300
I’ve learned my lesson about sneaking in into M18 movies.
There’s a reason why a rating is there in the first place, M18 = NUDITY.
Call me immature or conservative or asexual, but I feel really uncomfortable when I see women’s boobs filling up the screen, especially when men or my guy friends are watching the same scene. Doesn’t it feel awkward that you’re watching a scene where a person of your gender is flaunting her/his stuff while the other gender’s watching? -Shiver-
The movie was 300. If it weren’t for the boobs and degrading of women by making them offer sex to men by showing off their boobs [I'm not too sure about the latter though, because I shielded my eyes once boobies came to view, and I heard funny noises. Funny noises! Ahh!], maybe I would’ve liked it more. But boobies didn’t take up most of the movie, so thank goodness.
I wonder why women boobs are always shown, but male genitals aren’t.
Not that I would want to see, but…
It also makes me uncomfortable when I watch actors have sex in a movie. Practically every movie contains sex, sometimes I think the producers just say, “Hmm. Let ‘em do sex. Let’s just smack a love making scene there so the element of ‘love’ is inside. That’ll make the protagonist macho AND loving. Bingo.” It’s to the point where the sex scene means nothing, it’s there for commercial purposes.
Such as The Island. RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE, the girl and the guy did it. Like, boom. No gradual flirting, no suggestive body language, etc. The sex scene was so contrived!
That’s why I think the greatest movies are the movies which don’t follow the typical plot line of 1) Protagonist is macho, has an identity crisis, and says, “Who am I?” 2) Some gorgeous girl must be involved, 3) have sex, 4) hero wins and marries gorgeous girl.
I don’t have a problem with sex, but I have a problem with watching people have sex.
Okay, digression regarding unmentionables aside.
Back to 300. It’s a pretty awesome movie, I think. I was pleased to find out that my friend and I share equal dislike for Ong Sor Fern, a journalist who wrote a disapproving review of 300. In fact, she wrote disapproving reviews of every movie I’ve liked, and her flowery language is just fluff with no substance.
My friend said, “Yeah, everyone liked 300. Except Ong. Sor. Fern. That woman ah, she only likes those girly girly romance movies. Sheesh.” Damn right.
Anyhoo, once again like the Ghost Rider, I think the script needed a bit of work while the visual effects were A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
The Spartans’ accents jumped all over the place. Gerard Butler (Leonidas) sounded Scottish, David Wenham (Dilios) sounded Australian, Andrew Tiernan (Ephialtes) sounded English. Yet they’re Spartans, they’re not meant to speak English in the first place hahaha. Plus, the Chinese warriors spoke some English too. Teehee. I guess I’d expected their language to be more grand and olden, it sounded a little too modern sometimes for me.
There was one scene where Leonidas climbed a heath to visit the 3 oracles in order to gain the blessing of the Gods for his war plan. Either 3 or 4 oracles, I’m not too sure because they looked the same.The scene totally reminded me of Macbeth. A heath. 3 or 4 monstrous, non-human figures. The figure said, “We’d been expecting you.”. Ring any bells?
The gore didn’t bother me too much. There is a lot of stabbing and blood though. I was, in fact, mystified that the pints of blood spurted out of the victims vanished in mid-air. There was no blood spilled on the ground, despite the massive Golgotha.
Also, there was one scene where a huge ass Nathan-Jones-Lookalike monster started killing everyone, and he was totally indestructible.
Got stabbed in the arm, he pulls the sword out.
Got stabbed the neck, he pulls sword out.
Got stabbed the EYE, he pulls sword out. [My face went into "Wtf" mode at this one]
Finally, Leonidas got fed-up with the monster’s apparent invincibility and sliced off the head. I was like, “YES!”
I was also really looking forward to seeing Xerxes [Guy in golden Speedos in the picture below] in action. However, his eye makeup made him look girly and his voice sounded, purposely I suppose, Godly. Like Darth Vader sort of Godly. But he looked awesome anyway, like this:
Awesome picture, even though he’s practically naked in golden Speedos and funky gold piercings.