That's the only thing they had, though; the Spartans were the uber-elite, the other guys were just tides of slave flesh and some mutant weirdos hopped up on their own reputation. And a war rhino.
The exposition - hell, the entire Sparta plot - was tacked on. It was probably intended to be filler and a change of pace, because movies can't sustain a Big Stupid Fight the way comics can, but it stunk the film up real good.
For mindless thrills, I'll wait for Transformers.
I'm also getting hypersensitive to gratuitous Arab bombers tossed in for yuks. There's the guy in Pirates of the Carribean, with his little fizzy bombs, and in 300 there's the - again, added - "when their weapons failed, they used their magic" with robed dervishes and gunpowder grenades. It seems Hollywood just loves Arabs who blow shit up, and the stereotype is grating really, really badly. But maybe that's a rant for another time...
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Date: 2007-04-02 07:40 pm (UTC)The exposition - hell, the entire Sparta plot - was tacked on. It was probably intended to be filler and a change of pace, because movies can't sustain a Big Stupid Fight the way comics can, but it stunk the film up real good.
For mindless thrills, I'll wait for Transformers.
I'm also getting hypersensitive to gratuitous Arab bombers tossed in for yuks. There's the guy in Pirates of the Carribean, with his little fizzy bombs, and in 300 there's the - again, added - "when their weapons failed, they used their magic" with robed dervishes and gunpowder grenades. It seems Hollywood just loves Arabs who blow shit up, and the stereotype is grating really, really badly. But maybe that's a rant for another time...