I love Gerard Butler and I will watch him in anything, which is why I went to see "300" on opening night with Gaye who's even more mad about him than I am and sat with a sold out audience of primarily teenage boys and the odd over 40 woman like ourselves who went there solely to gaze upon Gerry's buff bod.  I liked Zack Snyder's "Sin City" but I absolutely hated "300".  The only interesting thing about this movie aside from how incredibly pumped up and six-packed the Spartan warriors were is that Brazilian beauty Rodrigo Santoro who played Karl in "Love Actually" portrayed Persian King Xerxes and I would have never recognized him in a million years!

I cannot fathom what could have possibly drawn the fabulous Gerry Butler to that piece of shit script other than he just wanted to challenge himself to the physical demands of the role.  Unfortunately for him, although his body was unbelievable, his hair and beard were atrocious (you could tell the beard was fake) and his striking blue-green eyes were nowhere to be seen.  The dialogue was among some of the worst ever filmed and while the movie was visually stylistic I do prefer to watch a story that's filmed against real scenery and not blue screen with everything except the actors and their costumes painted in with CGI.  It was everything I could do to keep my eyes open throughout the amazingly boring battle scenes and even more boring scenes between Lena Headey and Dominic West back in Sparta at their council meeting.  Furthermore, Snyder has no idea how to film a love scene and the brief one between King Leonidas and his Queen was also dull and void of passion although the actors did manage to get the point across that these two loved each other.  So much for the Greeks helping to usher in the world's first democracy…yawn…I will never waste over two hours of my life watching that movie again.

Christine Bode
c.bode@partyinkingston.com