300

Movie: 300

Main Actors: Gerard Butler and Awesomeness

MPAA Rating: R

Passionate Expressions: Nope

Useless Vulgar Language: Nope, mostly just a lot of yelling and screaming and growling and roaring.

Sex in a Good Light: Hard one. Yes there is, the married sexual relationship between the King and his Queen is shown the way it should be, active. But….

Sex in a Bad Light: We don’t need to see that, and we don’t need to see the other two scenes where there are naked people either. If you are getting to a scene where it looks like there will be sex, there probably will be, look away for a while, it isn’t too hard to tell when it is over. However, always err on the side of caution, no movie, no matter how incredible, is worth event the slightest slip.

Manly Violence: This whole movie is manly violence, even while they are just talking.

Action Violence: The violence was stylized but no, I don’t think that counts as action violence.

Pointless Violence: No, in fact, most of the violence was done with something pointy.

Manly Rating: A+

Scorecard
Cinematography: A
Visual Effects: A
Sound/Score: A
Story: A
Acting: A+

Food to Watch With: I would say eat what the Spartans eat, which is probebly the flesh of their enemies, but you might not get away with that, so how about Meatloaf.

Plot Synopsis: 300 Spartans, led by Gerard Butler, defend Sparta from an invading army while the political and religious bodies are corrupted and indecisive. (Hmmmm, that sounds familiar)

Review: Was this movie 100% historically accurate. Nope. Was it maybe even 30% accurate. Probably not. There were times when the movie almost seemed like a fantasy. Was the idea behind the story being portrayed. Absolutely. Don’t let the people who wanted 100% accuracy take this movie down. They never said it was accurate. What they were doing was telling a story, probably the way big Spartans told it to little Spartans as they sat huddled around a fire looking very muscular. I’ve never seen pure, unbridled manliness portrayed so well and unashamedly before in a movie. In a word, awesome. I will put a couple of disclaimers out there though. 1. If you watch this with your wife, expect her to tell you to start working out, because odds are you don’t look like those guys in the movie. 2. If you struggle with looking away during sex scenes in movies or you are in a place where you are really being tempted, don’t watch this movie, it isn’t worth it. 3. Don’t start thinking that men are always supposed to act that way, but also don’t start thinking that they are not ever supposed to act that way.

Life Lessons: Spartans have perfectly white teeth.

Summary: Great movie, maybe watch it with a group of guys to keep each other accountable

Would I Watch This Again: Yes and I want a Spartan loin cloth too.