300 [Blu-ray]

300 [Blu-ray]
by Zack Snyder

300 [Blu-ray]

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Actor: David Wenham, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
Director: Zack Snyder
Brand: BUTLER,GERARD
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
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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 ma

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Movie Review: Whispering actors ruin the Blu-ray DVD of "300" -- or what?
Summary: 1 Stars

Half an hour into the Blu-ray DVD of "300" I switched off in order to belatedly study the Amazon reviews, in order to discover if anyone else found the sound so badly muffled, with mumbling, whispering actors, but it seems I may be the only victim, with the volume of our quite new Sony Bravia TV turned to maximum level.

As I have several revamped 70-years-plus films on DVD, including the 1938 masterpiece of Errol Flynn's and Olivia DeHavilland's "Robin Hood", with clear sound, I am baffled as to why 2007 sound technology can be so crudely and feebly inferior.

As for "300" itself, I wondered why they bothered to try to improve on the original "The 300 Spartans" film featuring Richard Egan and Sir Ralph Richardson, created so magnificently in 1962 with credibly effective Spartan armour and uniforms, not the almost-naked he-men ludicrously unsoldierly portrayal of King Leonidas's "300"!!!

Having endured the rest of "300", its music not too bad except for the occasional now crudely-fashionable overdone, mindless percussion, the sound quality was at its almost inaudible worst during scenes back home in Sparta, but very loud during one of the add-on interviews with producers. The only character to impress me with credible portrayal was the courageous Queen of Sparta.

As a campaigner for facts on global warming, I am well used to disputing reason versus fantasy, so I recommend study of Amazon viewers' opinions on the 1962 film, some damning or praising the 2007 version of the Spartans' truly 'magic' action in and around a mountain narrow coastal pass in what is now Turkey, long obliterated by collapsing sediment.

I firmly commend the book "The Year of Thermopylae" by Ernle Bradford (Macmillan, 1980), which includes a now topically controversial mention of 480BC Persian King of Kings Xerxes boasting of Aryan stock!!! Also now topical is Bradford's study therein of 480BC developments in close-quarters weapons, because 20th century former cavalry colonel Allan Mallinson's 1790s-1830s novels surely provide ample evidence for the versatile sabre to be reintroduced in today's British Army in Afghanistan!

The 1962 film remains an oft-viewed treasure to me, while the 2007 Blu-ray DVD monstrosity is destined for the next charity bag. If the film makers want something also stupendous to work on, I suggest they accurately study the colossal Sea Battle of Salamis, with the fleets of Greece and Persia confined to narrow waters, with bloody fighting across the decks of all the ships jammed tightly together. There is far too much sheer magic in true or as near as possible true history for its needing to be fantasised.

Alan H Dale.

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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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