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 enlarge | Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1081 reviews
Sales Rank: 420
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 085391161035
UPC: 085391161035
EAN: 0085391161035
ASIN: B000Q6GX5Y
Theatrical Release Date: March 9, 2007
Release Date: July 31, 2007
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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 31-JUL-2007
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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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
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 Short Review of The Audio and Visual Aspects of 300 September 5, 2008
This review will not speak to Director Zach Snyder's excellent handling of the superb (Frank Miller graphic novel) source material, nor will it speak to the tremendous job done by the cast of highly skilled, excellent actors.
Rather, my intended purpose is to briefly describe the movie experience after having watched/ heard it on blu-ray and in uncompressed 5.1 PCM surround sound. One word: brilliant.
Video: I have no idea what many reviewers here refer to when they say the blu-ray version is, visually, no better than, or on par with the DVD version. This is simply not the case.
The blu-ray version, visually speaking, outshines the DVD version by far; the level of depth, color, contrast,and overall tonal quality is spectacular. Every environment in the film, while intensely stylized and computer-generated, is not *obviously* computer-generated. In fact, nearly every scene looks like a perfect melding of a fantastic painting and reality, but visually leaning moreso towards reality.
Audio: As cliche as it sounds (so to speak), this soundtrack has to be heard (on the proper equipment) to be believed. The score is sweeping and majestic, the dialogue is pinpoint tight in it's aural focus and delivery, and the battle scenes deliver a brutally visceral audio impact so intense it made this reviewer shriek and gleefully erupt like a little Spartan girl (which is incredible, given that the reviewer is actually a little boy, and not a Spartan).
Do yoursef a favor and pick up this movie right away, but play it only AFTER you've acquired and had properly set-up: a 1080P HDTV, an amplifier capable of decoding and/or playing back the movie's 5.1 uncompressed soundtrack, and a decent 5.1 (or better) speaker setup.
Now, sit back with some popcorn (or some gyros), and ENJOY!
Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 2.75/5 September 2, 2008
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50 1080p / 2.40:1
Running time: 1:56:32 (h:m:s)
Movie size: 24,961,910,784 bytes
Disc size: 34,803,466,472 bytes
Average video bit rate: 16.80 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 16-bit 4608Kbps English
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit English
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps English / French / Spanish
Subtitles: English / French / Spanish
#Commentary with Director Zack Snyder, Cinematographer Larry Fong, and Writer Kurt Johnstad
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#Frank Miller Tapes
#Making of 300
#Making 300 in Images
#Webisodes
#Deleted Scenes (HD)
 Butch Gay Fantasy August 30, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie is so gay the DVD comes with a tube of K-Y. Not the cutesy gay the latents who made it project on Xerxes, but the leather bar, fisting is more fun if they don't want it, suck my pects, homophobic gay of locker rooms and, yes, manly men, Sparta, where the social strata was divided into packers and packed. "Women for babies, boys for fun." I've had the misfortune to see it twice, trying to enjoy a cigar in a store lounge, and cigar store not withstanding, the most vigorous sucking was on the screen.
Watching this movie, I am reminded of the nasty-minded sociologists who wondered about Batman living with a cute boy. And it was no surprise that Frank Miller's Dark Knight was altogether too interested in Robin's tush.
Homosexuals come in huge variety, and most of the types are interesting human beings, as Brokeback Mountain and Philadelphia demonstrated. But the hate-filled, self-loathing bone worship of the 300 culture is just ugly. Gun fellators.
Good Entertainment August 26, 2008
Good movie to watch in HD intersting story based on an actual event in History. I enjoyed it
This is a pretty cool movie, but not for everyone August 21, 2008
First of all looks great on BR. The movie is a definite younger guy flick.
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