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A night of planning for my Vegas trip at Milestones ended with a decision to check out 300 at the cinema. This will be quick, as I really need to get to sleep, so here goes:

This movie is silly. I mean, there's quite a few scenes that come across as humourous and I'm not sure if that was the intention of the director. The violence and blood are just way too over the top, I found myself laughing at the beheadings because it came across as so ridiculous. The CGI can be quite poor. It displays the battlefields and soliders well enough with a yellow hue to give it that historical/comic book feel, but the blood looks like dirt and dissipates just as quickly.

The dialogue is also ridiculous. Every speech is trying to be epic and they like to yell a lot, speaking in cliches about dying for glory. And I don't know if this is very p.c. of me to say, but the costumes were quite gay. The mighty Spartans were bare-chested donning red capes complete with fur speedos. If they can construct swords, spears, shields and battle helmets, certainly some chest & leg armour might be a good idea? And when you see the King Xeres (I have no idea if I spelled that right and I'm too tired to look it up on Wikipedia), well, he's got a gold speedo, and he doesn't feel the need to wear a shirt, either.

They also have this modern rock guitar score, which is completely out of place for the few hundred B.C. time period the story is supposed to take place and is really distracting. The battles scenes have too many MTV quick cuts to my liking as well, but that aren't too long so you don't quite reach for the bottle of aspirin right away.

Anyway, I don't think there's really anything memorable here, and waiting for DVD is certainly an option. I hear they're planning a sequel, so let's start the jokes: shall we call it 301? 300 2? 400? 3000? .....