Cars, it’s more of an adult movie. The kids will be captured for the first half hour due to the new concept where the cars can talk and have eyes and mouth and feelings….And there are a lot of different models of cars to make a very colourful screen. But the story is just too adult… and boring… about saving a city because they want to build a highway and thus taking away the traffic (and subsequently income) from an already dead small town. This kind of Sami Velu / Politician type of movie is too boring or too much for kids to digest… and after some time, they will get easily distracted and not want to continue watching…. That’s what happened to Bryan. He still likes to read the books on the Sally and McQueen, but when I asked him if he would like to watch Cars, he’d rather watch Power Rangers…. (even though Power rangers is in Japanese, he don’t care coz there’s lots of ACTION and dinosaurs!!)
Even I didn’t manage to finish the whole movie… so I can’t comment…
But I can comment on something else. On Friday I watched something that kept me glued to the screen till the end. 300. This is a gory movie about 300 brave Spartan soldiers, led by King Leonidas, making a last stand against all odds to set the path for Spartan victory against the Persians. Interesting story and somewhat a good movie as it invokes interest in the ancient Rome empire history and also induce some sort of patriotism, strength, brotherhood, friendship, pride and bravery which is so lacking nowadays.
The movie touches on the surface on how a Spartan soldier is made and also gives an insight on how heartbreaking and brutal “Agoge” is for the Spartan combat community. Agoge is the brutal training that a young Spartan has to go through to prove himself worthy of being a Spartan warrior. Also shows the structured and systematic fighting techniques that Spartans soldiers used. And best of all, this movie has lots of blood, lots of flesh (yes uncensored), lots of battle, and lots of limbs and body count. Not for children and not for the faint hearted… but definitely for Loke Wee. Hahaha…. Zack Synder, who previously did justice to Land of the Dead, is bringing his style of gory directorship into a combat movie and have successfully created an interesting movie that bridges the generation gap. It’s not as expensive as Gladiator, which was filmed in 5 countries, because most of the filming was done in the studio with plenty of CGI. It’s not as complicated as Troy, but still show off the strength of the Spartan army. Unlike Helen of Sparta, 300 reminds us that women counts too in modern civilization, instead of being just mere beauties that’s only good for sacrifice purposes. Also show men are capable of betrayal and return to their beasty nature when lost, or lured by greed.
All in all a good movie to watch. It’s a highly entertaining and thought provoking. It’s interesting to know that Greece which once produced the highest of human civilization and the most elite and feared army, have now reduced to an economic slum in Europe. Now how did that happen, go figure… meanwhile, try not to buy too much popcorn if you can’t eat at the sight of blood.
*Note: A friend of mine noticed that this movie is highly stereotyping. Asians are shown to be weak and small size and ugly beings, while, the Spartans are all good looking, fit and muscular beings. So try to keep an open mind to enjoy this partial animation (which is probably why it was sprared from the "chopping board").
Even I didn’t manage to finish the whole movie… so I can’t comment…
But I can comment on something else. On Friday I watched something that kept me glued to the screen till the end. 300. This is a gory movie about 300 brave Spartan soldiers, led by King Leonidas, making a last stand against all odds to set the path for Spartan victory against the Persians. Interesting story and somewhat a good movie as it invokes interest in the ancient Rome empire history and also induce some sort of patriotism, strength, brotherhood, friendship, pride and bravery which is so lacking nowadays.The movie touches on the surface on how a Spartan soldier is made and also gives an insight on how heartbreaking and brutal “Agoge” is for the Spartan combat community. Agoge is the brutal training that a young Spartan has to go through to prove himself worthy of being a Spartan warrior. Also shows the structured and systematic fighting techniques that Spartans soldiers used. And best of all, this movie has lots of blood, lots of flesh (yes uncensored), lots of battle, and lots of limbs and body count. Not for children and not for the faint hearted… but definitely for Loke Wee. Hahaha…. Zack Synder, who previously did justice to Land of the Dead, is bringing his style of gory directorship into a combat movie and have successfully created an interesting movie that bridges the generation gap. It’s not as expensive as Gladiator, which was filmed in 5 countries, because most of the filming was done in the studio with plenty of CGI. It’s not as complicated as Troy, but still show off the strength of the Spartan army. Unlike Helen of Sparta, 300 reminds us that women counts too in modern civilization, instead of being just mere beauties that’s only good for sacrifice purposes. Also show men are capable of betrayal and return to their beasty nature when lost, or lured by greed.
All in all a good movie to watch. It’s a highly entertaining and thought provoking. It’s interesting to know that Greece which once produced the highest of human civilization and the most elite and feared army, have now reduced to an economic slum in Europe. Now how did that happen, go figure… meanwhile, try not to buy too much popcorn if you can’t eat at the sight of blood.
*Note: A friend of mine noticed that this movie is highly stereotyping. Asians are shown to be weak and small size and ugly beings, while, the Spartans are all good looking, fit and muscular beings. So try to keep an open mind to enjoy this partial animation (which is probably why it was sprared from the "chopping board").
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