OMG 300 was awesome

[Ezteq]

fuck me!!!


what an amazing film! honestly there were several bits where i literally forgot to breathe and tbh i cried at the end because i was so O.O


brilliant tbh, his comics totally transfer to film in such an amazing way :worthy:

 

[Haggus]

going to watch it again :<

 

[Overdriven]

Going to go at 2am and fap at the sex scene ;o Am sure I can knock 4 out in that time

 

[Gamah]

I saw the film yesterday and have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit.

The battle scenes were cool (Although the slow mo was a bit annoying) and the film flowed well.

 

[Xrystofer]

what u guys expected anyway .... its a film about greekz so it must be good

 

[Gamah]

what u guys expected anyway .... its a film about greekz so it must be good

Its a shame to see what a once great nation has turned in to

 

[Lethul]

what u guys expected anyway .... its a film about greekz so it must be good

Its obvious they hired other people to play the greeks tho. Not a single really hairy guy in the entire movie (i think!)

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

Saw it a week or two ago, fell in love with it tbh

 

[Comos]

Its obvious they hired other people to play the greeks tho. Not a single really hairy guy in the entire movie (i think!)

 

[Raven]

what u guys expected anyway .... its a film about greekz so it must be good

staring mostly brits

 

[Saggy]

300 trailers are awesome but the movie as whole sucked big time :S Almost fell asleep watching it

 

[Nuxtobatns]

Its a shame to see what a once great nation has turned in to

Only cause we have had constant wars and a coup d'etat till like 30 years before
If it was in my hand we would march to retake the rest of Greece that is not greek now back where it belongs hehe. And the ofc kill all currect politians and civil workers to make a get new ones ... totally untainted by corruption

 

[Heta]

most overrated movie I have seen in a long time

Just a big orgie of cool and strange shots, the movie it self sucked

 

[Bugz]

Great film tbh. I expected masses of action and that was what I got. GF didn't mind it much either - which was quite shocking as the amount of limbs flying about was numerous

Even got a buy one get one free due to Orange Wedensdays.

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

what u guys expected anyway .... its a film about greekz so it must be good

Well, if all greeks dress and walk around in black speedo's and a red cape I'm definately steering clear of that place, peroid. ;p

 

[Elkie]

I am sick of people marking it down for not being historically correct, when by all accounts the moral of the story and that of what actually happened is that
"Few stood against many" by doing this they helped create an army to crush the Persians.

If anyone wants to go and find a descendant of someone that was at the battle to tell us who cleaved who and in what order fine otherwise stfu

History is based on another persons stories which have usually been passed on before someone with a brain put it to parchment. It could be closer to the truth than you know because quite frankly Chinese whispers is shit!!

(Sorry for bad punctuation, is late and tired)

Your views are very silly tbh... by historical fact the persion army was no way near the scale its portrayed in the movie. The persion army was around the range of 60,000 to 300,000 a rather large range but no way near the amount that was shown in the movie (a million I believe?). Also the film lact the true fact that the Spartans did not fight alone till the end 2000 greek allies thought with the spartans till the end; with another 5000 being dismissed on the 3rd day by Leonidas. Also on the third and final day of the Battle the Spartans and the greek allies charged valiently at the persions before many archers started fireing. It is also a HISTORICAL FACT that Leonidas died very early on the 3rd day; he was hit by an arrow in which persions saw and finished him with deadly blows to the chest, which left the spartan army to fight leaderless (well except for the captain who's name I forget). The spartans and greek allies (mainly Helots and thespians) eventually died off while trying to defend Leonidas's body preventing the persions from taking it. All the spartans and thespians were finished off by volleys of arrows and Leonidas's head was choped off and placed on a stake.

And tbh another historical fact that not many of you will no about is that the Spartans were not really the true hero's of Thermopylae it was by matter of fact the Greek navy who by impossible odds prevented the Persion navy from landing behind the spartans and atacking there flank (ofcourse this happened anyway because of the secret path). The spartan navy hugely outnumbered prevented the Persion's from landing on all three days of the battle; showing that if the Spartan navy did not stop the persions, the spartans would have been dead from very early on; on the first day.

That is a small small small brief outview on the Historical mistakes in the movie... if you want me to go into huge detail about the battle then I will just for you.

 

[Overdriven]

Going to say this once, and once only.


IT WAS A FUCKING MOVIE... Sheesh, what if people got all anal about... Independance day? ALIENS DID NOT TRY AND TAKE OVER EARTH! HISTORICALLY INCORRECT!

Sheesh -_-


If you don't know the film isn't historically correct, you need your head examined.

 

[Elkie]

Going to say this once, and once only.


IT WAS A FUCKING MOVIE... Sheesh, what if people got all anal about... Independance day? ALIENS DID NOT TRY AND TAKE OVER EARTH! HISTORICALLY INCORRECT!

Sheesh -_-


If you don't know the film isn't historically correct, you need your head examined.

I know the film is based on the 'Graphic novel' which I thought was quiet entertaining; so you dont have to remind me that the film was not hugely based on historical fact but on the works of Frank Miller. I was mearly stating the fact that the film and indeed Frank Miller's novel itself left some vital peices of information about the battle out. The film itself is completely set out wrong in terms of how it tries to make out that the Spartans were the only ones doing anything at the battle, which they was not

+ Your argument about 'Independance day' is quiet weak buddy due to the pure fact thats there was nothing in history about alliens trying to take over the world. So you could not have a historical argument over it because it never happened

 

[Bugz]

I know the film is based on the 'Graphic novel' which I thought was quiet entertaining; so you dont have to remind me that the film was not hugely based on historical fact but on the works of Frank Miller. I was mearly stating the fact that the film and indeed Frank Miller's novel itself left some vital peices of information about the battle out. The film itself is completely set out wrong in terms of how it tries to make out that the Spartans were the only ones doing anything at the battle, which they was not

There was a small group of greeks fighting alongside the Spartans at the beginning of the film.

 

[Elkie]

There was a small group of greeks fighting alongside the Spartans at the beginning of the film.

Aye I know that ofcourse but the bases of it as all wrong if you understand me? Notice in the film that Leonidas does not use the greek allies till the 2nd day which is quiet wrong as the greek allies were actually fighting along side the Spartans from the first engagment; in which the Sparants used the phalanx to protect the allies while they frew spears at the persions.

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

Guess this goes with the thread, anyone seen the new South Park episode?

 

[Elkie]

By matter of fact the Spartans were not the first to fight at the battle. Leonidas sent in the greeks in a phalanx to push into the persion line; this held for quiet sometime until the greeks began to tire; at this time Leonidas and his spartans pushed foward to take the front line where at this time was an advantage as the persion archers were no longer fireing; leaving the spartan death level very low (no figure is exact, some say the spartans lost no men on first day which is a possibility). In which thousands upon thousands of persions were wacking themselves against this huge wall of shields and the spartans completely ripped through the persion front line.

 

[Ballard]

Liked it on imax, dont know if it would be any good on a normal movie screen tho.

persion .

persian

 

[Calaen]

(Sorry for bad punctuation, is late and tired)

Your views are very silly tbh... by historical fact the persion army was no way near the scale its portrayed in the movie. The persion army was around the range of 60,000 to 300,000 a rather large range but no way near the amount that was shown in the movie (a million I believe?). Also the film lact the true fact that the Spartans did not fight alone till the end 2000 greek allies thought with the spartans till the end; with another 5000 being dismissed on the 3rd day by Leonidas. Also on the third and final day of the Battle the Spartans and the greek allies charged valiently at the persions before many archers started fireing. It is also a HISTORICAL FACT that Leonidas died very early on the 3rd day; he was hit by an arrow in which persions saw and finished him with deadly blows to the chest, which left the spartan army to fight leaderless (well except for the captain who's name I forget). The spartans and greek allies (mainly Helots and thespians) eventually died off while trying to defend Leonidas's body preventing the persions from taking it. All the spartans and thespians were finished off by volleys of arrows and Leonidas's head was choped off and placed on a stake.

And tbh another historical fact that not many of you will no about is that the Spartans were not really the true hero's of Thermopylae it was by matter of fact the Greek navy who by impossible odds prevented the Persion navy from landing behind the spartans and atacking there flank (ofcourse this happened anyway because of the secret path). The spartan navy hugely outnumbered prevented the Persion's from landing on all three days of the battle; showing that if the Spartan navy did not stop the persions, the spartans would have been dead from very early on; on the first day.

That is a small small small brief outview on the Historical mistakes in the movie... if you want me to go into huge detail about the battle then I will just for you.

IT IS NOT TRYING TO BE HISTORICAL, IT SAYS BASED ON THE GRAPHIC COMICS FROM FRANK MILLER.

Also everyone that fought in that battle was a true fucking hero, stop trying to put negative spin on it.
Also lol at your numbers on the persians, you come at me with so called historical facts then tell me the number of persians was from 60k to 300k thats alot of fucking grace if you ask me, next you will be telling me john the blacksmith actually made that special sword that cut the finger of Jim the fletcher. Stick your invented facts up your arse

You also missed out the part about a group of spartans/greeks invading the camp of the persians during the evening to try and kill the king.

 

[Coldbeard]

Seen it, and I liked it for what it was, a good two hours of slaughter, clichè-like speeches and SPARTANS! People need to get reminded that this movie is not based upon the historical battle of Thermopylae, but on a graphic novel by Frank Miller, as pointed out earlier.

If you are looking for a correct historical account of the real battle, this movie is not what you are looking for.

If you are looking for an action packet movie with awesome battle scenes, silly speeches, blood and slaughter, then this movie is what you are looking for.

 

[Fana]

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_img/specialfeatures/300article.pdf

 

[Elkie]

IT IS NOT TRYING TO BE HISTORICAL, IT SAYS BASED ON THE GRAPHIC COMICS FROM FRANK MILLER.

Also everyone that fought in that battle was a true fucking hero, stop trying to put negative spin on it.
Also lol at your numbers on the persians, you come at me with so called historical facts then tell me the number of persians was from 60k to 300k thats alot of fucking grace if you ask me, next you will be telling me john the blacksmith actually made that special sword that cut the finger of Jim the fletcher. Stick your invented facts up your arse

You also missed out the part about a group of spartans/greeks invading the camp of the persians during the evening to try and kill the king.

I think you need to calm down a little bit lad I am not looking for an argument here I was just stating the facts that I have read in books that the persians could have been between 60k and 300k men. No need at all for you to go over the top tbh. The facts are not invented just so you know I have studied the subject deeply for many years.

And just so you know buddy; the idea behind the spartans making a 'night attack' on the persians can not be 100% proven; that is what you could say is and invented part of history which just tries to add more excitment to the battle of thermopylae.

If you want me to write a Freddyshouse book on the entire battle; well im more than happy to do it because the battle itself was one of my choices to go into major study on until I chose african history.

ps. If you read one of my earlier posts you will see that I 100% understand that its from the Novel by Frank Miller; which is quiet an entertaining one I might add.

 

[prodical]

tbh elkie you need to take a step back. your rambling about facts over fiction are annoying people and getting them worked up. its a movie, designed to get asses in the seats so they can make money. none really cares about the actual historical truth involved as none really knows who or what the spartans were or did. while you may have this knowledge, noone really wants the history lession

the irony is as the spartans slaughted the persians, the americans slaughter the iraqis in now iraq formally persia, except they yanks dont use shields, they use tanks, planes and daisycutters

 

[Elkie]

tbh elkie you need to take a step back. your rambling about facts over fiction are annoying people and getting them worked up. its a movie, designed to get asses in the seats so they can make money. none really cares about the actual historical truth involved as none really knows who or what the spartans were or did. while you may have this knowledge, noone really wants the history lession

the irony is as the spartans slaughted the persians, the americans slaughter the iraqis in now iraq formally persia, except they yanks dont use shields, they use tanks, planes and daisycutters

Everyone loves history

 

[Levin]

Fana, that was a very good link, and an informative read. I recommend everyone in this thread to study that text.