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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Movie Review: 300 Version 2.0

Salamat sa isa kong reader na nagmention na mababaw ang review ko sa movie na 300 . I believe I owe it to my small but fabulous group of readers to give good blogs lalo na sa mga movie reviews.. so eto ang review ng the Movie 300..version 2. Although sensha na Ms. Anonymous at hindi pa rin sing in-depth ng ineexpect mo na review that would deal with the emotions, subtext and technical aspects of the movie.. kinda.. this is gonna be an indepth GUY - Movie Review.. which is what Ive been doing with all my other movie reviews.. Feeling ko talaga si myra yung nag comment na yon eh.

The Movie 300.

The movie was taken from a graphic novel that heralded the historic battle between the greeks and the persians. Kinda West vs East. Sisirain ko na , sasabihin ko ang ending para sa mga di pa nakakapanood, same as what I did for the movie The Passion of Christ , and Jose Rizal.. mga dude patay ang mga bida sa 300. Pero the way they fought and died is definitely something to see. I saw on AXN ang the making ng movie, at hindi ako yung geeky guy na pati the making at lahat ng comments pati lights man eh nireresearch ah! nagkataon lang natapat don ang channel, according to the director didnt want the old Spartacus type 2 mountain filled with men then clash in the middle fight scene, he wanted each scene to be concentrating on the individual, sort of like a ballet. They incorporated martial arts in the fight scenes as there were no indications how the ancient armies fought before. The movie started off showing the culture of the Spartans, how from childhood they were trained to be fighters, how the spartans would castaway deformed babies. Talgang kinukuha nila best of breed. Then it traced the rise of their king from childhood to the present. A messenger from Xerces arrived , during these times, the great persian army was marching over europe and conquering everything in its path. The Messenger went to sparta to compell the king to bow down to the persian empire.. eh syempre parang sinabi mo na rin kay hulk hogan mag bowdown.. so ano ginawa nya.. sinipa nya ng isang malakas na tadjak yung messenger pahulog sa balon habang sumisigaw "THIS IS SPARTA!!" ..sabi ng isang friend ko kaya nya tinadjakan at sumigaw ng ganon eh kasi makikita sa dibdib nung messenger "Spartan" .. baka spartan slippers pala yung king..wala lang.

The king consulted a group of Evos(tama ba spelling ko?) sort of like wisemen nanakatira sa taas ng bundok and the oracle(one of my favorite scenes). They told the king , they couldnt go to war kasi feast of something yun.. and it would be against spartan law to do so. Pero mabalik ako, sabi ng friend ko naman isa na yung scene with the oracle played by a beautiful red head na starlet at maraming breast exposure was shot underwater explaining the unearthly girations the actress did. Feeling ko lang talaga malamig ang tubig kasi... nyahahaha. Anyway ayon dahil nga di pumayag ang mga evos.. di pwede ipwersa ng king gamitin ang spartan army. So dahil na buburaot ang king sa politics ( na hanggang ngayon eh prevalent) kumuha sya ng best 300 of the army and marched off to war.

He positioned the army in a gorge that would force the persian army into a funnel , which would lessen the pesians advantage on the numbers game. The rest of the movie showed a series of kickass fight scenes. Meron scene where it rained down arrows , kinda reminded me of the rain of arrow scene from the movie Hero ni Jet Li. Actually yung ibang scenes parang pagsamahin ang cinematography and camera effects of the matrix with the fight scenes form the Fong Sai Yuk Movie ni Jet Li where he killed 99 men ng naka blind fold. Ang other fave scenes ko is yung tumayo ang king at pinagpag ang arrows sa shield nya, reminds me ng mga stance ni voltes V after nya gamitin ang laser sword.. mga killer astig Stance. There was also the berserk scene of the captain which reminded me naman of the berserk scene nung uncle ni braveheart..astig. Actually bawasan mo ng story ng braveheart , dagdagan ng martial arts at more action scenes.. yun ang lalabas sa 300. Ang favorite kong scene eh yung natawa sila during the rain of arrows which you have to see the movie to truly appreciate. Yung friend konga na kasama ko nanood eh napapalak pak sa mga ibang scenes and sabi nya kulang na lang daw eh playstation controller during fight scenes dahil ang astig. Ang maganda pang nagawa for me is yung cinematography na parang halong matrix meets lord of the rings meets spartacus. Parang semi animated environment kaya ang bloody battles eh mukhang fabulous. Kinda reminds me of comic book pages na ginamitan ng color seperator.

In the end of the movie , the sheer bravery of the 300 men was what fueled the spartans to defeat the mighty persian emipire. Bravery was the main theme of the movie ,one theme which it showed well. A true blue guy flick. Nasa number 1 guy flick ko na sya pass lord of the rings 2, speed 1, braveheart, matrix 1 and 2 and Jet Li Flicks. After ng movie , dahil me hangover pa ako ng spartans, nag timezone pa kami ng friend ko. Langyang movie yan.. dabest manood nyan bago magbadminton, boxing or mag gym.Parang kaya mo magbuhat ng ref after non.

4 Comments:

  • bading na bading talaga ang approach. mababaw ka pa rin however you write it. puro ka lang kahalayan, EWWWWWW...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:04 PM  

  • if i were you i will not write a blog for my own detractors malay mo may gusto lang sayo yan nagpapapansin... its not what they think? its what you think that matters when you write...!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:04 PM  

  • Ephors ata hnde Evors eung nsa bundok..hai.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:05 PM  

  • ephors ata hnde Evos..hai.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:06 PM  

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