300

It looks like it's going to be good. Ancient battles are one of my interests. It seems in them there was a place for good strategies and tactics to truly shine. I still have to remind some people I know that 300 is a story only based off of a historic event and not totally historically accurate, still I won't keep my from enjoying it for what it is if it's end up being a good movie.
 
Unlike you, I make as few unsupported declarations of fact as possible.

what are you talking about dude?

My point was I'm sick of people doing just that, citing the merits of a movie based on what seems to be simple popular consensus and not on anything that actually has to do with the movie - other than apparently the fact that the movie is going to be cool, by which they really mean it's cool to say that the movie is cool, when they don't know anything else other than that. I don't give a shit about whether or not it makes you cool to like movie, I care about whether the actual movie is good or not. If someone said, 'the trailer looks really good, so I think the movie will be good', then I would be fine with that. that makes sense. Hyping a movie simply based on the hype, well...you just end up with Snakes on a plane.

A freind of mine got tickets to see an advanced screening of this movie today, so I would have been able to let you know what i thought. But as usual, the place triple booked it so it was the battle of 300 nerds trying to fight to get the first place in line against 10,000 people that have real lives and didn't show up 4 hours before.
 
"Hyping a movie simply based on the hype, well...you just end up with Snakes on a plane."

Well that sells tickets to movie goers! If people like the flash of the trailer, they might be inclined to see the movie. Word of mouth say "Cool" also sell tickets... yes I agree that is a Snakes on Planes issue..
 

Violator79

Take a Hit, Spunker!
I saw it Friday night. Standing room only. It was one of THE best movies I've ever seen. At time I turned to my friend and I had to say "are you shitting me?" It's that good. Go see it asap.




P.s. what happened to the rep points? Not that it's a big deal, just curious.
 

Philbert

Banned
Saw it yesterday. It was by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. Way better than Gladiator.

I saw it Friday night. Standing room only. It was one of THE best movies I've ever seen. At time I turned to my friend and I had to say "are you shitting me?" It's that good. Go see it asap.


Thanks to both of you for the report...I thought it was gonna be a mindfuck, but past disappointments made me wanna hear from someone who saw it; now that we all know, I look forward to the experience.

Like someone once said, "Go tell the Spartans..."
 
"Come home with this sheild, or upon it" - A spartan woman equips her son. (the original quote)
 

Violator79

Take a Hit, Spunker!
"Then we will have this fight in the shade" is the original quote and it wasn't from Stelios. I forget the name of the guy who really said it.
 
Hmm, still waiting to see this movie.
 
This movie was fucking awesome. The sound system was on so loud too that I think I lost some hearing. :)

I didn't expect it to be this good, but it was.
 

MRPIMPN4EVA

Banned
Movie of the year. I dont even know if Grindhouse can top it. Goin to see this again. The only thing I dont like is how they made Xerxes a homo when he was really a cold blooded genius.
 
I thought it was a generally good movie, I don't see why people make such a fuss about the story not being good. It's very loosely based on the battle of Thermopylae and of course you should expect it to be hollywoodized. The art direction and cinematography was done well and looked quite pretty.

The highlight of the movie in my opinion were the fight scenes.
 

dave_rhino

Closed Account
How many of you have the graphic novel? Damn the thing is massive. Not pages wise, but the actual size. It's on A2 i think! it won't fit on my bookshelves.
 
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