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Post #279058

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Zion
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Date created
24-Mar-2007, 3:50 PM
Just saw this film last night. While it didn't live up to the hype I've seen for it, I did enjoy it. I can understand the graphical style seeing as this is a Frank Miller film, and I think it did help in making it feel more like an ancient mythological tale. I think it could have used a little more backstory about the weird guys with the oracle and what control they had (or at least explained why Sparta wouldn't send their whole army to begin with but suddenly did after their king and his 300 men were dead despite what the weird guys on the mountain top said.)

I liked the action scenes. Some of my friends said that the slow motion/fast motion/slow motion thing bothered them, but I thought it totally worked. I just didn't like how they never really showed more than about 20 spartans at a time. Even in the shots were they were all in formation together, it only looked like there were 15 guys fighting the Persians.