'300'

Went to see 300 yesterday and enjoyed it overall - and I am a girl!
The battle scenes were great and the 6 packs as mentioned were just delicious.
However I really did feel overall it was a bit of a rip off of Gladiator/Troy/Spartacus etc - shame they could not have been a little more original overall.
But saying that I still enjoyed it - def worth the money!
 
I saw this a couple of days ago, and to be honest, I wasn't that impressed.

Even though I am a "girl" (:D), the violence didn't really bother me, what bothered me was, as other people have said, the LOTR feel. Taking into consideration that this was going to be an exaggeration of events that happened at what...480 B.C. someone quoted, I didn't really see the need for some of the soldiers (well, one of them!) to look more like an orcs. I really did not see why. Sometimes I thought I wasn't looking at a battle on earth anymore, and that kinda ruined it for me...sorry :(. The plot was good, I enjoyed the plot, just not the LOTR effects, I'd seen the original film as well so I mostly knew what was going to happen.
 
I can't wait for this. It's always been one of my favourite historical stories, and Miller's comic was stunning.

"Go tell the Spartans, you who passes by, that here by Spartan law we lie". I've wanted a tattoo saying that for years, but I don't think I'm butch enough to carry it off.
 
A grand spectacle but it proves that just plonking a graphic novel onscreen doesn't necessarily make for a satisfying movie. Thought Gerald Butler was great as a Spartan with a Scottish acccent. Connery-tastic!
 
i know that it is based on the Battle of Thermopylae but it is also based on the comic-book adaptation too so hence the stylised characters looking like orcs. i have seen the 60s version film so i know what you mean, but i think because of the comic book you have to make allowance.
for me the important point of the movie was to remember the pray of those men and the sacrifice they made which soldiers around the world today also make.
 
I've watched bits and pieces, and would be interested in seeing this. It's from a graphic novel originally, so it should have a lot of material to fall back on.
 
Just got back from seeing this...

It felt like watching a Gay Pride March gone wrong...

Plus the odd Monty Python and the Holy Grail moments - 'tis but a flesh wound type dialogue. It's only my eye that's gone - luckily I've got a spare...

Hummmm....

What happened to plot and characterisation in movies?

Looked lovely though...
 
Generally enjoyed it though the violence was unrelenting and, as such, became a little tedious after a while.

Like others (and especially keeping in mind Frank Miller's recent neo-con tendencies) I was most uneasy with the crass parallels that could be read into it and the ironic line about 'boy lovers' from Leonidas. The homophobic/homoerotic dichotomy was very strange.

However, much of the unreality I'd excuse by its medium of using a narrator who is trying to rouse the next set of warriors and is obviously going to embellish widely.

And yes they did look like 'Chippendales SAS' complete with very modern looking pants (there were opportunities for close inspection :o ).

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The pants were, on the whole, added for the film. There were far more willies in the original comic. Not sure what that says about Mr Miller, or Warner Bros. Probably nothing.
 
its also a real historical event from 480 b.c. The literature it is from izs actually a comic, but i think that seeing as it is from the makers of sin city it will be an original production of an historical event.
 
i dont know if the Spartans used the Greek language, i will look it up.

Anyway!! so 300 came out in US this week and has great reviews so far. some can be found on yahoo movies where the critics have given it b-. not bad for them.
 
I really enjoyed it. I know Frank Miller himself has become... let's say "a little right wing"... in recent years, and I agree with a lot of the criticisms levelled at it re: racism, dodgy parallels with the War On Terror... the inherent Fascism is, though, part and parcel- the Spartans DID pretty much worship strength and despise weakness, they DID kill the weak and crippled babies, and you can't blame the movie for that.

I loved it, though. To be honest, the bits they added that weren't in the comic (all the "meanwhile in Sparta politics" stuff) broke the flow for me, and weren't particularly well-done, either, though the Queen of Sparta is one of the coolest people to appear in a movie EVER...

But it was great. As I said upthread, it's one of my favourite stories ever, and this was a pretty damn good telling of it.

Oh, and for whoever said it wasn't one for the ladies- I went with a bunch of people. The one girl present enjoyed it more than the rest of us, I think... all the oiled buff bodies really seemed to float her boat, as it were. As she said when we were leaving, "I wish they could CGI stuff like that in real life..."
 
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