If you love watching brutal violence and don’t care if it looks like a computer-game trailer starring people who’ve had plastic surgery, your eyes will slap you high-five if you take them to see 300. The film is based on Frank Miller’s retelling of the classic myth where 300 muscleheaded Spartans fight a one-million-strong army of Persian pansies. Like in Sin City, digitally-enhanced people and backdrops are mixed in with live action. But all the visual effects somehow dilute the on-screen carnage - graphic blood is less believable than fake blood used in real films. Do you agree? Watch the trailer after the jump.
Watch the trailer:
Q&A with the director:
Reader Comments
February 26th, 2007
12:29 pm
that trailer looks awesome. i think i just shit my pants.
February 26th, 2007
1:44 pm
fucking brutal
February 26th, 2007
2:15 pm
i agree, but i don’t think the movie is trying to be realistic…
+ since aladin, i realised persians ARE pansies, but they’ve got the A BOMB now (or soon)
February 26th, 2007
4:34 pm
not really a myth per se, more the battle of thermopolae
February 27th, 2007
10:33 am
phew…why is hulk hogan the spartan leader?
at least he sounds quite like him.
February 27th, 2007
3:14 pm
Doesn’t matter how good they are; visual effects will never hold up against bad dialogue and stagey performances.
You can bejewel a turd all you want but in the end it’s still stinkin’ jewel encrusted turd.
Still reccommend it enough for the sound design. See in an IMAX theater if you can.