading history_spork's post whilst watching is nicely entertaining.

Also, I now need to re-watch Vogue. :)

Comments

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I adore 300, it's just a ginormous pseudomasculist bunch of slashy flowers. It's so cute in it's idiocy.

Have you seen that vid:

http://www.myvideo.at/watch/1481498/United_300_Spartans_on_a_Plane

[snickfic]

I hereby take this opportunity to point you to Tet Zoo, one of my favorite science blogs, in which a real live zoologist (emphasis on pterosaurs and certain kinds of dinosaurs) occasionally geeks out about cryptozoology, and also, it so happens, about war rhinos. (I have actually never seen 300, but I know it has war rhinos in it!)

[joking.livejournal.com]

I literally spent the entire time watching that movie laughing my head off. I don't think I spent more than a minute of that movie not laughing. It is so beyond absurd. I think my favorite is when the king calls the Athenians "boy-lovers." Dude. Spartans are famous for their boy-lovin'.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

300 was one of those movies you see because someone else really, really wants to watch it.

I was amused that Iran apparently too the movie as a personal insult

Don't tell my buddy Kirk, but that movie really is in the "Shakocopus" class, isn't it?

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

I really, really hated that movie. I wasn't planning on watching it in the first place, but a friend of mine gave me a downloaded copy he'd got from someone, and I've never seen a film that made me so angry, or made me feel so dirty for having seen it. Racist, borderline-fascist piece of crap.

[elisi]

Watch Vogue! Trust me. :)

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

Hee. The first time I watched 300, I was mightily confused for precisely those things you mention; plus -ancient history buff that I am- I couldn't see why Xerxes should be depicted as a half-naked giant with piercings all over. It improved on second viewing, though, when my expectations were sufficiently lowered to be able to appreciate it for it's pretty pictures alone.

[elisi]

It's so cute in it's idiocy.
Dumb, but pretty, is how I'd describe it! ;)

Have you seen that vid:
I have now! Thank you!

[elisi]

Oooooh thank you! And I love the fact that one of the only sources of war rhinos is an unverifiable wiki entry. I'll bet anything that that's where the film makers/comic book writer got the idea. ;)

[elisi]

It's one of those films that says *so* much more about the creators than they ever imagine...

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

Never saw this film and doesn't intend to do it but the running commentary by History_spork is absolutely brilliant. Wipes tears of laugh.

Thank you Elisi for sharing.

[elisi]

300 was one of those movies you see because someone else really, really wants to watch it.
In our case it just happened to be on TV, and we thought 'Hey, why not?' Also, pretty.

I was amused that Iran apparently too the movie as a personal insult
Well it puzzled us why the Persians were BLACK, not to mention Xerxes being an 8 foot tall drag queen... I can see why they were pissed off. OTOH if that makes the Spartans the US, then 'US = suicidally stupid morons'. *g*

Don't tell my buddy Kirk, but that movie really is in the "Shakocopus" class, isn't it?
Oh yeah!

[elisi]

plus -ancient history buff that I am- I couldn't see why Xerxes should be depicted as a half-naked giant with piercings all over.
It's one of those 'Hey Mr Writer - I think your id is showing movies' and no mistake! *g*

It improved on second viewing, though, when my expectations were sufficiently lowered to be able to appreciate it for it's pretty pictures alone.
Well I'd seen Luminosity's 'Vogue' so I knew what to expect. Kinda. I figured that the characters would have some character, and I also expected a story of sorts. Ah well. 'Twas pretty.

[elisi]

Never saw this film and doesn't intend to do it but the running commentary by History_spork is absolutely brilliant. Wipes tears of laugh.
history_spork is fantastic! They've done LOADS of films - beware, you can waste HOURS of your life. ;) So yeah, my pleasure!

ETA: Also, watch Vogue (got the proper link now) - it's all you need. :)

[makd.livejournal.com]

ITA with everyone who's advised you to see Vogue.

viewing it will increase your enjoyment of 300 immensely --- in fact, you should've seen it BEFORE 300, so you could've laughed throughout the movie as you hummed the music.....

[elisi]

Oh I saw Vogue way back when it was first created, and it was v. interesting to see that the film wasn't really any different...