Hot Fuzz is basically a police drama set in a sleepy English village that’s done in the style of a big-budget over-the-top Hollywood action movie. It is screamingly funny, and as a bonus, all the over-the-top Hollywood action is incredibly well done in its own right. Oh, and if you’ve ever seen a British movie or TV show, the cast is ridiculously star-studded.

300, meanwhile, is over-the-top in its own entirely serious way. This is Unsubtlety Cinema – being as big and as bold as it can be. It’s wonderfully unconventional – completely eschewing the usual cinematic look to create its own style. It wants to be a comic book brought to life – a vibrant unconventional stylised comic book at that – and most assuredly is. Like the Spartans themselves, if the film ever, for one second, lacked the slightest bit of confidence in itself or what it was doing, it probably would have fallen flat on its face and been forgotten. But it doesn’t, and ends up with its own particular triumph.