300

[ubergreendragon]

Just a few more days til the release of the 300. :thumbup: I seen Frank Miller on "icons" on G4 . The movie looks awesome . Im suprised no one has talked about this on the boards yet unless you have and i missed it . Either way looks like the 1st really sweet movie of the year .

[BentonGrey]

I'm cautiously optomistic.  I haven't read the GN, so I'm not entirely sure what to expect.  Miller can be brilliant.........or just plain terrible.  I don't know that I'll be able to drag the wife to see this one, but I'm certainly going to try.

[Verfall]

My whole goal by this Friday is to get my back healthy enough to sit through this at the Imax theatre here. There is no movie short of the next Sin City that I want to see more. Every trailer just makes me drool for it more.

[konbiz]

IGN did an advanced review. 5 out of 5 stars. I'm seeing this Friday. I'm excited  :thumbup:.

[Panther_Gunn]

Having not read the source it's based on (Miller's work, not the original history), I wasn't really in any hurry to see this, or really very interested.  However, after seeing the trailer before Ghost Rider, my interest level is now at least at a "wouldn't mind seeing".

[detourne_me]

it's one of the most gorgeous graphic novels i own.  its made in a really cool widescreen type format...  its too odd to fit in a bookshelf but damn its beautifyul,  perfect to lay on a coffee table.
ive only seen a few of the previews but it looks like they really did the hunchback character justice.  i hope he plays as pivotal a role in the movie as he did in the book.


on a sidenote, theyve just released a promo shot miller did for The Spirit movie he is writing and directing... looks like a bad sin city image to me... complete with 3/4 length sleeves and baseball type gloves...UGHH!  and his contribution to the Usagi Yojimbo 100th issue was pretty turd.

but when its daredevil, or his own material he puts a million percent into it and it turns out great... i expect nothing less on 300.

[Grapple]

OMG! I've never read the graphic novel, but when I saw the trailer with that yummy Gerard Butler, I just knew I had to see it!  :wub:

[ubergreendragon]

just watching the previews makes me wanna go out and kill something with a spear

[udasu]

I went to borders and skimmed through it - awesome artwork - looks like it should be great.

[Sword]

On the topic of 300, look what the director snuck into the trailer...
http://wizarduniverse.com/_images_/003821/rorshach_badge.jpg

[stumpy]

I didn't even know he was directing Watchmen. I am kinda interested in seeing 300, but I have been wary due to the reviews. Of course, I thought Peter Traverse snippet was well-worded: "300 is a movie blood-drunk on its own artful excess. Guys of all ages and sexes won't be able to resist it."

[Lord Elcorion]

saw this last night. blood drunk on it's own excess is fairly accurate. the fighting is fierce and gory, and extremly over the top, but a whole lotta fun to watch. the spartan soldiers are shown as being almost superhuman during battle, only truely seeming to be challenged about half way through the fighting, and even then not by much.

[Pyroclasm]

Saw it tonight.  Loved it.  Gory? Yes, but in an artificial way.  It felt like any number of brutal video games, blood flying with every slash, but vanishing into the ether.  With limbs flying about, and the occasional head, it felt less gory than one of the more recent slasher films, and even less gory than a movie like Braveheart.  I don't even recall an instance where blood spurted from a wound once the initial slash was made, or even dripped or pooled from a body.  It was very "clean" for being "gory".
The fight scenes were fun.  The Persians made for a cool enemy.  Felt like the Spartans were standing up against the armies of Mordor.  All in all, I had a blast.  Worth every penny.  When the DVD comes out, I'll buy it and rewatch it many times.  Go see it.  You need to see it on the big screen at least once.

[udasu]

At 5:30 yesterday, it was sold out on 3 screens until 10:45. I'll try to drag the Mrs. to it today..

[udasu]

Totally awesome. Money well spent.

[konbiz]

OK i saw this, but have mixed feelings, I thought the start of the movie was great; after a while though, things started feeling rushed towards the end. If one thing is to be said about this movie though, is that the fight scenes are amazing, over the top, but amazing.

[Ajax]

Saw it friday and I have to say it was better than I expected. I can't wait for the DVD, though I'm considering going to see this at the IMAX since this would be a freaking amazing movie on an IMAX screen.

[The Pwime]

Managed to see it tonight.  Still don't know how I got into this one, considering how strictly the "18+ only" rule was enforced for Jackass 2 way back when.  Anyways, t'was absolutely sweet.  There was so much blood it didn't even seem like blood. 

I was afraid they were going to ruin it at the end, but it stayed strong.

Definitely worth the money.


And definitely better than Ghost Rider. XD

[thanoson]

On Imax tommorrow. 'Nuff said.

[detourne_me]

oh man, still haven't seen it, but just read a bit of a review that said miller plans on making Ronin a movie!!!!
that's my favourite miller piece of work.  I even wrote my fourth year directed readings dissertation on it!

[ubergreendragon]

$70,000,000 at the box office over the weekend it kinda says it all  :thumbup:

[captainspud]

I'm currently on a quest to find a pirated copy...


...of the closing credits.

[BatWing]

GOD this movie is off the hook!!!!
the battle scenes and the nude scenes and the persians and the ugly asians!!!

[stumpy]

Early day for me, so I caught the last matinee...

This was very exciting! I have to say that this was exactly what it promised to be and it was excellent as that. Think of a two hour version of the seige of Helm's Deep from The Two Towers. 300 has the added allure of being historical fiction. Not that there wasn't plenty of license, to the point of science-fictional representation of the bad guys, but it stuck to most of the basic plot we all learned about the Battle of Thermopylae in grade school.

BTW, this really isn't a movie for kids. Two women left mid-screening with crying toddlers. What were they thinking?

[Uncle Yuan]

Then there's the news story about the Iranians being upset over the portrayal of Persians in the movie.  They claim it is as an indication of America's hatred and intolerance for them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_en_mo/iran300_movie

[stumpy]

Yeah, I heard about that earlier in the day. Of course, the Spartans are portrayed as the heroes and Xerxes' army as the bad guys, but the complaint is pretty thin beyond that. There isn't any attempt to connect modern Iran to Persia in the movie, by geography or religion (which makes sense). (And, let's face it, though this may not be obvious to folks in Tehran, most of the audience won't even know that ancient Persia included what is modern-day Iran.) Anyway, that's all I'll say here.

[BatWing]

hey u know that dude's son?
didn't he look like prince of persia? :)

[detourne_me]

just saw it tonight.... radical

i gotta re-read the comic though,  i don't remmeber any of the queen/council stuff in it.
and i definately don't remember it being so verbose on fighting for freedom.
i can understand the Iranians point of view in this...

still the best line from the movie:
[spoiler]I'm kind. Your cruel King Leonidas asked of you to stand...while I...only ask of you to kneel.[/spoiler]

[konbiz]

I did remember reading somewhere that Snyder did have ulterior motives when making this movie. He wanted it to parallel to war in Iraq, or something along those lines.

[stumpy]

Sounds like speculation. Snyder has repeatedly denied such claims, on record.