This. Is. Crap!

[yendi]

Shadesong rented The 300 from the library.

It might actually be worse than Van Helsing.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie this unaware of how ironic it is. This is the filmmaking equivalent of The Shaggs. Maybe worse.

Comments

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? I thought it was a fantastic romantic comedy!

[norda.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmm. Sorry you guys didn't like it.

I don't quite rate 300 as poorly as I did VAN HELSING, because VAN HELSING actually had potential to be better than the sum of its parts, and 300 makes no excuse that it is anything but loud, manly and brash.

It might also have been the company in which I viewed it. After a brain-beating day of Too Much Life, having a chance, in the company of people equally as loopy as me, to just bellow back at a screen was cathartic.

Just my opinion.

[ex-yakaveng.livejournal.com]

300 was the most still action movie I've ever seen. Having never read the graphic novel (nor seen Sin City because blazepoet tried to convince me it would be too violent for me), I certainly found it visually interesting and very stylistically different. Still... it wasn't a good movie. I did pick it up on Friday for $4 at Target, though.

As for Van Helsing-- it could have been good. It could have been goofy and skewered many things about the folklore of vampires and werewolves, but... I couldn't stomach watching the whole thing. Kate Beckinsale has done that and Underworld now-- will she stop with the werewolf movies any time?

[eustaciavye.livejournal.com]

Wow, bad enough to invoke The Shaggs. I think "shaggsesque" is the ultimate form of bad.

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

I was watchng that movie when I was on a plane to Israel. Nothing is as funny as reading the subtitles in Hebrew.

[quillismightier.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I actually liked 300 a great deal, compared to a lot of movies out there. Probably among one of my favorites.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed it as a magnificent piece of good trash. It was also a picture-perfect (pun intended) adaptation of the comic book....

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

ayup, it's fucking dreadful, and one of the most racist and homophobic movies i've seen in a long time.

[poobah103.livejournal.com]

It's easy to dislike a movie when at least 35% of it is slow-motion images of beefy-looking guys stabbing each other.

On the other hand, it's easy to *like* a movie for the exact same reason...

(But to be fair- anyone who claims that "300" is better than "Sin City" should be punched. Hard. And repeatedly.)

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, I liked Van Helsing.

I went into 300 already with a hatred for Frank Miller so I felt no twinge of disappointment. It was exactly what I thought it would be. A movie bursting at the seams with abs and testosterone. What more were you expecting?

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

It did what it meant to, adapt a comic book. It was worth watching, once, so long as you didn't pay much and didn't do it in a theater.

It was better than "Snakes on A Plane" and "Van Helsing".

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind that every frame looks like the airbrush mural on the side of a bitchin' van in the 1970s, I liked it.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Strong words, indeed.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Dude:

Your response surprises me.

In my experience, the people who disliked 300 were the people who expected history.

Those who expected a comic book -- as I kinds thought you would -- were pretty happy.

But then, I liked Van Helsing.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

While also being the gayest movie ever.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Gives you real hope for the Watchmen movie, dunnit?

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

in that way, it reminds me of 'nightmare on elm street 2.'

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

But at least the gaiety in that movie works as a metaphor. The queerocity in 300 is just amusing, the cinematic equivalent of the Wide Stance.

Madness?

[thelastrobot.livejournal.com]

My biggest complaint about 300 is that every time someone jumped through the air in slow motion, camera flashes should've gone off.

Or the music from when Sonic gets a hundred rings.

[amokk]

I thought it was more homoerotic than ironic... I like the Robot Chicken adaptation.

[laurelian.livejournal.com]

Can't say I agree that 300 sucks. But then, I wouldn't say that Van Helsing sucked either.

Of course, in the case of the former, I'm speaking from the point of view of someone just going to the theater to see an enjoyable movie. I have no frame of reference for whether or not it was accurate compared to the comic book. Certainly it was campy in places...I mean, what were they thinking with Xerxes (sp?)? But all in all, I found it very enjoyable.

Of course I, for one, enjoy seeing a movie where male nudity has a stronger focus than female nudity. If we're going to objectify the human body anyway, it's only fair that male bodies get equal time in the media.

As for Van Helsing, I thought it was enjoyable *because* it was silly and campy. I'd actually thought that maybe they intended for it to read that way.

But, to each their own. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy 300. :(

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

You are thus now ready to read 300 In Fifteen Minutes, written by cleolinda.

You're welcome.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

I rather liked the Simpsons, Robot Chicken and countless other versions
on YouTube ;)

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

300 was terrible, and it continues to ruin my life to this day. (for example, best buy does not stock air force one but does instead have 100 copies of 300 on the shelf.)

that movie has turned me off of every frank miller comic ever. well, that and the second dark knight. i'd rather watch the robot chicken version than that pile of crap any day of the week.

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

Nothing can ever be better than Snakes On A Plane.