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300 [Blu-ray]

300 [Blu-ray]
by Zack Snyder

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Actor: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
Director: Zack Snyder
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of 300 [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: A movie created to entertain 12 yr old boys
Summary: 2 Stars

What is the plot of this movie?

Persians come and insult the Spartans. The 300 Spartan warriors fight and butt kicks the Persian army. In the end, the 300 Spartans all get killed by Persians because of a betrayal by one of their own. *yawn*

This movie has a plot of a comic book written for a 12 yr old. Oh wait, it derived from a comic book written for a 12 yr old!

The acting and action remind me of WWF wrestling. It is not only fake, but it is also macho fake. They must also have used cheap 1980's kung-fu films for inspiration of their fighting sequences. Characters carry a dialogue while almost playfully slashing their foes.

All this is too bad since the real story of the 300 Spartans hardly had to be sensationalized. The heroics of the 300 Spartans is one of the truly memorable "last stand" in military history. Most, if not all, military academies teach the valor of the 300 Spartans who gave up their lives NOT for their ego but to protect the flanks of other retrieving Spartans (yes Spartans DID retreat when it made sense).

If anything, this movie downplays the heroism of the 300 Spartans. Why did the story ignore the fact the 300 Spartans knowingly sacrificed themselves to protect the flanks of the entire Spartan army?

Lastly, the movie had some sinister themes. For example, politicians who oppose war are the sinister antagonists. The hero Leonidis, the protagonist, recklessly engages in a battle against Persians even though it is "illegal" and not sanctioned by rest of the Sparta.

Who are the Persians? (present day Iran and parts of Iraq). They are portrayed as inhuman warmongers who happens to have a 7-9 foot tall androgenous dude as their leader.

Were the creators trying to draw analogy to George W Bush's invasion of Iraq?

Who knows. But I know I would have enjoyed this movie more if I was 12, but I am not.

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Summary of 300 [Blu-ray]

The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history at swordpoint. And moviemaking with a cutting edge.

Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders. Their only hope is to neutralize the numerical advantage by confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), at the narrow strait of Thermopylae. More engaging than Troy, the tepid and somewhat similar epic of ancient Greece, 300 is also comparable to Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a strikingly stylized look and huge, sweeping battle scenes. However, it's not as to-the-letter faithful to Miller's source material as Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many of the book's images are represented just about perfectly. But some extra material has been added, including new villains (who would be considered "bosses" if this were a video game, and it often feels like one) and a political subplot involving new characters and a significantly expanded role for the Queen of Sparta (Lena Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-writers does break up the violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it didn't involve the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of course, will be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts, and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless, and the movie has more and less nudity--more female, less male--than the graphic novel.) Still, as a representation of Miller's work and as an ancient-themed action flick with a modern edge, 300 delivers. --David Horiuchi

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