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So basically, this movie left me speechless at the end. It was amazing, I loved the style of the camera angles and the acting was just so convincing. Not only that, the movie had quite a bit of humor which probably attracted more of a crowd. It wasn’t just some gory war movie, they had to throw a couple punch lines that made it entertaining. But for those of you who thought the movie was good on a regular theater screen, I urge you to see it in Imax.

It’s a movie theater with the world’s largest screen. 6 stories tall and 80 feet wide, lets not even talk about how many speakers were behind it. Watching it on the giant screen actually made you feel like you were in it yourself, and with a movie like this, well you can only imagine what that was like. So, pretty sure the goal is to see it at least 5 times. I love movies that you can watch over and over again, this is certainly one of them. But I must ask, is there anyone else that felt rather lame at the end? Watching all these hardcore men fight to the death, knowing that its an actual event (to some extent) then looking at your life, how boring : P.

They weren't decoys though...they were the first and last line of defense at Thermoplyae. 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, some 600 Thebens (forced to stay).

They moved because Athens was of course debating a course of action, and, as the movie stated, the Spartans were celebrating a celestial event. And besides, after the childhood a Spartan had, it's no wonder they were more than willing to do such a crazy thing.

I mean those guys were nuts...1 kid died because he hid a stolen fox kit under his tunic. He refused to release it and get punished for trying to steal food. The kit tore his stomach out and he died without a sound.

Well the Spartans stayed because they were trained since the age of 7 to do nothing but fight and win.
The some 700-1000 Thespians chose to stay aswell. The Thebens were forced to stay, and many of them ended up surrenduring.

As the rest of the greeks retreated, The Spartans moved forward to guard their retreat. And beleive it or not, had the spartans retreated, they would have been shunned. 2 Spartans lived from the battle. 1 was sent on a mission back to get help(Hes the one in the movie who has a patch over his eye.). But he failed to return in time for the battle. All of sparta shunned him. He was discgraced. And because of it he hung himself.
The other had an eye infection, and along with another spartan who also had an eye infection, returned home. However, the other one returned to fight. The first did not. Because of this, he was treated as a coward. He redeemed himself later in another battle, but was given no honor as he had faught suicidally.
Thats just one reason they would never retreat.


I just saw this movie a few minutes ago. I loved it. Great fight scenes. I didnt like how they made all the persians into beasts and stuff, though I suppose they were trying to make it more Mythilogical.
XD Best line ever
"Our arrows will blot out the sun!"
"Then we will fight in the shade"
XD And then they start laughing about it when they are getting pelted with arrows. That took the comedy to a whole new level.

Really, if I had to die in any battle, it would probably be Thermoplyae. Its remembered as the greatest "Last Stand" in all of history.
XP Ive been researching the subject lately.

Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians are probably my favorite things to study history on.

Roman, Norse, and European would be the preferrence here.

I SO wanna see 300, it look awesome. I personally wanna go play Halo, god of war, and spartan total warrior all back to back (Spartans FTW!!)

I really loved the movie, but did anyone notice that although blood was flying everywhere there never was any blood on the ground on the battlefield? I kept looking during the massive battle scenes but just couldn't find a drop confused

i liked it enough that im working out my abs and everything just to be a spartan for halloween