I have a feeling that two straight hours of almost uninterrupted decapitations and slow-motion eviscerations will grow wearisome for anyone who's over the age of 15.
And the dialogue -- I appreciate the sentiment behind heavy-metal slogans like "No retreat, no surrender" and "Tonight we dine in HELL!," but I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing just far too many of such Megadeath choruses, and that, too, will begin to grate. It makes sense for guys in combat to constantly psyche themselves up for battle by repeating such battle-cries, but it's not the most interesting dialogue I can imagine.
I would address this but one of his own commenters did it better than I ever could have:
It's not just eviscerations and beheadings......there's also slicing off limbs, spears through torsos, swords through eyes, swords through arms, speas through backs, spears through shoulders, spear through chests,spears through eyes, etc. So it's a very diverse movie!
Also there's some sex scenes with small breasted skinny women, including one where a drugged adolescent oracle is getting a hickey from a leperous old priest who's nose has fallen off. So it's got depth too!
It's actually a pretty good action movie. It departs from history, sure, but only in the same way it departs from reality. It's mythologizing history.
Posted by Kasper Hauser at March 10, 2007 03:32 PM
With a review like that how can you not see this movie? Besides the Iranians hate it:
Historical war epic 300 has been criticised as an attack on Iranian culture by government figures.
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Javad Shamqadri, a cultural advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said it was "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization".
He branded the film "psychological warfare" against Tehran and its people.
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This is not the first time Iran has protested over its portrayal in films made in the West.
There was outrage over the 2004 epic Alexander which showed the Macedonian general easily conquering the Persian Empire.
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