The 300 Spartans (DVD, 2004)

This is a much more realistic treatment of the story of the Spartans holding on for a lost cause, but for their love of honor and country. Here, unlike the recent flick, Xerxes is all too human, and his frustrations all too real. The film itself is a bit mediocre, its main atractions are in the huge armies gathered to do battle, and its main fault in that it doesn't quite build to any great tension point, but rather, it slowly, way too slowly, builds to its inevitable climax. That was very dissapointing for me, perhaps its simply too dated to be compared to modern SPFX loaded cinema. The film does the job, but its simply too slow and meandering to recomend very much at all.