300 - cheesecake testosterone popcorn fodder

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2007)

I saw this thing for the first time last weekend- I had to watch it twice to see what I missed! Imagine my disappointment when I realized I had missed nothing... definitely not a historical film, and definitely not a drama. It is a collection of small scenes chopped together with really no story and sometimes no sense. It just proves that a comic can never be a film nor vice versa.The film has great visual effects and the sound quality is tremendous! Though as I said it was a pieced together string of scenes. I would like to see this done as a historical film like Braveheart or maybe even "gasp" Spartacus. 300's biggest plus is it's length. At less than 2 hours it is a great movie to watch at night and then put something else in the DVD player. One of my biggest gripes was the lack of Spartan armor- instead we get these guys running around almost naked in capes and helms.Nothing is perfect.