300
Is it May already? 300 is a movie that in any year could be a summer staple film, being used as a launching point for the summer movie season. But the producers decided that March was their best chance to get this movie seen, and by the box office numbers they may have been correct.
Historians can argue the accuracy of the movie and history behind it, but the movie is based on the events surrounding the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 Spartans who defended and held off tens of thousands of Persians for three days, by using the geography of Thermopylae as a choke point to their advantage, while at the same time, portraying the political power plays back at home to mobilize the rest of the army.
The movie is bloody, violent and brutally graphic to say the least, and is entertaining from start to finish. A very stylized movie, much like Sin City, another Frank Miller story, the movie delights the eyes, that is if you don’t feel the need to turn away at the sight of flying limbs.
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