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Yeah, its inevitable that people are going to make some connection between the movie and today's situation. That doesn't mean the director and writer ever meant it to be so.
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Maybe my brain was turned off, but I didn't draw that connection. Hell, the Spartans can be seen as both "Iraqi insurgents" and "The Bush Administration" if you want to really break it down. On one front, they are holding off a horde of enemies, unrelenting on their own turf, and on the other front they are begging for reinforcements.
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Whatever happened to going to movies, enjoying the fact that it was made for entertainment and not getting all political?
Its a 2 hour block where you are given the option to get away from real world issues and just relax your brain. |
Gerard Butler talks about the costumes of "300" and training for his role as King Leonidas in the movie "300" in this interview video from the 2006 Comic Con.
http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/bl300butler1.htm -Mav |
Comparing ancient Spartans to anything in modern society other than the Nazis is quite pointless. The reason that the Nazis work well for a comparison is because they modelled parts of their military training on the Spartan society. (Not to mention the outright persecution/destruction of the Helites/Jews).
For one thing: a Spatan would be appalled by the inclusion of Women (and the exclusion of homosexuals) from our modern military. That's just one thing. I encourage everyone to learn more about the Spartans and their militaristic society. |
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I went to see it yesterday and I must say it was really good. The effects and visuals were amazing and the action scenes kicked large amounts of ass. It's a good action movie, but that's it. I would like it even more if it had a slightly more involving story. Yeah, shoot me.
I liked Sin City better though. I've seen that movie five times by now. I don't think I can watch 300 more than two or three. I'm going to see it again with my family (my grandpa will go nuts for the battle scenes) next week. |
I thought the movie was simply amazing. I went with my girlfriend and my brother and we all agreed that it was one of the best movies that we had seen in a long time.
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its times like this I wish Oz wasn't so far behind - this doesn't open here until April 9, so I've got a few weeks to wait to see it. Bloody small economies :(
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I feel like a crazy person but I think the movie had too much story and character development. I mean, they really nailed the concept of it as being an embellishment of the narrator but damnit, the tale is about a suicide mission by 300 one dimensional men. The queen and some jerkass were superfluous to the main draw of the film, which was a boat load of glorious hyperstylized violence. Also, I don't know if the film was pro-bush or anti-bush, all I know is it had a strong anti-xerxes agenda. Anything beyond this and I can only reason people are making things up.
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I dunno - our theater was filled with people who cheered when SPOILER:Spoiler: the queen killed that mofo in council. It was involving enough... but not too much, for me. The action was freakin' awesome, honest to gods - I loved the style, the effects, the blood - not even that gory, really... And crap on a stick - the Spartans were a joy to behold in the battle - just gloriously beautifully hot. Yep. Mrowl.
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I thought this review from aintitcool.com was pretty...informative about the movie.
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Hah I love it, that review is great.
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Ah yes, now I remember why I don't bother with aintitcool.com anymore. :rolleyes:
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Call me a stick in the mud, but I won't be seeing 300 because I'm too jaded to sit through a balletic war movie. |
Sense of humor deficiency?
If you take that review seriously, you probably need as much help as those who came into 300 and expected Shindler's List story. It's just a guy who is really excited about and loved the movie. The only place for movie reviews is rottentomatoes.com |
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Ha ha ha ha ha I haven't even seen the movie and I laughed out loud at that comic.
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Great comic. I follow every Ctrl+Alt+Del update.
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I think I have a good sense of humor and that aint it cool review was absolutely moronic.
So first we have a twit with a thesaurus assualting us with words even Hunter S Thompson wouldn't use, then we have a dipshit with as much charisma as a jagged shard of glass trying to get us all riled up by making the movie sound worse than a Steven Seagal flick. Who wants to post the next "great" review? |
I didn't read any reviews before seeing this movie because I figured that they'd be either really against it or really for it, which doesn't make for a good review. Apparently I was right but I found the aintitcool.com review to be amusing (though maybe not a good review techinically).
Anywho, I'm with JustJess. As a female, I loved the movie. As a war-type movie person, I also loved it. I think it's worth seeing at least once even if you don't think you'll like it because it has alot to offer. It looks like it did stick to the comic pretty well, especially in alot of the scenes. It looks like they took it directly from the drawings (which adds to the style very nicely). I watched it and didn't have any thoughts of the current political situation, my boyfriend thought it was slightly homoerotic but that's about it. Let's remember that the comic is from the late 90's so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's not supposed to be political. I think it's in the same realm as Troy and Gladiator as far as story goes (Gladiator was better though) but it's also got this great eyecatching style that is just awesome. edit: This link shows screenshots side by side with the original comic. It shows what I was saying about the scenes being taken directly from the comic. http://www.solaceincinema.com/2006/1...en-comparison/ |
I just got back from it, and I thought it was phenomonal....
We learn several things throughout this movie: 1) You cannot have too much slow motion battling 2) Watching 300 nearly naked dudes lounging around is totally fine, as long as you know that they are about to dispatch 10,000 of the enemy 3) Spartans are hiliarious - "We will fight in the Shade" 4) In addition to not showing pain, fear, or surrendering, they have also given up all laws of physics. Throwing a spear accurately at 1/2 mile isn't even really a feat. |
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Im agreeing with NoSoup and willravel, the movement and timing produced greate imagery.
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I did not like 300. I'm a sci fi/action film/history/comic lover. I would have thought it was right up my alley. But, as it is, I think it's worthy of an MST3K treatment.
It wasn't entirely bad. A lot of the battle scenes were good; very good, in fact. But so many parts of the movie were so laughably bad that it really killed the enjoyment. The highly stylized look of the movie worked both for it and against it in areas. I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The overwhelmingly positive response to this film is just baffling me. |
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Also, I loved this movie so much! I loved the Battle of Thermopylae as a kid. The one thing I didnt like though was Spoiler: the large monster/executioner with the giant blade hands Besides that, the movie was fantastic. |
I really really really wanted to love this movie like I loved Sin City.
I didn't and couldn't. The images of battle were beautiful, really beautiful and the oracle's dance was incredibly effective and powerful. The depiction of the Persian excess-Xerxes' moving temple, for example-were breathtaking. The rest of the movie was blah. The entire "meanwhile in New Jersey" storyline back in Sparta was both terrible and completely pointless, to say nothing of being nothing even in the remote general vicinity of historically accurate. Also, for all the lofty talk of the phalanx, as far as I could tell they used it for all of five minutes. And then they didn't use it and were slaughtered. Now, I realize that watching 1 or 2 guys run around alone slaughtering hoards of bad guys is probably for the average viewer much more interesting than watching a phalanx work. However, the entire reason this battle is so famous is because of the fact that they used the damn thing to the full extent of its lethal potential. The movie paid modest lip service to that fact, but didn't show me all I wanted to see. I enjoyed it, I'm glad I saw it, my fiance and I will probably own it, but it's not going on my favorites list. |
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This movie is Hollywood schlock of the worst kind, just terrible. No plot at all, its just like killing, sex, killing killing, sex, sex, killing. This would have been just as effective as a 20 minute short except not nearly as tedious and boring. The writing was awful, horribly clichéd and predictable, and the whole thing was ridiculously over dramatic. It ripped off several movies that were actually good, like Gladiator, Crouching Tiger, Hero, even The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, except they forgot to copy any of the good parts and were left with all the crap. I would have had more fun burning a 10 dollar bill or reading a thousand page history about the Greek-Persian wars. This is the film equivalent of the brainless button-mashing violent videogame with pretty graphics. Movies like this are why I don't go to movies.
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Damn... you do know this movie was not meant to be a history piece, that it was written to be an exact book-movie transition from a COMIC BOOK.
These things never were meant to be taken that serious. Comic books, just like movies, in general (excluding educational films) are merely made for entertainment. I'd suggest for you to re-watch it after brushing that chip off your shoulder, but it seems firmly in place. |
Agreed - I don't think the film was supposed to pay homage to any historical facts at all, it was simply the movie version of the comic book.
To be fair, though, I certianly didn't expect to see any historically accurate scenes when I went to see the movie - just very pretty CG and a ton of slow motion fights. I got what I paid for :D |
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