MD and I went to see 300 yesterday. We saw it at the IMax because that's the screen it was on. I will say we couldn't have had a lovlier screening; it was the matinee and there was about 15 of us in the theater. They showed an IMax print instead of just running through a regular 35mm print so the picture and sound were just awesome.
Pity about the movie.
Here are some of the thoughts that ran through our heads...(slightly edited for our more sensitive viewers)
MD: Why is there a great big hole in the middle of Sparta? Don't Spartan babies fall in?
O-7: Is that the well? Poisoning the well with Persians doesn't seem like a good plan.
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MD: Why are the Elphor so inbred? What about the beautiful Spartan oracles? And the diseases...is there like a sacred petri dish?
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O-7: Too young to have known the warmth of a woman? But, isn't he like 25?
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MD: Poor rhinoceros...
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O-7 & MD: Poor elephants...
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MD: Where is Xerxes' awesome beard?
O-7: How is Xerxes supposedly doing the 'God Voice'?
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O-7: Shouldn't a decapitation be more spurty?
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O-7: How could Theron be ready? Was he wanking under his gown through the whole conversation? Or just really excited at screwing the queen? Twice?
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MD: Why don't the Persians try something new?
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MD: Xerxes seems like a nice modern guy.
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O-7: Goriest closing credits I've ever seen.
O-7: The queen's name was Gorgo? No wonder everyone called her 'Queen'.
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You may gather that we weren't entirely sucked into the movie.
MD: That's 2 1/2 hours I'll never get back.
And don't get me started on enumerating Spartans...
snarky