Thing that bugs me about the movie 300...

[AMCRambler]

I liked 300, it's a good movie and the fight scenes are wicked. I rented it to watch it again after originally seeing it in the theater and one thing started bothering me. They've got these super gory fight scenes where Xerxes soldiers are just getting torn apart, limbs flying off, decapitations with blood and gibs flying everywhere. Yet after the fights are over and the Spartans are all standing around, they're a little sweaty and maybe bleeding from a few cuts or wounds of their own, but that's it. They should be soaked in blood with the amount of gore flying around, especially in close combat like that. I still loved the flick, but that was nagging at me the whole time I watched the second time around. Anyone else notice that?

 

[Drako]

You're looking for reality? It's based on a graphic novel.

 

[archiloco]

well they know how to cut and not get sprayed upon??

 

[SSSnail]

They got those shields and red capes, RED CAPES man.

 

[Platypus]

How would you see those amazing abs if they were covered in blood? :roll:

 

[Ricochet]

Now how do you know they didn't clean each other after each fight? Be thankful they don't show that.

 

[UncleWai]

They casted divine shield before they fight.

 

[AMCRambler]

I'm telling you, go watch this movie again and watch the action scenes where they go slow motion for like 2-3 seconds at a time. The gore is flying by the camera and spurting everywhere. The dudes should be soaked in blood, the camera lens should be covered in blood too and the ground should be totally wet. I understand the whole it's fiction/fantasy not factual, but that'd be like a friggin monsoon and a person walking inside from it being completely dry. They have a name for it in filming, continuity I think?

 

[SSSnail]

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[AnthroAndStargate]

It wouldn't be as homoerotic if they were covered in blood. Thats why their bodies are glistening with baby oil instead.

 

[AMCRambler]

Ahhh whatever. It's gonna bother you guys the next time you watch it. I've brought it up and you're gonna be going, "Damn! AMC was right! Look at these rubber holes! Bone dry!"

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: ricochet
Now how do you know they didn't clean each other after each fight? Be thankful they don't show that.

Then we would be watching Brokeback Pass instead of 300.

 

[MrPickins]

That was the biggest stretch of logic that bothered you in the movie?

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
I liked 300, it's a good movie and the fight scenes are wicked. I rented it to watch it again after originally seeing it in the theater and one thing started bothering me. They've got these super gory fight scenes where Xerxes soldiers are just getting torn apart, limbs flying off, decapitations with blood and gibs flying everywhere. Yet after the fights are over and the Spartans are all standing around, they're a little sweaty and maybe bleeding from a few cuts or wounds of their own, but that's it. They should be soaked in blood with the amount of gore flying around, especially in close combat like that. I still loved the flick, but that was nagging at me the whole time I watched the second time around. Anyone else notice that?

Isn't this a repost from the 300 DVD release thread?

EDIT: Confirmed. Here's the "I just watched 300 on BD" thread.

OP, WTH is wrong with you? Not enough comments and reactions to your post in that thread last week? Had to start your very own thread?

 

[TheKub]

Maybe they sweated all the blood off... *shrug*

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
I liked 300, it's a good movie and the fight scenes are wicked. I rented it to watch it again after originally seeing it in the theater and one thing started bothering me. They've got these super gory fight scenes where Xerxes soldiers are just getting torn apart, limbs flying off, decapitations with blood and gibs flying everywhere. Yet after the fights are over and the Spartans are all standing around, they're a little sweaty and maybe bleeding from a few cuts or wounds of their own, but that's it. They should be soaked in blood with the amount of gore flying around, especially in close combat like that. I still loved the flick, but that was nagging at me the whole time I watched the second time around. Anyone else notice that?

let me try to explain to you whyt not tyhat much blood....
The people who rate movies are putz`s!!!
Now that is out of the way....

 

[tw1164]

They were licking eat other clean between fights.

 

[PepePeru]

apparently you didnt see the 'bath' scene.

 

[digiram]

Did you miss this quote??

"Only Spartan women can give birth to real men with anti-blood skin."

 

[lokiju]

Wasn't this same exact thread made like a week ago with the same exact complaint by someone that watched it for the second time and picked up on this also?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
They got those shields and red capes, RED CAPES man.

Seems there was a treasure ship on its way back to port. About
halfway there, it was approached by a pirate, skull and crossbones waving
in the breeze!

"Captain, captain, what do we do?" asked the first mate.

"First mate," said the captain, "go to my cabin, open my sea
chest, and bring me my red shirt." The first mate did so.

Wearing his bright red shirt, the captain exhorted his crew to
fight. So inspiring was he, in fact, that the pirate ship was repelled
without casualties.

A few days later, the ship was again approached, this time by two
pirate sloops!

"Captain, captain, what should we do?"

"First mate, bring me my red shirt!"

The crew, emboldened by their fearless captain, fought heroically, and
managed to defeat both boarding parties, though they took many
casualties. That night, the survivors had a great celebration. The
first mate asked the captain the secret of his bright red shirt.

"It's simple, first mate. If I am wounded, the blood does not
show, and the crew continues to fight without fear."

A week passed, and they were nearing their home port, when
suddenly the lookout cried that ten ships of the enemy's armada were
approaching!

"Captain, captain, we're in terrible trouble, what do we do?"
The first mate looked expectantly at the miracle worker.

"First mate.... bring me my brown pants!"

 

[Kadarin]

The real problem was that nobody actually bled. They just sprayed molten black tar everywhere when they got sliced up...

 

[yllus]

Maybe they fought all Fist Of The North Star style, and the enemy only spurted blood like a good minute after being cut up.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
I'm telling you, go watch this movie again and watch the action scenes where they go slow motion for like 2-3 seconds at a time. The gore is flying by the camera and spurting everywhere. The dudes should be soaked in blood, the camera lens should be covered in blood too and the ground should be totally wet. I understand the whole it's fiction/fantasy not factual, but that'd be like a friggin monsoon and a person walking inside from it being completely dry. They have a name for it in filming, continuity I think?

See, that would bother me.
The camera can't actually be there.
If they have camera technology at that time they should be using M-16's.
The camera is our seeing eye back to that point in history, but it's not actually there.

 

[Regs]

The only thing I don't like about the movie is the half-nakid man covered in oil on the cover.