The historical story of the Hot Gates - in which 300 Spartan warriors lead a small band of Greek freemen to slow the advance of an massive foreign army by forcing them to fight in a narrow mountain pass - is full of possibilities. In a rare turn of events, Butler’s uninspired performance is actually the least of the film’s problems. Someone told him to bulk up and practice hitting things with a sword, and he rose to the occasion. He’s just doing what a Gerard Butler does - flexing his muscles a lot and overenunciating empty-headed dialogue like “Give them nothing, but take from them everything!” at the top of his lungs. At the center of this jumble of adolescent fantasy is everyone’s favorite terrible actor, Gerard Butler.
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This movie was made for guys who buy katanas at two in the morning on QVC and then brag about them in men’s rights chatrooms. 300 runs about two hours, but if you ran all the slow-motion sequences at normal speed, it would be 45 minutes long and considerably more coherent.)
(The answer is apparently that real men fight in slow motion. It’s an unapologetic celebration of men at their worst, set in a world where the only thing more valued than sticking your spear in things is dying while showing a bunch of sissies from Persia how real men fight. He’s also frequently performing his actual job in domestic logistics, but who wants to hear about that?ģ00 is the movie an internet comment section would make if you gave it some togas, a green screen and a personal trainer. He’s also pretty invested in establishing his kids’ geek cred early with a steady diet of Star Wars, Batman, and LEGO Marvel Avengers. When he’s not arguing about nerd stuff on the internet, he’s playing board games or binge-watching TV shows.
This week’s installment comes from Dave Gutierrez, who lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, Julia, and their two kids. That’s but a small sampling of this Scottish export’s quarter-century run - whose body of work will be highlighted biweekly this month in a retrospective series. Instinct tells us otherwise: People really love Gerard Butler.ĭisfigured catacomb vocalist. SEO tells us the piece’s popularity is thanks to its reference of one character’s inscrutable “Peckerwood” tattoo. No one piece has persisted as powerfully as our 2018 review of Den of Thieves, which we called an “unswervingly painful” waste of 140 minutes. Since 2017, Midwest Film Journal has prided itself on delivering thoughtful commentary on current and classic cinema.
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