The number between 299 and 301
Oh I'm so witty ..ZANG!
First things first, I was really excited to see 300. I'm not sure exactly why, other than it being super totally awesome looking. Yup, that's description at its best.
So the story goes like this: Three hundred Spartans go fight Xerxes' army of millions. That's it
There were of course a few more plot lines woven in, but the theme of this flick was that of violence and rocking faces.
The movie starts off with a back-story of how the current king earned his namesake, and why he rocks so much. Apparently Spartans train their boys like the Unsullied (yea George RR Marin ref) except that they are not eunuchs. Fast forward to king training his son, Xerxes' messenger comes to tell Sparta to bend a knee...proud king says screw dis ... well he actually spat out "DIS IS SPARTA!" like in the preview. From that point on, it's fighting.
The only problem I had with the movie was that some of the creatures were quite over the top and exaggerated. But then again, it IS based off of a graphic novel.
Final line is I give this a nerd rating of 7.5/10. Generally, I only see movies in theaters if IMDB has rated it over 7, so there you have it. Go see 300, but don't expect to be blown away like you were with Gladiator.
First things first, I was really excited to see 300. I'm not sure exactly why, other than it being super totally awesome looking. Yup, that's description at its best.
So the story goes like this: Three hundred Spartans go fight Xerxes' army of millions. That's it
There were of course a few more plot lines woven in, but the theme of this flick was that of violence and rocking faces.The movie starts off with a back-story of how the current king earned his namesake, and why he rocks so much. Apparently Spartans train their boys like the Unsullied (yea George RR Marin ref) except that they are not eunuchs. Fast forward to king training his son, Xerxes' messenger comes to tell Sparta to bend a knee...proud king says screw dis ... well he actually spat out "DIS IS SPARTA!" like in the preview. From that point on, it's fighting.
The only problem I had with the movie was that some of the creatures were quite over the top and exaggerated. But then again, it IS based off of a graphic novel.
Final line is I give this a nerd rating of 7.5/10. Generally, I only see movies in theaters if IMDB has rated it over 7, so there you have it. Go see 300, but don't expect to be blown away like you were with Gladiator.
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