300

[ang_kangkong]

doesnt it come out tomorrow......?

Saw it Monday. Highly recommend you see it on IMAX.

Press screening or some such.

I still think it is awesome.

[majikero]

saw it earlier. fucking awesome!

"SPAAAAAAARTANS!!!!"

[englandmj7]

OUR ARROWS SHALL BLOT OUT THE SUN!!

-then we shall fight in the shade

movie looks like a lame testosterone-fest. I will gladly download an XviD copy when it's available though...

speaking of which, how awful does Grindhouse look? girl with a gun on her leg? and then kurt russell with some badass car? even if it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, I think I'll pass

Are you a EUNUCH!!!?!??!?!?

These are MAN-MOVIES..........aaarrrrghhhhhhggg

[nettiemoore]

im going to try and get tickets to it tonight, pretty stoked to see it hopefully tickets arent all sold out by the time i get to the theatre

[cultpop 0217]

Grindhouse is going to rule.

I love exploitation cinema- the worse it is, the better.

ditto. cant fucking wait. all the "fake"trailers during the movie are gonna be a bonus. and you guys are crazy. kurt russell is a god.

[showbiz00ditc]

seeing it tomorrow. im stoked

just watched the trailer yesterday on youtube

hadnt heard of it before that.

[l3ootlegs]

finally got the ticket...ha 3 hours more...

man...long long long line up~

[englandmj7]

Got mine for 9:30...........

[duofold]

england...will look for your thoughts on this. I'm a buff too - dad talked to me about Sparta when I was 5.

[drapygo]

'300' was good movie. Lots of action and ownage scenes to make us happy. But like one person here said, it could have been better. Overall was very enjoyable.

[nettiemoore]

damn it couldnt get in today. went more thant two hours earlier too and the tickets were all sold out...

ended up watchng black snake moan instead which was pretty bad.

[drapygo]

You weren't able to buy tickets for the next show time?

I think the best part, was when the 'King' kicked the 'Persian' down the well.

[nettiemoore]

yeah we could have if we really wanted too, but we also didnt want to end up waiting around so long for the next showing of it. next week i guess..

[mellowbonsai]

It was a faithful adaptation of the graphic novel, but the acting didn't translate very well. The constant time dilation was annoying, so were the abs and pecs. Every Persian is black, and every Spartan white, of course.

The only way this movie could have been better is if it included more gratuitious decapitation, tits, jokes about fighting in the shade and spears piercing rhinoceros brain.

[drapygo]

Hahaha, hope you guys are cutt. It'd be a big scene, if you guys actually had the spears and all that.

[englandmj7]

england...will look for your thoughts on this. I'm a buff too - dad talked to me about Sparta when I was 5.

Nice! Don't expect it to be too accurate...........

I just got back and it was great. To be honest though, it could have been better, but don't let that stop any of you from seeing it.

I guess it was one of those movies that my expectations going in were so high that I don't think anything could really have met them. I recently had the same experience with "Borat" as well, and was far more enthusiastic going in to the movie than coming out of the movie.

The typical Frank Miller-esque stylistic aspects were great, but to be honest, I would have very much preferred a straight up epic war movie in the vein of Braveheart, etc. It also would have been cooler if they painted a little more of a picture of the elitist Spartan culture in the way of training their youth in the agoge, the gauntlet, the Krypteia, etc. This was always what intrigued me most about the culture (not that the movie didn't touch on all of this, although it was minimal).

[mis]

I personally didn't really like it. The cinematography was pretty nice, but quite a few parts were way overdone.

And wtf, dosent the Persian King remind you of Dhalsim from Street fighter, with a little more bling bling.

[mrjuby]

I want to go see it tomorrow on IMAX at the Metreon but i its going to be packed might travel to Pleasanton to see it.

thanks for the idea on imax. it was better watching it this way. really liked the movie.

it was just... magical.

[daikonyama]

I saw this last night as well, and thought it was just ok. It kind of plays out more like a video game (levels, bosses), than a movie, and at times I felt like I was watching some sort of live-action Warcraft movie and was thinking "What the hell is /that/ doing there?" Some good fight scenes, but I didn't think that there was anything mind-blowing with the cinematography in general. I agree with Drapygo that probably the best part is the guy getting pushed down the well, as after that, it's kind of just more of the same. Overall though, it's worth watching.

[Konfucius]

I personally didn't really like it. The cinematography was pretty nice, but quite a few parts were way overdone.

And wtf, dosent the Persian King remind you of Dhalsim from Street fighter, with a little more bling bling.

same..

it was visually stunning but apart from that.. it had nothing to offer me

[englandmj7]

saw it on tuesday. pretty good movie. but leonidas definitely could have found a hotter wife...

She is actually pretty hot. The point wasnt to have some outrageously gorgeous young supermodel, but rather and older, refined yet sexy woman who could play the part of a powerful queen. I think she did a great job. Another weird thing I noticed in the movie is that it makes everyone look "older" than they do in real life..........look her up on google; she is much prettier.

[TragicBliss]

Anyone else think King Xerxes was played SuperGay? Whatevs.

I saw it last night on IMAX. The flick was alright. Character development was basically non existant, though visually it was pretty rad. If you like golden man panties and underlying racism, 300 should be right up your alley.

[showbiz00ditc]

i just saw it and it was iight

i was BLITZgrieg too which i dunno if it made it better or more confusing

[phen3N]

i saw it at 12:01 on friday and i really liked it. i read a review that says its "sin city meets gladiator" and i think thats a perfect way to describe it

[Corbin Law]

i will give an actual review once my current rage-high-spearstabbing-death-rockandroll aura fades away

but in the mean time

i just really want to fucking punch some shit

get stabbed

fucking spear a crab human in the throat

get arrowed in the chest

and slice open the neck of the mother fucker who shot me.

[locofoblo]

I watched this while I was blazed out of my skull, fucking sublime movie...theres no other way to do it.

[so-so]

WORST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN THAT I DIDNT MIND PAYING FOR...

this movie was a fucking enigma. Horrible by every account, yet somehow it was oddly alluring.

[Corbin Law]

i think it was a movie

where i knew there there wasnt going to be much

of a plot

or character development

or anything of that nature

loonnggg before i even went into the theatre

and i didnt expect to see

a plot or character development

or historical accuracy

i my only expectation was that were was going to be 300 spartans

kicking ass for about an hour and a half

and that was exactly what i got

it met all of my expectations

which i why i thought it was a great movie.

[chwy]

this movie was awesome. but really i wish it was just one long fight scene. no plot. just sweet fighting.

[dhc905]

I saw it opening night without all the trailer fanfare so I didn't have high expectations or anything.

The movie was really lacking in anything worth calling a quality movie. I'm no movie snob, and I dislike a lot of Criterion collection movies, but I appreciate a good movie and it's not difficult to coalesce action and plot (example, Gladiator).

However, I would have to disagree with the review ben posted earlier. The movie DID have lots of comedic moments - they were usually heralded in by the death-metal heavy guitar (this was particularly humorous to me).

Oh and anybody see any parallel between Leonidies and GW Bush?

- Ditches a bunch of quarelling old men in the senate, breaks laws and goes on a crusade to stop a bunch of darkies from the east trying to quash freedom?

Sounds vaguely familiar, but I just can't place where exactly that story line comes from...