Our favorite undergrad Kyle had off on Monday, as did Troy, so we got together to eat food and watch the movie 300. Where to begin.
Part of the reason why I wanted to see this is because of the promos for "Meet the Spartans." I am unapologetically a fan of stupid comedies and the trailer for it falls directly under that. Being said, I do think the trailer ruined watching 300 because I constantly compared it back to the trailer. This all made for many giggles during most of the movie.
It is undoubtedly a good looking movie and I wish that I would have seen it in the theatre. The color was saturated and the art direction/attention to detail is amazing. The blood was fantastic!
But, the whole movie is about dudes without shirts and it is extremely homoerotic. I can see why it made so much money: straight males came for blood, most women and gays came for ripped fuel and everyone came for action.
I did not come for full frontal sex and boobies - but I got them.
I'm not into the bulging biceps and ripped abs. It gives me the creeps. And since we went to that burlesque show back in 2006, I can't really stand the site of boobs either.
Here is a trailer that you probably haven't seen before and might just put the movie into a different light..
Also, the story teller that narrates the movie distracted me the whole time. I couldn't place him for the life of me and wasn't until I looked him up on imdb.com and found that he is none other than David Wenham of Van Helsing fame. (I also like shitty horror/comedies and Van Helsing is a fav.) I don't know what this is going to mean for future viewings, but I'm sure that I will take in less seriously than I did this time.
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