300
 

i just saw it tonight and, holy crap, is it awesome. my friends and i have been quoting lines from it all night.

i think i might make a point of seeing it this weekend, i've been waiting for a long time to see it...


"tonight, we dine in hell"

The movie didn't interest me. My brother and some friends are going to see it tonight. I'll rent it sometime.

so you havnt seen it trasher?

When I see the preview, all I see is a bunch of green screen effects and violence to make up for a crappy movie. I won't be seeing it.

I've heard is good. But the one I really want to see is Zodiac.

its okay, good visual film

I love Frank Miller. I didn't like 300 at all, it was trying to cash in on Sin City by imitating a lot of it's style. The acting was terrible and over the top. The violence wasn't even cool. The whole movie looked like it should of been a forgettable videogame.

The only survivor of the Zodiac murders lives somewhere in my town. I think...

I wanna see it.

as a history freak, I just want to see 300 spartans beat on a legion of scarey masked persians in the Thermopylae bottleneck!

children, let this be a lesson to you. bravery and superior tactics earn you fat movie deals IN THE FUTURE!

It kicked ass.

I love the smartass dialogues that Leonidas has.

Does it disturb anyone else that Sparta had a giant pit full of dead babies?

300 was not that good. i liken it to sublime. the cinematography and shit was cool, just the way sublimes melodies were pretty awesome. however the dialogue was so mind numbingly awful it sucked all the goodness from the movie, kinda how sublimes lyrics ruined their music

ha! dietzer123 is quite right. But, like for sin city, don't forget that the lines are taken from the graphic novel, most of them with no changes/adjustments at all. The best lines are the ones written on purpose for the movie.
But, seriously, it's mostly a pure visual "exercise" (and the battles scenes are really amazing, and not just because "yeeeeeeeeeeeah blood!", but because of the way those are concieved and shot). I'm not sure about "it was trying to cash in on Sin City by imitating a lot of it's style" (richard pryor on fire). Imo it's actually quite different from sin city, starting from the simple fact that, as you probably noticed, here there are COLOURS!!! YAAAAYYYyyyy! colours! Sin City "graphic" appeal (both for comic/movie) was the great use of BW, here the director (and Miller himself in his graphic novel) used a really different style, you can obviously recognize similarities, but the overall appearance is not that similar. All in all, don't expect a "life changing" experience it's just entertainment beautifully visualized.

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Originally Posted by Diesel spartacus. reet, i took leather wrist bands from it. fuck this attack of the sober people

although you might as well be speaking greek (pun intended), I'm totally putting that in my sig.

rock on with yr bad self.

Good call, I won't be either. It looks horrible.

I think it's funny though that the Iranian government has denounced the movie because the bad guys are called "Persians." Of course, modern-day Iran was formerly Persia. The good guys in the movie are Ancient Greek Spartans.

It seems like the true story of the Masada, only set in Ancient Greek times instead of Ancient Hebrew times.
On the subject of astounding Hebrew military victories though, the Masada isn't even the topper. Joshua and his men survived in the no-man's land of valleys vastly outnumbered and surrounded by enemies for years and years and survived. They would make sure to engage the enemy only from an uphill position and force the enemy to fight them coming uphill. What's more, Joshua, easily the greatest guerilla warfare commander in military history, brilliantly timed the engagements to occur at a particular time in the afternoon when the sunlight would be shining directly into the eyes of their opponents. After his many conquests, it is Joshua's subsequent division of the Holy Land that still to this day causes much of the public reason given for the incessant feuding and war in the Middle East, but of course, it was King David who subsequently set up Jerusalem in his conquests.

i'm actually going to see it again in a few hours.

the numbers were about the same, but the people of Masada really had no way of fighting back against the Romans. the only thing they had going for them was the fortress itself (which was impenetrable). the Romans just sat around while the people starved.

the battles this movie portrays are of 300 spartans that held off 300,000 of Xerxes' best for 3 days. that's like getting 900,000 points in Robotron!!! :eek:

what atari said, he said it best.

crappy movies of '00... will this fucking thing ever end? INLAND EMPIRE all the way, peeps.

I liked it more than I liked sin city. It was cooler than I thought it would be.

oops, this is the "re-imagining" of the Battle of Thermopylae then...

yeah, the numbers seemed about right, floatingslowly.

Well I'm a hypocrite. I went out and saw it with my friends. We all pretty much were laughing at it the whole time. And to be fair, my attitude towards the movie has only been confirmed. It was all just a bunch of special effects, tits, violence, and hot spartans to distract from the lame movie...

what are you expecting though, this movie isnt supose to be about a deep and meaningfull story, its about 300 tough shit blokes going to fuck some people up. Its a fucking battle action movie, you got SFX, boobs, violence and tough dudes... your not there to watch Atticus Finch teach his kids about racism

I enjoyed the experience, mostly because I was there with my friends making jokes, but as pretentious as it sounds, I consider it to be entertainment or a commodity. Not a movie. A movie is supposed to have some kind of story, or at least have something open to interpretation. 300 was pretty much an excuse for lots of violence.

I'm not trying to act all pretentious and say, it's all just violence and therefore shit. I enjoyed seeing the action scenes just as much as the next guy. But to me, that's all they were: action scenes.

I lied I went to see 300 yesterday and it was pretty much awesome. Normally I wouldn't like to go out and see a movie filled with useless scenes full of boobs, tough men and a shitload of action. But this time was different because the fighting scenes were quite nice actually, it was like you were watching ballet.

As I wrote before,

in this thread

I didn't see this movie, and won't be seeing it.
I have an EW mag from last week with a cover story on this flick; didn't bother to read that at all either.

One look at the marketing for 300 lets any intelligent person know that basically the movie is gonna be amped-up Gladiator-style violence with even less story meets The Matrix effects via Sin City's green screen.

So, if you wanna see heads and limbs flying off with crazy videogame angles, then this is your flick. If not, then don't see it.

Just because Time magazine calls 300 "the future of fimmaking" due to the extensive green screening, doesn't mean that the movie is some kind of leap forward. All it means is that they figured out some copy, some hype, some spiel to coax you into seeing this celluoid garbage.
If it were true, that 300 is definitively "the future of fimmaking," then wouldn't that make Roger Rabbit or Jar-Jar Binks the future icon of all movie stars?

And one look at this post lets any intelligent person know that basically you are, from time to time, an arrogant prick that feels the urge to express his opinion even on something he did not watch.

EDIT: "So, if you wanna see heads and limbs flying off with crazy videogame angles, then this is your flick. If not, then don't see it.
" this line in your post changed the tone of the whole thing, but it was not there when I posted this -- so peace.

Re-edit: or maybe it does not change the tone? I'm confused. Because that sentence sums up (in a sort of "primitive" way) what I think, even if my thoughts are based on the fact that I read and know the comic book, therefore I know what people should expect form the movie (or better, I know what the movie cuold offer): and that's not "only" what you say in that sentence, but it can't be soooooo much more either.

Re-re-edit : was it better to simply delete this post?

Unlike !@#$%!, I don't need to see it to know it's shit.

Reading his posts in the other thread simply confirm what I already knew.

One look at either of these "300" topics is enough to chase away any potential new member that might be hoping that this place is populated by anyone other than a bunch of pathetically programmed primates.

whooooooops. I edited that post while you were writing these last 2.

Are you saying your dumb if you enjoy this movie?

Or worse.

Yes.

Oh dear.

ah right.

Thats pretty lame, but i think id rather be dumb than someone like you. *shrugs*

Although, there is (some...a small amount of) hope.
As a 300 enthusiast, you still may be more intelligent than some clod that buys the direct-to-dvd Turistas.

much like you, i havnt seen the movie either. But i know the idea behind the movie and know its not supose to be some film of god explaining the meaning of life..but then again maybe this movie is one of the answers..just enjoy a film and stop being a pretentious sock about it.

So there, we have figured it out. Go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this. Shut up! Go back to bed America. Here's American Gladiators. Here's 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fuckin skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America, you are free, to do as we tell you, you are free, to do as we tell you.

Bill Hicks, Revelations

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and just to clarify and to disarm,
sports are an art form
the vast majority of pro atheletes are educated, productive, responsible members of their community. Contrary to what you might assume, few pro atheletes will probably go see this movie. Most only have time to go to see movies with their families.

My little brother (aged 21) went to see "300" last night. He loved it. I told him Mark Kemode (the film critic) hadn't liked it. He said Mark Kermode was "wrong".

He went to the opera the night before. He said that was "boring". But at least he's trying to diversify his interests.

opera would be heaps boring, fuck that.
oh and katy, your Avatar is one of my favourite paintings :)