[i]Thanks to Queen Jean for submitting the article![/i] For the defensive war they waged to be deemed righteous, the Spartans circa 480 B.C. would have had to adhere to the American Bill of Rights. The Spartans who fought at Thermopylae were Greek heroes and ours as...

There's something to watching an exercise in futility. 300 speeds by, skimming through its characterization, and gets into what movie -goers came for quite quickly. It is almost obtrusive, though it does get the message across that the Spartans are charging into their...

I’ve decided that if a movie is ever made about my life, I want the backgrounds used in the Frank Miller movies. The man behind the graphic novel “Sin City” as well as “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” recreates comic book panels by placing actors in front of virtual...

The wonderfully over-the-top epic adventure 300 conquered the box office for the second weekend in a row. According to Variety, even St. Patrick's Day and the NCAA tournament didn't stop the male-skewing movie from raking in $31.1 million this weekend for a combined...

300, the new epic adventure film by Zack Snyder and Frank Miller, merits comparisons to Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane. This statement is not to suggest that Snyder's film is a "great" film, or comparable to any classic piece of cinema. However, 300 is a...

[i]Thanks to Dragon Slayer for the article![/i] 300 (15) ** Running Time: 117 minutes ANCIENT beefcake movies have traditionally fallen into two categories: lighter family fables or true epics with the emotional heft of Greek tragedy. Now there's a third category: an...

It is very rare when a movie lives up to the lofty expectations that the trailer has set. The trailer for 300 set my expectations incredibly high, but the film did not disappoint. Part of me thinks this review is pointless. If you saw the trailer, you want to see it....

[b]Merging cutting-edge cinematic razzle dazzle with resonant themes of honor, courage and sacrifice, 300 builds yet another visually thrilling and viscerally satisfying film.[/b] [b]Story[/b] Built from comic book auteur Frank Miller’s (Sin City) rock solid...

Four stars When I think of recent epic movies, the first one that pops into my head is "300." While I was sitting in the theater, the only word that came out of my mouth was, "Wow!" Now when I say "wow," I mean "WOW!" This film seemed to have no limits on its budget....

Two reviews for the price of one. Both excellent although wildly different. The message of both, though, is that there is meaning and purpose that transcends mortal existence. 300 Directed by Zack Snyder While we live in a time that seems to scream of narcissism, and...

The film “300” seems completely out of step with our distinguished, modern tastes. It’s a Heston-esque sword-and-sandals epic with all of the emotional subtlety of a John Wayne movie. There are good guys and bad guys, and fighting is always the answer. There is no...

Rating: 4 out of 5 Movie Experience: DT Cinemas Remember J.P Dutta’s Border, the movie based on the Battle of Longewala where a battalion of 120 soldiers held back a 3000 troop strong Pakistani force. The stiff resistance of those 120 troops delayed the pakistani...

It's simply beautiful to see comic art come to life in cinema. At least for me. I'd never had thought I'd ever see a movie that could take Frank Miller's use of negatives in his comic form and bring it to a movie without looking distasteful. But Rodriguez did that...

Frank Miller’s 300 the movie is really a graphic novel in the form of a movie. It is visually stunning and the fight scenes are incredible and somewhat true to historical descriptions of how the phalanx fought. This goes to show that even whities can make a fight...

From its opening scene—a close-up of thousands upon thousands of what are later revealed to be the bones of countless infant males tossed from a precipice after being deemed unfit for the honor of a Spartan life—to its last, Zack Snyder’s (Dawn of the Dead [2004])...

4 stars/5 "300" provides a visual retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler, "The Phantom of the Opera") led a troop of 300 soldiers to encounter the hundreds of thousands strong Persian army. With the exception of Butler and...

The new release is a little film called "300." Maybe you've heard of it. When the Persian empire of 100 nations demands loyalty and submission from Greece- Sparta specifically, King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) petitions the council to send an army to stop the oncoming...

Frank Miller's unique and violent "Sin City" pushed the envelope of possibility in film, making it hard to imagine anything coming close to its beauty and innovation. Fittingly, the adaptation of another of Miller's graphic novels, "300," finally surpasses its gritty...

Though this is a battle epic few can match, there's a beauty and a noble nature to this film. It's the kind that comes from total commitment to a cause: here, the notion of a free and unyielding Sparta. That's delivered in this film through gleaming biceps, rippling...

After seeing the adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel ''Sin City'' on the big screen in 2005, I was very excited about the announcement and arrival of ''300.'' I was not disappointed in the least. ''300'' is a film about the Spartan Battle of Thermopylae against...

Ripped from the pages of Frank Miller's graphic novel, the much-anticipated Spartan epic "300" charges into theatres with spear in hand, ready to meet hoards of epic-starved movie-goers. Released on March 9 in theatres and IMAX nationwide, this latest Frank Miller...

One of the Most Important Films in Years, Reviewer Says For those wondering, director Zack Snyder’s 300 isn’t a remake of the 1960 sword n’ sandals epic The 300 Spartans. The trendy word is “reimagining,” except that it’s also filtered through the eye of comic-book...

Check out the comment threads at the AV Club in regards to reviews for these two movies, The Host and 300, the last two movies I have seen in the theater. It is hilarious high-brow v. low-brow humor...and a lot of people taking things out of context and making the...

Good: - Hot damn, that was a beautifully art-directed movie! The crispness, detail, hyper-realism and cartoonish blood. - The expansion of the Queen's role. Great to contrast the battles, but also just to balance out the action as well. - The music. I thought it was a...

"300" should be the Marines' new recruitment video. The few, the proud, the Chippendales with swords. The story may be true -- 300 Spartan Davids did fight hundreds of thousands of Persian Goliaths at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. -- but the film is decidedly...