Just got back from watching the new movie 300 at the Imax theater in Manhattan, and all I have to say is WOW. First of all, the graphical design of the whole movie was amazing, it felt like a movie painting. The colors were vivid and the art exaggerated to match it's source, a graphic novel by the great Frank Miller. As I was reading up on the movie earlier, I found out that it only took a couple months to complete all the live acting, and a whole year for the CGI effects. That should obviously tell you, this film is going to be gorgeous.
The story was not historically accurate and it wasn't meant to be. It was simply Frank Millers view on how he thought of it...which included monsters and overgrown rhinos. I dont think I would put this movie on the level of my favorite epic, Gladiator, but it was a great action packed flick that many would enjoy.
The story was rich, the acting was golden and all in all I think the hype that surrounded this film before it released was well deserved, and it totally covered it. Early reports are saying it garnered 27 million dollars on Friday, which is amazing especially since analysts expected 30 million for the whole weekend.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
hey Arif,
Nice little mini-review here. You have something of a nack for it! Maybe you should write more...?
And yes, writing more on the blog would be cool too -- not much action here, overall, this month.
Remember: Unless an act is the outcome of an inner necessity it is not creative. If it is not creative it cannot educate. In the degree that we express ourselves creatively, in that degree we live. In the degree that an individual does not reveal oneself in one's daily life, in that measure one exists as a material thing and in no way fulfills one's destiny as a self-conscious being, self-determining, self-directing and self-revealing.
Post a Comment