POSSIBLE SPOILERS ALERT…
Saw it last night. Wickedly awesome. Leave the kids at home, couple of short nudity scenes with lots of violence, albeit grossly exaggerated with the overuse of slo-mo, bullet-time effects. Leaving the theater, I heard some people behind me commenting on the slight historical inaccuracies. Bah, who cares. I mean you can plainly see it’s very much fictional when they added the grotesquely malformed-looking characters, creatures and villians. A few even appear to be taken right out of DOOM 3. This is purely entertainment for the mind, not for the heart.
Fun to watch, very satisfying feeling when you leave the theater. Something about “last-stand” movies that gets you absorbed. So, yes, go see it. Best movie I’ve seen this year so far, even though it’s only competition was the underwhelming and somewhat disappointing, Ghost Rider.
Lastly, you can’t honestly tell me that Xerxes doesn’t remind you of Dhalsim out of Street Fighter II. He speaks like something out of Stargate, just give him glowing eyes and you’d have another Goa’uld.
Yeah, I thought it was amazing too. I got to see it last Tuesday (for free, even!). We also got lots of random promotional items, like Spartan Condoms!. I thought it was really really cool, and I was actually surprised at how historically accurate it was.
Yeah, I thought it was amazing too. I got to see it last Tuesday (for free, even!). We also got lots of random promotional items, like Spartan Condoms!. I thought it was really really cool, and I was actually surprised at how historically accurate it was.
Wow… good movie and safe sex… can things ever get any better?
Historically accurate?! Did you watch the same movie as me? Historical accuracy shouldn’t even come up in the context of 300, because it’s not really about history. It’s the retelling of a comic that was a retelling of The 300 Spartans. It was more about accuracy to Frank Miller then any history.
The fact that the story could have been written by a single monkey at a typewriter aside, this move was awesome. 2 hours of dudes fucking killing the hell out of each other. I loved it.
Spartan condoms are weird… based on their depiction in the movie, spartans would never practice safe sex, or safe anything. Those dudes were so macho they’d probably fuck rocks or porcupines without flinching. The probably practiced birth control by killing their women, or eating their babies.
I loved the movie overall, but found the ending to be a little weak. I think it was partly because Leonidas’ voice was just so badass, and Dilios’ (David Wenham, aka Faramir) voice just couldn’t match up and paled in comparison at the end.
Historically accurate?! Did you watch the same movie as me? Historical accuracy shouldn’t even come up in the context of 300, because it’s not really about history. It’s the retelling of a comic that was a retelling of The 300 Spartans. It was more about accuracy to Frank Miller then any history.
The comic itself was a pretty damn well accurate depiction of what is known about Spartan culture, King Leonidas and the actual Battle of Thermopylae against Xerxes I, aside from the couple of random monster-like creatures.
The following are some quotes I would use to describe this film.
“300 is a maelstrom of manliness. The film canisters that the movie was distributed in actually had pairs of testicles.”
“If you want to see a movie that will make your eyes orgasm then this is the one for you. It is so over the top bloody violent that it is the epitome of a guy movie. Heads, arms, legs go flying through the air without remorse.”
“Young boys will go into this movie and will leave the theatre with a beard. It is testosterone on celluloid.”
“After the film is over all you want to do is slap a woman, eat red meat, and shove a spear through someone’s neck or chest. Or both.”
I have to honestly say that I really agreed with the last quote after I saw the movie. My friends and I went back to a house and ate venison, I felt like I needed to stab something, and the one girl that came over to hang out was just harrassed to no end.
Ignoring to the best of my ability the link that Bia slaughtered my world with above, I just came back from the theater. A bunch of guys and I went out to a steakhouse beforehand and ripped apart some dead animals with our fangs, then went and saw the movie.
The hair on my balls is still growing at a prodigious rate.
