Comments on: A male gaze http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/03/24/a-male-gaze/ We do news right, not fast Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:21:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: munin http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/03/24/a-male-gaze/#comment-25 munin Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:07:00 +0000 http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/03/24/a-male-gaze/#comment-25 Interesting to read your opinion on 300. Personally, I didn't think it was a total disaster either, but it was bad enough. The excessive use of slow motion was too much and took the dynamics out every battle scene. There was simply no tension either, as the Spartans survived fight after fight without problems - as if they were progressing from level to level in a video game - only to suddenly all meet their end in the last one (And that's not even unexpected for the audience, as it is suggested early on by the narrator that the 300 will eventually die).<br/><br/>No, even as a stupid action movie, the whole thing never really took off. An artificial and ultimately failed experiment, albeit an interesting one. Interesting to read your opinion on 300. Personally, I didn’t think it was a total disaster either, but it was bad enough. The excessive use of slow motion was too much and took the dynamics out every battle scene. There was simply no tension either, as the Spartans survived fight after fight without problems - as if they were progressing from level to level in a video game - only to suddenly all meet their end in the last one (And that’s not even unexpected for the audience, as it is suggested early on by the narrator that the 300 will eventually die).

No, even as a stupid action movie, the whole thing never really took off. An artificial and ultimately failed experiment, albeit an interesting one.

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