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I just got in. I loved it, a very enjoyable movie. I went in with certain expectations and they were all met.... here they are
1 - Lots of interesting and different combat scenes - Check
2 - Yelling and Screaming - Check
3 - Some sort of Backstory back in Sparta that I don't think added anything yet gave us a break from all the action and didn't take away from the movie - Check
4 - Great special effects and shots
5 - Outstanding fight sequences check again.
No, ther wasn't much character development. We must understand that the points trying to get across were that these Spartans were warriors to the bone. They were born to fight and die for their country and that's the sort of people they were exactly, they were asked to fight for their King and they went with him and died with him.
I sort of didn't really want Farimir (yeah yeah) to live, I wanted him to die as well, it seemed a bit anticlimaxtic although he did go on to lead the Greek army to victory later so I can deal with that just fine. I was worried all the slo-mo would piss me off but I really thought it was perfect. I like how it seemed like watching a live graphic novel instead of a movie based on one.
All the freaks and creatures, I agree that this was told as if through the memories of a story teller, and in a lot of ways these Greeks would have nothing to base their perceptions of a charging rhyno or elephants off of except for exaggeration for the sake of boosting moral.
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