Iceburgeruk
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I just sent off for it on amazon. Tis called The 300 Spartans(1962).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_300_Spartans
http://imdb.com/title/tt0055719/
Basically it is pretty much the smae except allegedly some of the actors are not at the top of their game. Then again reguardless of the acting it must be a cool film because it got miller (or whoever) worked up enough to write a graphic novel version of the story. But the strange thing is that allegedly it was filmed on the site of the battle and apparantly the effects are supposed to be not half bad they even do the arrows blotting out the sun bit.
I kinda always have a soft spot for the old epics. Not only are they good but in most of them unlike troy or lotr if you see ten thousand people in a battle, Then the studio hired ten thousand real people and got them to attack each other.
The logistics of the old epics is astounding. The film The Longest Day for example, has a long non-stop bird`s eye view sweeping across the normandy beach for about 30 secs and there must be a thousand people running up that beach. Now those kinda films took serious producing. Not like now where you summon up a million orcs with your laptop.lol.
Anyway back to the topic, has anyone else seen it? Like it or hate it? I personally felt it was important to see it before i saw the new film. It was the primary inspiration for the 300 film thats about to come out so it must be benificial to experience it.
If you all don`t want to bother then fair enough, I understand i saw halloween H20 before i even bothered to watch the original. Either way works. Tis a free country.
P.S - I think the dvd cover/film poster looks sweet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_300_Spartans
http://imdb.com/title/tt0055719/
Basically it is pretty much the smae except allegedly some of the actors are not at the top of their game. Then again reguardless of the acting it must be a cool film because it got miller (or whoever) worked up enough to write a graphic novel version of the story. But the strange thing is that allegedly it was filmed on the site of the battle and apparantly the effects are supposed to be not half bad they even do the arrows blotting out the sun bit.
I kinda always have a soft spot for the old epics. Not only are they good but in most of them unlike troy or lotr if you see ten thousand people in a battle, Then the studio hired ten thousand real people and got them to attack each other.
The logistics of the old epics is astounding. The film The Longest Day for example, has a long non-stop bird`s eye view sweeping across the normandy beach for about 30 secs and there must be a thousand people running up that beach. Now those kinda films took serious producing. Not like now where you summon up a million orcs with your laptop.lol.
Anyway back to the topic, has anyone else seen it? Like it or hate it? I personally felt it was important to see it before i saw the new film. It was the primary inspiration for the 300 film thats about to come out so it must be benificial to experience it.
If you all don`t want to bother then fair enough, I understand i saw halloween H20 before i even bothered to watch the original. Either way works. Tis a free country.
P.S - I think the dvd cover/film poster looks sweet.
