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I saw "300" today about a heroic battle involving ancient Spartans. Everyone around me agreed that it was great fun if unsubtle. The men liked the action. The women liked the muscled barely-clad male bodies.
I really liked a couple of scenes where everyone worked together so effectively making one shield of many.
However, I had a lot of problems with the movie that can be summed up by the phrase ( plot problems. )
Most of the plot problems were inconsistencies that even I could notice and that easily could have been fixed without adversely affecting the movie. That's just annoying.
I'd still give the movie 2 stars, mostly because they went through so much trouble. Lots of action, costumes, plummeting large animals, enemies falling off cliffs and into a well, etc. It would have taken just the tiniest extra effort and it would have been a good movie. But no.
For a very different viewpoint, see Mac the Mike's review. "'300' is far superior to 'Sin City', however, which seemed to be an exploration of violence and depravity for its own sake. '300', in contrast, depicted violence in the cause of defending the West and its traditions of Reason and Freedom as against superstition and slavery."
I really liked a couple of scenes where everyone worked together so effectively making one shield of many.
However, I had a lot of problems with the movie that can be summed up by the phrase ( plot problems. )
Most of the plot problems were inconsistencies that even I could notice and that easily could have been fixed without adversely affecting the movie. That's just annoying.
I'd still give the movie 2 stars, mostly because they went through so much trouble. Lots of action, costumes, plummeting large animals, enemies falling off cliffs and into a well, etc. It would have taken just the tiniest extra effort and it would have been a good movie. But no.
For a very different viewpoint, see Mac the Mike's review. "'300' is far superior to 'Sin City', however, which seemed to be an exploration of violence and depravity for its own sake. '300', in contrast, depicted violence in the cause of defending the West and its traditions of Reason and Freedom as against superstition and slavery."