Frank Miller's 300

          This is one of the goriest and most graphic movies I’ve ever seen. It’s still fabulous and well worth watching but it is an important fact that this movie will desensetize anyone instantly. This is also one of the biggest “fake movies” ever. It’s intentional, but still, in some ways this movie rivals Running Scared in its abuse of style superseding all of substance.

            The scene takes place in Sparta, where the warlords are itchy to defend themselves from the Persians, who must pass through a narrow and impassible straight, guarded by 300 Spartans. The million men of Persia soon begin to die, all the while the politicians of Sparta and Athens erode the support for the men, until it is all they can do to fight on. 300 against the world.

            The scenes are stylized after Frank miller (Writer, Sin City) who wrote a graphic novel about the battle of thermopoly, which is here depicted. The portrayal of the Arabs is a little unfair, they are all either cowardly and snidely, demoniac immortals, or Xerxes who is depicted as a 7 foot tall metrosexual. The immortal battles are stunning, the graphics render it as a separate universe of phantasm, but draw in the audience with the use of slow motion, camera angles, and all the other neat little style tricks.

            The plot is a little thin, but very lurid, just like most of Miller’s stuff. It’s pretty graphic intensive, but wlel worth the watch. Easy 2, but not on the same level as Sin City.