Rate 300

[John Crichton]

Most of the complaints I've seen about 300 fall into one of two camps. The first is the 'reading to much into it' camp, where they claim they're pushing a political message about Iraq/Iran. (Although who's playing WHICH side depends on who you ask, I've seen it both ways)

The other camp tends to be the 'That's not realistic!' camp, which tends to be based around the idea that a movie based around a historic event should be made to look/follow that event as close as possible. I see this one more around the historians, armchair or otherwise.

And both fall into the "Just didn't get it" camp.

 

[TracerBullet42]

And both fall into the "Just didn't get it" camp.

Well, I gave it a 2. I really was just sort of bored throughout it. It was gloriously violent, and that pretty much bores me.

If that means that I "didn't get it," so be it. I was still bored.

 

[John Crichton]

Well, I gave it a 2. I really was just sort of bored throughout it. It was gloriously violent, and that pretty much bores me.

If that means that I "didn't get it," so be it. I was still bored.

If the movie wasn't for you, it wasn't for you.

Bummer that you didn't dig it. Great entertainment.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Well, I gave it a 2. I really was just sort of bored throughout it. It was gloriously violent, and that pretty much bores me.

Tracer, I have to wonder what you were expecting when you went to see it. All the trailers and hype pretty much emphasized that it was gloriously violent... :\

 

[TracerBullet42]

Tracer, I have to wonder what you were expecting when you went to see it. All the trailers and hype pretty much emphasized that it was gloriously violent... :\

I really wasn't expecting much of anything. Perhaps a more engaging story would've helped. It just never "grabbed" me.

Although I thought the elephant-monsters falling over the cliff looked pretty awesome.

I'm not trying to argue with anyone. That's great that so many people loved it. I'm just trying to help the poll reflect that it's not for everyone.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'll give it an 8 because Frank Miller forgot one of the rules of literature and cinema.... "It's better to show then it is to tell." The narrator killed several scenes which would have been amazing if not narratorated.

 

[Wormwood]

Now that I've seen it a third time, I wish I could drop my rating from 8 to 7.

The Queen Gorgo subplot seems increasingly superfluous and distracting with repeated viewing.

(and it was the only part of the film that my wife really had a problem with)

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

The horribly anachonistic view of Greeks as one people is another huge problem. And since when did the ancient peoples care about freedom? Concepts such as nationalism and universal freedom did not exist until well after the Renaissance.

I have mentioned this elsewhere, but you can bring that complaint up with the writers of the era (a not-so-Renaissance 2,500 years ago) who specifically wrote about about Greek people's freedom against Persian tyranny. A professor of ancient greece wrote of the movie 300:

"If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus -- who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others."

 

[Mallus]

I gave it a "4".

It was amusing, or at least as amusing as an action movie shot in relentless slow-motion can can be... I wanted to like it more, but I'm afraid I didn't really start to enjoy the film until I viewed it as a Soul Calibur match... one of the Spartans so had the classic Sophitia/Lizardman move, and I'm sure I saw a cameo by Voldo...

I found a lot of it dull. Too much shouting and nonsense dressed up as a defense of virtue. Note to self: the Athenians and the Persians weren't the only ones who liked teh gay... I'm sorry to say the film's unwavering determination to portray the Spartan's as totally straight kinda bothered me... why did they need to stress this? It's okay that they're baby killers, but God help them if they like it up the a...

This was the gayest homophobic movie I've ever seen.

Eh... I expected more...

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

This was the gayest homophobic movie I've ever seen.

I've rarely seen anti-pederasty equated with anti-homosexuality, except by, well, anti-homosexuals.