Class shows when there is no class

[grinninfoole]

I worked late today, and after work I stopped by M's place to divvy up the farm share. Wound up having some dinner, and then joining her for a trip to Popcorn Noir for Zack Snyder's 300. I cannot recall having ever seen a worse movie.

The visual effects were OK in places (well composed, so stylized that they weren't interesting), some of the

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[millari]

I remember thinking during the first 10 minutes: "Is anyone going to actually have dialogue in this movie, or is it all going to be stylized imagery with an ridiculous voiceover

[grinninfoole]

I'd like to think that she was repeating to herself "this will lead to something better" over and over. And, since she's now Cersei Lannister, I think it did.

I'm weirdly glad I saw it, too: now that I have done so, I can shit all over this terrible movie with impunity.

[anagramofbrat]

The only point of 300, I think, is to be fodder for endless THIS IS SPARTA references and animated gifs. also to ensure that Gerard Butler and Lena Headey went on to bigger and better things.

Xerxes reminded me disturbingly of Ra in the Stargate movies.

It doesn't work as a movie. As a visually striking painting that happens to be animated? maybe. But then there is already the comic book so IDK.

[grinninfoole]

Xerxes did seem a lot like a taller, buffer Jaye Davidson. It certainly made the film (and Frank Miller) seem even more offensively bigoted and insecure, not to mention irrational.