I loved it. I didn't care much for 300. My wife even loved it and she normally doesn't care for these kinds of movies. Too each their own I guess.
I'd be interested in hearing more about what you liked about this movie and didn't like about 300.
From my perspective, this movie was very slow and had a lot of pointless meanderings that ultimately didn't go anywhere.
I never felt connected with Theseus and never saw him as a "hero." In fact, when you really think about his actions, they were extremely selfish and in my opinion he never "led his people" in a true manner of leadership, nor did he make the decision himself as Zeus was waiting for him to do. Zeus had to spell it out for him and tell him to do it. Beyond that, his mother had true faith, but he had to see and feel to believe.
Stephen Dorff... totally a throw away character... bordering on filling the roll of a Wayans brother in this movie.
Athena seemed miscast... and all I could think is "when is she going to turn into a Transformer."
Perhaps the worst of it was the set and prop design and quality. From the titans being bound with modern day concrete rebar in their mouths to the beast having a helmet and gauntlets made of barbed wire (not to be invented for another 3000 years), to the closeup of Zeus where you could see the unfilled air bubbles in the helmet of a god, to the obvious and repeated use of rubber items in place of metal (I understand this needs to be used from time to time, but you could make an effort not to make it completely obvious). Don't get me started on the modern that was bedazzled with the the
bedazzler. And Hyperion's helmets looked like a sea anemone had sex with a crab.
Phaedra served no purpose whatsoever aside from showing her butt on the big screen and Theseus lost a major tactical advantage for one night of sex. Lame.
We spent half the movie looking for the bedazzler bow that was used 3 times... primarily just to knock holes in a wall...
The ONE character who really stood out was Luke Evans as Zeus. He exuded more passion and had more depth than every other character in the movie combined.. Screw Theseus and his lame storyline (the end where he is shown to be a hero was almost appalling), I want to know more about Zeus and what motivates him and what he is doing!
I will say again, the fight scene near the end with the gods fighting the titans was one of the most viscous (maybe a bit too gory) fights I have EVER seen on film and it made you want to stand up and cheer. It was the one saving grace for this movie in my opinion. I love to see ass-kicking like that and man, did the gods deliver!