OFF WEEK - 300: Rise of an Empire

I've had to concede to myself that there will be weeks in which I won't have time to update this blog.  It's not necessarily because I won't have time to write a review; it's more based on the time, or lack there of, that I have to watch a movie.  I could write and have written in some instances about movies I like but haven't seen recently.  However, when I do that, I tend to not be nearly as motivated in my writing, and the blog suffers.  

In place of writing a crappy review here and there, I've just decided to write a short paragraph for those weeks about a movie that is coming out soon that I'd like to see or a movie I've never seen that I intend to watch as soon as time permits.  Some of these will classics, some will be indies of which you may have never heard, some may will be unreleased titles.  Regardless, it will turn out better than if I just force an entry about something I'm not really motivated to write.

While I'm not some who's caught on the idea of trying to capture lightening in a bottle twice, I am interested to see how this pans out for director Noam Murro.  Zac Snyder, who directed the first of the series, did an almost shot for page adaptation of the film's graphic novel source material.  I don't even know if this is based on a graphic novel or not, but even if it is, these are some big shoes they're trying to fill.  Even with Snyder acting as one of the screenwriters, it's still going to be a leap to make anything that stands close to the original.