Two movies with hot, shirtless guys? What could go wrong? Surely, it would be a toss up and Gerard Butler would have to wrestle Karl Urban to determine a winner in chocolate pudding match refereed by David Wenham. Also shirtless.
Right?
I was the only person in America who didn’t rave over 300 in the theaters, so it’s no suprise that I was even less impressed with it on DVD. The narration was still annoying. The breaks in the battle scenes to do political stuff were still weird. It still looked like a video game, but even more so because of the small screen.
There came a point when I was just watching 300 for the pecs and biceps. I’m sorry, but those Spartans were amazingly hot.
Very nice.
I had a lot of hope for Pathfinder as I couldn’t think of another movie that addressed Vikings coming to North America centuries before the official European explorers showed up for a good old fashioned genocide. With an original concept, Karl Urban’s shirtless babeitude, and Clancy Brown’s bad ass villainy, there had to be something there that’s more compelling than 300?
Right?
WRONG!
Pathfinder created and killed the Native American vs. Viking genre single handedly – everything about it was that silly. Karl Urban’s pecs couldn’t save it and Clancy Brown was practically non-existent.
Pathfinder was full of lines like, “If you can’t kill the bear with your strength, use the bear’s strength to kill it,” and “There are two wolves fighting in each man’s heart. One is Love, the other is Hate.” It’s like the script is a bunch of Native American fortune cookies taped together and endorsed by Russell Means.
Hope you’re proud of that dopey underwater scene with Karl Urban, Russell.
Pathfinder sucked so badly that I have no choice but to give this match to 300. As if 300 needed any more support.
Damn it.
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