300
I wasn’t exactly gripped by the trailer for 300. Sure, it *looked* good, but I had a hunch that it would be possibly turn out to be the most cinematically stunning, yet boring arty and historical film ever…
Fortunately, it wasn’t the history lesson that I thought it might be. 300 is indeed stunning to look at, the plot isn’t exactly rocket science and it was even quite amusing in places - although that was mostly unintentional.
The gist of the plot actually is that a well hard Spartan leader gets word that a bunch of Persians are camping just down the road, all waiting to attack his lovely land of Sparta. He decides that isn’t good. So he oils up 300 of his boys, makes them wear some small pants, a cape and a shiny helmet and off they all toddle to go repeatedly plunge their spears into the bad guys.
After reading that above paragraph, you’d probably be quite surprised to hear that there are actually some gratuitous jubblies in it too.
Sure, it’s more than a little, err camp. Yes, it is gorgeous to look at. It might be not the bestest film ever, but it surprised me for not being what I expected - and that was a good thing.
Right, now let’s bring on the heterosexual p0rn…
7.5/10.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Ha ha, you make it sound like a gay porn movie. I have to admit that fighting in just your pants and a superman cape does seem a bit silly and pretty much garanteed to get you killed, no matter how oiled up your pecks are. Personally I would have let others do the fighting and go live up on that mountain with the nubil oracle birds…mmmm nice, is it just me or is it chilly in here!!!
April 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Perhaps we’ll get a sequel called “301″ where all the lady Sparta people go out in their skimpy knicks and oil each other up?
April 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
God we can but hope!
April 29th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Ahhhhh 300 men walking about for days & days & more days… in in lil leather meat pockets… with no soap, showers, baths or deodorant… tasty!