I'm grunching this thread:
Got around to seeing this the other night. Not all people think this way (including myself at times), but a decent way to judge a film is to determine if it accomplished what it set out to do.
300 did exactly that. It was an attempt to put a graphic novel onto film, and more than any other "comic book" movie, it achieved it's goal. I felt that I was watching a graphic novel. The problem with that is something sike brought up (one of the few posts I read). Comic book lines sound cheesy as dialogue. That's what will happen when you try to foist one medium onto a completely different medium. The transition cannot be perfect.
But, whatever. I enjoyed it for what it was. It wasn't trying to be historically accurate, it wasn't trying to be a sweeping epic. It was trying to be an exciting recreation of an embellished myth, and it did that.
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