300

[Daisho2004]

I'm sure most of us have already seen the preview of this movie by Frank Miller, I got to watch the making of it last night on HBO and it looks Great, the Movie follows true to the comic book, and it is suppose to be very graphic with the Action scenes, I for one cannot wait to see it next weekend when it comes out.

[limubai2000]

I'm counting down the days...

The GN was great and contained awesome artwork. I also delved into the battle itself by reading 2 books about it. These guys were verging on insanity but also were the best fighters walking the planet.

[teako170]

Yeah count me in as well. Anything by Miller has always captivated my interest. Of course, 25 years later, I still haven't forgiven him for offing poor Elektra Natchios. (But that's a thread for another day.)

[morgoth]

I don't know what the hell is going on in that movie but I have to see it.

[limubai2000]

Great adaptation of the graphic novel! I loved it! I only noted 1 scene that the director added and even that fit right into the film and it was a scant 5 or 10 seconds.

I just read an interview with the director and he just signed to do Watchmen... we are in for a treat with that one if he does as well with that as he did with 300.

I thought I would be annoyed with the frequent use of slow motion but I think it enhanced the beauty of violence and reinforced the Frank Miller visual style, and I wasn't bothered by it. I think Snyder set the bar for adapting a comic very high with this one.

[gfanikf]

Funniest comedy I have seen in years. I was laughing nearly the entire time :) It was like the director saw the script realized it was crap and said damnit just focus on visuals even during un-important scenes. I could not stop laughing, it was so OTT and also camp (and I mean in the true sense of the word).

Seriously that was one of the stupidest movies I have seen in years and for the record I saw Bloodrayne on opening night (which granted was also stupid, but hey I love bad cinema).

[limubai2000]

Um dude, G... it was based on a graphic novel and it was intended to be over the top visually. The graphic novel was pretty over the top too. It also was written from a very political angle, actually a few if you wanted to debate it.

[Shaolin Dog Paw]

I agree with Gfanikf to a certain degree.

The visuals were amazing... the plot was not. Basically it was a bunch of guys defend a country... blah. The end. It would have been awesome if the characters had a little more depth, meaning, personality, and if the different armies were expanded upon instead of just showing up to fight.

Didn't like the mix if historical events with fantasy events. I know it was based on a graphic novel/comic, and the movie did an excellent job showing that, however, Spiderman was based on a comic book as well and had a superb plot, character development, and a comic feel.

[VonHumboldtFleischer]

Is it just me, or is this the most homosexual motion picture ever made? Seriously, the Village People movie was less camp than this.

I mean, I realise it's based on a comic. Not a very good comic, either. But surely people - even people in Hollywood - have learned that there's a difference between a line of dialogue in a speech bubble and a line of dialogue that an actor has to deliver and which human beings actually have to listen to with their ears. For instance "We're in for one wild night!" might not look like a dangerously offensive line on a page with some pretty drawings on it, when you actually get an 'actor' (or whatever that guy is) to declaim it out loud in a movie, it acquires a wholenew dimension of shittiness. As for "Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!"... Well, I think I've made my point.

Personally I don't like this kind of film anyway. Thousands of anonymous extras shouting and waving sticks at each other in a field doesn't ring my bell under the best of circumstances.

[Tosh]

Saw it yesterday, I liked it, no use looking to far into it, I was a little disappointed with the end fight, though it was cool in it's own way.
As far as it being homosexual, dude, we watch movies with guys fighting half naked all the time in KF movies, so I'm not sure what's your problem with this is, it was definitly eye candy for the ladies, and I guarantee you'll get laid after watching this with you date/girl (a girl friend of mine said it was like a 2 hour orgasim watching 300:lol ).
I thought it was a good stylised movie, worthy watching on the big screen for sure.

[godzillakungfu]

I enjoyed it for what it was, a resurrection of the American sword and sandal sagas of old.
Conan
Beast Master
Sinbad
Clash of the Titans
Now 300.

Nothing super spectacular like Gladiator or Brave-Heart. Just stupid gory fun.

[the golden dragon]

Did you all notice in most all of the FIGHT scenes with swords. That as all the slashing, decapitations, arms and legs being dismembered that :

THERE WAS NEVER any BLOOD ON THERE SWORDS.

Nor with all the blood being sent gushing in the mayhem they, OUR, heroes were never bloody.

A way to get past the censors or what do you all think?

GD

[Daisho2004]

OK I finally got to see this movie yesterday, and I really enjoyed it, great action scenes and a good storyline, it seems that this is the new way to make movies is on the Blue/Green screens and fill in the background, hey it worked for me. I enjoy a good Sword & Sandal movie any day.

[godzillakungfu]

You must of had a bad screen. There was blood but. it was done like the comic book.

I saw it on the IMAX HD. It is there but very subtle.

[jirpy100]

Quite enjoyed it. Lots of blood too, unlike what one poster led me to expect. Its strength was the simplicity of it all, like an old s&s movie. Love the real men of old...

[Stuntman Jules]

It felt like a sword and sandal flick directed by Leni Riefenstahl. I didn't care for it, especially how it depicted the Persians, an entire ethnic group, as monsters. It would be like if an American war movie was made that depicted the Japanese as squinty eyed 4 foot demons from hell.

It felt almost like Bush Administration-funded propaganda to try and get young men to sign up for the army.