Just got back home from watching “300“, and even though I thought it was an extremely fun movie, there were times when the “over the top” parts went so far over the top that they fell down the otehr side.

This was most notably the case with all the speeches and dramatic declarations — all of which were nice and fell-good, in their own, morbid kind of way — but I felt it would have been even better if they’d thrown in at least a little ambiguity. For example, they could have included the comment Loki missed about Athenian democracy, to take a bit of the sting out of the East vs. West interpretation that was latent throughout the entire movie. As it is it is too easy to see it purely as a comment on the supposedly strained relations between Greater Europe and the Muslim world, and to do that robs the movie of its more valuable lessons.

But apart from that, I liked it quite well, and so I end up giving it a strong 8.5/10 with a possible upgrade to a 9.0 when I enter it in my real log.

It was nice, though, that the final lines in the movie was the writing on the Thermopylae memorial stone.