300 movie

10-Mar-2007

[Dead Corpse]

They pulled off the Molon Labe scene beautifully.

Persian: "Spartans! Lay down your weapons!"
Leonidas: "Persians! Come and get them..."

For that alone, I would have forgiven them anything shy of including Barney, Jar-jar Binks, or Ewoks...

[Dead Corpse]

Go rent the movie The 300 Spartans. 1962. You'll like that movie a lot more.

Leave this one for the Frank Miller fans...

[Mr. Jazzy]

Just saw the film.

Awesome.

That one word describes the film.

Powerful "freedom" message and equally powerful "western civilization" message. I didn't think Hollywood would EVER make a movie with so much honor. I know they take some license with events, but the heart of the titanic struggle that took place is brought to life in this very moving and intense experience. I thought the Spartans were going to start singing "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli ..." at the end!!!

GO SEE THIS FILM!

[Fairview]

I took my thirteen-year-old son to see it this afternoon. He watched it with his mouth open (not so much at the bare breasts but at the compelling battle scenes). Afterwards we spent the evening discussing the history of the battle and its period. We looked online at pictures of the area. I could see that the concepts of honor and self-sacrifice filled him. He was exhausted afterward and decided to go to bed early. I hope he is never called to make a sacrifice for his country, but as he hopes to become a Marine, it is possible.

MOLON LABE!

[amchugh]

Actually, the Spartans had a mentor/prodigy relationship that was basically pedophilia. Also, they practiced infanticide as eugenic control. This combined with their brutal suppression of the helots does not exactly make them the good guys. Nevertheless, they were admirably brave warriors, even though they were slow to adopt missile weapons (other than spears), and slow to adapt new tactics.

[BradyLS]

Wells says it's homo-erotic.

It's filmed as it was drawn in the graphic novel. Some might rate it 'D'. For 'Dudity.'

[BradyLS]

That's a good summary. It does go to '11', so to speak, in many places, but the battle scenes are good.

...And the characters are refreshingly free of "angst", "inner conflict", or in need of "discovering their true selves." All that Hollywood clap-trap that pretty much neutered Aragorn's character in The Two Towers.

No, all the characters know who they are, what they're doing, (even revel in it, )and live or die by it.

[BradyLS]

Do you mean to tell me that orcs didn't really fight in the Persian army?

No. But it was still better than The Two Towers! :-D

[Dominic Harr]

...And the characters are refreshingly free of "angst", "inner conflict", or in need of "discovering their true selves."

Oh, god, yes, no kidding! I *hate* that.

I did have one thought tho -- if Leonidas took 300 hand-picked Spartans . . . shouldn't the movie be titled '301'?

[R. Scott]

I have this terrible debilitating anomaly. I pick apart history theme movies. It was my late wife’s pet peeve, but I did learn to watch a movie with her without commenting on it.
If the movie was presented as a work of fiction with no connection to the battle of Thermopylae I would be able to enjoy it. I enjoyed Gibson’s “Braveheart” - until the battle of Stirling Bridge. No Bridge!

[Larry Lucido]

300 Spartans, now discounted down to 299 Spartans.

"There's a Spartan Store near you!"

[Shimmer128]

I'll take one!

[investigateworld]

Guess I'm a lowbrow - took the family to see "Astronaut Farmer" with Billy Thorton.

[minus_273]

considering the persians are literally the iranians and the things leonidis says about freedom, i suspect the spartans were supposed to represent someone else. Intersting enough the council also considers "cutting funding and support" as the battle happens. What does that sound like?

[Dominic Harr]

What does that sound like?

Ah, good point!

[timsbella]

Saw it in IMAX - utterly cool. Finally a movie worth the admission price!

[Mr. Jazzy]

Ya done good, pop!

Keep guiding him to earn his EGA!

Ooorah!

[finnman69]

There were ZERO homo-erotic overtones in this movie. It was surprisingly hetero, and had smoking hot women w/ a really naughty sex scene.

[Fairview]

Ya done good, pop! Keep guiding him to earn his EGA!

I'm Mom, not Pop--and what's an EGA?

[Fairview]

What sex scene was "really naughty"? I thought the interlude between Leonidas and his wife Gorgo was beautiful and moving, not naughty, and the thing with the poor teenage oracle was just a lick, far more disgusting than a depiction of the entire sex act would have been and thus a fine artistic choice for the director.