I haven't really been following the progress of 300, but I caught a few minutes of its "making of" video on HBO in my hotel room this week, and thought it certainly looked intriguing--lots of actors costumed as ancient soldiers in front of a green screen to project dramatic animation of stormy skies behind them. That was the general impression I was left with.

That in and of itself may not have been enough to get back into a movie theater, but as Dean Barnett writes, "I guess we now have to see '300'. VDH says it’s really good, and it seems like all the right people might wind up hating it".

Indeed they have!