300
2006 Directed by Zack Snyder
Synopsis
Spartans, prepare for glory!
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" concerns the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
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THIS IS SPARTA!!!!
Well, no, it isn't. Let me try this.
*clears throat* *deep intake of breath*
'THIS IS A 117 MINUTES OF HOMOEROTIC VISUAL FLUFF IN SLOW MOTION WITH CGI SIXPACKS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HISTORY WHATSOEVER. THEY WEAR TINY LEATHER PANTS AND CAPES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!'
Yup, much better.
And yes, you can 'like' a 2 1/2 star film.
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I once watched this over a dude's shoulder whilst we were doing it. It was considerably better than what was going on IRL.
my fave bit is the bit where keanu reeves goes back in time to be bffs with fassbender.
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I wasn't particularly taken with 300 the first time I saw it. I think Zack Snyder is a good director (Dawn of the Dead remake and Watchmen are both very good films in my opinion) but didn't think much of 300.
However, on a rewatch, I have changed my opinion slightly. It isn't actually as much style over substance as I remembered. There definitely has been more effort, time, and money spent on making the visuals as strong as they are, but the recounting of the story is pretty entertaining too.
Most people already know about the battle of Themopylae anyway, I'm assuming, so there's no strong need to make sure you know absolutely everything about the history of Sparta…
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A journey into George W Bush's unconscious: 300 naked homophobic Greek (=American) men slaughter thousands of Middle Eastern transvestites.
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Despite Snyder visual prowess, everything falls flat here. The dialogue is some of the worst. The moment Gerard Butler became a household name was a sad day for me.
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Racist - All non-Greek characters were painted out to be these effeminate, barbaric, monsters who were almost not even human.
Sexist - The single female character's only option to help her country is to sleep with a powerful political figure and then betrayed and accused of being an adulterer.
Homophobic - Making the enemies effeminate, and therefore weaker and "different," from the hyper masculine (but let's be real, super homoerotic) "heros."
Ablest- The hunchbacked character is shown to be horribly disfigured and because he could not perform the duties of a solider was cast off and then became a traitor.
This is one of the worst things I've ever had to sit through.
Not only was it really deplorable, in all honesty I didn't find any of the action sequences to be very entertaining and thought that the excessive use of CGI was garish - and not even in a fun campy way.
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A perfect example of style over substance done right. By no means perfect, but for what it is, you can't complain!
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words cannot describe
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Nazi propaganda bullshit.
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There's certainly been no shortage of comics and graphic novels making their way to the big screen, but only recently has Hollywood started looking beyond the superhero genre to find other worthy stories in that medium. Frank Miller's Sin City was an interesting experiment, but it suffered under the direction of Robert Rodriguez, and the story itself was a bit weak.
This time out, Frank Miller's 300 gets a shot, directed by Zack Snyder, who made an impressive debut with his Dawn of the Dead remake, vastly improving the whole zombie genre by ditching the "zombie shuffle" in favor of faster, scarier brain-eaters. Like Sin City, 300 is a definite case of style-over-substance, but here it works far better, turning… -
Nie zuvor hatte ich so stylische Kampfszenen gesehen, der gesamte Film ist ein unglaublicher Augenschmaus. Alleine deshalb sollte man ihn gesehen haben, und ich bereue es etwas, ihn im Kino verpasst zu haben. Hier braucht man eigentlich eine große Leinwand, fette Boxen und nicht vorhandene Nachbarn.
Allerdings ist die Handlung sehr schlicht gehalten. Die Rückblenden anfangs sorgen noch für Abwechslung, aber ab dann sieht man eigentlich nur das Kampfgetümmel, unterbrochen durch ein paar einzelne Szenen die den Charakteren versuchen Tiefgang zu verleihen. Das gelingt aber nur bedingt... dieser Film konzentriert sich nun mal zu 99 % auf seine beeindruckende Optik, viel mehr steckt nicht dahinter.
Ich will die flache Story aber eigentlich gar nicht zu sehr als Negativpunkt sehen, denn…
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I have written a review for this film, for some reason the review is in slow motion... You'll see it eventually.
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I once watched this over a dude's shoulder whilst we were doing it. It was considerably better than what was going on IRL.
my fave bit is the bit where keanu reeves goes back in time to be bffs with fassbender.
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I like the part where he bangs his wife in 300 different positions.
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nice and gay