300
300
R | 09 March 2007 (USA)
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Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

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abolfazlbashiri

Nice and beautifull. I like this. I love iran. I love sayed ali khamenei. I hate trump and israeel

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PaulEHarvey

*** SPOILER ALERT ****Written by noted conservative Warren Miller, 300 serves as a brilliant piece of propaganda that fails in nearly every way when looking at historical evidence of the time.1. Spartans depending on a LARGE slave class, that allowed them 24 Hour leisure time for their interests.2. Spartan training was designed to produce good citizens, not soldiers.3. Sparta didn't have a standing army, their army was a militia that was used when needed.4. The battle of Thermopylae was not intended to be a suicide mission. Leonidas desperately wanted, and sent for, emergency backup.5. Argives were the premier warriors in Ancient Greece6. Sparta was admired for its political machinations, not its army.There are many more historical inaccuracies. This is a small list of them. Please do your research rather than believe this piece of propaganda.

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Robert J. Maxwell

The story of Spartan King Leonidas holding the Persian Army of Xerxes at bay at the battle of Thermopylae. As far as I can remember -- I was there but it's been a long time -- it's reasonably accurate historically although perforce some of the dialog must be fabricated.If it has any redeeming social value it's probably that the kids who are the intended audience will learn that there was once a city called Sparta that wasn't in Mississippi.But the photography and f/x are something special. Images are in high contrast and tinted a kind of gold except at night, when they're tinted a kind of blue. Not midnight blue but kind of a neon blue.The acting is professional in caliber. Some of the monsters (for that's how they're depicted) overplay their roles, if that's possible. The women are attractive and it's interesting to see that the queen has been outfitted by Dior or somebody, wearing a dress cut perilously low on her iliac crests. The men are uniformly built. Their pecs are massive. Their abs are rock hard. In fact, they're built almost identically. Can you photoshop a group scene? If it weren't for the photography and f/x it could be a sword and sandal epic from 1958 filmed in Cinecittá starring Lance Sterling (née Guglielmo Gogliucci). But the photography alone almost redeems the film. The skies are straight out of J. M. W. Turner, smoky and smudged, but slowly swirling.It's thought provoking but the thoughts it provokes are primitive. There is no overlap between good (white Spartans) and evil (black Persians). This kind of binary thinking is dangerous because it's liable to lead us into believing that this is the way the real world works -- all good versus all evil -- whereas in fact God didn't make the universe in a way that renders it so easy for humans to understand.Too bad they distilled Spartan culture into nothing more than a lot of heroes taking "drunk delight in battle with my peers." The Spartans certainly fought well and the battle scenes are impressive except when they lapse into very slow motion or are overcranked to lightning speed.Sparta must have been a nice place to visit though you wouldn't want to live there. They periodically raided their neighbors, the peaceful Helots, for slaves. Older mentors adopted young boys as sexual objects. If a newborn was deformed or otherwise deemed unfit it was put down.

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gsh999

A brave, oddly blue-eyed group of Spartans screech about "freedom" and serve as a model for humanity as a seemingly alien race of ugly, deformed, evil mutant Persians tries to conquer them. This movie, made during the US-Iraq war that began in 2003, is nothing but propaganda to inspire hatred for people from the Middle East. The Spartans certainly excelled at warfare and were brave warriors, but the rear-guard force of 300 was part of a much larger Greek army, numbering as many as 8,000 -- something the movie entirely leaves out. Second, the Spartans were war-like primarily to control the massive numbers of slaves held in their homeland, who outnumbered Spartan citizens 10 to 1. Hearing the brave, blue-eyed (LOL) Spartans screeching about "freedom" really made me laugh. The invading Persians are depicted as nothing more than cowardly, ugly monsters. As a former military officer, I admire the bravery of the Greeks at Thermopylae, but this type of propaganda, styled as "cinema," makes me sick. My previous review, making these points, was deleted by IMDb. I wonder why.

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