Never trust a critic

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2007)

I have the "Frank Miller" novel. I actually study history. And yes I do know details of the actual battle. The critics thought the battle scenes to be excessive. The battle pits 300 Spartans against 1,000,000 Persians in a narrow pass. The Spartans held out for 3 days inflicting massive casualties on the enemy before being annihilated to the last man. What should this battle have looked like? They were using state of the art, spears, swords, arrows and anything else you could impale the man in front of you with. In real life there would have been enough blood spilled to swim in, as for gore, how about entrails everywhere, on the weapons, the man next to you, on the ground. Back to the critics, one reviewer thought the immortals were ninjas? Another critic bowing to the politically correct crowd took issue with the reference to Athenians as "boy lovers" (thought it was homophobic). Greek warriors were required to take male lovers until manhood as women were thought to dull their senses. See "TROY" Achilles in particular. Still another thought the dialog was too minimal, did I say I have the graphic novel? The 300 is the novel brought to the big screen, some pages only have 3 words. Maybe they should quote Shakespeare. Lastly a few more had problems with the sex scene, I have seen more graphic sex in PG13 movies. So, don't take your future wimps. What are the requirements to being a critic? You should really have knowledge of what you are critiquing, "ninjas?", for crying out loud. So instead I went to the theater and found that there was a good time to be had for all. Guys, testosterone levels low? Get a dose of the 300. Girls, like rough sex? Then take your mate to the 300 (notice I did not specify gender). Sissies, do you like buff guys? Go to the 300. Something for everyone. See, the 300 is a family movie after all.