300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against...
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Say Anything BlogFact or Fiction? 300 Gets the Big Ideas Right!
Victor Davis Hanson, historian, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution has this take on 300 Crowds are flocking to see the film 300 about the ancient Spartans’ last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning 300,...
Defending civilization can be messy
[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...
Never Retreat, Never Surrender
They’ve got arms and abs of steel. They live for combat, laugh at death, and hope only for victory, or a "glorious death" in service of King and country. 300, directed by Zach Snyder and based on the comic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), follows the ferocious...
Movies – More Than the Sum of Their Previews? (blog)
I love movie trailers. In fact, sometimes I love the movie trailers more than the movies themselves. It just hit me the other day that there must be something terribly wrong with this recurring phenomenon. Lately, it seems to me that movie makers are pouring all their...
300 The Movie Reviewed (blog)
Spartans, what is your profession? (King Leonidas to his retinue) -Ahuou (300 Spartans scream together) -You see old friend, I brought more soldiers than you did. King Leonidas to a Greek general, complaining of the lack of Spartan soldiers. This movie is based upon a...
Movie Critic Who Loves Movies – 300
I went to see 300 on March 9th, 2007, the day it opened in theaters all over the United States. So did a lot of other people. It grossed over $70Million dollars that weekend making it the top box-office movie for March 9 - 11th (those figures were estimated, it might...
‘300’ Australian Review
[i]Decapitations? Naked women? Killer special effects? Sign us up.[/i] Australia, March 21, 2007 - After years of dodging film adaptations of his work, Frank Miller appears to have opened the floodgates, and to great effect. '300', the screen adaptation of Frank...
300: an epic bloodbath
There's an awful lot of blood in 300. Great cartoony splurges of the stuff seem to drip down almost every scene, to the extent that one rather begins to miss it when it's off-screen. But the high gore-quota should not come as a surprise. Firstly, this is a battle...
300 – Zack Snyder interview
ZACK Snyder talks about the challenge of bringing Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 to the screen and the overwhelming success of the film in America. He also talks about some of the training techniques he employed, why some of the controversy surrounding the film has...
Graphic battle’s a triumph
THE TWO may have been in existence for roughly the same amount of time, but 100 years on, the motion picture has at last caught up with the infinite visual possibilities of the comic strip. At least, that's how it feels after watching 300 (15) - Dawn of the Dead...
MOVIES: King of his craft
GERARD BUTLER worked hard to get the role of the King of Sparta and is enjoying all the success it has brought GERARD BUTLER is a happy man, as well he might be after his film 300 smashed US records to take £36million in its opening weekend. On the day of its UK...
Wanna be Spartan something? Interview
Star of the new blockbuster 300 Gerard Butler talks to Alison Jones (link to audio at bottom of article) "I’d order a coffee in Starbucks and go ‘hey, look at my abs’ because I figured I was never going to have them again so I might as well show them off while they...
Gerard Butler, King Leonidas Interview
QUESTION: What were your thoughts on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, prior to making the film? GERARD BUTLER: You know, it’s just such a beautifully conceived world, not just by Frank, but by Lynn Varley as well. The colors that are used, the shapes, the tones,...
‘300’ is a man’s movie everyone can love
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...
300 Blazes to Glory
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...
Pre-Plissken?
Source: Suicide Girls Movie fans responded with furor (among a surprising degree of acceptance) to the recent announcement that John Carpenter's sci-fi classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK was getting remade with 300 star Gerard Butler wearing the patch. But is it actually...
Perfect storm of factors made ‘300’ a hit
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times. The Associated Press contributed to this report The box office gurus expected "300" to do well its opening weekend, but not $70 million well -- a record for a movie opening in March and last weekend it added an estimated $31.2...
The Killer Workout
The gore-tastic flick "300" stormed into Search with all the classic form of a box office smash. Its brawny starring man, Gerard Butler, roared into our top movers. Its va-va-voom leading lady, Lena Headey, nearly doubled her buzz. Demand for its reviews, photos, and...
Butchery on a comic scale
[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...
A New Age: A Review Of 300
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...
Lots of People – Including Me – Saw 300 This Weekend
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...
Butler To “Escape” After “300”
Gerard Butler's character King Leonidas may have lost his epic battle in the mega-hit "300," but the actor is enjoying the spoils. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Butler is set to star as the iconic hero, Snake Plissken, in a remake of John Carpenter's B-movie...
What 300 Can Teach Us about Storytelling
In its opening weekend, the movie 300 earned a whopping $70.9 million, the best March opening ever. I did my part! In fact, I’ve seen 300 three times now. I LOVED THIS MOVIE. It is no secret that I’m a card-carrying Gerard Butler fan, so I was primed to love the...
300 Online Press Events Are Good
The 300 online press event Warner Bros organized Friday, which was hosted by Second Life, went quite well, as director Zach Synder, writer Frank Miller and actors Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro engaged in an extensive audio chat, answering questions...