Indeed it can. Currently, it’s at 60%.
Can we do Patton? I’m in the middle of that one now.
On-topic: I’m seeing 300 Friday at 00:01. None of you can shake my excitement.
I love some of the rottens -
Fanboys may embrace its wanton carnage, he-man heroics and bombastic dialogue, but 300 really belongs on a PlayStation rather than in a theatre.
It’s like Fight Club without the tongue-in-cheek satire, cribbing from Gladiator, Braveheart, and every videogame that ever concluded a level with a giant boss battle.
Pure awesomeness.
Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.
By gum, might it not just try but actually meet Commando?
I’m stoked.
300 really belongs on a PlayStation rather than in a theatre.
cribbing from Gladiator, Braveheart, and every videogame that ever concluded a level with a giant boss battle
Now I only want to see it MORE. =)
Seriously. Those cheese-eating pantywaists are only stoking my flaming desire to have male buttse^H^H^H^H^see this film ^____^
I saw 300 last night at a preview screening, and I give it a big old “meh.” It’s true that a lot of people are going to enjoy it’s balls-out, adrenaline-soaked meatheadedness, and it does have some amazing visuals, but that’s about it. Anyone looking for any sort of historical or even just human insight into the events will have to look elsewhere. 300 lacks any kind of real plot, purpose, or emotional impact. It’s a music video and nothing more - but a very pretty one.
If you didn’t like Sin City’s slavish devotion to being as authentic to Frank Miller’s comic as possible at the expense of everything else, you’ll have exactly the same problem with 300.
Far as I can tell the movie adds a bit more to the comic, frankly.
— Alan
Contrast to this Fresh review -
In between all the blood and guts, 300’s careful costuming and sensuous style is intensely erotic.
Damn you Moore, I was about to make the Thespian joke. Ah, well, I’ll still make it:
Your backup is here, Leonidas. Thespians pile on!
I’m going to see 300 at the IMAX this weekend. But “erotic”? I’m going to see it w/ a bunch of buddies. Should I take my wife instead?
Only if your wife is also a guy, by the sound of it.
I’m really not digging 300’s middle-eastern/guitar rock that permeates the soundtrack, however. If Goldsmith were still alive he woulda made this soundtrack freakin’ rock (probably).
— Alan
Sooo… regular or IMAX?
My experience watching movies on an IMAX screen is that it’s impressive, except that it’s really difficult to take in the whole thing at once.
- Alan
Work is paying for me to see this in a few hours. I’ll post my impressions then!
I’m heading out to the 4:30 IMAX showing m’self. Compared to the regular theaters 'round here, it’s worth it for the sound alone.
While it’s difficult to take it all in at once on IMAX, it’s waaay easy to let yourself get absorbed in the movie when it fills pretty much your entire field of vision.
The good news is that I don’t think you’re going to “miss” any of the full-length movie. Movies over 120 minutes are chopped and edited for IMAX release because of film reel length (ie. all of the SW prequel trilogy, etc.) but as 300 appears to clock in at around 117 at least you’ll see the entire theatrical release.
— Alan
All the online resources I’ve seen say 300 runs 91 minutes.