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300 was the single worst movie of 2007. It is also the single
most vulgar and trashy movie of the present decade. 300 is also the single most historically inaccurate movie in quite some time. 300 is a movie to avoid unless you really like seeing awful movies.
300 is based on a "graphic novel" aka pretentious and over priced comic book that was done by Frank Miller. Miller is an old hack in comic
books who has managed to screw up practically every project that he has
ever handled. During the 1980's, he did a graphic novel of Batman
calling him "The Dark Knight." Miller's Batman more resembled the kind
of person that Adolf Hitler would have had in the Gestapo than the
classic comic book character. Miller was also responsible for a series
of Daredevil stories that basically trashed one of the more venerable
comic book super heroes. Needless to say, whenever Frank Miller is
involved in a comic book project, the results are certain to be
disappointing to all those who appreciate great comic books.
Such was the case with the original 1999 hardcover comic book aka
graphic novel version of 300 . Not only was it poorly drawn and colored, it was extremely vulgar in a homosexual way. Real life Spartan soldiers wore full armor as opposed to running around half naked like they did in Miller's creation. If the Spartans really went about warfare with as little clothing and armor on, as Miller would have you believe, then they would have been slaughtered like cattle. Instead of being
synonymous with bravery, the word Spartan would instead be synonymous with stupidity.
300 is equally abysmal in its presentation of the Persian enemy. The Persian Empire was the largest country of all antiquity. Slavery was abolished under Cyrus the Great several decades before Persia attempted
to conquer Greece. Meanwhile, for all the talk of "freedom" in 300 , in Greece it was perfectly lawful to own people in bondage. Also, Persian warriors were not the freaks depicted in the movie, nor did their "King of Kings" Xerxes go around with numerous body piercings like some grotesque freak.
The movie version of 300 was made in much the same way that movies such as "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "Sin City" were made. The flick was filmed at indoor movie studios and in front of green screens. Once the acting was finished, the special effects technicians took over and they inserted the film footage of the actors into a digitally created world. The end result looks just like a Computer
Graphics Interface (CGI) movie. In other words, it looks more like a
glorified cartoon than a real movie with real actors.
Another problem is that 300 seems like it was planned to have a video game spin off. The battles depicted in this movie are the kind of battles that fit right in on a video game format. The elephants, rhinoceroses and the chained giant look more like video game characters than movie characters. The members of the Persian Army all look like clones of one another.
When you consider that one of the characters is a deformed hunchback
ogre who has arms that look like lobster claws, it is impossible to take
this grotesque flick as being anything better than a piece of garbage. 300 is truly an ugly movie and is about as involving as watching a video game demo. 300 is a movie to avoid like the plague.
most vulgar and trashy movie of the present decade. 300 is also the single most historically inaccurate movie in quite some time. 300 is a movie to avoid unless you really like seeing awful movies.
300 is based on a "graphic novel" aka pretentious and over priced comic book that was done by Frank Miller. Miller is an old hack in comic
books who has managed to screw up practically every project that he has
ever handled. During the 1980's, he did a graphic novel of Batman
calling him "The Dark Knight." Miller's Batman more resembled the kind
of person that Adolf Hitler would have had in the Gestapo than the
classic comic book character. Miller was also responsible for a series
of Daredevil stories that basically trashed one of the more venerable
comic book super heroes. Needless to say, whenever Frank Miller is
involved in a comic book project, the results are certain to be
disappointing to all those who appreciate great comic books.
Such was the case with the original 1999 hardcover comic book aka
graphic novel version of 300 . Not only was it poorly drawn and colored, it was extremely vulgar in a homosexual way. Real life Spartan soldiers wore full armor as opposed to running around half naked like they did in Miller's creation. If the Spartans really went about warfare with as little clothing and armor on, as Miller would have you believe, then they would have been slaughtered like cattle. Instead of being
synonymous with bravery, the word Spartan would instead be synonymous with stupidity.
300 is equally abysmal in its presentation of the Persian enemy. The Persian Empire was the largest country of all antiquity. Slavery was abolished under Cyrus the Great several decades before Persia attempted
to conquer Greece. Meanwhile, for all the talk of "freedom" in 300 , in Greece it was perfectly lawful to own people in bondage. Also, Persian warriors were not the freaks depicted in the movie, nor did their "King of Kings" Xerxes go around with numerous body piercings like some grotesque freak.
The movie version of 300 was made in much the same way that movies such as "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "Sin City" were made. The flick was filmed at indoor movie studios and in front of green screens. Once the acting was finished, the special effects technicians took over and they inserted the film footage of the actors into a digitally created world. The end result looks just like a Computer
Graphics Interface (CGI) movie. In other words, it looks more like a
glorified cartoon than a real movie with real actors.
Another problem is that 300 seems like it was planned to have a video game spin off. The battles depicted in this movie are the kind of battles that fit right in on a video game format. The elephants, rhinoceroses and the chained giant look more like video game characters than movie characters. The members of the Persian Army all look like clones of one another.
When you consider that one of the characters is a deformed hunchback
ogre who has arms that look like lobster claws, it is impossible to take
this grotesque flick as being anything better than a piece of garbage. 300 is truly an ugly movie and is about as involving as watching a video game demo. 300 is a movie to avoid like the plague.
