300 shatters March records, opens with $70 million http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.c...umbers-25-mil-friday-for-expected-60-mil-wkd/
Sweet movie. However, even though I know the movie wasn't realistic anyway, I think the "monster" looking guys really took away from it. When they showed the big fat abomination looking guy with swords for hands, you could hear the full house audience sort of go "pfffffft". Same goes for the deformed guys. I just think it woulda been a lot cooler if they weren't so outrageously crazy looking.
yeah. I wish they were all real men. I mean, the hunchback was cool, but he could have been just permanently paralyzed and had to work his way. The wolf kind of looked supernatural and I wished it didn't. Minor minor minor part of the movie.
Nah, I watch enough history, I revelled in the hunchbacks, giants, rhinos and a the thousand nations of the Persian Empire. It was glorious.
Just got back from the theater. This movie kicked ass, pure and simple. Everything was highly stylized, especially the violence. Visually, it was stunning and unique. Some Observations: 1) Gerald Butler suprised me with his performance as Leonidas. I didn't think he could pull it off, but he was excellent. 2) Faramir was perfect as the narrorator. 3) This movie had some surprising moments of humor in it. They did a good job of capturing the Spartans famous "laconic" wit. 4) Spartan women have amazingly pointy nipples. 5) And finally, don't take your girl to see this movie. Every male character is insanely ripped and liberally oiled. Unless you spend 6 hours a day sculpting your body, you won't be able to compare favorably.
The elephant and crazy rhinos fit. Even the giant guy from the big fight scene fit in ok. The fucked up sword-hands guy was pretty out-of-place though. Like I said, when you are at a college campus theater full primarily guys aged 19-24 and you hear the entire room go "whaaaat?", you know you've just put in something that isn't quite in place with the rest of the movie. And the hunchback guy fit most of the time, just not in a few scenes.
I just got back from seeing it, couldn't agree more. The sword hands guy was a bad idea. I agree pretty much with what Ash said too, however since I spend at least 5 hours a day sculpting my body I had no problem taking a girl to see it.
I liked all the swordplay and gore. In fact the six packs weren't sexy until they started to use them, then it was followed my more finally followed by comatose me. I like to watch a man do manual labor, nothing sexier. IMHO
One of my classmates saw it and said she was trying to focus on the sadness and destruction and gore of the movie, but couldn't do it because of the guy in the golden speedo. Also, she said that there was unnecessary licking (the weird guy with pus on his face licking the near-naked Oracle - what?). But she gave it an 8/10 or so. I think. I may or may not see it.
That was part of the idea of the battles. It was a story being told in retrospect by what's his name. The guy that ended up with one eye. The monsters are monsters because of the way they used to tell stories of events back then. I think it's part of the alure of the film. As everyone else said, I thought the movie was fantastic. Alot of people seemed disappointed in the monsters, but most werent really monsters, just exaggerations. Which makes sense, as I said, because the stories of events where damn near tall tales back then. I thought it was a greatly attractive trait of the film to see the wolf-demon and the rhino-demon. As far as the hunchback, I imagine he was simply an unfit warrior, and may well have been described so terribly due to the fact that he turned, and so was ill-famed in Faramir's narrating. Though he may very well have been a result of some birth defect. The monster warrior and the massive knife hand guy were definitely a result of the "tall tale" aspect of Faramir's narration. Overall, I think everything fit very well, and loved the movie as a whole. Especially the council scene with the queen and what's-his-dickweed. You know what Im talking about. I dont want to spoil it. Loved that scene. Poetic justice is served.
That movie was fucking amazing! I saw it last night, and have no complaints whatsoever. The day it comes out on DVD it will be a part of my collection and I will more than likely go and see it again before it leaves theaters. I agree with Vlad on the point he makes about sword hands- the fact that it could be a part of the tall tale aspect involved in the recollection of one individual. The only thing I don't get, though, is why everyone sees it as totally out of place. From what I could discern, sword hands wasn't born that way- fictional, exaggeration or not nothing is born that way. Mutilation and expirementation with nailing swords to a man's bone structure doesn't seem to far fetched for the time period to me.
Except that even what we'd consider a minor infection would kill you back then. I enjoyed it tremendously, but unfortunately couldn't download the comics in time to read them before seeing the movie. I really wonder how much of the fanciful characters are faithful adaptions to the graphic novel?
Ugh... I guess I'm gonna go against the grain here. I was pretty disappointed. Was it just me or did every scene seem like a blatant ripoff of Gladiator and Lord Of The Rings? And did Xerxes remind anyone of Dhalsim from Street Fighter? He was even sitting cross legged like Dhalsim... I was expecting him to yell "Yoga Flame!" at some point. Maybe I was going into it with different expectations. I was expecting a fairly realistic retelling of a historical event. I was expecting heightened drama and some exaggeration... but I wasn't expecting leper priests, mutants and Uruk-hai. If I want stylized gore I'll just pop in the far more original Sin City. Wasn't terrible, but it wasn't close to being great IMO.
Saw this tonite. Great movie. Everything you could want from a graphic novel brought to life on the big screen. Larger than life heroes, visceral gore, and hawt women. My god, the woman who played the Spartan queen was absolutely beautiful. Although a strict historic protrayal was not in the offing here, it would have been nice at the end if they'd mentioned how the sacrifice of the 300 led to the defeat of the Persians- namely, that it gave Athens the breathing room to assemble its naval power and defeat the Persian navy at Salamis. The battle of Plataea depicted at the very end of the movie followed Salamis, as well as another naval battle. After that Athens formed the Delian league and went on the offensive, and that was basically it for Persian invasions of Greece. I'm guessing that not many people these days know or understand that Greek, or 'Hellenic' culture formed the bedrock of what we know as Western Civilization. Had the persians conquered greece back in the day, the world now would be unrecognizable to us. I'll probably be hitting this one again in the theater. Saw it in digital tonite and it was the shiznitz. The color schemes were amazing- again the whole graphic novel aspect of it. Rawkin'!! Marso sez: definitely a big screen must-see.
The History Channel covered the reality last week with a nicely-done 2-hour show on Thermopolae. Thermapalae. Thermapelae. That battle. It was clearly inspired by 300 and tried to evoke a bit of CGI artistry along with its historical edumacating. One thing pointed out in the HC show that the movie apparently ignores is that part of the Spartan's near-invicibility was due to their lamillar armor. Lamalla... oh fuck I can't spell today. Anyhoo, the trailers for the movie show lots of nearly naked Spartans, so I guess it ignores the fact that they were all well-armored in reality.
