[Movie] 300

Originally Posted by TheXeno

I wished they made a movie based off of Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire". A great book and anyone interested in the Battle of Thermopylae should give it a good read. Has anyone else here read that book?

Yes, I've read it, and I agree that it would have made an excellent movie as well. There are some lines in the book that I would have liked to have seen, but as a different take on it, the 300 comic series was most excellently done, and this movie follows the comics to a tee.

Very beautiful in the layouts with intense action scenes (very intense action scenes) make this an excellent movie. I would have to say that this was one of the best and most faithful adaptions of comic to big screen taht I have seen.

As far as story, sure it didn't have much because everyone knows of the history of the occurance. It was how it was told that made this such a good comic/movie. I will definately be seeing it again when it comes to the Imax here and then buying it on DVD later. It gets my two thumbs up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

At least the needless sex was at the start and over quickly so that the real business of making people dead was ready to go. I thought it was a little out of place (ie. long) sort of like the gratuitous sex in A History of Violence, but like in that movie, the sex in this one didn't ruin it for me. At least it wasn't as long as the Matrix sex scene...

There's nowhere I can't reach.