|  |
| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
 Short Review of The Audio and Visual Aspects of 300 Sep 05, 2008
This review will not speak to Director Zach Snyder's excellent handling of the superb (Frank Miller graphic novel) source material, nor will it speak to the tremendous job done by the cast of highly skilled, excellent actors.
Rather, my intended purpose is to briefly describe the movie experience after having watched/ heard it on blu-ray and in uncompressed 5.1 PCM surround sound. One word: brilliant.
Video: I have no idea what many reviewers here refer to when they say the blu-ray version is, visually, no better than, or on par with the DVD version. This is simply not the case.
The blu-ray version, visually speaking, outshines the DVD version by far; the level of depth, color, contrast,and overall tonal quality is spectacular. Every environment in the film, while intensely stylized and computer-generated, is not *obviously* computer-generated. In fact, nearly every scene looks like a perfect melding of a fantastic painting and reality, but visually leaning moreso towards reality.
Audio: As cliche as it sounds (so to speak), this soundtrack has to be heard (on the proper equipment) to be believed. The score is sweeping and majestic, the dialogue is pinpoint tight in it's aural focus and delivery, and the battle scenes deliver a brutally visceral audio impact so intense it made this reviewer shriek and gleefully erupt like a little Spartan girl (which is incredible, given that the reviewer is actually a little boy, and not a Spartan).
Do yoursef a favor and pick up this movie right away, but play it only AFTER you've acquired and had properly set-up: a 1080P HDTV, an amplifier capable of decoding and/or playing back the movie's 5.1 uncompressed soundtrack, and a decent 5.1 (or better) speaker setup.
Now, sit back with some popcorn (or some gyros), and ENJOY!
Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 2.75/5 Sep 02, 2008
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50 1080p / 2.40:1
Running time: 1:56:32 (h:m:s)
Movie size: 24,961,910,784 bytes
Disc size: 34,803,466,472 bytes
Average video bit rate: 16.80 Mbps
LPCM 5.1 16-bit 4608Kbps English
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 16-bit English
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps English / French / Spanish
Subtitles: English / French / Spanish
#Commentary with Director Zack Snyder, Cinematographer Larry Fong, and Writer Kurt Johnstad
#The 300 - Fact or Fiction
#Who Were The Spartans - The Warriors of 300:
#Preparing For Battle - The Original Test Footage
#Frank Miller Tapes
#Making of 300
#Making 300 in Images
#Webisodes
#Deleted Scenes (HD)
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Butch Gay Fantasy Aug 30, 2008
This movie is so gay the DVD comes with a tube of K-Y. Not the cutesy gay the latents who made it project on Xerxes, but the leather bar, fisting is more fun if they don't want it, suck my pects, homophobic gay of locker rooms and, yes, manly men, Sparta, where the social strata was divided into packers and packed. "Women for babies, boys for fun." I've had the misfortune to see it twice, trying to enjoy a cigar in a store lounge, and cigar store not withstanding, the most vigorous sucking was on the screen.
Watching this movie, I am reminded of the nasty-minded sociologists who wondered about Batman living with a cute boy. And it was no surprise that Frank Miller's Dark Knight was altogether too interested in Robin's tush.
Homosexuals come in huge variety, and most of the types are interesting human beings, as Brokeback Mountain and Philadelphia demonstrated. But the hate-filled, self-loathing bone worship of the 300 culture is just ugly. Gun fellators.
Good Entertainment Aug 26, 2008
Good movie to watch in HD intersting story based on an actual event in History. I enjoyed it
This is a pretty cool movie, but not for everyone Aug 21, 2008
First of all looks great on BR. The movie is a definite younger guy flick.
|
| | |
![300 [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yOilN7RtL._SL160_.jpg "300 [Blu-ray]")
