300

[Ashock]

Hi,

I'd supposed that the title referred to the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae. But after seeing the movie, I now know it stands for its score on the one-to-ten suck-o-meter.

Clearly conceived by a no talent jerk who was too ignorant to make it accurate and too stupid to make it original, this crappy, modernized, Americanized, bastardized story received the treatment it deserved in the lousy (over) acting, the loud and inane score, the flashy yet boring effects. Except for the humor value of a Greek Gollum as the traitor, and the one historic line (We will fight in the shade), this movie meets the definition of pornography (it has no socially redeeming value) without even the prurient appeal.

This was possibly the worse movie I've seen since Titanic.

--Pete

The movie is based entirely on a comic book, not on actual historic events. This is why so much of it is cartoonish and totally unrealistic. Persians did not look normal, because they were portrayed as classic comic book villains... not real. It does not try to pass itself off as a piece of history or even close. If you've ever seen Sin City, it is of that type.

Having said that, and also considering that most people I've talked to loved it, I have to admit that I did not. But for different reasons. Nothing fancy..... I just thought the battles sucked. Pure and simple.