Xerxes goes BWAH.
Went to see 300 again today. Random (and silly) observations result.
- There were several moments when I fully expected Gerard Butler to strike a dramatic post and burst into "Music of the Night." *snarf*
- I didn't mind the narration all that much (although it got seriously overdramatic at times), but...why was Daisy/David Wenham's voice so nasal? He does have a slightly nasal voice to begin with, but at some points during the narration, I was wondering if they made him read it with a clothespin on his nose or something.
- The dialogue seemed much more cheesy this time around. Probably the first time I saw it I was too busy being wowed by all the fight scenes and amazing visuals and so on to realize just how awful the dialogue really was. That said, who really goes to movies like this for the script?
- I still maintain that Xerxes was really a Goa'uld. *nod* All the signs were there. Severe god complex? Check. Unnaturally deep voice? Check. Fascination with shiny gold things? Check. Really frightening fashion sense? Check. I probably just cursed a bunch of horrid SG-1/300 crossover fics into existence...although now that I think of it, that actually could be an interesting read. It'd take an extremely talented author to pull it off, though.
- I'll never be able to read the book of Esther in the same way again.
- The whole "field of wheat" thing there near the end struck me as being totally ripped off from Gladiator. That irked me a little.
- Michael Fassbender is pretty hot. He has kind of an unfortunate surname, though.
- The guy who played Theron was pretty hot too. (Even if he was Obnoxiously Evil.)
- Actually, nearly all the major players in this movie were pretty hot. And everybody keeps saying it's such a guy film. Bah.
- The sequence during the first battle scene when Leonidas takes down a frillion Persians, and it alternates between normal time and slow-motion...is one of the coolest things ever filmed. That in itself was worth the price of admission.
- This interview with Rodrigo Santoro amuses me a lot. Poor guy. I think before that interviewer learns any more words in Portuguese, she needs to learn the word "subtlety" in English.
- There were several moments when I fully expected Gerard Butler to strike a dramatic post and burst into "Music of the Night." *snarf*
- I didn't mind the narration all that much (although it got seriously overdramatic at times), but...why was Daisy/David Wenham's voice so nasal? He does have a slightly nasal voice to begin with, but at some points during the narration, I was wondering if they made him read it with a clothespin on his nose or something.
- The dialogue seemed much more cheesy this time around. Probably the first time I saw it I was too busy being wowed by all the fight scenes and amazing visuals and so on to realize just how awful the dialogue really was. That said, who really goes to movies like this for the script?
- I still maintain that Xerxes was really a Goa'uld. *nod* All the signs were there. Severe god complex? Check. Unnaturally deep voice? Check. Fascination with shiny gold things? Check. Really frightening fashion sense? Check. I probably just cursed a bunch of horrid SG-1/300 crossover fics into existence...although now that I think of it, that actually could be an interesting read. It'd take an extremely talented author to pull it off, though.
- I'll never be able to read the book of Esther in the same way again.
- The whole "field of wheat" thing there near the end struck me as being totally ripped off from Gladiator. That irked me a little.
- Michael Fassbender is pretty hot. He has kind of an unfortunate surname, though.
- The guy who played Theron was pretty hot too. (Even if he was Obnoxiously Evil.)
- Actually, nearly all the major players in this movie were pretty hot. And everybody keeps saying it's such a guy film. Bah.
- The sequence during the first battle scene when Leonidas takes down a frillion Persians, and it alternates between normal time and slow-motion...is one of the coolest things ever filmed. That in itself was worth the price of admission.
- This interview with Rodrigo Santoro amuses me a lot. Poor guy. I think before that interviewer learns any more words in Portuguese, she needs to learn the word "subtlety" in English.