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		List Price: $39.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 612 Released: July 21, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
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Description of 300: The Complete Experience (Blu-ray Book and BD-Live) [Blu-ray]:
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

300: The Complete Experience (Blu-ray Book and BD-Live) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Billy, Do You Like Galdiator Movies?
2009-12-25 - I approached "300" with a great deal of trepidition. It seemed to me to be fodder for Dungeons and Dragons nerds, comic book geeks, and phony macho musclemen and other unfortunate male archetypes. To my surprise it works on a video game level. There's no great acting here per se but the action is virtually non-stop. A guilty pleasure for sure but I bit. Great movie to drink beer with guy pals and put your brain on mute.

Very Disappointed
2009-12-24 - I thought it would be something like 'Gladiator'. Instead it was a dreary colored computerized show - it was more like looking at one of those super hero comic books only the characters are moving. Not anywhere near portraying an actual event. Total waste of money.

The Greatest Gay Movie EVER!!!!
2009-12-19 - Personally I don't get 300, but then again I'm not a gay man, but if you're reading this, chances are good you are!

300 is a movie that works much like the old He-Man cartoon used to, appealing to the same demographic and that demographic's secret desire to watch well-developed men wrestle, run, fight and be oh-so mean to one another. I know when I was little in the 80's it seemed like all the boys in the neighborhood would exercise their inner gayness by rushing inside to watch He-Man with its now obvious homo-erotic undertones, but He-Man at his raunchiest was never anything like 300!

Man, it must've taken total courage to make an erotic gay film like this in Hollywood of the Bush era. Shirtless men with oiled bodies running around half-naked, sweating, grunting, holding all manner of phallic-symbol swords, knives, spears, and with great facial hair, too!? I know all my gay male friends are in love with this comic book fantasy and LOVE getting it as a gift for their birthdays. I can just imagine all those "completely straight" husbands in suburbia sitting alone in their media rooms at night after the wifey and kids are tucked in, watching 300 and thinking and thinking and thinking...

So if you're a gay man or think you might be, see this sweaty little flick with that someone special...and have a long smoke afterward!

300
2009-12-18 - A stunning piece of filmmaking. This movie makes you feel for the characters and never lets up with intensity. If a Greeks 200 years ago were to tell a story about the legend of the mighty Spartans, it would probably be something like this.

Great Movie! Pathetic BRD
2009-12-15 - The movie was amazing. Unfortunately the Blu-Ray was NOT. My DVD version of 300 looks 10 times better than this garbage which is no exaggeration. The moment I received it in the mail I popped it into my not yet one month old blu-ray replacement player and was overly disappointed. If it weren't for the fact that I'd have to pay return shipping I'd send it back and tell them to give it to their dog as a chew-toy. It just isn't worth purchasing so go ahead and get the regular DVD which has the better picture. I've noticed that the BR of 300 was incorporated with the grainy/nastiness and if this is the case it was an epic fail. Other than the quality of the disk the movie itself was awesome but then again Gerard Butler is a spectacular actor and I've loved nearly all of his movies.