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Posted by tunenut (A) on March 11, 2007 at 13:30:57

In Reply to: Dramatic historical fantasy + 21st century CGI = "300" posted by mr grits on March 11, 2007 at 11:15:04:

Of course I saw this, I knew I would since the first preview.

The visual style is that of Sin City, another Frank Miller comic adaptation.

But it is not anywhere near the pulp fiction greatness of Sin City. Sin City was a takeoff of film noir, a rich vein of movie history. 300 is a takeoff of the 50s gladiator movies, most of which seemed to be poorly dubbed from Italian.

This is to say it is almost instant camp. The warriors in speedos and the ultra-macho lines such as "Tonight we dine in hell!"

But I liked it enormously. The battle choreography is fabulous. The visual style is compulsively entertaining. There is some realism to the portrayal of the Spartan code, where the highest honor a man can achieve is to die in battle.

They easily could have dropped the subplot with the queen back in Sparta. But I guess they wanted to have something beside just battle scenes. Bottom line: a fairly long movie and I was never bored and would not mind seeing it again sometime. But I will not purchase it on DVD as I did Sin City.

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