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changeyourstars8) wrote2007-08-04 10:25 am
changeyourstars8) wrote2007-08-04 10:25 am
Movies
Picked up a few of them last night. Fell asleep during the last one we watched, 300, and I have a feeling my brain did that out of self-defense.
The other two were Hot Fuzz and The Darwin Awards, both of which were a lot of goofy fun. Also, I got to see an ad for White Noise 2, so that made me happy. :-)
As for 300-- once in a while I did catch a facial expression of Gerard Butler's under all the CGI, and I rather like him, but even that wasn't enough to turn my brain off. I zonked out not too long after the man who was following them asks to help out and is dismissed, though I'm willing to make a bet that he's the one who fulfills the foreshadowing by telling the Persian army about the goat path, because he isn't tall and manly with a very, very well-defined six-pack, so therefore in this movie he must be eeeeeevil. Maybe later in the film he gets darker skin and piercings just to drive the point home.
Okay, yeah, the heavy-handedness was a bit much for me, and I say this as somebody who liked Sin City. Even with the overdramatic dialogue and the bizarre voice-overs and the stereotypes, it seemed like everybody was having fun with the material, and that + swords is really all I need. ;-) But that same sense just didn't come through here.
That, and I actually heard one of the characters say "freedom isn't free", which is a cliche I have heard so. many. times. by now that it nearly triggers my gag reflex.
The other two were Hot Fuzz and The Darwin Awards, both of which were a lot of goofy fun. Also, I got to see an ad for White Noise 2, so that made me happy. :-)
As for 300-- once in a while I did catch a facial expression of Gerard Butler's under all the CGI, and I rather like him, but even that wasn't enough to turn my brain off. I zonked out not too long after the man who was following them asks to help out and is dismissed, though I'm willing to make a bet that he's the one who fulfills the foreshadowing by telling the Persian army about the goat path, because he isn't tall and manly with a very, very well-defined six-pack, so therefore in this movie he must be eeeeeevil. Maybe later in the film he gets darker skin and piercings just to drive the point home.
Okay, yeah, the heavy-handedness was a bit much for me, and I say this as somebody who liked Sin City. Even with the overdramatic dialogue and the bizarre voice-overs and the stereotypes, it seemed like everybody was having fun with the material, and that + swords is really all I need. ;-) But that same sense just didn't come through here.
That, and I actually heard one of the characters say "freedom isn't free", which is a cliche I have heard so. many. times. by now that it nearly triggers my gag reflex.