Film: 300

Directed by: Zack Snyder

Year: 2007

Written by: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad

Based on the comic book by Frank Miller

Starring: Gerald Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Rodrigo Santoro

Reviewed by: Zombieslayer

As Americans, the true heirs of democracy and freedom (Europeans wouldn't know what freedom was if it bit them on the ass), I strongly felt that Snyder wrote this movie as an ode to the American people. And it's also a lesson - a lesson that shows freedom requires sacrifice, and yes, occasional bloodshed. And a warning, a warning showing what could happen if we become soft and weak.

This was also a movie about man. Not pussified metrosexual European males, but real men. We are becoming soft, my friends, and if anything is a wake-up call, it's 300. This movie will appeal to people like yours truly, who feel like today's society aims to cast out all the things that make men men, the strength, the competitiveness, the anger, the glory, the pride, the honor, the courage, the loyalty, the ambition, the desire to be the best man you can be, all the traits that yesterday's women used to love in us, all the traits that today's political correctness wants to erase in us. Well, 300 glorifies it, and glorifies it big time.

This is a movie about King Leonidas, and his wife Queen Gorgo, a STRONG woman, a passionate woman, who would do anything for her family, for the love of her husband, and for her country, her people.

This is a movie about sacrifice, including the ultimate sacrifice. Freedom isn't free. It requires hard work, blood, sweat, and tears. It requires occasionally getting pissed off and kicking some fucking ass.

This is a movie about appreciating what you have. They understand what freedom truly means. And they understand that losing it is worse than death.

Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 Spartans go to die to defend freedom from the Persian hordes, representing hundreds of thousands of slaves from all over the Persian Empire. They go in knowing they will die, and to the Spartans, the best trained warriors in the world, there is nothing better than to die gloriously in battle.

Xerxes thinks he's a God. In fact, he is a tyrant and a monster. He will enslave all the Greek people, and it will take the sacrifice of the Spartans to wake up the Greek peoples. This movie is about that sacrifice.

No bad dialogue. No bad acting. No plot holes, loops, and faulty storylines. Zack Snyder got it right. The action was fierce and uncompromising. Don't bring the little ones.

Nine dead zombies. This will go down as my favorite war movie since Patton.

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