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Okay, so I've been wanting and wanting to see this movie, but at the same time I've been a little hesitant. After all, the previews looked really bloody, I mean, the title of the movie is splattered blood for fuck's sake. Plus my roomie isn't an action movie kind of gal, she just doesn't care for it. I guess it boils down to the fact that she's pretty calm and, well, unviolent in a way that I am. I texted my bro a couple weeks ago asking if he had seen it and whether or not it was good. His exact response was: That movie was awesome. I totally recommend it. (end quote) So I figure if the movie has the ability to turn my macho brother into a valley girl it really had to have been good. Not to mention that everyone I have spoken to has said that it "rocked".
So I finally find someone to go with me, my cousin Liz. Now at first I didn't think that she'd want to see it (I always forget that she likes action movies, she doesn't love them like I do, but she does like a little violence). So I suggested this and IN THE LAND OF WOMEN (which I still want to see), she didn't care which one we saw. So we decided on the 9:45 showing of the girlie movie (because Adam Brody is cute) and went to dinner first. When we got there I decided that I was in a violent mood after all and switched from wanting to see the drama to wanting to go to 300 again. Luckily there was a 9:45 showing of that as well.
So there weren't as many people as there probably is normally but it was 15 minutes to 10pm on a Tuesday night, the joint was never gonna be packed. So there were 4 other people in the theater (bringing it to a grand total of 6) which disappointed me because I kinda wanted it to just be the 2 of us because lets face it... Liz may like action movies but she's a bit of a wimp and has a tendancy to actually scream during the movie. Then there is my complete and utter inability to shut the fuck up during a movie. I've always got to comment on the actors and the performances, the cinematography and the score (of which were all awesome in this movie by the way). This isn't a problem because I've become so accustomed to watching movies with Liz her scream and grabbing my arm during tense moments (whether it be a death scene or a particularly embarrassing scene in a Will Farrel movie) and our entire family talks all the way through movies so we're both used to it and we both do it. But other people in the theater usually tend to be annoyed by it.
So onto the actual movie. It fucking rocked out! Wayne was so totally right (and I plan to call/text him tomorrow and inform him of this fact). The article I read on it was right too. The way that it was animated every single frame could seriously be considered art. The music was so perfect and so right that it really lent a lot to the film. The whole thing was just so intense my cousin was literally shaking from the tension (which is some weird thing she does, I don't know why).
There was more of a love story and emotional base to the story than I thought there was going to be. I honestly thought it was going to be a plot based on needless violence (which I really had no problem with because sometimes a girl needs a little violence in her movies). But there was actually a really sweet (yet tough) love story in there too. Then there was the underlying message of honor and glory... or maybe not so underlying since they mention it several times throughout the story.
So the story was basically the king starts this war (to protect his people from being slaves) and then is shot down by the mystics/oracles (because remember this was ancient Greece, the time of the "Gods") and told not to start a war, to submit because of this festival thing whose name I cannot remember. The Spartan law is that you don't start a war unless the oracle says it's okay and then you have to go to the council. So the king rounds of 300 of his best men (or they vollunteer, because Spartan men/warriors are taught not to fear death and not to feel fear) and they go to fight this army of 60,000.
The battle/action sequences were so well acted and intense and amazing I was literally on the edge of my seat and fisting my hands (I get really into movies). It makes me feel that 300 well trained men could hold back an army that makes the odds 200 men to every 1 of theirs. Like they could really win. They were so well choreographed and intense that my heart was pounding and I squirmed a little every time I thought one of my favorite hotties-I mean soldiers-were gonna get killed. It was intense.
Which brings me to my next point... I want one! I've never seen so many 6-pack abs in one movie in my life! Spartan men fought shirtless! SCORE! Because they were all very well built/toned. There was a young one, Astinos, and another one, Delios, that were so totally hot, that I was completely distracted from the movie to gaze longingly at their abs (they were/are just so pretty). It helps that they were a bit on the smartassy side... that's hot. Sexy and sarcastic bad boys... yes please.
Then there was the bad guy, who I kept screaming for the queen to just stab... and eventually she did, revealing him as a traitor being bought/bribed from the opposing king... after the queen slept with him, his demand for his favorable vote in the council (which he still never gave btw). His line while he had her at his mercy "This won't be quick, and you won't enjoy it" made me grind my teeth and want her to turn and put a dagger in his gut. But when she repeated the same words in his ear moments after she buried a sword in his stomach was brilliant. Then the way she just dropped her hand from the hilt and calmly turned and walked away from him without waiting to hear what the 30 or so men in the council that witnessed it had to say. Her aim was perfect too, catching his pocket (or bag, I'm not sure) and cutting it open to spill all of the gold coins imprinted with the opposing king's face, making it obvious that it was a bribe and he was a traitor.
Still, we can't be completely oblivious to the fact that it was 300 to 60,000. The remaining Spartans went out in style though. They didn't kill the bad king, but the spear thrown at him cought the rings he had piercing his cheek (weirdest piercing ever, by the way) and ripped them out. At the end of the battle only the king was left as the entire army prepared to shoot their arrows. When the arrows were shot (for the second time in the movie) it blocked out the sun. All 300 men were killed in the end, but they died in a blaze of glory and legends.
Visit 300 on the Internet Movie Database
The entire movie was amazing and has me all adrenaliney (okay not a word) and pumped up. I'm actually listening to 'calm music' in hopes to calm myself enough to get to sleep sometime tonight. Please God let it work!
So I finally find someone to go with me, my cousin Liz. Now at first I didn't think that she'd want to see it (I always forget that she likes action movies, she doesn't love them like I do, but she does like a little violence). So I suggested this and IN THE LAND OF WOMEN (which I still want to see), she didn't care which one we saw. So we decided on the 9:45 showing of the girlie movie (because Adam Brody is cute) and went to dinner first. When we got there I decided that I was in a violent mood after all and switched from wanting to see the drama to wanting to go to 300 again. Luckily there was a 9:45 showing of that as well.
So there weren't as many people as there probably is normally but it was 15 minutes to 10pm on a Tuesday night, the joint was never gonna be packed. So there were 4 other people in the theater (bringing it to a grand total of 6) which disappointed me because I kinda wanted it to just be the 2 of us because lets face it... Liz may like action movies but she's a bit of a wimp and has a tendancy to actually scream during the movie. Then there is my complete and utter inability to shut the fuck up during a movie. I've always got to comment on the actors and the performances, the cinematography and the score (of which were all awesome in this movie by the way). This isn't a problem because I've become so accustomed to watching movies with Liz her scream and grabbing my arm during tense moments (whether it be a death scene or a particularly embarrassing scene in a Will Farrel movie) and our entire family talks all the way through movies so we're both used to it and we both do it. But other people in the theater usually tend to be annoyed by it.
So onto the actual movie. It fucking rocked out! Wayne was so totally right (and I plan to call/text him tomorrow and inform him of this fact). The article I read on it was right too. The way that it was animated every single frame could seriously be considered art. The music was so perfect and so right that it really lent a lot to the film. The whole thing was just so intense my cousin was literally shaking from the tension (which is some weird thing she does, I don't know why).
There was more of a love story and emotional base to the story than I thought there was going to be. I honestly thought it was going to be a plot based on needless violence (which I really had no problem with because sometimes a girl needs a little violence in her movies). But there was actually a really sweet (yet tough) love story in there too. Then there was the underlying message of honor and glory... or maybe not so underlying since they mention it several times throughout the story.
So the story was basically the king starts this war (to protect his people from being slaves) and then is shot down by the mystics/oracles (because remember this was ancient Greece, the time of the "Gods") and told not to start a war, to submit because of this festival thing whose name I cannot remember. The Spartan law is that you don't start a war unless the oracle says it's okay and then you have to go to the council. So the king rounds of 300 of his best men (or they vollunteer, because Spartan men/warriors are taught not to fear death and not to feel fear) and they go to fight this army of 60,000.
The battle/action sequences were so well acted and intense and amazing I was literally on the edge of my seat and fisting my hands (I get really into movies). It makes me feel that 300 well trained men could hold back an army that makes the odds 200 men to every 1 of theirs. Like they could really win. They were so well choreographed and intense that my heart was pounding and I squirmed a little every time I thought one of my favorite hotties-I mean soldiers-were gonna get killed. It was intense.
Which brings me to my next point... I want one! I've never seen so many 6-pack abs in one movie in my life! Spartan men fought shirtless! SCORE! Because they were all very well built/toned. There was a young one, Astinos, and another one, Delios, that were so totally hot, that I was completely distracted from the movie to gaze longingly at their abs (they were/are just so pretty). It helps that they were a bit on the smartassy side... that's hot. Sexy and sarcastic bad boys... yes please.
Then there was the bad guy, who I kept screaming for the queen to just stab... and eventually she did, revealing him as a traitor being bought/bribed from the opposing king... after the queen slept with him, his demand for his favorable vote in the council (which he still never gave btw). His line while he had her at his mercy "This won't be quick, and you won't enjoy it" made me grind my teeth and want her to turn and put a dagger in his gut. But when she repeated the same words in his ear moments after she buried a sword in his stomach was brilliant. Then the way she just dropped her hand from the hilt and calmly turned and walked away from him without waiting to hear what the 30 or so men in the council that witnessed it had to say. Her aim was perfect too, catching his pocket (or bag, I'm not sure) and cutting it open to spill all of the gold coins imprinted with the opposing king's face, making it obvious that it was a bribe and he was a traitor.
Still, we can't be completely oblivious to the fact that it was 300 to 60,000. The remaining Spartans went out in style though. They didn't kill the bad king, but the spear thrown at him cought the rings he had piercing his cheek (weirdest piercing ever, by the way) and ripped them out. At the end of the battle only the king was left as the entire army prepared to shoot their arrows. When the arrows were shot (for the second time in the movie) it blocked out the sun. All 300 men were killed in the end, but they died in a blaze of glory and legends.
Visit 300 on the Internet Movie Database
The entire movie was amazing and has me all adrenaliney (okay not a word) and pumped up. I'm actually listening to 'calm music' in hopes to calm myself enough to get to sleep sometime tonight. Please God let it work!
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