300Whoa! What a movie!! It just overwhelmed me!! It’s the kind of experience that you go through once in a few years! A visceral assault is what it is! By the time I came out of the movie hall, I felt like a Spartan myself! Cinema at its stunning best!
They were 300 Spartans against a million! No prizes for guessing who would win. But it was the sacrifice of those 300 Spartan Warriors that inspired whole of Greece to fight and eventually win against the Persian Empire!
The film boasts of Visuals that one has never witnessed, war sequences that are spectacular and outrageous but so very believable! Violence like you have never seen! Heads, arms and limbs fly in the air, torsos without heads fall to the ground in slow motion, gallons and gallons of blood splashing around, definitely not for the weak of heart! 300 is a war poem on celluloid.
Exaggerated heroism is made believable by some really good acting and some splendid action choreography!
300 is Zack Snyder's second movie, Dawn of the Dead (one of best modern day Zombie movies) is his first! This movie is based on Frank Miller's GRAPHIC (note the capital letters, it is that graphic!!)Comic book and the movie is loyal to the comic book, it is a very difficult comic book to adapt but Snyder has done it and has done it in style!
Gerard Butler breaks into the A list of actors with this movie, a star has arrived! What a convincing performance as King Leonidas! All the other Spartans and the Queen are played really well! The Persian King xerxes is a bit oddly characterized but passable!Zack Snyder has arrived and how! Hats off!! This is an Movie experience worth undergoing, a battlefield epic that is just spectacular.
Memorable Quotes
"We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known." – Dilios
"A new age has begun, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it." - Leonidas
Warning
But before going to watch 300, you need set your expectations right, this movie has tons and tons of violence, outrageous action sequences and a loud retro soundtrack! This is not everybody’s cup of tea, there is just too much violence, lot of people might get offended, bored or will miss the point. Be forewarned; understand what you are getting into before going for this movie!
9 comments:
This movie can be watched only for the action scenes alone. Incredible green screen acting by the ppl and superb art work that gives a graphic novel feel to the movie. Apart from that, there is as much story in it as a videogame even though it is based on a true event. The slick cutting of limbs and heads gets boring (repeat boring) after a while and the violence becomes meaningless. The enemy numbers are exaggerated and they don't look like real ppl. Maybe the makers wanted to convey some political meaning :-)
Seriously Mate.. Heck of a movie..
Really am eager to watch it again..
BUT.. only on the big screen..
Rajasekaran my friend, since when have you become Rex Maximus? And, you have a nice little blog that I never knew of, you dont allow commenting in your blog, so I have to say all this in here!
About exaggerations, the makers (Zack and Frank) already have several times mentioned that the movie is historically inaccurate, sometimes intentionally to make the movie appeal more to the MTV kind of audience!
Caesar Ji, for me once was fine, don't know if I will be able to enjoy it as much watching it the second time!
btw, why have you stopped updating your blog? you must be having a lot of stuff to say!!
Time.. That is something which I am a bit short on.
Specially Time to get some thoughts to put on the blog..
Lot of things moving on the personal front...
Guess that spares me only office time to do that..
Let me find some effort to put against GCAL to update my Blog..:-)
Caesar ji, you are a funny man! I guess at the end of it, you would be posting your gyan from this period in your life!
....and tomo you gonna dine with Five pretty women!! :-) [I had to write this...though I know the comments are strictly abt the movie]
ha ha! very funny! but i guess you didnt count yourself in that 5 righ?
I'll let you decide that :-)
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