Thursday, March 8, 2007

Let's play the 300 review game!

So I was reading the accumulated reviews for the movie 300 at rottentomatoes and I had to share some of the review blurbs. For a fun game, can you tell me which of these is from a positive, aka it recommends seeing the movie, review? Lets see some guesses in the comments.
  • A masculine revelry. Makes every other action movie look like girls playing with dolls.
  • "300" is rated R for "RAAAAAR!" and is about as inspirational as "Field of Dreams" multiplied by "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," plus infinity.
  • 300 is an erotic spectacle for men (straight and gay apparently) and this demographic should bask in the bombastic grandeur of discourse, domination and decapitations.
  • A primeval, elegant, music video. Plot & dialogue are unstable, wavering from occasionally powerful to just as often weak and cliché. Leads perform admirably.
  • Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.
I'm torn on seeing this. On the one hand I like saying "RAAAAR, but on the other hand I'm not gay...


TONIGHT WE DINE IN this cute little place I found in the valley
-J*E*F^2

6 comments:

Hey Jealousy said...

best review:

"300" is rated R for "RAAAAAR!" and is about as inspirational as "Field of Dreams" multiplied by "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," plus infinity.

Math fab Mathonwy said...

"300 is an erotic spectacle for men (straight and gay apparently) and this demographic should bask in the bombastic grandeur of discourse, domination and decapitations." Anybody who says "erotic spectacle" and "bombastic grandeur" and then uses alliteration is obviously gay and loves this movie.

J*E*F^2 said...

Definatly true. Aliteration is the first sign of homosexuality in movie critics, which would indeed mean he enjoyed this movie, plus infinity.

The Missed Call Of Cthulhu said...

Hey Jeff, do you remember our Sparta vs. Athens debate from Classical Studies freshman year?

J*E*F^2 said...

yeh, I actually do. Weren't people whining that Spartans killed sickly babies by feeding them to dogs or throwing them off cliffs? If they didn't do that they would NEVER get to dine in hell. NEVER@!!!! But it sounds to me like ridiculous Athenian propaganda.

J*E*F^2 said...

I know nobody will read this comment, but I found another funny quote about the movie from Boston.com:

According to this outrageously flagrant movie, the Spartans didn't just die for Glory, Duty, and Destiny. They died to keep the Hot Gates from turning into another gay disco.