300 Spartan

I love this movie!! I鈥檒l forever rent it as silly as that may sound, maybe I should just but it lol I look into it..

As the title for this review suggests, this movie is high on hype. However that makes it far from being a poor cinematic piece. The Spartans have been fabled as some of the best strategic and well trained soldiers in all of Greek history.To bottom-line it, this really brings you into their way of life. They live to die essentially, you will see how brutal Spartans are and how even against enormous odds their life-training is really what helps them fight against a massive force of Persians.Anyways should you get this movie?- If you like to watch dramatized historic events captured on screen. Then Yes.- If you don't like mild to moderate gore. Then no.- If you're expecting something that will just blow you away with superb acting, deep characters and a thick and juicy plot. Look else-where.In short, this is a very energetic revival of the fabled Spartans with a lot of help from 21st century technology.

A highly entertaining interpretation of the famous stand by the Spartans at Thermopylae.Educational extras as well.

Painful aspects of hard-nosed adulthood are not avoided here. The violence of standing up against well armed enemies for your family and being betrayed is graphic though any real man would say it's justified. It's just not for kids. The cinematography is outstanding and the acting is very well done. It is far too graphic violence to be seen by children. In my day, it was for 18 and up, a hard R and some aspects are so pornographic as to be X.Let children be children. It's not cool or right to ruin a child's sense of hope, love and trust to watch what is not nearly a docu-drama so much as a video homage to blood spray.

It has got a lot of things that guys like: sex, violence, more violence, conquering good over evil, beating some fake god at his own game. I like the action, the script, the acting, some more than others, some less than others but that is to be forgiven, it's acceptable to have some bad acting in a man's movie, LOL; like when the warrior yelled out in the middle of the King Leonidas' speech, I felt the warriors enthusiasm was lost. That brings me to another good point, in most action movies there is a lot less dialogue and that is what makes it work, "show don't tell" is the motto of an action movie and I felt this movie did that quite well.

As I said in the title, 300 is visually stunning and innovative, it's filled with macho 1-liners that will be quoted for years and has the added advantage of telling on of the great stories of history. Some of the macho lines are even from history!Sure the history here is about as accurate as the science in Star Wars, but that's fine. We all know Xerxes was not 10' tall and probably did not have access to hand grenades. And it's kind of funny to hear the slave-owning Greeks going on (and on) about freedom. But that's fine, this is over-the-top music video cartoon of a movie.I hesitated between 4 and 5 stars. I genuinely enjoyed it, and watched it along with its unnecessary sequel (1-star for that one) as well as the two Sin City films for a Frank Miller weekend. This is the best of the four.

I do not like violent movies but was interested in this movie because as a young girl I saw Richard Egan, my favorite actor then, in" 300 Spartans" and wanted to see Gerard Butler, my favorite actor now, in this version. It is a part of world history. It is important in these times as in all times in history for us to realize what it takes to be free. Looking up the dates in history books it seems to be in the correct place in history i.e. the correct Persian King that came against the Spartans. Although it is extremely violent, it is what happens in hand to hand combat. We all need to realize what our soldiers do to keep us free from tyranny although there is not so much hand to hand combat in our time, they are still laying their lives down for us.

Have seen and like, so I wanted the blu-ray copy for my library. There are some scenes that I would have changed in this movie but overall it鈥檚 worth owning for various reasons.

This film had a lot of hype behind the trailer, which was one of the best in recent years. With a remixed version of a Nine Inch Nails track, we were thrown into the epic battle between Spartans and Persians.I found the acting to be effective when they were in battle or trying to rile up the troops. However, the performances in the 300's Senate were woeful compared to that of Gladiator's Derek Jacobi and Joaquin Phoenix. Thankfully, it doesn't linger too long on the acting. The action is beautifully choreographed, albeit gory at times.As for the HD-DVD format, I'm really looking forward to seeing the blue screen picture-in-picture feature in parallel to the film. For all the juvenile Blu Ray fanboys, that is a feature they will not be getting. Picture quality will be an exact digital duplicate VC-1 encoding. The only plus of the Blu Ray version is an extra PCM track, but the difference between Dolby TrueHD and PCM is negligible to any average consumer and even most audiophiles. If you have the option of either format, you'd have to be stupid not to buy the HD-DVD version for the P-I-P feature unless you are blind.

One of my all time favorites