Yesterday seemed as good a time as any to go and spend the Christmas HMV vouchers, so I picked up two pretty decent films for £14… not bad, but should have asked for Amazon vouchers really, that would have saved me £5.

So, on the recommendation of JB I picked up a copy of 300. I loved it. The dialogue and general story is nothing special, partly as the story is known and fairly predictable anyway, but who cares, it’s the action you’re watching it for. Since the basic synopsis of the film is that 1 million Persians have a big battle against 300 hard as something very hard Spartans you know it’s going to be a good spectacle.

I was told that because this film is based on a graphic novel, that some of the Persians were a little strange, some of them were, but quite normal by Lord of the Rings standards. I guess also the portrayal of Xerxes is a bit weird… he’s the King of a huge empire, he’s leading his army, he is as we know from the book of Esther a heterosexual ‘dude’, yet he’s pictured as a kind of drag queen with husky voice, a little strange really. Great action film, a little bloody… but I guess it would have been, more so probably!