| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Other |
Man, it's been a long time I've reviewed movies. Lazy lah. Blood Diamond was moving and Leo DiCaprio was fantastic, The Illusionist was a yawn, Pan's Labyrinth was magical, Protege was quite predictable and the rest of the movies, well - I've forgotten what I saw. So, no need to waste space here.
Anyways, 300 is a film adaption of the graphic novel by Frank Miller, about the battle of Thermopylae. I can't believe that most of the film was shot using blue screen!! See the picture and you get what I mean.
So, the visuals turn out fantastic and some of the monsters were damn scary sia. Big man-like creatures with bladed arms for beheading the enemy, 9 feet tall fighting machines, Quasimodo-like hunchback traitors, dangerously sexy women to make any man nosebleed to death, you get the picture.
The first scene was of a disturbing narration on how babies who are deformed, puny-sized, weak or just plain ugly will get tossed away like some void deck kittens and left to die. The strong ones are nurtured and trained to fight and become warriors. So, there were no geeks in Sparta at all. Ok mah, no IT infrastructure to worry about what. You just fight in the morning, have lunch, then fight again, go for a quickie with your girlfriend, then go for tea, then fight again, go for dinner, then fight some more, then go for supper, then more loving in the night with your girl, then go to sleep.
300 has also inspired me to go back to the gym, after a two week hiatus. The actors (the warriors at least lah) all had to go through 6 months of intensive training to get their 8 packs, man! Impressive, I tell you.
All in all, it was quite an entertaining, testosterone-filled film with mostly fighting and slashing and beheading and manly growl and hoots. Men were real men then, they live to fight for their country, women and children.
Not like men in Singapore - we live to try to fit into society's expectations, live like everybody else, born and die in the same, stifling sameness that'd devoid of real excitement, never to realise the full potential we as human beings have.
