300

[Mord]

Die!

[Stormseeker]

Even us hicks in the sticks get to watch it on friday*grins*

[Swift]

Oh ill be watching it much sooner than its actual release over here, rest assured of that

[NESchampion]

SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A winner. *kick* *schoooooom* *BOOM*

[Lusipher]

Im going either later tonight or Sunday afternoon. Havent been this stoked for a film in awhile. Thank goodness its a Frank Miller adaptation.

[Mikayla]

I have my tickets to "300: The IMAX Experience," in my hands. Hee hee.

[Burt]

I don't get the big appeal with Imax. The one time I went I thought my neck was gonna break. Normal cinema ftw.

[Mikayla]

Oh hell no. This ... is ... IMAX!



Now, having said that, I will say that if you do not sit near the center, it can be a poor experience because you may not be able to see the entire screen at once, and may find yourself breaking your neck to see what is going on. So, the trick with IMAX theatres is to go early and get a prime seat in the middle/upper middle. This presumes the theatre has modern stadium seating of course, as ours does. If it has regular cinema seating...arrghh...I probably would not go, but I've no idea if that is even an issue.

[Mizbiz]

People who are expecting the History Channel's "Battle of Thermopolaye" may be disappointed.

This is Frank Miller's 300.

It has no more to do with the actual last stand, than "I, Claudius" had to to with the actual beginning of the Roman Empire.

That being said, I loved it. It was total Frank Miller. Think Sin City meets HBO's Rome. It was just...plain...fun.

b'.'d

[Lusipher]

Just got back from seeing it. Wonderful movie!! Was Braveheart on steroids for me. Very good visuals and a decent story.

[Vendrin]

It was decent. the wife should have castrated the traitor, not just gutted him though, and I thought it should be longer with more fights. Good movie, but suffered due to such high expectations.

[EyeOfMyrkul]

Gr8 movie with really good cinematography !!!
didnt have a single lull thruout the entire movie

[Mulu]

I thought the movie review in Time was brilliant.

Should probably say SPOILER ALERT.

Yet the movie is totally gay, a romp in Homer eroticism. Male body worship abounds; the actors, who seem pumped up on Hellenic growth hormones, hardly need shields or swords. Their pecks are their breastplate; their tumorous abs are their body armor. (Thee closing credits list two "personal trainers to Mr. Butler, so I guess the muscles aren't all CGI.) They boast and tease each other about their physiques, which to me sounds like flirting. At times these ancient bodybuilders look like their own statuary, heroic and sometimes headless.

Even the Spartans' nobility is homoneurotic. They rhapsodize about "a beautiful death," and figure in military hagiography somewhere between Wagner's Siegfried and the Third Reich's S.S. (I mean that in a nice way.) "It's an honor to die at your side,"one officer says toward the end to Leonidas, who replies, "It's an honor to have lived at yours." If this movie dialogue were between a man and a woman, I guarantee the audience would spill their popcorn in giggle fits. But the crowd I saw 300 with suffered all this strained seriousness in respectful silence.

In his last battle, Leonidas gets an enemy arrow in each tit, and soon he's Xerxes' pin cushion. The image may remind you of Saint Sebastian in a medieval painting, or Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. To me it recalled some of the more extreme photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe.

[MShady]

The movie should have been more bloody. They killed 20,000 to 40,000 of them, you know!

[Nekulor]

RL:1000 men kill 20,000-40,000 persian Immortals.

Sparta:1 Persia: WTFPwned! 0