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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seonaid" data-source="post: 3391566" data-attributes="member: 11195">What he said (except that I didn't read that book <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).Three little things bothered me, and if I hadn't been desperately trying to find something to dislike about the movie*, I probably wouldn't have cared:[sblock]1) Leonidas's form when he throws his spear/javelin at Xerxes was atrocious. I kept thinking, "If he had used proper form, he could have hit him in the eye instead of grazing his cheek."2) I know it was all digitally put in, but for the amount of blood being splashed across the screen in every fight, the Spartans sure were clean . . .3) The Christ imagery at the end. Maybe I'm sensitive to it, and I'm sure it's in the graphic novel (which I am definitely picking up), but it was a bit jarring for me. Leonidas is no Christ, and there was no other obvious Christian mythology, so why?[/sblock]All that being said, I think it's my favorite movie of all time. I cannot express how much I enjoy fight scenes, and these were done just right. We saw it last night on a digital screen and now I want to drive 45 minutes to see it on IMAX. :drool:*I was enjoying it so much I was afraid it wouldn't live up to itself, so I was trying to find reasons to not be disappointed when it fell on its face. Lucky for me, it lived up to all of my (extremely high expections).</blockquote>

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