New 300 trailer

[EricNoah]

I must be the only geek in the universe that thinks this movie's gonna stink to high heaven and will be avoiding it like I avoided the two D&D movies... I just do not see the appeal.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Look's cool, though I'm puzzled as to why the spartans appear to be wearing armor less oftent then not.

Because it was written by Frank Miller and he has a tendency to like his men naked... as in he doesn't like girls...

It's going to be a fanboy kind of movie, and I know it doesn't look like they follow the acutal history closely, but the CGI looks great. In a way, though, I wish they would have adopted the book "Gates of Fire" instead.

 

[Wayside]

I must be the only geek in the universe that thinks this movie's gonna stink to high heaven and will be avoiding it like I avoided the two D&D movies... I just do not see the appeal.

You, sir, smoke the crack. I'm still trying to decide whether this is going to be 100 or 1000 times better than LotR.

 

[Agamon]

I must be the only geek in the universe that thinks this movie's gonna stink to high heaven and will be avoiding it like I avoided the two D&D movies... I just do not see the appeal.

Non-superhero comic movies have a pretty high positive hit-to-miss ratio, so I've been looking forward to this for some time. You can tell us you told us so if you're right though, Eric.

 

[Agamon]

You, sir, smoke the crack. I'm still trying to decide whether this is going to be 100 or 1000 times better than LotR.

Okay, now that's just crazy talk.

 

[Truth Seeker]

(speechless)

I must be the only geek in the universe that thinks this movie's gonna stink to high heaven and will be avoiding it like I avoided the two D&D movies... I just do not see the appeal.

 

[trancejeremy]

I probably won't like it personally - I thought Sin City was laughably bad (except the Mickey Rourke story, which was mostly okay), but the trailer looks pretty cool.

Also really overlooks that fact that it wasn't just 300 Spartans - 700 Thespians stayed to fight with them. Not exactly fair to leave them out - they were just as brave in this instance, staying to fight and die while the other Greeks fled.

 

[catsclaw227]

Also really overlooks that fact that it wasn't just 300 Spartans - 700 Thespians stayed to fight with them. Not exactly fair to leave them out - they were just as brave in this instance, staying to fight and die while the other Greeks fled.

Have they totally written out that part or has it just not ben emphasized in the trailers?

 

[shilsen]

Also really overlooks that fact that it wasn't just 300 Spartans - 700 Thespians stayed to fight with them. Not exactly fair to leave them out - they were just as brave in this instance, staying to fight and die while the other Greeks fled.

I'm not surprised, since the fact that it wasn't just 300 Spartans doesn't get coverage in most references to the battle that aren't by a historian. And while the Thespians did opt to stay and fight till the end, there were even more Greeks who took part in the earlier fighting (Herodotus lists about 7000 in total).

Personally, I don't go to the movies for historical accuracy, so it doesn't bother me in the least that they left out the Thespians, even though I bring them up if discussing the historical battle. I'll take the Aristotelian approach to history and poetry here. The poet doesn't have to write what was historically true but what would be more poetically true/appropriate, and 300 Spartans standing against Xerxes makes for a better story.

 

[Joker]

One of the best ways to pad your post count...

I'm not surprised, since the fact that it wasn't just 300 Spartans doesn't get coverage in most references to the battle that aren't by a historian. And while the Thespians did opt to stay and fight till the end, there were even more Greeks who took part in the earlier fighting (Herodotus lists about 7000 in total).

Personally, I don't go to the movies for historical accuracy, so it doesn't bother me in the least that they left out the Thespians, even though I bring them up if discussing the historical battle. I'll take the Aristotelian approach to history and poetry here. The poet doesn't have to write what was historically true but what would be more poetically true/appropriate, and 300 Spartans standing against Xerxes makes for a better story.

What he said.