Visually beautiful, writing AWFUL

Rating: 2/10 (11 March 2007)

300 was gorgeous to look at and if you're going to see it, see it on the big screen. The star of this movie was the post-production work, in probably Final Cut and After Effects, and that was amazing and made me drool. Acting was perfectly fine and unobjectionable.
The screenplay was CRAP and its writers should be beaten with bamboo poles and never allowed to write anything without supervision again. Characters give huge, stupid speeches telling you exactly what you should feel, as though it weren't obvious enough, and could have easily shortened it by having them say directly to the camera, "Insert very long John Wayne-ish diatribe here," and not made any difference in the effect it had at all, except to save time. A couple of characters did extremely irritating things that were COMPLETELY out of their character which did nothing for the story or the movie, not in the comic and not in history and I couldn't think of why they put that in. I really can't complain about the crappy writing strongly enough, it really is VERY bad. This is the worst writing I've seen since "The Black Dahlia," maybe worse.
Plus for heterosexual women and homosexual men, the best beefcake movie I've ever seen. Faramir, rockin' abs. :o
All in all, very disappointing. I have to dig out the comic as I don't remember it being this bad.