The History Boys - one for Glaconman

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Caution: don't expect too much in the way of 'deep culture' from 300. It's a visually stunning romp, goodies and baddies, comic-book dialogue (obviously), 2D female characters, spectacular violence and macho posturing in extremis. In short, it's a no-brainer. Fabulously so

Yep. A better review couldn't be given. A bit like Troy meets Lord of the Rings I thought, but with much better characters, although the (very) few females are rather 2D, as you say. Still, I really liked Queen Gorgo's little twist in there, which I didn't see coming. I can see why women everywhere seem to have taken a liking to the flick.

Overall, rather to my surprise (I only saw this on the strength of Sweder's review) I liked this one a lot.