The trailers for 300 have me pumped

[TheDragoon]

I saw 300 last night and I've got to say that I did not enjoy it at all. For a movie that I assume was trying to recount a legend, I think it failed miserably to capture a legendary feel. Most of the time, my girlfriend and I were laughing at how bad it was. More than anything, it seemed like a rip-off of the fighting scenes from Lord of the Rings; there were orcs, ogres, a deformed character that betrays the heroes. Other things that cracked me up were the inclusion of ninjas, a drug-using goat, and a bad guy straight out of Stargate SG-1. With all of this craziness, the movie just completely failed all realism checks for me and that was a major turn-off.

Overall, the documentary that I saw about the 300 Spartans on the History channel (or was it Discovery?) earlier this week was better than this movie.