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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WENHAM/WEST/BUTLER/HEADEY
Title: 300
Street Release Date: 07/31/2007
Domestic
Genre: DRAMA

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #929 in DVD
• Brand: WENHAM/WEST/BUTLER/HEADEY
• Released on: 2007-07-31
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 116 minutes

Amazon.com
Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders. Their only hope is to neutralize the numerical advantage by confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), at the narrow strait of Thermopylae.

More engaging than Troy, the tepid and somewhat similar epic of ancient Greece, 300 is also comparable to Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a strikingly stylized look and huge, sweeping battle scenes. However, it's not as to-the-letter faithful to Miller's source material as Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many of the book's images are represented just about perfectly. But some extra material has been added, including new villains (who would be considered "bosses" if this were a video game, and it often feels like one) and a political subplot involving new characters and a significantly expanded role for the Queen of Sparta (Lena Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-writers does break up the violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it didn't involve the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of course, will be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts, and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless, and the movie has more and less nudity--more female, less male--than the graphic novel.) Still, as a representation of Miller's work and as an ancient-themed action flick with a modern edge, 300 delivers. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

Sucks
Man was I disappointed after purchasing this. A friend of mine talked me into watching this movie and since supposedly its visually stunning I decided to get it on BlurRay. Well, that was a big mistake. First of if you read the back of the cover it states that only portion of the movie is in High Definition - Translation I think there were only a hand full of scenes in HD the most of the movie was shot in standard definition. Second of all the movie it self SUCKS big time. Very simple, basic right down dumb story line. You can accurately predict the whole movie along with the ending after the first 10 minutes of it. The movie has absolutely no historical or mythological values what so ever (like The Gladiator or Troy for example). And from the beginning to an end it's filled with bloodshed which gets old after the first 15 minutes of the movie.

Over all I must say stay away from this movie BR or DVD.

This is Sparta?
This movie was visualy amazing. Charactors and the sound track drew you in.

The downfall was it heavily reminded me of the "Lord of the Rings" movies and "The Chronicles of Narnia" movie during the CGI fight scenes. I had this feeling of "I've scene this before". 300 had a new slow motion visual added to the fights which was interesting. 300 was also more violent. (loping off legs etc.)

Some of the dark sceens appeared "grainy" on my plasma. I was disapointed in the video transfer.

Over all it was a great movie with high impact action

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Dear Sirs,
Question!
How can I adequately review a product that I ordered but never recieved?

Rodney Kase Tyrone
10-6-2008