300. Just got back from Midnight opening...

[Richards]

I went to see it today with my son and one of his friends. I absolutely loved it. However, while it was spot-on as far as the comic is concerned, I was a tad disappointed that they didn't include the scene where

Spoiler

Stellios trips and falls as the 300 are marching to the Hot Gates, and the Captain starts beating him, even after Leonidas tells him to stop, so Leonidas decks the Captain, knocking him out cold, and then tells Stellios "Your Captain is sleeping. You will carry him on your back."

That was a cool scene in the comic (plus, I liked the nickname that resulted from the incident), and I'm surprised it wasn't in the movie.

But still, it was a great movie, definitely one I'll be picking up on DVD when it comes out. I may try to hunt up the soundtrack as well.

Johnathan

 

[Korgoth]

I just saw it at the IMAX. Awesome. "Testosterone: The Movie".

I liked how the Greeks were physically ideal, whereas the Persians were mutated and horrible looking. It was showing, from the Greek perspective, the moral qualities of the Greeks vs. the Persians. The Greeks are heroic, just and morally straight, and thus they appear beautiful. The Persians are slavish, wicked and perverted, and therefore they have an awful appearance. I thought that was clever, actually.

For all the historical inaccuracies, it followed history more than I expected it to (given the trailers showing war beasts and so forth). I'm usually disappointed by pseudo-historical movies, but this one I really enjoyed.

Definitely see it on IMAX if you can.

 

[Cor Azer]

Saw it tonight. Loved it. Definitely a DVD buy.

My only comment is: Wow... did those extras really work out for that muscle tone or were there CG touch-ups? Really shames the beer belly I've been trying to lose.

 

[Wormwood]

The movie, quite simply, was awesome. Complaints about niggling details brings a new level to the definition of "lame".

Let's hear it for the internet.

 

[Acid_crash]

I enjoyed it a lot. First movie I've been in since the third Matrix where the audience literally broke out in applause at two points in the movie:

[sblock]When they finally killed the giant and when the queen killed the traitor politician.[/sblock]

The audience in my showing also clapped when both of these scenes happened. It was awesome, and amazing that the movie could get such a reaction.

 

[Truth Seeker]

It is the stuff of Legends...it has been a rare few times. That when a movie ends. The nearly entire theater claps with LOUD approval.


Apparently...we WERE ENTERTAINED.


See this film, not for the sex, the boobs, or the near-naked SPARTANS!!!


There is a story about, Loyalty, Honor, and DUTY!


There is a Story, of what price is paid for Freedom.


And there is a story...no matter what tyrant rises...the sole gift of being a free being shall be the continous source of strength, courage, and convinction. Against all oppression.


REMEMBER THE 300!!!​

 

[Felon]

Just saw it, and it's definitely one of the best flicks I've seen in a while.

 

[Shade]

Great movie. I think of it as the 4th Lord of the Rings movie...the all battle, all the time one. The special effects fit so seamlessly into those in the LotR movies it's scary.

This is one of the best D&D movies ever. It's also one of the best football movies ever. I don't know how many times I saw parallels to a football team in this film. I think it was Entertainment Weekly that said that all coaches should show this to their teams before big games, and that they'll outscore their opponents 50 to 1. I wholeheartedly agree.

I think I finally have seen the personification of the Legendary Dreadnought prestige class in the Epic Level Handbook. I'll just refer to it as "Spartan" from now on.

Oh, and add me to the ranks of those who thought "Gou'ald" the first time Xerxes spoke.

 

[Felon]

There is a Story, of what price is paid for Freedom.


And there is a story...no matter what tyrant rises...the sole gift of being a free being shall be the continous source of strength, courage, and convinction. Against all oppression.​

You had me up until you started going on about freedom and defying tyranny and oppression. Reality check: the Spartans themselves weren't exactly heroic champions of personal liberties, except for those liberties you could take by force. The movie does not shy away from demonstrating that, particularly early on with the scenes of unfit babies being discarded onto a trash heap and seven-year-old kids being confiscated as government property. True, they were the underdogs in this film, so we root for them naturally, but there plenty of times when the Spartans were the big bullies. And proud of it.

I'm not one for judging ancient societies by modern values--rather, I'm saying we ought not to do exactly that.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

You had me up until you started going on about freedom and defying tyranny and oppression.

Then you can blame Herodotus, Diodorus, and Plutarch. And then we can damn the movie for bothering to evoke their writings on the event. Or you could read the review by a professor of ancient Greece and military history I posted further up the thread on how the movie gets to the core of just Truth Seeker noticed.