300 is not much good if you're trying to learn something about what happened.

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2008)

While I love historical movies and especially the story of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans I had to call the makers of 300 on their lack of historical consciousness. The story is well documented in Herodotus (who?) and other sources and yet the gaffes continually jump out of the movie. One thing I noticed was the Spartan king said everything in a yell. I wonder if that was the comic book mentality of Frank Miller. The dialog could have used a little creativity instead of being aimed at 12 year old mentality. The Persians were grotesque and several prominent ones, including King Xerxes, were Negros. I wonder if the filmmakers know that Negros are from Africa? Maybe they don't know Persia is in Asia? Anyway, the research for 300 missed a lot of easily checked points. The Spartans wore armor, not parading naked except for a loincloth and cloak as they did in 300. The camera set ups are all framed like comic book panels without much movement. The action is CGI so I don't know why they chose to make a goofed up version of a true event when they could have made up a story completely. DC and Marvel comics do it all the time. Good for Lord of the Rings fans but not much good as a history lesson.