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A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison

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A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for...

The Governance of Online Expression in a Networked World

Helena Carrapico and Benjamin Farrand

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In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only...

The World of Myth: An Anthology

David A. Leeming

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Since its publication in 1991, The World of Myth has provided thousands of students with a...

Going Solo

Roald Dahl

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In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in...

The Greek Diet: Look and Feel Like a Greek God or Goddess and Lose Up to Ten Pounds in Two Weeks

Maria Loi and Sarah Toland

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Science and sensuality meet in The Greek Diet, your guide to losing weight while looking and eating...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated 300 (2007) in Movies

Oct 3, 2020

300 (2007)

2007 | Action, Drama

8.0

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There's a few Zack Snyder films that I genuinely like, and 300 is one of them. It's 100% style over substance, it's overly gratuitous in the sheer amount of slow motion, but it's pretty enjoyable.

Some of the shots are expertly crafted recreations of the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, and as such, is a damn faithful adaption of a cult classic comic series.
The visual effects are stunning at times, and the sepia tone it's draped in lends a lot to its overall feel (even if it's a subject of criticism from many)

Gerard Butler takes the lead as King Leonidas of Sparta, in what has arguably become his most well known roll in the years following. It's easy to look over his thick Scottish accent (in ancient Greece...) when he's playing the character with such enthusiasm. Most of his lines have become highly quotable, even familiar to those who have never seen the film. 300 would be a much lesser film without his involvement.
Rodrigo Santoro carves a striking figure as primary antagonist Xerxes, his androgynous look and demonic-like voice providing a memorable villain.
The cast is rounded out by the likes of Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, and an early role for Michael Fassbender, a sturdy ensemble cast.

The set pieces are pretty thrilling, and results in a movie that blurs the fantastical, with a real life historic battle. It's an interesting mix that works well.

300 is a film that throws big sloppy buckets of testosterone at its audience, whilst simultaneously flaunting a silly amount of homoerotic undertones and CGI pectoral muscles, and it's great.