Duck and Cover

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:29 pm

how old is your lil brother?

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:18 pm

Is he cute?

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:28 pm

Given the genetics he's working with, I'd guess no.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:51 am

Saw 300 last night, and I think it was good.
It had way more plot than I expected though..

Instead of the poilitic bullshit, It should've been what was *left* of Sparta, 300 men getting ready to avenge their entire race. And then finish off the persian army themselves.

*THAT*, would've been awesome.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:18 pm

OMG THATS NTO HISTERICALY AKURATE THO

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:35 pm

*THAT*, would've been awesome.

That would totally destroy the very meaning of the movie. That would suck.

I consider this movie very similar to the historical "300 spartans" of the 60s -- the core idea is completely identical, while the setting/mood/stylistics is grossly exaggerated and intentionally historically inaccurate.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:37 am

Fucking awesome movie.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:45 am

Atrokkus wrote:
*THAT*, would've been awesome.
That would totally destroy the very meaning of the movie. That would suck.

I consider this movie very similar to the historical "300 spartans" of the 60s -- the core idea is completely identical, while the setting/mood/stylistics is grossly exaggerated and intentionally historically inaccurate.

World canonlol

Who cares. I go to the movies to get entertained, not to hear a 2500 year old story that's not true anyway.

Splatterpope · Post by **Splatterpope** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:19 am

It's based on frank millers graphic novel (Read: Thick comic) which is based loosely on the battle of Thermopylae. As such, i don't really care if it's historically accurate or not, cause it's just a movie made out of a comic that used the battle of Thermopylae as it's (awesome) setting.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:30 pm

The battle of Thermopylae, according to some sources, was in fact a hot dog eating competition between King Leonidas and a mule, hence not historically accurate.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:06 pm

I hate those things, the skinny Nip always wins. America's obese can't even compete in eating contests, what the fuck are they good for?

AnneGwish · Post by **AnneGwish** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:57 pm

Cimmerian Nights wrote: America's obese can't even compete in eating contests, what the fuck are they good for?

Traffic pinball

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:45 pm

Hohoho, Cimmerian Nights is morbidly obese
welcome to tha club :spazmo:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:35 pm

Rotund.. yet erotic? :lastbesthopeofhumanity:

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:14 am

I think the movie would've been a lot better if the director hadn't decided to make everything SLOW MO.

OH LOOK SHE'S GETTING WATER (slow mo)

OH LOOK HE'S...LOOKING (into the distance) (SLOW MO AGAIN)

Repeat.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:35 am

So BAYWATCH: THE MOVIE won't be the first movie shot entirely in SLOW-MO?

ZOMFG! WORLD COLAPSING!

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:49 pm

Ok finally saw it, also there's no way I'm reading 11 pages here so buy me a coke.

In short, the movie was a step in right direction, but there's still loads to go.

I blame the fact that it was based on the comic. Narration is good, but not in third person maybe. Scenes were clearly made to reflect those of the comic, which was a good thing and a bad thing - because it made the movie "jump" from scene to scene with little flow. I.e. now they're killing those dudes and now they don't.
Also, and yes I will say that, the movie was too cheesy. There's only this much of cheesy lines you can hear, when they are not backed up with enough killing. The proportion of talking and fighting was about 50/50, which is not what I expected. I hoped for at least 20/80. If the movie was longer, it wouldn't hurt so much.
Another thing is how the movie was episodic, jumping between talking and fighting. When I'm running high on adrenaline the last thing I want is for the movie to jump to politics and that whore queen, and the movie does it twice. There's a reason why action movies have usually short fight around the middle and long fight in the end. To not break the flow.
Finally, the ending was butchered by too much talking as well. Let's face it, the movie's acting was never that good, and coming from me this means that it was atrocious. The movie should have ended with showing of Leonidas dead.

The battles were awesome though. And the credits.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:46 pm

The credits were dope, yes.

It's true the movie should have been 20-30 minutes longer, those minutes being action scenes. The ending(how Leonidas died) was a big let down. Also I wish the parts with the elephants and the ryno were longer. It goes like

"OMG ELEPHANTS!!! We're in for a tough and long fight!!"

*elephants slips on blood and all die in the sea.

"YAY WE WON"

And then blah blah.

Superhaze · Post by **Superhaze** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:50 pm

wow.. I agree with sauron. shit.

vendetta · Post by **vendetta** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:34 am

Yeah, I do agree that the rhino part was pretty cool. I still don't understand why the movie focused on the elephants falling down the river rather than ssing them fighting. (gosh, funny that I still remeber after so long).