Shawn Knight Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Toughest person in the movie was the Queen! Hard as nails.I'm sure the movie wasn't super historically accurate, it was highly stylized. It was also fantastic. This will not feel good! This will not be quick! I am not your Queen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 One for Athena ---> DaybyDay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well, it was a hyper-stylized hyper-violent piece of right wing propaganda spouting platitudes like "freedom isn't free." I LOVED IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cking Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 For those that have seen Sin City and 300, which do you think was better movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I enjoyed both, but for entirely different reasons, so... Both were equally stylized and comic-booky and equally well done in that regard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinistralRifleman Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Some of the movie reviews I have read, the authors were so angry that I wonder if we saw the same movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 For those that have seen Sin City and 300, which do you think was better movie? I think Sin City was a better movie. 300 is a hard story to tell. 500 years before the Bible...everybody has been copying them for centuries. The story can't be fresh and have twists. The one-liners. Arnold didn't make them famous...the Spartan's did. (they named the style after them). It's a great documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Middle-eastern movie guru, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has given the movie two thumbs 'way-the-hell-down'. With that positive review ringing in my ears, I'm definately going to see this ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Man Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Middle-eastern movie guru, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has given the movie two thumbs 'way-the-hell-down'.With that positive review ringing in my ears, I'm definately going to see this ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 (edited) One for Athena ---> DaybyDay His abs should have top billing.... As for Sin City, I loved that movie too (and yes, I hit the gym for about two days thinking I wanted to have Jessica Alba's abs. Didn't happen). It was a different genre, I guess. I have not read either graphic novel but the movies were pure entertainment. I'm always eager to see what new stuff they have CGI-wise. Of course there is no substitute for a good story like The Departed and Pan's Labyrinth (which I can't stop raving about and which I can't believe I haven't started a thread on) but hey, we go to movies just to switch the brain off and be entertained, well, at least, that's what I do. This movie kicked Troy and Alexander's butt. I think it's up there with Gladiator. What do you guys think? P.S. Watch Pan's Labyrinth. But don't bring the kids! Edited March 14, 2007 by Athena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Knight Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 http://www.gymjones.com/ As far as abs go, I have started some of these training regimens. I have a tire similar to the one they used in the Spartan training, and most of the other equipment at my work center's gym. It is a very intense workout, and not boring. Most of the time I fine exercise boring but not this. Seeing what I will get out of it from the movie makes me want to do it more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyn Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 +1 on Pan's Labyrinth, a great movie. got robbed at the Oscars. I like 300 better than Sin City, mainly due to the subject matter. Sin City repeats itself in every story: Damsel(s) in distress, tortured hero saves and/or avenges her (them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayoupirate Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 oracle.bmpSaw it last night. I had great anticipation, waiting to see it. I know the history well and the movie lacks a great deal of accuracy, but it's a MOVIE. Not a documentary and it never claimed to be Historically accurate. It's entertainment! and pretty darn good entertainment. To all of those who'd slice it up and talk about its historical issues or demonized Persians. Get your own multi-million dollar movie deal together and make your own movie. short of that. Lay down some cash and go see it or don't. I Liked the movie, want to see it again in IMAX. Think I want one of those spears too. P.S. Anyone know where I can get one of those Oracles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 That was a great-looking movie. Anybody looking for a documentary is going to be disappointed. Hopefully Gates of Fire will lean more toward story and history than style. BEGIN SPOILERS... WTF? Monstrous mystics and Persian Immortals?! Giant attack rhino?! Giant elephants?! Giant Persian berserker?! Giant Xerxes?! WTF? I thought I was watching The Two Towers or Return of the King. The sex scene montage reminded me of Team America's. They seemed to be a little unclear on who the Persians were. It seems they thought they were Moors. At least they did mention the armies of Persia and its conquered nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 BEGIN SPOILERS...WTF? Monstrous mystics and Persian Immortals?! Giant attack rhino?! Giant elephants?! Giant Persian berserker?! Giant Xerxes?! WTF? I thought I was watching The Two Towers or Return of the King. SPOILER ...... It was the one-eyed guy/narrator exaggerating to the troops to boost their morale.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Just saw this movie at the IMAX tonight. Great flick! I gotta say that one o' my favorite scenes is "that one with the queen" Gotta respect a tough cookie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Knight Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I wish I had access to Imax here!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin40 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Great flick.......Will see this again. I don't get to the movies much but glad I made it out. Flyin40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasmap Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 300 is the best movie I've seen in a long time. As far as toughness it was Braveheart, Gladiator, and Tombstone all rolled in to one and then fed a dose of 'roids and cocaine. It wasn't necessarily a better movie than any of those but it was as tough as any movie I can remember, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtypool40 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I saw it last night, good but could've used help in the pace / tension building department. That being said, I've read some reviews that saw it as anti-Bush and war, and I don't see how with lines about the cost of freedom and that lib senator taking bribes to keep the troops home..... Good flick, but no car chase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 It was the one-eyed guy/narrator exaggerating to the troops to boost their morale.... And also, this was the first time these men had seen the Persian armies, and its reasonable to believe that they looked awful odd and strange, and exagerrated to the Spartans. Of course, this was an adaptation of a Frank Miller comic book, too, which just amplifies that idea to make it more graphic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I am trying to figure out why Xerces or whatever his name was looking like a giant drag queen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I am trying to figure out why Xerces or whatever his name was looking like a giant drag queen. I understand the idea was to show/simulate how "wild & weird" the Persian dressed (from the Greek's perspective). In actuality, I think they wore pants. 2,500 years later...we don't think of pants as being too wild. So, I guess that is why they went Rupaul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Knight Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I am trying to figure out why Xerces or whatever his name was looking like a giant drag queen. If you were that powerful and that rich, you could look like whatever you wanted as well. Besides that's the way Frank Miller drew the comic book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
et45 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 (edited) I saw it today.Pretty good flick,not as good as Braveheart but pretty good.Now we need a good Viking flick.I know Pathfinder is coming out soon but the plot looks lame.Also Athena +2 on Pan's Labyrnth.And where can I get one of those red head oracle chicks? Edited March 16, 2007 by et45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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