300 [review] 2007

I can’t see how any of the very smartly and politely dressed ladies in the audience for 300, who looked more like members of a charity luncheon, could have enjoyed it at all. This is a total Man’s movie. It’s about doing Man things and speaking only in shouts. There is a good amount of female nudity, i.e. breeests in several scenes. Granted, the men only wear briefs and capes, and somehow have 8 abs apiece, but other than that, can’t see what the appeal would be.

Even as a Man, the movie was only mildly entertaining and if I hadn’t seen it on the big screen with a male companion to make snide comments too, and to laugh at scenes with that may not necessarily have been funny by intention, then I might not have enjoyed the movie at all. The best scenes come before the halfway point. When we see the real mechanics of how Spartans fight in unison, it is an a visceral screen visual. But these battles give way to mainly slo-mo kill shots, though spectacularly filmed, are not anything of note.

One deformed Greek character was the source of a lot of humor, intentional or otherwise. I laughed out loud at most of his lines. Just too funny. A lot of the dialogue was quite funny, and most likely unintentional as well.

The ending was kind of an anti-climax. No real big crescendo, just kind of a slow fade.

If you missed your chance to see it on the big screen with friends, then watch it on the biggest TV you can find with friends, at least for the laughs.

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