THIS....IS....TEDIOUS

I have a very limited LoveFilm subscription, only the basic one;  I pay £3.99 a month for 2 films one disc at a time.

I think it would take me about 3 years to get through the list as it stands (despite my C grade A-Level maths I can't be jigged to work it out properly right now) My Lovefilm Profile

I'm pretty crap at watching the films that turn up and rarely making it through 2 a month, however one film I have had in my possession since before Christmas is 300.  And it's a yawnfest. Perhaps subconsciously I knew this and that is why it has taken me so long

There is no denying that the film is visually impressive and it emulates Frank Miller's graphic style well.  The pacing of the film is just so slow however, I find when I'm reading a graphic novel that I get through them at a decent rate but the first time I tried to watch the film this evening I fell asleep.   I tried to blame it on the Dominos pizza. Having shaken off my food coma, I settled down to watch it again; I made it through to the finale and by lord is it depressing.
Have the film's memorable moments have gained a life of their own outside of the film itself? Perhaps. It seems that anyone arriving to the party late would be expecting something else.  Well, I arrived beyond 'fashionably late' and all I got was the prawn cocktail crisps and weak European lager nobody wanted.

Who would truly enjoy this film? I'm not too sure. For violence I would say watch 'Kick Ass'; for naked men fighting try 'Jamon Jamon' for Javier Bardem's nude bullfighting scene alone. I'm not disappointed I saw this film... but it is the quickest I have sealed a DVD back in it's Lovefilm envelope.  I am still tempted to rent 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' which borrows (read: 'steals') the visual style of the film but chucks in some raunch with the blood spurts.