So then, in addition to the Lego movie and the newest planet
of the apes movie, I also saw 300: rise of an empire. It’s pretty much 300
naval edition and is slightly less good than the original.
The plot involves some guy from Athens, whose name I’ve already forgotten and doesn’t matter anyway, leading a group of Greek soldiers against the Persians but this time there’s water involved. By which I mean most of the combat is on boats. Aside from that it’s more of less the same movie. There’s a couple sex scenes, there some fighting, there’s one part with semi-monster looking human shows up and the Greeks kill him as well. Like I said, 300: Naval edition.
So if it’s more or less the exact same movie, why would it be slightly less good? Because they really really REALLY overplay the blood effects. Anytime someone gets cut or stabbed or hit they slow down and show the blood flying out, and it has these tendencies of A. getting old real damn quick and B. Never looking quite like real blood.
Aside from that, it’s pretty much the same as the first sans the iconic phrase “THIS IS SPARTA!” Really though, there’s the small group of incredible Greek fighters who actually have some slight shadows of personality and care about each other repeatedly thwarting the advances of the much larger Persian army composed almost entirely of faceless nobodies. There’s an evil leader of the Persians but wait there’s a very minor difference here she’s female! Mind you they could have recast the movie with any other person sitting on the throne and only had to change about 2 minutes of flashbacks and maybe 10 lines of dialogue.
All that said I mean it’s fine. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the same as the first one and that one was good. If you want to see that again but with essentially meaningless differences you can watch this.
The plot involves some guy from Athens, whose name I’ve already forgotten and doesn’t matter anyway, leading a group of Greek soldiers against the Persians but this time there’s water involved. By which I mean most of the combat is on boats. Aside from that it’s more of less the same movie. There’s a couple sex scenes, there some fighting, there’s one part with semi-monster looking human shows up and the Greeks kill him as well. Like I said, 300: Naval edition.
So if it’s more or less the exact same movie, why would it be slightly less good? Because they really really REALLY overplay the blood effects. Anytime someone gets cut or stabbed or hit they slow down and show the blood flying out, and it has these tendencies of A. getting old real damn quick and B. Never looking quite like real blood.
Aside from that, it’s pretty much the same as the first sans the iconic phrase “THIS IS SPARTA!” Really though, there’s the small group of incredible Greek fighters who actually have some slight shadows of personality and care about each other repeatedly thwarting the advances of the much larger Persian army composed almost entirely of faceless nobodies. There’s an evil leader of the Persians but wait there’s a very minor difference here she’s female! Mind you they could have recast the movie with any other person sitting on the throne and only had to change about 2 minutes of flashbacks and maybe 10 lines of dialogue.
All that said I mean it’s fine. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s the same as the first one and that one was good. If you want to see that again but with essentially meaningless differences you can watch this.
6.5 ridiculously overplayed kill scenes out of 10
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