300

This is a perfect example of story getting in the way of a good action movie.
300 is, for the most part, basically just Manliness: The Movie. It starts with a little kid killing a wolf and then growing up to be King Gerard Butler. I thought I'd have to wait through most of the movie to hear the famous "THIS. IS. SPARTA!" bit but it happens pretty much immediately and is followed by him kicking a dude into a bottomless pit. Why there's a bottomless pit in Sparta's town square, I do not know.
After that movie consists of a lot of dudes wearing basically just red cloak, black underpants and sandals (you know, effective armor) walking around, shouting and killing the shit out of some Persians.
Every once in a while, though, the movie tries to develop characters and plot. There are a bunch of scenes with King Gerard Butler's wife back in Sparta talking to people. What are women doing in this movie? And then there's a subplot about a hunchbacked dude who's bitter because he can't fight.
Could someone get that story out of here? I can't see the manliness.
300 is full of famous quotes ("Then we will fight in the shade," "Tonight we dine in Hell!", that sort of thing) that the internet has claimed as its own and turned into nonsense like this. I happen to love it, but it's silly and actually knowing all the famous lines took away from the movie a bit. I kept listening for the famous lines rather than just enjoy the movie.
It was good, though. It was very cool visually and the action scenes were bitchin'. I just would have preferred less plot and more violence and shouting.

End of line.
-Sally