11-30-2009, 06:51 PM
Quote:Hi,
As one who enjoyed both Conan movies as well as all the Die Hard, I understand (and share) your taste. But the non-action parts of 300 where inane, inaccurate, and largely disconnected. The action parts had a few good scenes, but were overall pretty predictable and boring. Or over the top -- war rhinos??? And with so much of the plot (all two lines of it) hinging on the fact that Spartans fought as a hoplite phalanx, one could expect more than a brief flash of it.
No, I don't think 300 fails because it doesn't meet my standards. I think it fails because it doesn't meet its own.
--Pete
I can't argue why you dislike or like a movie (and why would I bother? I'm sorry you've felt your time was wasted with it :D). But I fail to see how it fails on it's own standards. The comic and the movie after it aren't supposed to be a historical telling. They are based on the somewhat meta idea of a story passing through generations from mouth to mouth. The actual actions we see take place in the movie aren't even meant to be accurate as far as the movie is concerned but more that this is the exaggerated tale that Dilios brought back to the rest of the Greeks that sprung them to action. That is why the whole narration starting from the birth of Leonidas is done by the character Dilios, the whole of the movie is just the storyteller passing on the story, fable, or lore (call it what you will). The key issue of the comic and the movie aren't the action or even the story being told but the importance of telling stories themselves. As far as comics go it's a meta issue that is revisited relatively often, most recently by Grant Morrison's Final Crisis which was about as meta as you will ever get for a superhero book.