Duck and Cover

how old is your lil brother?

Is he cute?

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

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.

OMG THATS NTO HISTERICALY AKURATE THO

*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.

Fucking awesome movie.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Traffic pinball

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

Rotund.. yet erotic? :lastbesthopeofhumanity:

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.

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


ZOMFG! WORLD COLAPSING!

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.

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.

wow.. I agree with sauron. shit.

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).