If they made 300 so everyone would like it, I wouldn't love it like i do.

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2007)

If you love romantic comedies, and Broadway musicals you will hate this movie. If you're prone to imagining homosexuality everywhere, this movie will worsen your condition. If you hold 2,500 year old grudges, also..not likey. I'm also glad you will hate this movie because I probably hate what you like, and if they made this movie so you would like it too, I wouldn't love 300 as much as i do. If you love movies that take you to a world filled with fantasy and unbelievable action you will put this in your top movie list as soon as you see it. The plot is simple but it's also one of the oldest and most compelling events in Western civilization, and yes, it did save the world for reason, logic and freedom of thought which sadly, are being abandoned today. Leonidas is a real hero, exaggerated perfectly as all historic and religious events always are. I cheer Gerard Butler's Leonidas but I'm also cheering the real Leonidas and the 300. This lends a significance to the movie that most other films can't claim. The dialogue is simple-often paraphrasing of actual comments made almost 2500 years ago, come on, do we really need or want English literature here? This movie is SPARTAN in its SIMPLICITY, like great minimalist art. All art forms evolve by incorporating or blending other mediums. Zach Snyder and Frank Miller have most successfully melded two of my favorite mediums, comic books/illustration and film. This film is an evolution in the notion of what a film can be-an illustrators vision made 3-D and contained in a 2 hour time-span. With a compelling and historically relevant story to boot! Simply amazing. An evolution in art.