Re: 300 is insulting?
Originally posted by AngryManatee
Xerxes and his army are shown as monster-like men, with attire and attitudes that can only be seen among demons.
Originally posted by AngryManatee
it even seems as if attempts have been made to purposefully insult ancient Persians.
You don't say?
In case it wasn't blatantly obvious, the movie had a very strong Greek slant. It minimally acknowledged the other 7,000 Greeks who helped the 300 Spartans.
And Xerxes was actually close to 7 feet tall, which the movie depicted.
Originally posted by xxXAcStylesXxx
Also the Spartans making fun of Athens for being "boy lovers" even though they were so openly gay that they had their wives dress as men on their wedding nights because they couldn't fathom how someone could be attracted to a woman.
Yeah, no kidding. The Spartans were even bigger shit-pushers than the Athenians.
And that's saying a lot!
Originally posted by Myth
The movie was good at best. The visuals were simply amazing but it was 90% fighting and 10% story. More story would have been needed for it to have completely won me over.
That was the story. All they did back then was fight and die. The best part of the movie in my opinion was the character development. I really enjoyed how the entire Spartan army worked together as a team. They bonded together well and it made the movie that much more interesting to watch because you actually cared what happened to them. My heart was thumping like mad when the Spartan King engaged in the one-on-one battle. Good Movie!
8/10
Originally posted by m. sade
this movie was stupid. some of the action was good, but overall it reminded of those old films that recount stories from the bible, where there's a bunch of white folk pretending to be Egyptians and Jews. In this case it was bunch of pumped up dudes from the gym pretending to be Spartans.It was nauseatingly stupid in more ways than I can articulate, but from conception to execution, this has to be one of the stupidest movies I've seen. it should never have opened its mouth with a message either
The only redeeming quality of this movie were the action sequences, and among those, I'd say the first battle was the best. In addition, the hyper-stylization was overdone. too much in my opinion
This movie would have been better as an exclusively 'Lord of the Rings' type fantasy, but as a pseudo-historical account, it was infuriating. I can only speculate on how much of this was inherited from the comic book, because I have never read it.
Kudos to the "fantasy" type background. Most of the things in that movie look like they came from World of Warcraft. It made sense though because the movie was based on a comic book not the real historic battle.
Originally posted by m. sade
[B]where there's a bunch of white folk pretending to be Egyptians and Jews. In this case it was bunch of pumped up dudes from the gym pretending to be Spartans.
They're called Actors now.
It was nauseatingly stupid in more ways than I can articulate, but from conception to execution, this has to be one of the stupidest movies I've seen.
I'm still not seeing a reason for it being bad, except the fact you're too stupid to figure out a way to put it into English.
The only redeeming quality of this movie were the action sequences, and among those, I'd say the first battle was the best.
Are you forgetting about the: Acting, Cinematography, Story, Charecter Development, etc..
I can only speculate on how much of this was inherited from the comic book, because I have never read it.
All of it. That was the whole point. Never did it say in any advertisements about the movie "Based on a True Story". It said "Based on a Graphic Novel by Frank Miller"
As you can tell, I thought it was an amazingly awesome movie. The best of the year [so far, IMO]. It has been a while since a movie like this has come out. And thank god there is no Russle Crowe to worry about. All and all, the acting was awesome, the Cinematography was practically flawless, and the Story was awesome.
I'm giving this movie an 9 out of 10.
I loved the scenes away from the battle field back home as much as I loved the war aspect of it all to tell the truth.
I especially love the part where the Spartan Queen stuck it to that traitor.
The one thing I hated was that I went early in the day and there wasn't hardly anybody there so that took away from the experience. But from the little bit of people that were there, I'm sure I head a little miniature cheer when she actually did that.
I can only imagine what would have been the consequences of her action is those coins hadn't spilled out revealing him to be a traitor.
Once again I want to say this was a great movie.
anata wa wakarimasu ka.....
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
meh. i just finish seeing it. It was ok. I wasn't a "Gladiator" but I would've waited for a movie like "300" if i'da known it was gonna be like this. I didn't wow me like "Sin City" did. When i left the theatre.Mr. director & Frank Millar, a.k.a. graphic novelist, I expected more detail in the battles and less flamboyancy. I couldn't get into the plethora of slow motion shots, either. I expected more. More gore. More decapitations. Like 90% of all killings were spear stabs. The spewed CGi blood needed work.
This looked like a movie that would've fared well a few years back.
The story was ok. I just wished the King and his Spartan army of 300 realized that there's a thin line between courage and stupidity.
But I loved the way Xerxes look and how he sounded. And how he was first presented. What was he like 7-8 feet tall.
Sin City was way better.
Grade: C
Originally posted by Myth
The movie was good at best. The visuals were simply amazing but it was 90% fighting and 10% story. More story would have been needed for it to have completely won me over.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
This movie was like Pearl Harbor: the battle was the only thing worthwhile about the flick.The movie could've gone without the corny-ass dialogues.
One of the best films I've seen in YEARS.
I thought the dialogue kinda sucked. The movie was entertaining because of the battle scenes and how highly stylized it was.
Its interesting people are getting offended only by how the persians were portrayed...
King leonidas was pretty much a psycho, and the rest of the spartans were nuts too. I mean: "take no prisoners", killing diplomats, slaughtering the wounded, building collapse able walls of dead bodies..actually enjoying doing all of this..
The "freedom" the spartans died to protect seemed a little bit harsh, I guess unless you think freedom = the right to slaughter as many new born infants as you want because they look "weak." Then force the rest of the children that passed that test to become bloodthirsty fanatical warriors or die in the process...
To be fair though, the movie definitely has the spartans being the lesser of the two evils, but both sides were portrayed as being pretty god damn insane imo. Its the kind of movie you can't put too much thought into or else it just falls apart.
Very entertaining though!