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  Review by DirkH ★★½ 123

  THIS IS SPARTA!!!!

  Well, no, it isn't. Let me try this.

  *clears throat* *deep intake of breath*

  'THIS IS A 117 MINUTES OF HOMOEROTIC VISUAL FLUFF IN SLOW MOTION WITH CGI SIXPACKS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HISTORY WHATSOEVER. THEY WEAR TINY LEATHER PANTS AND CAPES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!'

  Yup, much better.

  And yes, you can 'like' a 2 1/2 star film.

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  Review by Obistrike ★★★★½ 6

  I feel a little bit ridiculous watching and enjoying this movie, like I'm a little boy seeing something naughty on late night telly, hoping that my mum won't walk in and embarrass me.

  It's all so exaggerated and pompous you have to hand it to Snack Zider for pulling it off. I think anyone that doesn't enjoy the 300 on some level is either lying to themselves, lying to others or is just a little dead inside. My advice...embrace your inner child, cut your fruit into small chucks , boogie to the wiggles, snuggle a teddy bear and purchase 300 on Blu-Ray.

  To totally ruin a beautiful quote from holly horror who stole it from LB-user BodyBoy, in reference to…

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  Review by Wyn Nova ★★ 17

  I have seen gay movies. I have seen homophobic movies. This is the first movie to be both gay and homophobic. Zack Snyder I HATE YOU!

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  Review by adambolt ★★★½

  Can't believe they made a full movie out of the "this is sparta" meme

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 4

  An eerily convincing formal attempt at making fascism cool as hell. still unsure how much of this is supposed to be intentional (Snyder's use of imagery + mythmaking is too good to ignore) vs. a peek into a terrifying subconscious (certain online users that use this as an ethnostate model don't make it easy to go to bat for) but it is truly something to behold regardless. The only thing Zack Snyder believes should be more massive than his sense of style is the men in his frames. Also love the gay Persian sex party—it's like the "this is the future liberals want" meme but unironic.

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  Review by Branson Reese 2

  The only part of this I liked was when the coins fell out of the guy’s pocket and everybody shouted “traitor!” and I thought they were shouting “treasure!”

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★ 5

  turns out frank miller's bizarre crypto-fascist comic writing was the ideal anvil for snyder to forge his high-impact stylistics upon. 300 is so perfectly up its own ass in a way that no movie nowadays would dare to be, there's not an iota of irony in any of this, no knowing glances, no patronizing gestures to endear itself to a sneering contemporary western audience, none of that shit. just a bunch of oiled jacked-up dudes posing against a harshly desaturated digital mythology. it's kind of ridiculous, kind of genius. at its best moments, it transforms the iconic imagery of greek warriors found on ancient pottery & artefacts into a feverish heavy metal music video. the many fights here are something wonderous…

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  Review by NickS ★ 10

  A journey into George W Bush's unconscious: 300 naked homophobic Greek (=American) men slaughter thousands of Middle Eastern transvestites.

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  Review by nickusen

  this movie is so fucking stupid and ugly to look at until the first battle scene finally happens at the 50 minute mark and I turn 13 again. the bottom line is insanely jacked dudes killing stuff in slo-mo is very cool. maybe that is all zack snyder has been trying to tell us this whole time

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  Review by Viktor 18

  Mr Snyder I beg you, learn how to colour grade

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  Review by Casper ★★★

  I bet Gerard Butler’s throat was begging for a vacation from yelling “This is Sparta!” in almost every scene. Totally worth it though

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  Review by Jake ★★ 3

  Love that Leonidas is like ‘Yo those Athenians were gay as hell, having sex with other guys and shit’ as if the Spartans weren’t full of oiled-up dudes who, historically, were all fucking each other on the regular.