[Movie] 300

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

The movie was pretty good. Around 8/10 at the most.

Action scenes were flawless. In fact, I wish there had been more.
Any other story scenes and dialogue were clunky, trite, cliched.

I saw it tonight, and I really couldn't agree more. The action scenes were beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed them.

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Every time the movie went back to the queen, it sucked the life out of the pacing. The ending went on too long and was completely in slow motion (which was especially unnecessary when there was no action besides walking and looking). I found the messages of the film to be muddled. How can we believe these characters' rants about freedom, honor and justice when they are a brutal, slave-owning, baby-killing warrior nation?

The Spartans were some badass dudes, man. I wish they had given us a little background on it before we were introduced to Xerxes and Leonidas - a little more on Spartan culture. I think it REALLY lends a lot to the story, but it wasn't a historical account, so.

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However, every frame of this film was beautiful (visually speaking). You just have to ignore the immature mentality of the writing.

Agree so hard.

I sat through it and I really enjoyed the style of the film. I just wish there was a lot more to it. At some points, I felt the drama was ramped up so bad to compensate for the lack of a strong plot. But I guess thats a part of what the film great - there's not a whole lot going on, but the beauty of it makes you interested and unable to take your eyes away.

And I have this REALLY bad habit of seeing Lord of the Rings in pretty much EVERYTHING these days. I saw SO MUCH of the trilogy that I was literally laughing at some points. Could be me, though.

As for the Captain's son, I didn't flinch when he was killed until I saw the father's response. Slow motion does that to a scene, I guess. I saw it coming though. The entire time he was bantering during battle, you could tell he was going to get it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.