ian_wil40

I loved this movie 300, i found it visually impressive. At first i was confused to why the Persians and Spartans looked so exaggerated, i then realized that it was for artistic interpretation of characters, many need to remember that this is based off of a graphic novel so to give it an effect all the characters look comic bookish (example sin city) once I came to this conclusion i was very satisfied. I don't think the Persians were portrayed in the right light though i some what doubt that the Persians would brutalize women and children. In fact ancient Persia was the most tolerant and peaceful of all the empires at one time, a very civilized people. But what people forget is that that in this movie The Persians came to conquer Sparta and Greece, and the Spartans had always been militaristic and tough. Once again the Persians came to conquer, so naturally they defend their lands like any people even today would do despite the best intentions of the opponent. So really i feel this movie suffered only minor inaccuracies and even they were few. And another thing, the reason why the Persians may look so tall is because the Greeks were not very tall, and this film is coming from a Greek soldiers point of view, hence all the monstrous looks to some characters, to an ancient Greek I'm sure a six foot man would obviously appear to be a giant (Artisitic Interpretion).

My problem with this film is that the Spartans sound just like those over patriotic television commercials we see here in America "freedom isn't free" was the impression i got this film and i felt very disturbed of the possible intentions of this film, maybe it was just a coincidence.

This film is really meant for kids i think. A talking turtle? That did not work for me, the voice acting was relatively bad.But some of the movie scenes make up for the bad voice acting. for instance with the schools of fish that was amazing because it felt like your were swimming with them. The director seemed like he wanted to focus on what would look cool in 3d, like the 5 minute fillers of sea lions just swimming. The writing was bad too. The turtles jokes were just plain stupid. I certainly did not feel what this film intended...to be enlightened about sharks. It was just plain and dull like any other 3-d and or IMAX movie. I think if IMAX is to become a big thing in the future it should make better movies.

Yea this movie was alright..it as too much like city of the living dead. There was plenty of gore. The voice overs got on my nerves. Th acting is okay..but not that great. The title could have been more catchy than "The Beyond". This film was very similar to another Lucio Fulci film "The City Of the Living Dead", but this film is more in depth than that one. Mostley due to that fact that the main character ends up in hell so you see what it is like down there.I do recommend buying this movie if you collect zombie films it is worth a buy.Overall i give this movie **1/2/****. I recommend this movie just to hardcore Lucio fulci fans and them only because they will be the one that will enjoy this film.