Predictable, boring and over-rated

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2007)

Well, this is my first review since joining. I am by no means a movie expert however I am reasonably intelligent, and open-minded when it comes to movies. First of all, I am glad to see that the rating is slowing going down, and is currently at 8.0. I hope that once all the hype dies down it eventually settles on 5 or 6.
300 looks good, at times great, but is let down in a number of areas. Slow pacing and predictable battles are probably the major reason I found this film so boring. On top of this, I found it quite hard to emphasize with the Spartans... I didn't care if they died or not and the predictability of the movie, coupled with the wooden acting, only added to this. You can really tell the actors recited the entire movie in front of a blue (or green?) screen. The use of slow motion was obsessive and honestly a lot of the battle sequences would have looked better in normal speed.
I wasn't turned off by the historical accuracy nonsense (who the hell could expect it to be accurate anyway) but a lot of 'practical' things annoyed me, for example the fact that 1000s would charge the 300 at a time, and yet in the 'slow motion slash' sequences there would be like 3 guys in the background. And who could not laugh at the guitar-playing goat LMAO.
I honestly cannot see how people could rate this 8 or higher, I know everyone has different tastes but... well, I saw this with 4 mates and all agreed it was a stinker- the highest rating it got was a 6. It really is quite boring between battles and VERY predictable. People keep lauding the battle scenes but I felt interested ONCE during battles, when Leonardis was fighting the big guy from the Immortals.
In short, I came in feeling a little apprehensive and left knowing that these feeling were fully justified. Terribly over-rated. 4/10.