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“Sunshine” was cute. It was very well acted and directed. The entire ending act at the competition was so bizarre that I was laughing out loud. Great flick!
“300” was interesting for a lot of reasons. Obviously it was heavily stylized visually, but the stylization went beyond that. There’s been such a focus in movies lately on realism, and 300 pushes everything several notches into hyper-reality. But, unlike similar attempts at grandiose, bigger-than-life action and dialogue (and I’m looking your way, Brett Ratner) I think it carried it off well.
It’s an interesting way to approach a movie. All of the action and melodrama of a classical epic are there, but the picture makes no bones about being as much entertainment as art. The dialogue is intentionally over-the-top. The situations are intentionally over-the-top. The slow-motion muscle cleavage and subsequent arterial sprays are intentionally over-the-top. The whole thing is basically, well, a live action comic book, and its flamboyance is tempered, for me, by the underlying feeling that we can take it at face value.
Bravo Spartans! I’ll most likely be picking up that DVD in the future.
Did you take the time to watch the alternate endings on the little miss sunshine dvd?
We did not.