300

[blm]

the king in the movie, not the documentary.

ok....lol...care to elaborate

[Bouncer]

ok....lol...care to elaborate

go see the movie you will understand. :laughnew:

[NYCmitch25]

that movie was cool lots of killing.




"eat a good breakfast gentlemen for
tonight we dine in hell!" - King Leonidas

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go see the movie you will understand. :laughnew:

w/o seeing the movie I already know that I would fall more in to the category of King Leonidas...a man of strength and honor ;)

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go see the movie you will understand. :laughnew:

That wasn't cool. I just saw the movie. They portrayed Xerxes as a total freak. I reconfirmed...I'm definitely more like Leonidas.

The movie was good. I agree, it was quite repetetive and not near as brutal as I thought it would be (and should have been)...considering the reality of the historical battle. Definitely worth watching though.

[Bouncer]

That wasn't cool. I just saw the movie. They portrayed Xerxes as a total freak. I reconfirmed...I'm definitely more like Leonidas.

The movie was good. I agree, it was quite repetetive and not near as brutal as I thought it would be (and should have been)...considering the reality of the historical battle. Definitely worth watching though.

Would you agree that it wasn't as good as you thought it would be? Maybe my expectations were to high..

Like you said, good movie. I was just looking for a bad ass great movie.

[NYCmitch25]

^i agree with that

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Would you agree that it wasn't as good as you thought it would be? Maybe my expectations were to high..

Like you said, good movie. I was just looking for a bad ass great movie.

yeah

[FitnessBrat]

you must have been watching it on a piece of shit projector or something because it looked bad ass in the theater.

I watched a screening of The Last Mimzy over the weekend - they do NOT use the same film as they would a "real" showing - so he got jipped.....

[babyblues]

That wasn't cool. I just saw the movie. They portrayed Xerxes as a total freak. I reconfirmed...I'm definitely more like Leonidas.

The movie was good. I agree, it was quite repetetive and not near as brutal as I thought it would be (and should have been)...considering the reality of the historical battle. Definitely worth watching though.

Now that I think about it, the movie as a movie was great. But the movie as a portrayal of the real Leonidas and men of Sparta sucked. The characters in the movie were pussies compared to the real Spartans that defended that pass. The movie actually dumbed down the story and took quite a bit away from it. According to Herodatus, the Oracle told them that either Sparta would be sacked and destroyed or Leonidas must sacrifice his life to defend her. So, Leonidas didn't disobey the Oracle, he made the choice to sacrifice his life to preserve Sparta.

From what I've read, the Greek forces numbered about 5,000. On the first day the Persians sent a first wave of 10,000 that was decimated while only 2 or 3 Spartans were killed. The second wave of another 10,000 (Immortals) attacked and they didn't fare any better than the first wave. The next day Xerxes attacked with 50,000 and they too were defeated. Can you imagine 5,000 men defending a pass against 70,000 attacking soldiers? Insane. When the Greeks realized that Xerxes knew about the goat path leading in behind them, that's when they chose to withdraw with the exception of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans and 700 Thesbians.

But like I said, as a movie, it was pretty good.

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The soundtrack kicked ass.

I didn't realize that Gerard Butler (King Leonides) was the same guy who played the phantom in the most recent Phantom of the Opera movie.

[Bouncer]

Now that I think about it, the movie as a movie was great. But the movie as a portrayal of the real Leonidas and men of Sparta sucked. The characters in the movie were pussies compared to the real Spartans that defended that pass. The movie actually dumbed down the story and took quite a bit away from it. According to Herodatus, the Oracle told them that either Sparta would be sacked and destroyed or Leonidas must sacrifice his life to defend her. So, Leonidas didn't disobey the Oracle, he made the choice to sacrifice his life to preserve Sparta.

From what I've read, the Greek forces numbered about 5,000. On the first day the Persians sent a first wave of 10,000 that was decimated while only 2 or 3 Spartans were killed. The second wave of another 10,000 (Immortals) attacked and they didn't fare any better than the first wave. The next day Xerxes attacked with 50,000 and they too were defeated. Can you imagine 5,000 men defending a pass against 70,000 attacking soldiers? Insane. When the Greeks realized that Xerxes knew about the goat path leading in behind them, that's when they chose to withdraw with the exception of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans and 700 Thesbians.

But like I said, as a movie, it was pretty good.

as a movie it was good BUT it could have been way better. like you said, they actually made it less then what really happened.

[Bouncer]

the movie took in over 70 million this past weekend.

[beefcake]

I'm sure when they release it on dvd, it'll be unrated or directors cut version that'll show a bunch that they couldn't in the theaters.

[NYCmitch25]

i agree with B.

i could have waited to see it on DVD. i was not familiar with the 300 the story nor did I read the book prior to this movie. so when i saw it i couldnt help but think that its not that interesting of a story. i think the story itself was lost. they needed to descide if they were going to follow the novel or take the history route. it ended up a mix of both i believe with greek mythology, oracles, soilders, giants, and other creatures it got weird. at times i felt like a was watching a rip off of LOTRs, or Gladitior, or Troy lacked originality. i had a problem with the whole part with his women (the wife-i wont go into details for those who havent seen it) was fuking stupid could of left it out. during the fighting it seemed like the 30 instead of 300. the dialog was corney too.

positive - lots of killing, some cool battle scenes, some of the persain fighters were cool.