300 spoilers

Van Hellseek · 22 Mar 2007 at 03:48

Possibly the most 'macho' movie i have ever seen. Lots of half-naked six-packed men and brutal merciless (very) graphic killing.

At first it's a bit 'erm, wtf..?'. My first impression was "Ok, what the hell is this OTT tripe?", but when the film gets into full-swing it's actually pretty good... if chiseled men cutting bits off other men does it for you.

Van Hellseek · 22 Mar 2007 at 13:54

one thing i didn't like, was how suddenly the odds turned against them; for the majority of the movie they are romping through the enemies slaughtering everyone they come across as though they are practically immortal, then in the blink of an eye they're suddenly all surrounded and killed. :/

Van Hellseek · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:14

fonzee said:
apart from the fact the spartan king has a scottish accent

and the new one at the end (the guy with one eye) has a south african accent.

Van Hellseek · 23 Mar 2007 at 01:15

it's especially good considering it's a movie based on a 'graphic novel'. usually they are pants.

Van Hellseek · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:12

khimbar said:
They were surrounded and the enemy took the higher ground with ranged weapons. That's why.

I too loved it. So many cool moments in one film.

yes i know why it happened, i'm just saying it all happened too quickly. going from completely unstoppable for most of movie too suddenly "oh ****".

Van Hellseek · 23 Mar 2007 at 16:55

pyro said:
Hot gates?! What the hell, Hollywood? It's called Thermopyale. Fools! You have ripped my country's history countless times. Why instead of focusing on Alexander's achievments, the only real issue was weather he was gay or not. And Xerex wasn't a crossdressing giant

Anyway, this is like making a 9/11 film with the terrorist in the plane played by the devil himself, 300 is a super-action stupid film.

it's called 'fiction'.

Van Hellseek · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:33

it's 2 hours of people cutting bits off other people. who cares about character development?

take it for what it is, and it's highly enjoyable. sounds to me like you were expecting too much (especially considering it's a movie based on a comicbook/'graphic novel').

Van Hellseek · 24 Mar 2007 at 01:12

trojan698 said:
I hear there's lots of boobies?

only lots of man-boobies unfortunately.

Van Hellseek · 24 Mar 2007 at 15:40

Scam said:
There was a surprising amount of lady-boobs

were we watching the same film? the only ones i remember were the leaders wife's.

Van Hellseek · 24 Mar 2007 at 20:59

Benny06 said:
The blood didnt quite look real

yeah that bugged me too. it looked as though it was magnified. hard to explain, but suffice to say it just didn't look right.

top movie nonetheless though.

Van Hellseek · 25 Mar 2007 at 20:30

CompMan said:
Great film hey did the persian king remind you of
that dude from sf2?

what is sf2?

Van Hellseek · 25 Mar 2007 at 21:33

streetfighter2? he looks nothing like them!

Van Hellseek · 26 Mar 2007 at 01:09

Gilly said:
The oracle? Xerxes' hareem? The Sparta Queen?

hm, well the oracle and the queen are only 2, so hardly 'lots'. though tbh, i'd actually completely forgotten the hareem part. but then that's probably because i was psychologically trying to block out the memory of that hunchback freak getting his end away.

Van Hellseek · 27 Mar 2007 at 21:41

Steedie said:
only reason its not a 10 is there should have been more fighting hehe

yeah, i can see how it was lacking in that department.

Van Hellseek · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:13

dmpoole said:
Nice to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has knocked it off top spot after one week.

have you even seen 300? :/

Van Hellseek · 1 Apr 2007 at 19:13

dmpoole said:
Hmm - well apart from the fact that there was already 3 other threads on this awful film before this thread was started

lol, get over it already.

Van Hellseek · 2 Apr 2007 at 22:42

and see also...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_movie

Van Hellseek · 2 Apr 2007 at 23:02

KASM said:
It's my fault that Frank Miller decided that historical facts had no importance when telling the story about one of the most important battles in world history?

Frank Millers a great story teller, heck I already said I loved Sin City but its unforgiveable to put forward such a twisted version of events.

i don't get why so many people in this thread are failing to understand the concept of 'fiction'. the story is -not- supposed an unbiased account of events, it's intentionally inacurate as it's told from the perspective of the spartans, and how they would have told their own people. hence some of the persians looking like monsters etc.

Fiction

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.

Van Hellseek · 5 Apr 2007 at 17:49

KASM said:
Waits for the 'how dare you have a different opinion to me' comments

irony+

Van Hellseek · 5 Apr 2007 at 22:50

KASM said:
Ah I see what you're 'trying' to say and failing.

ok, you posted your opinion of the movie which is fine, but since then your posts have just been pointless trolling. i could understand if you were at least debating about the movie, but you're not even trying - you're just blatantly trolling the thread and making insulting posts.

great way to get your point accross.

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