Comments on: 300: What a Load of Crap!

By: jordan

jordan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:54:08 +0000

I, too, didn’t really care for the movie. All the characters spoke in platitudes and clichés, and I had too much trouble believing that that many Mediterranean dudes would have that little chest hair! Also, I felt a burning desire to go to the gym afterwards– who says guys’ self-images aren’t affected by mass media?

From a filmmaking standpoint, though, it was a triumphant marriage of the technical: it looked like a moving painting but story-wise it just didn’t happen for me.

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:09:02 +0000

I’ve haven’t seen the movie and don’t know if I will anytime soon. Hollywood has put out so few worthwhile flicks over the last few years that I’m not terribly enthusiastic about new releases.

Still, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae">Battle of Thermopylae</a> was one of the most remarkable battles in history. The Spartans put up an amazing defense. The Persians may have won the battle but the Spartans kicked ass. What the Spartans did on land, the Athenians were later able to do at sea. They outmanuevered and outwitted a numerically superior Persian fleet in the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis">Battle of Salamis.</a> In fact, this battle was far more important in changing the course of the Greco-Persian war than Thermopylae.

It is a fortunate thing too. Had the Persians won, had Greece fallen, the history of the western world may have been significantly altered. Judging by the intellectually unproductive centuries Persia experienced after Thermopylae and Salamis, it would not have been for the better. Ancient Greece was a small country, but its achievements still shine brightly today. Xerxes’ ancient empire, vast as it was in its day, provided little for future generations to reflect upon.

By: Zaid dodokh

Zaid dodokh — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:44:35 +0000

i watch it ona 22 LCD TV with a huge sound system :D

i dont know a lot about history stuffs but for the sound effects and the graphics i give it 10/10

By: dotone

dotone — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:31:49 +0000

I was so ofended watching it, so not accurate and the way Persians were portrait was really bad. As a movie, well, corny to my taste.

By: kinzi

kinzi — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:42:59 +0000

With you and Shaden BOTH voting no, I will be hesitant to even sneek a rented copy out of Plaza Video for fear I might be seen by a blogger!

By: Shaden

Shaden — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:04:32 +0000

lol I totally agree with you! I wrote about it on my blog, you know I think some guys liked it only because of the supposedly high quality graphics and the blood shed.