one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life!!!

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2010)

I hated this movie so bad I can't put it into words, I wanted to see a real movie about the infamous 300 Spartans, but this was just a piece of C.G.I. big budget garbage - pure Hollywood trash, with no heart, no style and no facts. TRASH!!!! So a stubborn man named Leonidas, in fear of his city being invaded by the Persian, takes 300 of his men out to kill as many as he can and will die before he returns. Okay that is stupid enough right there.. So yea he takes his measly army up against the thousands Xerxes puts against him and he kills hundreds, maybe thousand but yea he ultimately dies. The movie ends with the council finally (too late) sending out the Spartan army to aid up against the Persians, but the movie ends and oh well I could care less, I know the real history of what happened and this movie was as far away from the facts as anyone could dream of.
I am not a fan of Zack Snider, he did a good job with Dawn of the Dead remake, but even that had too much of HIS style and he's not a director, he's a guy filming a bunch of films with a bunch of computer graphics and his editor does more work, his animation department does more work, his cinematographer does more work and oh yea his deep pocket producers dish it out and people call him a great director, hes not!!! First off this movie is far from factual. It is so made up and over the top that it is cheesy and stupid. I viewed it as complete fiction and therefore I hated the characters, if you're gonna fight a losing battle then you deserve to die, I swear to god I think republicans made this movie happen it seems like a fantasized George Bush dream... The movie is full of these creatures that never have walked on this Earth before and if so, I can assure you the Persians didn't know how to train them. This movie was so dumb and such things killed me, this is Persia, these are Iranians, this isn't middle Earth, could they have at least TRIED to make it seem real. The old priests living on the hill with an oracle - WTF - Why were they crazy about gold for, I didn't see a shopping mall up on the hill there with them.
The movie was so big budget, yet it had a b-movie flow to it, the dialog was so stupid and this crazy narrator made me wanna strangle someone. The Spartans deserved to die if you ask me, they couldn't show love, they treated their children like crap and why would they wanna stay and protect that crummy place they lived. The Persians looked like they had fun and were living it up, put me with them any day of the week. These actors were horrible, more overacting than a movie I have seen since 1930. With their sprayed on abs and even cheekbones, reading the dumbest lines ever. The fake blood and the awful, awful, did I mention it was awful, slow motion fight scenes. Thats a directors way of cheating because he can't film it in actual time and get it done right. I mean 99 percent of this film was shot in a back lot and blue screens were used, so if you're gonna be that fake then do something flashy with all that money you're wasting.
I hate this movie..I only watch it because its so great to watch it with people right before letting them watch Meet the Spartans which is a perfect parody. 1 star out of 10 and I wish I could go lower...
I did love the color...to say something nice and Xerxes was cool..