300: Less for the brain, more for the eyes

I have seen the movie 300 quite recently and I found it very entertaining. A review of the film by Zack Snyder from RollingStone reflects my opinion. I thought the review was very accurate in describing my experience. The movie was stunning to watch, yet it did lack character development and a lengthier story line in my opinion. But I still found this movie to be awesome.

"300 is a movie blood-drunk on its own artful excess. Guys of all ages and sexes won't be able to resist it." - Zack Snyder, RollingStone

I completely agree with this statement. There was always excitement to keep people interested, and it was very well done. The way it was filmed allowed people to see a lot of the battles that were going on. The stop and go during the battles where certain parts of the movie were filmed at a higher frame rate thus slowing down the scene allowed viewers to take some time and enjoy the action, rather than just letting it speed across the screen to the next conflict.

"Decked out like gladiators in a gay fashion layout, the soldiers from the Greek city-state of Sparta look gym-ready for battle in crotch-squeezing ensembles that expose as much flesh as an R rating will allow." - Zack Snyder, RollingStone

The outfits did show a bit too much in my opinion as well, but the purpose was to show the muscles of the warriors and to show their strength. The actors had to work out for months, hours everyday to look like that before the movie started shooting. Snyder also thought the Persian ruler Xerxes to be a bit odd. Completely covered in jewelry and saw himself as a god. Snyder did not mention this, but I thought Xerxes might have liked men. My friends who watched it with me thought so as well, and all of us thought that at the same time too, just because of one scene where Xerxes puts his hand on Leonidas' shoulder. It was just the way he did it seemed questionable to us. The movie left me leaving the movie theater doubting any of that really happening at the Battle of Thermopylae. But I would still recommend it to anyone that asks me, I still thought the movie was very entertaining and what is the point of going to a movie if it isn't entertaining? Isn't that the reason people go to movies, to have a good time? I certainly did and there are probably a quite a few of people that would agree with me, including Zack Snyder. It was also fun watching my spanish teacher act out scenes of the movie in front of all of his classes, bringing in the music from the movie, and even putting up a poster of the movie that he modified himself! Instead of "prepare for glory" which was on the poster, he modified it into spanish by adding red pieces of paper he colored himself onto the poster. The movie 300 is recommended by me, as well as by Zack Snyder from RollingStone.