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Movies – More Than the Sum of Their Previews? (blog)
I love movie trailers. In fact, sometimes I love the movie trailers more than the movies themselves. It just hit me the other day that there must be something terribly wrong with this recurring phenomenon. Lately, it seems to me that movie makers are pouring all their...
Never Retreat, Never Surrender
They’ve got arms and abs of steel. They live for combat, laugh at death, and hope only for victory, or a "glorious death" in service of King and country. 300, directed by Zach Snyder and based on the comic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), follows the ferocious...
Defending civilization can be messy
[i]Thanks to Queen Jean for submitting the article![/i] For the defensive war they waged to be deemed righteous, the Spartans circa 480 B.C. would have had to adhere to the American Bill of Rights. The Spartans who fought at Thermopylae were Greek heroes and ours as...
Say Anything BlogFact or Fiction? 300 Gets the Big Ideas Right!
Victor Davis Hanson, historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution has this take on 300 Crowds are flocking to see the film 300 about the ancient Spartans’ last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning 300,...
Say Anything BlogFact or Fiction? 300 Gets the Big Ideas Right!
Victor Davis Hanson, historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution has this take on 300 Crowds are flocking to see the film 300 about the ancient Spartans’ last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning 300,...
Remake the Snake? Kurt Russell’s take.
For Kurt Russell, there's only one true ''Escape From New York'' Plissken -- and it isn't the Scottish guy that's been cast in the remake KURT REPLY ''People come up to me and say, 'You played Snake Plissken.' I didn't play Snake Plissken,'' says Russell, ''I created...
300 Blazes to Glory
There's something to watching an exercise in futility. 300 speeds by, skimming through its characterization, and gets into what movie -goers came for quite quickly. It is almost obtrusive, though it does get the message across that the Spartans are charging into their...
‘300’ is a man’s movie everyone can love
I’ve decided that if a movie is ever made about my life, I want the backgrounds used in the Frank Miller movies. The man behind the graphic novel “Sin City” as well as “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” recreates comic book panels by placing actors in front of virtual...
John Carpenter
In his 30 year career of writing, directing and producing movies, John Carpenter has made more people mess their pants than Billy Madison. He is best known for directing the original Halloween, The Thing and more recently he was unofficially “inducted” into the...
Escape From New York Prequel?
Last week we reported that New Line Cinema had won rights to remake Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. John Carpenter believes the new movie might actually be a PREQUEL. “I don’t know that it’s a remake,” Carpenter told...
A New Age: A Review Of 300
300, the new epic adventure film by Zack Snyder and Frank Miller, merits comparisons to Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane. This statement is not to suggest that Snyder's film is a "great" film, or comparable to any classic piece of cinema. However, 300 is a...
Butchery on a comic scale
[i]Thanks to Dragon Slayer for the article![/i] 300 (15) ** Running Time: 117 minutes ANCIENT beefcake movies have traditionally fallen into two categories: lighter family fables or true epics with the emotional heft of Greek tragedy. Now there's a third category: an...
Lots of People – Including Me – Saw 300 This Weekend
The wonderfully over-the-top epic adventure 300 conquered the box office for the second weekend in a row. According to Variety, even St. Patrick's Day and the NCAA tournament didn't stop the male-skewing movie from raking in $31.1 million this weekend for a combined...
300: The IMAX Experience – Review
It is very rare when a movie lives up to the lofty expectations that the trailer has set. The trailer for 300 set my expectations incredibly high, but the film did not disappoint. Part of me thinks this review is pointless. If you saw the trailer, you want to see it....
‘300’ is Still Counting
It may have seen a 56-percent drop in ticket sales from last weekend, but Warner Bros.' 300 nevertheless remained far ahead of its rivals at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated take of $31.2 million. The biker comedy Wild Hogs remained in second...
‘300’ is Still Counting
It may have seen a 56-percent drop in ticket sales from last weekend, but Warner Bros.' 300 nevertheless remained far ahead of its rivals at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated take of $31.2 million. The biker comedy Wild Hogs remained in second...
Movie Review: 300 (R)
[b]Merging cutting-edge cinematic razzle dazzle with resonant themes of honor, courage and sacrifice, 300 builds yet another visually thrilling and viscerally satisfying film.[/b] [b]Story[/b] Built from comic book auteur Frank Miller’s (Sin City) rock solid...
‘300’ is a great action movie
Four stars When I think of recent epic movies, the first one that pops into my head is "300." While I was sitting in the theater, the only word that came out of my mouth was, "Wow!" Now when I say "wow," I mean "WOW!" This film seemed to have no limits on its budget....
Flick Chick: 300, Beyond the Gates
Two reviews for the price of one. Both excellent although wildly different. The message of both, though, is that there is meaning and purpose that transcends mortal existence. 300 Directed by Zack Snyder While we live in a time that seems to scream of narcissism, and...
Miller’s ‘300’ leaves out the romance for a warrior epic
The film “300” seems completely out of step with our distinguished, modern tastes. It’s a Heston-esque sword-and-sandals epic with all of the emotional subtlety of a John Wayne movie. There are good guys and bad guys, and fighting is always the answer. There is no...