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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391162858
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 1275
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) assaults the screen with the blood thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history at swordpoint. And moviemaking with a cutting edge.Running Time: 116 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 116 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 085391162858 Manufacturer No: 116285
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 2.75/5
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50 1080p / 2.40:1
Running time: 1:56:32 (h:m:s)
Movie size: 24,961,910,784 bytes
Disc size: 34,803,466,472 bytes
Average video bit rate: 16.80 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 16-bit 4608Kbps English
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit English
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps English / French / Spanish
Subtitles: English / French / Spanish
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Rating:  - Butch Gay Fantasy
This movie is so gay the DVD comes with a tube of K-Y. Not the cutesy gay the latents who made it project on Xerxes, but the leather bar, fisting is more fun if they don't want it, suck my pects, homophobic gay of locker rooms and, yes, manly men, Sparta, where the social strata was divided into packers and packed. "Women for babies, boys for fun." I've had the misfortune to see it twice, trying to enjoy a cigar in a store lounge, and cigar store not withstanding, the most vigorous sucking was on the ... Read More
Rating: - Good Entertainment
Good movie to watch in HD intersting story based on an actual event in History. I enjoyed it
Rating: - This is a pretty cool movie, but not for everyone
First of all looks great on BR. The movie is a definite younger guy flick.
Rating:  - 300 - Visual spectacular gore fest
300 was a huge success, due largely in part to the splendid CGI backgrounds and limitless display of bloodshed. I was caught up in its success for several months before I watched it a few more times asking "is it really that good?" Although it will appeal to fans of the graphic novel, and mainstream action moviegoers when you pick it apart on a critical level you'll see how it fails to compare to other epics based on similar time periods. In no way those this rock `em sock `em action joy ride hold a ... Read More
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