This blog is said to be blogging about all things awesome. It won’t live up to its tagline when I don’t write something about 300, the most awesome movie ever. Keep in mind that I saw it on IMAX so the exaggeration can be the result of the whole “IMAX experience”

First of all, I only heard about the movie because it’s currently the favorite topic on Digg right now. Call me dumb or an idiot but I don’t really know any of Frank Miller’s work except for Sin City and I didn’t know the story of the Spartans. Sure, I heard about it and they probably thought it in my high school but I’m not exactly sure what happened…I always taught Sparta is a brand of underwear. Anyway, I saw the trailer and it looks absolutely stunning so that got me hooked.

A lot of movies have tackled ancient battles and not quite did they live up to 300’s gorgeous scenes. Watching it feels like a good cut-scene from a video game and I mean that in a very good way. From the brilliant use of matrix-style slow motion effects to the artistic shots and cinematography, I just couldn’t stress enough how stunning it is.

The action scenes can be really engaging and fun. It is quite violent with blood and gore flying in every direction but it didn’t feel like it was created just to please the sadistic teenage boys in the audience but to actually add to the overall feel of the movie. After all, action scenes is what this movie is all about so it’s good that they find something creative in slicing someone’s head off.

I try to think of something negative just to tip the scale a little bit but there’s just nothing that I could think of. Oh wait, there’s one, Rodrigo Santoro’s Xerxes looks more like a glorified drag queen than a Persian god. I can’t help but laugh on the scene where he’s asking Leonidas to kneel for him.

300 better be the number one movie on the weekend office. Yes, the same box office where Ghost Rider, Norbit and Wild Hogs dominated.