300 - Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers

I finally have the time and opportunity to see the movie 300 today and Boy Was it Fun!.

It was visually Stunning and I was not just talking about the all the displays of bare pecs and abs on various men through out the movie the background sceneries in general are beautiful too. Especially the one of Gerard Butler in buff starring at the moon in his bed chamber :p Although I was surprise that background scenes were quite realistic, although the light looks very rich and ambient. I was expecting it to be more cartoon likes, as in Sin City, but it still looks good.

Many scenes were quite gory but not totally grotesque. A lot of things seems overdone but in the context of the movie it just swept through without a hitch.

I also heard of how the Iran government protest that this movie has 'Anti-Arab' message. My opinion toward that is this. This is not a historic movie, the entire movie is base on Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name. It is said that the crew pretty much use the graphic novel as storyboard for the whole movie, taken from it the visual styles, camera view and everything. So to accuse this movie of being 'Anti-Arab' is rather non-sense as this is not, by any means, a historic based movie but rather a comics based one.

As for my 'Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers' remarks, I had watch Bette Midler's opening performance for Arsenio Hall show on YouTube with the song 'Pretty Legs', to watch click here, and it seems quite an appropriate for this movie. After all, it's pretty legs and great big knockers that sell the tickets :P

Update: After taking a quick peek at the comic version of 300m I found out that Miller actually draw some of the spartans in nude! Too bad that they probably could not do this in the movie :p Perhaps there will be a spoof porn of this movie afterward?

By the way, Paul if you wants the comic file let me know ;) I will upload it to a host for you.