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‘300’ is one of the best movies I will ever see
I can’t hold myself back anymore. I need to scream it from the rooftops: “300” is phenomenal – one of those movies that rips out your spine and uses it to whip you across the face. It’s the first 2007 release that I’ve given the maximum four stars, and that figure...
THE GLORIOUS IMMORTALITY OF THE 300
300 is a film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same title which recounts and immortalizes one of the greatest battles in history, the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which 300 Spartans, led by its King Leonidas fought against invading Persian...
Rolling Stone: 300 Review
The ads tell you to "prepare for glory" as 300 Spartans go to war against an army of Persians, numbering 250,000, in the film version of Frank Miller's graphic novel about the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae. My advice is to prepare your eyes for popping -- hell, they...
300 (review)
Support the Troops The first person who uses any aspect of this flick to justify the American debacle in Iraq is getting a swat across the nose with a copy of My Pet Goat. Which King Leonides of Sparta does not sit reading while his country is threatened and attacked....
300 Spartans
I have seen 300 twice now, and the second viewing was crucial. Not because it was on an Imax screen – a very impressive way to watch the film – but because I came into the theater without the kind of expectations I had my first time through. I knew that 300 wasn’t as...
Stylized ‘300’ strips graphic Greek battle to epic core
Summary: 300 (R) Three Stars (Good) A violent, highly stylized graphic-novel variation of the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan warriors made a legendary "last stand" against 10,000 Persians. Gerald Butler stars in Zack Snyder's adaptation of the popular Frank...
Ultra-violent fantasy film is a jaw-dropping masterpiece
Listen up, men! And women! But not kids! If you thought Gladiator was a bit too stingy with the bloodshed, if you felt Sin City could have been more stylized, if you hate it when the masses refer to graphic novels as "comic books," this is your day. For today brings...
Brutal but beautiful
300 is inspiring, to say the least, and surprisingly so. After a few disappointments in films of this genre and being neither a fan of Greek literature nor movies of the genre, many elements of 300 have made yours truly sit down and take notice. First, it was the...
Review: 300 — Scott’s Review
If Gladiator and Sin City had a baby, it'd look a whole lot like Zack Snyder's 300. And that baby would be a 22-pound boy who shot out of the birth canal bearing several tattoos, snarling like a jackal and wielding a spiked club. Almost completely mindless but...
Frank Miller’s 300 is a sight to see (Blog)
This movie is just bad ass. I love it. Please watch it. This movie is so violent but does it in such an incredibly smart and artful style that makes this film an event in itself. 300 makes The Matrix look old. The plot is very simple: the Spartan king Leonidas leads...
Last Night at the 300
I went to the Hollywood Premier of the "300" last night, and talked a bit with Director Zack Snyder, screenwriter Kurt Johnstad, and graphic novelist Frank Miller. There will be lots of controversy about this film—well aside from erroneous allegations that it is pro-...
300 Review: Epic, Powerful, and Incredible!
* US Release Date: March 9, 2007 * Genre: Action, Adventure, Comic Book, Drama * MPAA: Rated R (for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and nudity) * Running Time: 117 minutes * Directed by: Zack Snyder * 9/10 “Immortals - we'll put their name to the...
DVD Review:Beowulf and Grendel (2006)
Recently released on DVD by Anchor Bay, this is an obscure but interesting adaptation of the old myth, filmed entirely in Iceland. But unlike the myth, in which Grendel is depicted as a consummately evil being, the film embellishes the story with a prologue,...
300 Star – Gerard Butler
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta led his army of 300 to one of the greatest battles in history, the Battle of Thermopylae. The soldiers fought to the death against Xerxes I and his colossal Persian army. Their courage and fearless altruism led to all of Greece...
Of History and Comic Books
Since "Gladiator" put back the peplum in fashion, we cannot stop counting the number of productions bidding on a kind of historical reconstitution of the Antiquity. After Gladiator, Troy and Alexander, here is then 300, a war drama which takes root in the Spartans...
300 Star – Gerard Butler
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta led his army of 300 to one of the greatest battles in history, the Battle of Thermopylae. The soldiers fought to the death against Xerxes I and his colossal Persian army. Their courage and fearless altruism led to all of Greece...
Of History and Comic Books
Since "Gladiator" put back the peplum in fashion, we cannot stop counting the number of productions bidding on a kind of historical reconstitution of the Antiquity. After Gladiator, Troy and Alexander, here is then 300, a war drama which takes root in the Spartans...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars Tv
Page 2: Sin City 2, 300 Box Office, Star Wars TV, byPeter Sciretta dateMarch 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am wonderconbig.jpg Check out these new stills from The Hills Have Eyes 2. George Lucas is now claiming that the live action Star Wars television show is still “years...
Into the Valley of Film Rode ‘300’
Frank Miller has had more luck in Hollywood than your average comic book or (as they're known nowadays) graphic novel writer/artist, whose works usually lose their snap by the time they reach the big screen. His 1980s reimagining of Batman as an obsessed "Dark Knight"...