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300 [Blu-ray] | ![300 [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yOilN7RtL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1094 reviews
Sales Rank: 441
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: WARBR116103
UPC: 085391161035
EAN: 0085391161035
ASIN: B000Q6GX5Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new DVDs sealed in cases region 1 USA original.
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/31/2007 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
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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 Lame lame lame November 16, 2008
Kathy J. Olson
I went to this movie with few expectations. From the previews, I expected no more than a random, brutal, and stylized action flick, but it still didn't impress. The movie replaced half of the would-be action and violence with a steriotypical story about a soldier giving his life for his family. The movie shoulv'e at least mellowed out the overly-dramatic and soap-opera like emotional dialogue, because it didn't work out very well with the overall presentation of the film. As far as the stylized action goes, the computer-generated blood looks cool as swords impact flesh, but every drop of blood dissapears before it reaches the edge of the screen .Noone wasnts to see an awesome blood spurt fly through the air, and then quickly fade into nothing. This was just downright lame. All of the soldiers would come out of battle clean and blood-spatter free. This is in no way nearly as good as Sin City. Lastly, the movie doesn't feel either visceral nor intense, just clean and full of disapearing blood effects. The movie comes off as lame and cheesy. Rent it first.
 Great entertainment November 16, 2008
T. Ruiz (Cameron Park, California United States)
Great movie fun, very imaginative, but the Spartans were heavy infantry soldiers and did not go into battle bare chested.
This is Sparta!!!! November 7, 2008
Siskel (Londonderry, NH)
Man this movie rocks! I first saw it in an IMAX theatre and was blown away by the visual effects and the action. It's one of the best action movies i've seen in years and looks/sounds really good in HD. Truely a movie for everyone except kids. Ladies get to look at dudes with six-pack abs and guys get to see their heads get cut off.
 All blood No Plot November 3, 2008
Elizabeth Fay
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
blood Blood Blood Blood Blood blood Blood blood blood Blood Blood bllod Blood blood Rape blood Blood Blood Blood blood Blood, that basically sums up this generic mindless Blood Bath movie. All violznce, No Plot, laughable Fake acting.
300 Male Models November 3, 2008
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
I totally disagree with the editorial review that claims that the "300" is more engaging than "Troy". It may be more engaging to those who enjoy comic books but those who enjoy adult fare will like Troy far better.
Those who know little of Spartan society and the Battle of Thermopolae may enjoy this cartoon. Those more familiar with the austere Spartan way of life and the motives and conduct of the battle at the Gates of Fire, will be far less well served. This movie takes incredible liberties with the battle against the Persians. First...Leonidas never visited ancient and deformed seers who had been bought off by the Persians. Leonidas, a very religious man, realizing that he was facing a life-and-death battle visited the Pythia who...as was her way...gave him an ambivalent answer. "A King must die," she prophesied. Leonidas, King of Sparta, reckoned the King was him and determined to go out in real style.
Second...the Spartans were HEAVY infantry. They would NOT have been fighting bare-chested. Every man of them would have been wearing heavy breastplates and greaves for his thighs and shins. Initially "the 300" got it right by showing a battle that was as more of a pushing match than a sword fight. Then, in fine Hollywood fashion, the battle breaks up into individual antagonists. It didn't happen that way. If the Spartans had fought bare-chested and man-to-man, they would have been annihiliated in less than a half hour. The fact that they last three days is a testimony to group cohesion and discipline.
Third...Xerxes wasn't 7.5 feet tall...ridiculous. Fourth...the Persians used no rhinos and elephants...Xerxes was no Hannibal. Fifth...why do the ignorant [let me promise you, they are plenty ignorant of history and drama] Hollywood types have to mess with history? Why couldn't they have followed Pressfield's excellent novel, "Gates of Fire", to perfection? Read it yourself and find out how much better real history is to adolescent cartoons.
Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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