Thursday, April 19, 2007

I ARE SPARTAAAAAAAN

This is another moment when I wonder how different I am to the other chicks out there. I went to watch 300 last night.. and I enjoyed it immensely. Sure, 300 half naked, incredibly buff guys with rippling six-packs was great eye and mind candy, but the story line was a bit more than half decent and the action sequences were Matrix-like stimulating. Reference shot to where the head Spartan Leonides does a turn-around, touch-the-ground, kill-a-baddie, take-a-step kind of fight routine..

I don’t really know what to make of the violin playing goat, or the great bumbling pachyderms that fall off the cliff (were they pushed?) into the water with very little splash, or the gay king who holds court with nubile lesbians.. but who cares.. if 300 men can run around in their undies, who am I to stop a goat from doing his thing?

The girl behind us provided a lot of entertainment too.. cue Leonides fighting with drooling giant ogre, ogre gets sword in his arm, spear in his eye, still fighting (“come on and die already!”), ogre’s head gets chopped off (“eeeuuggghhhhhhhhh”). Another shot of billions and billions of blue blistering arrows flying towards Leonides (“all that for one guy?”)


Anyways, I have a new fav comic strip.. it does not in anyway replace the misadventures of Calvin and Hobbes, but Buckles’s innocent exploration of the world around him is incredibly amusing and loveable.


1 comment:

Spice said...

You aren't alone. I totally loved it. On my first count I came up with an 8 pack :) Very enjoyable.

The action sequences were pretty cool. Who knew you could do all that with a spear. I quite liked the visual look of it as well.

I did notice a few similarities with Gladiator, though.