If you liked "Dune", you might like this.

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2008)

I watched the "300" on DVD without any real expectations other than thinking it might have a relationship to "Spartacus", hoped to get a little history insight, and that the HBO series "Rome" and the movie "Gladiator" were great.
Unfortunately, this reminded me of going to see "Dune", and not sure what to say about it to my date, who had read the book. I need more of a reality check. The problem is that there is always someone with something badder just around the corner in reality, but that is not much of a story.
Slaughtering people cartoon style by warriors who are far from heroic, just doesn't impress me as entertaining. Who knows what is around the corner for us, without trying to glorify a dog eat dog mentality. It left me feeling that spectators at a gladiator event would love this until they get dragged into the arena themselves.
In "Rome" and "Gladiator" you were able to understand the soul of major characters, what they lived for as well as what they fought for. They were flawed humans and not just machines guided by myth.
My heroes are Pericles who tried to establish and promote the first true democracy until being sabotaged after it worked too well, and the citizen soldiers, hopplites and farmers willing to fight when necessary to hold on to their freedom; not the imperial armies or the mercenaries.