Went to see 300 at the Jam Factory cinema – pretty good movie (we gave it a 9/10) – in summary, it’s a “chick flick with buckets of blood and gore”
How so?
Well, it’s got buff boys in revealing outfits, some emotional moments and a tragic love scenario. So, that’s good for the ladies.
Then, it’s got blood, guts, gore, shitloads of kick-arse fight sequences, a harem scene (which ranges from hot n sexy to bizzare deformities) and a multi-position sex scene. So, that’s good for the guys.
There were a couple of things that bugged me about it:
1. What’s the king of the Spartans doing with a Scottish accent? It’s not a thick one (like Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October) but it’s very there and very noticable.
2. So why does Xerxes look and sound like the bad guy out of the Stargate movie?
3. I don’t think the Persian army was quite so racially varied as they portray, nor so highly pierced – even allowing for artistic license (and lets face it – it’s not a documentary :) it was a tad over the top.
On a side note, the theatre seemed to have a problem with their booking system – they’d overbooked. We got in ahead of a most and grabbed our seats. Not long after, a bunch of people came in and said to the group next to us that they were in their seats. They compared tickets and all had been given the same seating groups. Ooops… No idea how they sorted it out but for a while there were people standing around and a staff member talking into a radio/phone. Eventually they sorted it out and the movie started. Wonder if they’re using QANTAS’s booking system? :)
Still, it was a great movie – well worth seeing.