300

I saw the movie "300" this weekend and it was awesome. I think that will only be true to people who love Frank Miller and/or graphic novels/comic books and know what to expect from Miller. I keep reading these reviews (in Village Voice, also on Slate) of the movie and these lame-ass reviewers don't get it. It's based on a graphic novel, aka - a glorified comic book. The dialogue seems over-dramatic - that's Miller's style. The visuals are breath-taking and not like real life because they come from a graphic novel. If the reviewers had even taken a moment to look through the book version of "300," their complaints would not be like this. They would've instead been amazed by how well the movie mimics the artwork. The visual effects are stunning and I thought this phrase numerous times while watching it: "Holy crap!" That's because it's beautiful on the big screen.

If the movie did fail somewhere, it's in all the extra plot crap they added to it to round it out, which they most likely for people like those reviewers. It would be 100% awesome had they not added material not in the book. Instead, now it's somewhere around 85 to 90% awesome to me.

Beyond that, it's not some modern commentary on white people destroying brown people, or the Iraq war, or big muscular straight guys beating up gays and anyone who's different. It's a movie based on a comic book that took a lot of creative liberty on the original historical story. Stop reading into it, reviewers!