"300" Reviews (No spoilers!)

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:46 pm

I'm going to see it AGAIN tonight. I'll let you guys know if I have any additional thoughts on it. I'm looking for the local IMAX theater.

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:14 pm

Scott Gardener wrote:I don't want to see CGI take over completely--I see what Matt Sullivan is having to do just to get studios even to look at an old school 2D animated film.

Sorry if this is off topic, but who is Matt Sullivan and what movie is this?

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:03 am

Dreamer wrote:
Scott Gardener wrote:I don't want to see CGI take over completely--I see what Matt Sullivan is having to do just to get studios even to look at an old school 2D animated film.
Sorry if this is off topic, but who is Matt Sullivan and what movie is this?

He's one of the Pack members here who has experiance in professional 2D animation and script writing. Camp Lycanthrope and Orphen are two animated films he is trying to sell. He has his own forum section here if you want to look into it.

BTW... my local IMAX theater doesn't show "300". The next closest IMAX is 400 miles away in Phoenix, Arizona. Guh.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:01 pm

I saw it. I thought the movie was awsome. Lots of action, action, and more action. With some nudity that they definatly werent afraid to show and with minimal talking. The movie was very satisfying to watch.

I was surprise that the Van Helsing monk had a six pack.

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:59 pm

He was an outcast Spartan, striving to be a true Spartan, so he was training himself in combat constantly. He was indeed a fit little Egore.

I saw it again last weekend. The only thing that bothers me is that sex scene. It's feels so tacked on, like someone scribbled up half a page of new script thinking it would punch up the movie's popularity. Sure, it was a short scene, but still pointless because it had no value towards the story.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:49 am

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:16 am

I gotta say, I totally agree with Vrikasatma. If you knew it would be your last chance for a bit of a fumble with the one you love, I know I would.

On a slightly more light hearted and smutty note, I read somewhere that they filmed it all in a FREEZING studio hangar, I think somewhere in Canada. Can I just say that if you observe the actress carefully during the love scene, you can actually see how cold it really was!!

Sorry, no offence meant to anybody, I'm just havin a giggle.

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:00 pm

lupine wrote:On a slightly more light hearted and smutty note, I read somewhere that they filmed it all in a FREEZING studio hangar, I think somewhere in Canada. Can I just say that if you observe the actress carefully during the love scene, you can actually see how cold it really was!!

I did not notice.

*shifty eyes, shifty eyes*

Anyway, I also agree with Vrikasatma.

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:04 pm

Ahhh! People are talkign about me on this thread! Yeeeeee!

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:16 pm

Hey guys, check out this awesome new expanded trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JmAaI1dGE

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:59 pm

I PREFER THIS VERSION!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqiSkd1M6k

BRUSH YOUR TEETH!!!!

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:56 pm

I can't believe people are STILL saying "Sparta = U.S., Persia = Iran!" It's getting to the point of urban legend now. They're like those idiots in the '70s who went around saying "Gene Simmons got a cow's tongue surgically grafted on."

I just read a post by some chick on Myspace who was going "I'm Iranian and this movie is so insulting to us! Oh and by the way, I haven't seen it yet."

Feh.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:23 pm

vrikasatma wrote:I can't believe people are STILL saying "Sparta = U.S., Persia = Iran!"

I can believe that, unfortunately. "People" have also been saying that "Zaphod Beeblebrox is a swipe at George W. Bush and therefore "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is anti-American!" "People" seem to think that Iraq was behind the September 11th attacks.

I read, somewhere (forget where), someone theorising that the intelligence of a mob is no greater than that of its least intelligent member. That I can believe all too readily.

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:28 pm

SouthPark's Take on 300

http://www.devilducky.com/media/60568/

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:32 pm

Midnight wrote:"People" have also been saying that "Zaphod Beeblebrox is a swipe at George W. Bush and therefore "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is anti-American!"

That damn Douglas Adams and his magical powers of precognition!

lupine wrote:SouthPark's Take on 300 Laughing http://www.devilducky.com/media/60568/

That was a pretty good episode, everyone needs to watch that. I don't know which line was funnier, though... "Scissor me timbers" or "Scissor me *name withheld at a poor attempt to hide spoilers*". Good stuff.

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:08 pm

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:23 pm

lupine wrote:

No! It's "Then we shall fight in the shade"!

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:39 am

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:09 pm

The one in your sig is the funniest.

As for the Jenga one... it doesn't eve look like he's saying "Jenga". He put a lot of emphasis on the "S" sound in "Sparta", so mistaking it for a "J" just isn't happening. Tsk tsk.

lupine · Post by **lupine** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:44 pm

I don't make'em, I just find'em and post'em.

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:08 pm

Don worry. I know. It's just that the quality low brow internet humor is getting less intelligent by the day. Alas.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:43 pm

Went to see it again last night. The crowd was definitely smaller and quieter, but that was cool. I think we're down to the hardcore fans who just keep going back and back and back, and the people who were curious about it but didn't want to deal with the crowds and therefore held off.

So okay...there was a fairly accurate story that holds that the Spartans took the "Sparta will fall...or Greece will fall" prophecy to heart and that the battle was actually a mass huma sacrifice. 'Course, there's an argument that war, as a general practice, is mass human sacrifice for a start, but at least the Spartans weren't victims. They were ready to die, but just as ready to make their aggressors die alongside them. I kept this in mind when I watched the film last night, and it threw an even deeper shade of darkness over the whole thing.

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:26 pm

Just thought this was funny.

A Petition to Boycott "300"

Their claim is that...

"The author Frank Miller and Warner Brothers Studios should understand that distorting historical data is unethical, and so is feeding ignorance to viewers and readers. Fantasy-like characters should not have names that are based on actual historical figures."

Um... who is stupid enough to believe that Persia had executioners with axes for arms, and humongous thrones carried on the backs of slaves? I think the world is smart enough to seperate what is likely fact, from fiction. Considering that the whole purpose of the film is for entertainment, I think the audience expects an amazing specticle of blood and carnage given the subject in question. Just take it in as entertainment. It's a waste of time to expect Hollywood to be 100% historically accurate with their movies. Why bother anyways? That's good stuff.

Did you know that Frank Miller based many phrases on actual historical accounts? A Persian messenger once said to the king of Sparta, "Our arrows will blot out the sun." Hence the kind was recorded to have replied, "Then we shall fight in the shade."

IMBd's All-Time USA Boxoffice wrote: 67. Batman Begins (2005) $205,343,774
68. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) $204,843,350
69. The Exorcist (1973) $204,565,000
70. 300 (2006) $202,063,629
71. The Mummy Returns (2001) $202,007,640
72. Armageddon (1998/I) $201,573,391
73. Superman Returns (2006) $200,069,408

Go 300 go!

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:44 pm

When the Persians called out for them to throw down their weapons, King Leonidas did indeed say, "Come and get them!" ("Molon Labe!"). It's Greece's unofficial motto. A lot of their Army divisions have it and the Spartan flag design on their insignia.

This wave of protesting and petitions is just people who've lost their sense of wonder and are angry at the world and need to yell and whine about something. Some people just can't stand it when something is overwhelmingly successful and gotta squawk.

Didn't Einstein say "Great spirits always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds"?