So "300" is only at 60% on RottenTomatoes.com

[Queasy]

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it fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.

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Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the "gates of hell(o!)" Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara'd Xerxes. When he's not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.

On first glance, the terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals. Yet aside from the fact that Spartans come across as pinched, pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. Not since Beau Travail has a phalanx of meatheads received such insistent ogling. As for the threat to peace, freedom, and democracy, that filthy Persian orgy looks way more fun than sitting around watching Spartans mope while their angry children slap each other around. At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical.

 

[clamum]

Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

 

[buck]

Well that movie will get my (along with all my buddies) $10 at the theatre, I dont give a damn what some of those clowns say.

 

[slackerinabox]

The whole thing looks gay to me.. Not that there's anything wrong with that..

Possibly nowhere outside of gay porn have so many broad shoulders, bulging biceps and ripped torsos been seen onscreen as in "300," a fact that will generate a certain bonus audience of its own; it's not even certain Steve Reeves, the original "Hercules," would have made the grade here.

The Brokeback Mountain of 2007? Consider me there!

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

 

[shortspanishguy]

I will be seeing it for sure.

 

[imported_vr6]

thats how they dressed back in the day. i don't know why they are complaining about that. did they expect chainmails or something?

 

[hdeck]

have these reviewers missed the hundreds of other movies based on this relative time period?

 

[ElFenix]

SPARTA!

 

[clamum]

Here's what I say to those reviewers

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: Queasy

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Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the "gates of hell(o!)" Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara'd Xerxes. When he's not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.

On first glance, the terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals. Yet aside from the fact that Spartans come across as pinched, pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. Not since Beau Travail has a phalanx of meatheads received such insistent ogling. As for the threat to peace, freedom, and democracy, that filthy Persian orgy looks way more fun than sitting around watching Spartans mope while their angry children slap each other around. At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical.

Good to see that the critic managed to spare a line or two to actually talk about the content of the movie. That's my main problem with critics. For far too many of them, it's not about the movie but about their own wit and ability to stand out in a crowd.

I'd much rather trust other movie-goers than movie critics.

Edit: The users of rottentomatoes which are the movie-goers that I speak of have the movie at 90% right now. Link

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

And why does no one ever answer this question?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

And why does no one ever answer this question?

I just think it looks good. The story behind it (I realize it's not real historically accurate, nor was it supposed to be), the fact that it's based of Miller's work, the battles, the way it was filmed... just looks good to me.

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

And why does no one ever answer this question?

What is the point of asking this question? If you don't get it you probably never will.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

And why does no one ever answer this question?

Maybe they like unrealistic comic book portrayals of real events.

Like Spider-Man.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Exactly. I can't believe a reviewer is giving the movie negative marks for actually being accurate in some way. The Spartans were known to be very passionate about their bodies. They worked out naked, for ****** sake.

 

[yankeesfan]

I was really looking forward to this movie until I saw this clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lW9gw5TwxE

Now I'm considering skipping it.

 

[slatr]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.

As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.

Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...

And why does no one ever answer this question?

Maybe they like unrealistic comic book portrayals of real events.

Like Spider-Man.

Spider-man was real? :shocked:

 

[Mr Incognito]

I'm going to see it Friday at an IMAX theatre in Denver, first time attending a movie premier in a while.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Queasy
...amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.

hmmmm...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: slatr

Spider-man was real? :shocked:

Of course!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: mugs
Maybe they like unrealistic comic book portrayals of real events.

Like Spider-Man.

Spider-Man is real? :shocked:
AWESOME! I KNEW IT!

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: vr6
thats how they dressed back in the day. i don't know why they are complaining about that. did they expect chainmails or something?

They had armor. It wasn't chain mail, but they certainly weren't prancing around in loin cloths.

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
I was really looking forward to this movie until I saw this clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lW9gw5TwxE

Now I'm considering skipping it.

?? That was actually quite cool looking.

 

[BrownTown]

Yeah, that deffinitely was NOT what they wore back in the day. Maybe for working out or training, but in real battle you wear ARMOR, every depiction of greek phalanxes I have ever seen had the people fully clothed and wearing armor. That is jsut one of a hundred things which are completely inaccuracte about this movie. I know its not even based off the historical even so its doesn't matter, but please don't use historical accuracy to justify anything that happens in this movie becasue odds are your wrong.

EDIT: not somoene is prolly gonna try to say that clip where the sword cut right threw people with no problem is accurate too?