Movie Reviews

A couple of them this time around. 300...Wow!!!! What a great movie. Yes I have a copy of it at home.....that's all I'm saying about that..... The movie's message about soldiers and warfare and the honor of doing one's duty can be applied to our Soldiers in Iraq. The Persians are depicted as out there and very strange, but then you have to realize the story is being told by one of the Spartans who was there so it's his perception. Just like in Frank Miller's "Sin City" the filmakers took the atmosphere of the graphic novel and translated it to the screen perfectly. Sepia tones and dark moody storms....awesome to behold on the screen. The fight scenes....my God how awesome they are. The Spartans were the Special Forces of the Greek Army....like the Samurai they were the elite of soldiers. On the lighter side we have "Night at the Museum". A suprisingly funny movie through out. Cath and I couldn't stop laughing. I say surpisingly because I find most Ben Stiller movies not so funny. "Meet the Parents" and a few like that are fairly funny but one's like "Zoolander" and "Starsky and Hutch" (why that movie was a comedy I'm not sure...) were just unfunny. Even Owen Wilson was funny as a cowboy in a diorama who comes to life at night and has an unending feud with Octavius the leader of the Roman diorama next to his. Robin Williams plays a statue of Teddy Roosevelt that comes to life at night as well.