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An action movie staged in an imaginary Time and Place with imaginary heroes and villains. Only Death Obviously it is easier to make a baseless action movie rather than a real epic "peplum". But guess what there is no Glory in War and Killing. Obviously it is easier to make War and Killing the glorious thing a nation could ever accomplish. But guess what he was more like a sophisticated Persian and also a great military strategist. Obviously it is easier to represent Xerxès the first as a giant homosexual, piercing adept. But guess what they were more like 10000 Spartans, Athenians, Thebans, Thespians and Phoceans against 200,000 Persians. Obviously it is easier to define bravery as 300 Spartans warriors fighting against a million Persians. But guess what, historically, the Greeks lost that naval battle as well. Obviously it is easier and convenient to imply that Greece won against Persia at the naval battle of Artemisium. But guess what they were Obviously it is easier to show Persians as decadent, uncivilized, unsophisticated and without any understanding of military strategy⁛ut guess what the Persian Empire established by Cyrus the great, the writer of the first human right declaration, was the most magnificent and civilized empire in 480 B.C. Obviously it is easier to show "real Spartan warriors" not indulged in a fair amount of man love. I knew I was in for a graphic novel adaptation.īut what I witnessed was a simplification of already simplified and false historical facts. I knew I was not going to see an accurate historical film. Reviewed by auberus 4 / 10 Have we gone so mad we can not distinguish films from video games?įor the life of me I can not understand why people would rave so much about this mockery of a movie That ugliness makes 300 disturbing and unpleasant, in addition to being boring and stupid. The whole story is structured around eugenics, with Persians and traitors and "mystics" representing deformed and subhuman evil and the Spartans representing the purity of selective breeding there's a whole subplot about Congress, sorry, I mean the Spartan senate trying to stab Leonidas in the back by daring to restrict his absolute power there's praise not just of courage, but of hatred, anti-intellectualism and intolerance.
But what makes it worse than bad is just how creepy, ugly and fascistic Nutso-Miller's politics really are. If it were just that his Spartans talked in a mishmash of Objectivist drivel, movement-conservative cant and macho cliché - which they do - it would be bad enough. It's funny that defenders keep trying to talk it up as a fun, apolitical action flick, because it's as plain as day that Miller takes pains to slap the reader (and thus, Snyder slaps the viewer) square in the face with his politics at every opportunity. The comic book 300 was written by Miller when he was embarking on what I like to call his "I'm the god damned Batman" phase or his Nutso Period: the part of his career where his work deteriorated into an insane cartoon of a cartoon. FRANK MILLER'S NEED OF INTENSE PSYCHIATRIC CARE. It's so ridiculous, so painful, so unintentionally funny, that it would put 300 almost in "so bad it's good" territory if it wasn't for. Those stupid loincloth outfits the Spartans are wearing? Okay, fine, I'll squint and bear it, it's a comic book. It's tolerable for a movie based on a comic book to have a bit of cheese factor. They're skillfully executed but ultimately dull, like an overlong Joe Satriani guitar solo. AND SLOW-MO ACTION! The same goes for the slow-mo action sequences, which are cool the first time and the second time, and okay the third time. We're assailed by slow-mo moments of "Look! I'm cinematically rendering a page from a comic book!" not every half an hour or every fifteen minutes, but every FIVE minutes.
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LOOK MA! "STUNNING VISUALS!" No-one can say Zack Snyder doesn't know how to use a green-screen, but unfortunately he's also a fan-boy with no apparent concept of taste or restraint. Reviewed by mistabobdobolina 1 / 10 Among the Worst Films of All Time The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes that the separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks, was not as heavily guarded as they thought. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans.
Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history.
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae.