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

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zinfamous

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Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: zinfamous
I love the Irony of 98% ATers who had determined this to be the greatest film ever made before it was even released; and now in response to the review that labels this film as a sexually ambiguous, gay recruitment film, the average comment on here is "I don't care what those diots say; I'm still seeing it!"

umm ... have you read any of the people's opinions in this thread who actually saw the movie? :confused:


yeah...and they make me not want to see the movie at all. paraphrased from someone earlier: "so what if it doesn't have a plot? you get what you pay for: violence, blood, boobies, etc..."

this is why Hollywood is incapable of making decent movies these days; on an average basis. The film-going audience that producers market too have gotten dumber, and show an extreme lack in taste. So...why would I want to pay $10 to see something without a plot? This is asinine. Thank you, "young, dumb males" of the world for giving us Vin Diesel, Tom Cruise, and their ilk.

aaah okay, so you take 1 person's opinion out of over a hundred and just go with that one. gotcha.


nah...you just don't understand my original post ;)
 

jdoggg12

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Damn good movie, Leonidas's words were true "you will bleed".

This was a great frickin movie - the reviewers that b1tched about the historical accuracy of the fight/armor/etc are f-ing retarded. This isn't a historical documentary, i don't think there have ever been 40 ft elephants, 20 ft rhinos, armies of elite disfigured baddasses, or men with arms made of beheading axes.

It's a battle movie, pure and simple. I have no idea what people were expecting to see that would make them review this movie below an 80%.


On a side note - i chuckled a bit when i realized the dude that was doing the narrating and who told the story at the end is the friar/monk in van helsing.
 

DanTMWTMP

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sigh..i'm like the only one who yelled out "SNAAAKE!!! IT'S SNAKE!!!!" when I saw the narrator :(
 

Kev

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
sigh..i'm like the only one who yelled out "SNAAAKE!!! IT'S SNAKE!!!!" when I saw the narrator :(

huh? wasn't it faramir?
 

yowolabi

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Originally posted by: eleison
Originally posted by: tangent1138

good movie but i liked Zodiac better

This is MADNESS!!!

I saw them both and liked Zodiac better too. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them, so that isn't meant to denigrate Sparta.
 

mobobuff

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Apr 5, 2004
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Originally posted by: mobobuff
I really don't see the appeal to this movie, the medieval battle movies are overdone, and this one is behind the trend. I'd never go see a movie purely for the battle sequences. I've seen the trailers, and the dialogue is cheesy at best. *shrug* I liked Troy, and the Lord of the Rings movies, but this movie just seems saturated in battle scenes and starved in plot.

Of course I haven't seen it yet and my opinion should not be taken too seriously, but these are just my preconceptions. You can only listen to the clanking of swords and the tearing of sinew for so long before you lose interest.

I have seen the movie and I retract this statement. The movie was not bad (not great, either). Certainly not bad.
 

iversonyin

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Aug 12, 2004
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Originally posted by: Svnla
Saw it this afternoon. A decent action movie.

A few comments: (SPOILERS)

1) The Oracle, remind me of The Matrix somehow. I almost said "Mr. Anderson"..LOL
2)Why there were some ugly <face> women in Xerex's harem?
3) I refer the description of the Persian king like Alexander movie than in this movie
4)I am no military tactical expert but why the Persian army didn't use their massive arrows the same time when they used the explosive charges? <Spartans shields were down>
5)Spartans used the shields to cover their body so well, why did they abandon that tactic and ran to attack at the end?

Overall, the movie was worth the admission price <$5.25 martini price>. The scence with the Queen met the lone Spartan remind me of Gladiator movie. She is hot, slender, long hair, and perky tits FTW.

As a reminder, I would like to say that this movie was base on a COMIC- which derived from the historical battle.
 

MrK6

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Aug 9, 2004
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Saw the movie, definitely kick-ass :D. However, I'm wondering what people are complaining about when they say "there wasn't any/enough plot!"? True, the plot was pretty darn simple, but it was developed enough, and these were simple times anyway: stomp them before they stomp you. POTENTIAL SPOILER - I think the side story with the Queen was an interesting addition also.
 

BrownTown

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Originally posted by: archiloco
loved the movie, great cinematography, effects, mood, fighting scenes, also nice how they said that they saved democracy in this world as we know it back then. really makes you think what if..........

WOW, that would be terribly ironic if they said that since Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian war ending democracy until modern times. Although since every single other part of the movie is completely inaccurate historically they might as well claim to be the saviors of democracy too.
 

masshass81

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Originally posted by: jdoggg12
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Damn good movie, Leonidas's words were true "you will bleed".

This was a great frickin movie - the reviewers that b1tched about the historical accuracy of the fight/armor/etc are f-ing retarded. This isn't a historical documentary, i don't think there have ever been 40 ft elephants, 20 ft rhinos, armies of elite disfigured baddasses, or men with arms made of beheading axes.

It's a battle movie, pure and simple. I have no idea what people were expecting to see that would make them review this movie below an 80%.


On a side note - i chuckled a bit when i realized the dude that was doing the narrating and who told the story at the end is the friar/monk in van helsing.

and don't forget - Faramir in LOTR!

 

mobobuff

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
sigh..i'm like the only one who yelled out "SNAAAKE!!! IT'S SNAKE!!!!" when I saw the narrator :(

I guess when he had the bandana on, he sort of looked like a blonde Solid Snake. However, it certainly was not David Hayter, it was David Wenham, the guy who played Faramir.

He could play a decent Snake, though.
 

DanTMWTMP

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Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
sigh..i'm like the only one who yelled out "SNAAAKE!!! IT'S SNAKE!!!!" when I saw the narrator :(

I guess when he had the bandana on, he sort of looked like a blonde Solid Snake. However, it certainly was not David Hayter, it was David Wenham, the guy who played Faramir.

He could play a decent Snake, though.


I know it was faramir sheesh...
just saying that he'll make a good snake if cast.
 

jdoggg12

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I just saw a movie that?ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It?s called 300. I don?t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could?ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it?d still rule.

It?s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh*t out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it?s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, ?I need some extra sauce packets? guess what? You?re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I can?t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN?T ONE. Just a$$ kicking that kicks a$$ that, while said a$$ is getting kicked, is kicking yet more a$$ that?s hitting someone?s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN?T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a sh*t if the music isn?t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could?ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel?s Pretzel is telling you that you?ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There?s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he?s got Rosie O?Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (?DUDE-ITY?)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an a$$ picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they?re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this ? IT?S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can?t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most a$$-ruling movie I?ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.
 

eleison

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Man you use the word a$$ alot.. You must like a$$ which there seems to be a lot in this movie!!! I guess its an a$$-triffic epic piece... of a$$-normus proportion. Hopefully, I'll get to see this in the big a$$ screen... but my broke a$$ will probably see in on dvd :)



Originally posted by: jdoggg12
I just saw a movie that?ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It?s called 300. I don?t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could?ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it?d still rule.

It?s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh*t out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it?s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, ?I need some extra sauce packets? guess what? You?re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I can?t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN?T ONE. Just a$$ kicking that kicks a$$ that, while said a$$ is getting kicked, is kicking yet more a$$ that?s hitting someone?s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN?T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a sh*t if the music isn?t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could?ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel?s Pretzel is telling you that you?ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There?s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he?s got Rosie O?Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (?DUDE-ITY?)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an a$$ picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they?re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this ? IT?S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can?t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most a$$-ruling movie I?ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.

 

jdoggg12

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Originally posted by: eleison
Man you use the word a$$ alot.. You must like a$$ which there seems to be a lot in this movie!!! I guess its an a$$-triffic epic piece... of a$$-normus proportion. Hopefully, I'll get to see this in the big a$$ screen... but my broke a$$ will probably see in on dvd :)



Originally posted by: jdoggg12
I just saw a movie that?ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It?s called 300. I don?t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could?ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it?d still rule.

It?s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh*t out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it?s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, ?I need some extra sauce packets? guess what? You?re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I can?t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN?T ONE. Just a$$ kicking that kicks a$$ that, while said a$$ is getting kicked, is kicking yet more a$$ that?s hitting someone?s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN?T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a sh*t if the music isn?t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could?ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel?s Pretzel is telling you that you?ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There?s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he?s got Rosie O?Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (?DUDE-ITY?)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an a$$ picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they?re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this ? IT?S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can?t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most a$$-ruling movie I?ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.

lol, not my review... i forgot to use quotes
 

deepinya

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Jan 29, 2003
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The movie lived up to its hype and way beyond anything I could have imagined. My girlfriend loved it so much we are going to see it again.
 

CPA

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I saw it and loved it, though I didn't care for Xerxes voice. It reminded me of Stargate.
 

Kev

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
sigh..i'm like the only one who yelled out "SNAAAKE!!! IT'S SNAKE!!!!" when I saw the narrator :(

I guess when he had the bandana on, he sort of looked like a blonde Solid Snake. However, it certainly was not David Hayter, it was David Wenham, the guy who played Faramir.

He could play a decent Snake, though.


I know it was faramir sheesh...
just saying that he'll make a good snake if cast.

but it was faramir
 

Smartazz

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Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
I'm going to see it Friday at an IMAX theatre in Denver, first time attending a movie premier in a while.

I just saw it in IMAX, it was absolutely amazing.