So, just got back from seeing 300.

It's rather safe to say that 300 = Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Christo^-1. Special effects in Photoshop that you have to adjust to, interesting soundtrack, and fanservice both arbitrary and imagined.

Snark during the film included things about fighting hordes, meat shields, and foreshadowing being given a song and dance number. There needs to be more things given the Frank Miller treatment, just to see what brain-breaking will induce. Something on the Sacred Band of Thebes, for example.