I’d been wanting to see this movie ever since I laid eyes on the trailer. I was hoping to catch it in the theater, but the timing never worked out. It’s not that I’m so busy I can’t even see a movie, it’s that I only frequent the Westwood Plaza Theatre and it was not playing there any weekend that we could go (that is, we didn’t have something else going on and/or Jake was around). That said, I’m sure it was quite the spectacle on the big screen, but it still looked pretty darn good in 27″. The story was not a complicated one–just a straight up war story. It was a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, as based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller (the dude who brought us Sin City).
There was much CGI enhancement going on in this movie. I’m not sure if the muscles of the 300 soldiers were enhanced or not, but either way, it’s fine by me. Sitting around watching 300 muscle-bound, scantily clad men for two hours isn’t a bad way to spend some time. Add one margarita and some smoky black bean dip to the mix and you have yourself a perfect evening.