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Anyone go see it? It rocked my socks off.

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my friend's parents saw it the other day...they said it sucked...but they're parents, what do they know...i want to see it.

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I'm going to see it soon, possibly tonight. From the critics' reviews I've read... you will either like it or hate it. They said it's definitely a "guy film".

I'm pretty excited to see it, though.

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I want to see this too. Looks like a good flick.

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Its received as much hype as Snakes on a Plane and garnered mediocre reviews. I think its probably a blood bath with little substance.

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I was supposed to see it when we screened the movie, but they moved it from Thursday to Wednesday and forgot to tell me :(


*shrugs and walks away*

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I was going to go see it with Dylflon tonight but I realized I had a criminology paper due on monday, and I'm going to Black Sabbath tomorrow night.

Curses and Blast!

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Heaven and Hell*

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Pff, it's still Iommi and Butler. They'll always be Black Sabbath.

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Yeah, but it's Dio, so...I don't know. It's just not the same.


I was so trying to score tickets to that, because seeing them, and Megadeth on the same bill would fill my pants.

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So good.

Holy bitch.

Those were some statuesque dudes. Damn.

Great movie. Everything about it is good. Cinematography, effects, story, action, nudity, acting, sheer manliness.

Highly recommended. Also, it'll be good for girls because there's a literal plethora of the most well toned dudes ever for them to ogle.

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Saw it and really enjoyed it. Watched the midnight showing Thursday night and the whole theater was hyped.

Hmm, I wonder when "300" Workout and Diet routines will start taking over the web.

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I'll probably see this movie with some friends in cinema, might be worth the ticket.

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Am I the only one that has no desire whatsoever to see this movie?

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You have no desire to see it? I'm not very hyped about it and never have been, the whole thing looked silly to me since I saw the first trailer. But I do have the desire to see it still, if just for the over-the-top action. After seeing the Rottentomatoes score, I have a little less desire but still some nonetheless.

EDIT: Quote from the New York Post review of 300 --

Keeping in mind Slate's Mickey Kaus' Hitler Rule -- never compare anything to Hitler -- it isn't a stretch to imagine Adolf's boys at a 300 screening, heil-fiving each other throughout and then lining up to see it again.

Hahaha sometimes I love reviewers.

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my parents actually saw it...my mom said it was 'pretty good but too violent' and my dad said he 'liked it, some really great action scenes'

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It was effing amazing!!!111
I saw it opening night took me awhile to convince them my ID was real but they let me and I covered for a bunch of my friends too...anyway it was amazing it was like...a two hour cinematical trailer...every part of the movie sent shivers up my spine, it made the hairs stand on the back of my neck like when i saw the World of warcraft intro cinematics!

300 -> MUST SEE!!!

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Just read this review: http://movies.ign.com/articles/763/763580p1.html

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Amazing movie. I saw it the other night. Spartans are the definition of heart.

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I thought it looked like a big dumb action movie that would appeal to Myspace's young hip crowd (they sure were plugging the movie quite a bit)...

Then I found out it was based on another Frank Miller 'graphic novel' (Sin City was fun) and directed by the guy who did the Dawn of the Dead remake (one of the few decent remakes) and I became slightly more intrigued...

But I'm not too huge on brainless over-the-top action... Soo...
Maybe I'll see it eventually...

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Here's a clip of one of the action sequences, likely to put hair on your chest while watching.

http://www.moviewalah.com/news-gossi...blood-from-300


Also, don't assume that just because the movie features some incredible violence and action that it completely lacks any form of intelligence. There's a well written and real entertaining story to be seen.

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At no point in time did I find the movie to be dumb.

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How violent exactly is it? Can you give me a comparison?

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god of war violent?

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Have you seen Sin City?

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At one point there were so many horses. And I was looking over at my friend Kyle and I was like "OMG KYLE! THERE ARE SO MANY HORSES!"

"WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?!"

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that made absolutely no sense...

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Does too. The what is your profession thing was an awesome quote from the movie.

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oh...damn it! i want to watch it! maybe this coming weekend...

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No I didn't see Sin City or play God of War, so I still have no idea how violent. Worse than... LotR, Troy, Gladiator etc?

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If you haven;t seen the movie yet, do yourself a favor and don't do any reserach into Sparta or the battle itself before you go. The film is very good (not excellent, missing an epic quality seen in films like Braveheart and Troy) but its historical quality is skaky at best.

***Historical Spoiler***









Throughout the movie, Leonidas (who was a serious badass in reality) keeps talking about an age of freedom and even the ending suggests that Spartans and Greeks in general created the idea of freedom. The problem is that Sparta was a slave state. They had LOTS of slaves, and in fact they were the only Greek city-state that enslaved other greeks (Messenia), and thats why other city-states disliked the Spartans so much. That and Spartan rutinely kicked their collective asses and subjugated them for hundreds of years until they finally fell to Thebes, victims of the groudbreaking Echelon formation.

So when they talked about Freedom, it really took me out of the movie. Too much suspension of disbelief.







***end historical spoiler***

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If you want to read a really hilarious review of the movie, check out CHUD's. He spends some seven or eight paragraphs talking about how the movie is a right wing screed about why we need to go to war. Now don't get the wrong idea, he's not criticizing the movie for that reason. He's not one of those people complaining that the movie is a propaganda piece engineered to get us all behind the Iraq war or something. But, well...he thinks the movie supports the war in Iraq. Seriously, do you think the moviemakers and Frank Miller were really trying to be that deep?

As for me, the movie was all right. It had a fairly realistic depiction of phalanx tactics and then ruined the effect by having everybody break formation and go running off on their own. I don't even think the graphic novel had very much of that going on.

What also wasn't in the graphic novel were a lot of scenes at home. I understand and appreciate why they were there, but they tended to slow the proceedings down a bit.

Acting? What acting? Don't get me wrong, the actors were fine in their roles. But there wasn't really much "acting" required of them. The best thing I could say for Gerard Butler (Leonidas) is that he avoided going so far over the top as to be cartoonish. And that's worthy of praise. But please, let's not start giving the man acting awards just yet.

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I saw this on opening night and was somewhat displeased. Not that I was expecting anything groundbreaking in the plot or acting category, I just thought that Sin City was a better movie both visually and action-wise than this movie was. Still worth the price of admission, but not as great as I thought it could have been.

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I thought Gerard Butler was absolutely fantastic as Leonidas. Over the top? Of course. He was playing a legendary character; a mythic character. He actually lent some humanity to the character that most history books describe as a cold, calculating, ruthless and brilliant man. But he still had to be MORE than just a man in his portrayal. You also have to think about the true quotes that come from history and not just the pen of Frank Miller. "fight on the shade"? A real quote. "Eat well because tonight we dine in Hell"? A real quote. "Come home with this shield or upon it"? A real quote. Butler didn't overact... Spartans did.

As for the phalanx breaking, that was going to happen in a movie like this. Phalanx fighting, while brutally effective in its day, was short of visually exhilirating. My biggest complaint is with the depiction of Spartan marriage in the film. Its so far off its hilarious. Spartan marriage involved the "wife" being raped late at night in a tent. True, she was expecting the rape, but it was still forced intercourse nontheless. The men and women almost never met socially, but instead only to procreate.

This was a culture run like a colony of ants. No pleasure other than that of the pride in your people. Life as a cog in a very powerful and brutal machine.

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Yes, he was, but maybe I didn't make my point clear. Butler was called on to be iconic and larger than life without going so far over the top that we lost sight of him. In that role, he did very well. But there was no range demanded of him. He had two modes: intense and roaring. And there's nothing wrong with that because that's exactly what the movie needed from him, and he did it well. I just don't think that really counts as great acting. So when I ask, "Where's the acting?" I don't mean to say the acting was bad. I just mean that for the most part there literally isn't much acting going on there because 300 isn't that kind of movie.

Besides, I'm not even sure why you're arguing with me. I said he avoided going cartoonishly over the top. You know, the opposite of actually going over the top?

Also, you missed a quote. The historical Leonidas really did say, "Come get them" when asked to throw down his weapons. ;)

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I heard that there weren't any golem/crab mutants and ghost warriors back then. Does that mean 300 is historically innacurate? Can anyone confirm this? I think I might not like this movie anymore if I knew some of it wasn't real...

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So how violent is it! Dawn of the Deadish?

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I just saw. It was...pretty. Ended with Enya so I'm satisfied.


For a movie about a war, I didn't find it too violent...if by violent you mean gory...since a lot of people are bound to die in such a movie. A few slow motion decapitations at its goriest I think.

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Yeah I mean gory. Thanks.