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[Acid Snowman]

I think the film really helped to get people excited about one of the most significant battles of Greek history. Frank Miller has specifically stated that accuracy was not needed, it was his story after all. I was sorta frustrated by the depiction of the Persians, who were, in reality, an extremely benevolent empire by ancient standards, especially in contrast with the slave-hoarding Spartans. That aside 300 was agreat movie.

 

[OverMyHead]

It's like this:

Jurassic Park owns Transformers just as Apocalypto owns 300.

 

[Bishop2]

I just saw this movie at the 2-dollar theater last night. It was a lot of fun, I gotta admit. It feels long as hell, though. Really, really drags out. I couldn't believe when the fight started and I checked my watch and only 30 minutes had gone by. Yikes.

But I can't deny that it's entertaining. It's just... the hyper-stylized approach is almost overwhelming at times.

Cool movie, great performances, fun stuff. Not sure if I'd revisit it on DVD for any reason, but on cable? I'll definitely stop to watch it.

 

[Shmoil]

I haven't looked through this forum too much, but was anyone else really disappointed by this? I was expecting an intense, gripping movie about a spartan battle, and I thought this movie was lacking. There was only 1 character with any character development, the monsters just seemed really stupid, and the dialog was annoyingly cliche. Also, while I liked the color scheme and the way it looked, it was overbearing at times and would have been better had it been toned down slightly. It seemed like a bad music video. In one of the fight scenes where someone was running stabbing people, and he kept being sped up, then slowed down, then sped up again, I found that really annoying. And I thought the oracle was stupid. I hated that the "council" were deformed people, and I thought that the naked, dancing 80 pound anemic chick was really dumb.

Many of the fights were really cool, and I thought that it had it's good parts. The fights were well choreographed, although repetitive.

I was so hyped for this movie and found it to be the biggest dissappointment I've ever seen. A movie with one interesting character and nobody that I was emotionally attatched to just didn't grab me. The action was decent, but could have been a lot better, and there weren't any breathtaking moments like I had expected. This just could have been done so much better.

Anyways, I was just wondering if anyone else was disappointed, as it seems everyone loved it. Anyone?

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I haven't looked through this forum too much, but was anyone else really disappointed by this? I was expecting an intense, gripping movie about a spartan battle, and I thought this movie was lacking. There was only 1 character with any character development, the monsters just seemed really stupid, and the dialog was annoyingly cliche. Also, while I liked the color scheme and the way it looked, it was overbearing at times and would have been better had it been toned down slightly. It seemed like a bad music video. In one of the fight scenes where someone was running stabbing people, and he kept being sped up, then slowed down, then sped up again, I found that really annoying. And I thought the oracle was stupid. I hated that the "council" were deformed people, and I thought that the naked, dancing 80 pound anemic chick was really dumb.

Many of the fights were really cool, and I thought that it had it's good parts. The fights were well choreographed, although repetitive.

I was so hyped for this movie and found it to be the biggest dissappointment I've ever seen. A movie with one interesting character and nobody that I was emotionally attatched to just didn't grab me. The action was decent, but could have been a lot better, and there weren't any breathtaking moments like I had expected. This just could have been done so much better.

Anyways, I was just wondering if anyone else was disappointed, as it seems everyone loved it. Anyone?

You seem to be suffering from "bad tasteosis".

 

[Shmoil]

I know, I know...I expect movies to have plots that are well done and characters that are compelling and that I don't want to die, and I guess I shouldn't have expected that. I mean, I guess the movie did everything that it set out to do, but that doesn't say much. Think of the scene in "Letters From Iwo Jima" where the Japanese guys commit suicide by blowing up grenades against their chests. That was an intense, "hold-your-breath" type of scene because you felt for the characters and you couldn't believe that it was happening. Similarly, the Russian roulette scenes in "The Deerhunter" are so intense because I've invested time in these characters and here they are about to shoot themselves. These were intense, character driven moments, and I expected something like that from this movie. Something where even though we knew they would die, we were still almost shocked that they did. I almost got that with Leonidas, but that's it. The movie didn't even try to do this, didn't even try to be this intense. My vision for what this movie could have been is just different than what Snyder's was.

Does anyone know what the point of the monsters was, other than to completely remove us from the reality and seriousness of the situation? Because that's all that it did for me. There's this real war going on, with real people, and he throws these fantasy monsters in. Great. He should have saved money and not done the monsters, and instead gotten a rewrite of the script. Don't get me wrong, I love Frank Miller's comic books, and I even love the movie Sin City. But the dialogue in this movie is atrocious.

And the action was cool, but I felt that a lot of really cool things could have been done, and weren't. I guess there's nothing particularly wrong with it, it just could have been so much better.

Again, I did love the coloring. I thought it was great for the most part. So props to whoever deserves it for that. Snyder, I guess, props to Snyder for the color scheme.

The movie could have been much more dramatic, and much less MTV. So I guess if "good taste"=bad dialogue + mediocre action + terrible editing, then yes, I don't have good taste.

Sorry, it was just wasted potential, in my eyes.

 

[Bishop2]

I know, I know...I expect movies to have plots that are well done and characters that are compelling and that I don't want to die, and I guess I shouldn't have expected that. I mean, I guess the movie did everything that it set out to do, but that doesn't say much. Think of the scene in "Letters From Iwo Jima" where the Japanese guys commit suicide by blowing up grenades against their chests. That was an intense, "hold-your-breath" type of scene because you felt for the characters and you couldn't believe that it was happening. Similarly, the Russian roulette scenes in "The Deerhunter" are so intense because I've invested time in these characters and here they are about to shoot themselves.

I think this movie only wants to be "cool" and "masculine," not to move you emotionally. For better or worse, I just don't think they're interested in going there.

Does anyone know what the point of the monsters was, other than to completely remove us from the reality and seriousness of the situation? Because that's all that it did for me. There's this real war going on, with real people, and he throws these fantasy monsters in.

There aren't any literal "fantasy monsters," I mean you don't see dinosaurs and gryffins and crap. But there are beings that strain reality. Like the executioner who has had his arms amputated and replaced with bonesaws, and the "Uber-Immortal" insane man whose teeth have been ground and sharpened as described by the narrator (and who also seems to be insanely invincible). And that rhino/those elephants were overly large. None of this is COMPLETELY impossible. But very, very, very unlikely.

Snyder said that the movie isn't meant to be a realistic take, though. It's an opera, something that's completely separate from reality but hopefully beautiful to behold. He said that from a story perspective, he thinks it's about 90% historically accurate (I think that's probably optimistic, but whatever). From a visual perspective, he acknowledges that it's not accurate at all - that's not the point. This isn't a realistic war film. It was never meant to be. It's an epic comic book captured on screen, with all the ludicrousness that Frank Miller created in it.

 

[Shmoil]

Yeah, I guess that's true, it wasn't meant to be a realistic take. I didn't mean dinosaurs and gryffins when I said "fantasy monsters", I guess I just meant "fantastical monsters", like the mutants and the giant elephants.

As far as being "cool" and "masculine", the movie does well, and I guess it's just not what I was expecting. I thought it would be intense, shockingly intense, and instead I got a lot of impaling with corny battle cries. Some of the fights were cool, but I thought that some really breathtakingly intense moments would have really added to the "masculinity" of it.

I guess I was just disappointed because it wasn't what I was expecting.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

MY REVIEW

(Ultra serious overacting voice over guy) Hey everybody gather round for a little story!

These badass ab-tacular A-holes who like to kill deformed children don't want to be enslaved by Lesbo lovin adrogenist/gay darkskined crazies... so they go to WAR!

Out on the battle field the we listen to silly one liners as they fight in fastmo then slowwww moooo.

Meanwhile we sleeply go back to sparta and watch a woman try to get more troops for the iraq war er what was I talking about? I don't care because this part is boring. All you need to know is that the only semi respectable woman in the film decides to prostitue herself for votes...Oh yes this is based on one of the sexist Frank Millers comicbooks er Graphic Novels? So all women are ****es one way or the other...oh and they like it too! Tee hee.

Back to the fighting! The lead Ab-Man and his merry, but not gay, band of Ab-men spout out more one liners then fight in slow/fast mo some more. Some dude I don't care about gets killed and his father screams and cries about it and now his heart is full of hate as aposed to the love it was filled with when he was happily killing hundereds of people.

At the end our so-called heros, ofcourse, get killed because honestly what would one of these epic movies be without a big death scene and a women singing melodic tunes in the back ground?

I will as a big non gay manly man will carry on his screaming Ab-Tacular legacy and fight for er freedom! The freedom to kill our deformed children and act totally non gay. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!!!! LETS GO KILL THESE EVIL DARKSKINED PEOPLE!!!!


Even at a buck 56 the movie was too long and the characters...what characters? I'm shocked the movie thought I'd care about the cardboard cutouts and their fight for the freedom to kill their deformed childeren??? And the slow mo crap was over done but a couple of cool fights here and there make it worth the rental..I guess. If you want to watch an extremely dumb movie that thinks it's smart this is the movie for you!

Rating: 6 out of 10. I was honestly bored with most of it.

 

[Nivek]

I love these negative reviews, totally captures how bad some people miss the point. The blah-blah-blah about realism, spartan cruelty, and especially the race and sex crap really gives me a chuckle!

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I wish "The Making Of" was more about making the film, than it was about historical Sparta.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I love these negative reviews, totally captures how bad some people miss the point. The blah-blah-blah about realism, spartan cruelty, and especially the race and sex crap really gives me a chuckle!

I didn't miss the point, you just like bad movies and hate when people call them bad. Seriously dude I didn't like the movie, deal the hell with it.

 

[Shmoil]

300 was visually amazing. It was directed well. But the writing was terrible. I didn't care for any of the characters, who were written so inconsistently I never had any clue why they were doing some of the things they did. Neither did I care for the editing. Why would a historical epic have Music Video style editing? Had it been a music video, or even a commercial or trailer, I would have been fine with it. But why the speed-up/slow-mo ****? And the monsters. Again, it's a historical epic. Sorry, but I really don't believe that there were 10 foot tall 400 pound men with blades for hands back then. Trust me, I'm all about being creative and thinking outside the box. I love the Lord of the Rings, books and movies. But it's a historical epic. And this, while probably mostly historical (aside from monsters and ****ty editing), was not epic.

I do think that criticizing it for the race and sex aspects is silly. And as for the Spartan cruelty, I'm glad that they at least pointed it out, but I thought it could have been handled better. At the beginning they mention Spartans killing deformed babies, and they go on patronizing the Spartans, and even show one of the deformed babies grown up, who then betrays the king and gives us all a reason to want to kill deformed babies. That is, it would if we cared about the king that the mutant betrayed.

By the way, what the hell was that guy? I've heard of deformed, but that was taken to the extreme. I really thought he was a silly character.

All in all I guess that this was fine as a graphic novel adaptation. I haven't read the graphic novel, but I'm assuming that a lot of my complaints originated there. It's just too bad they couldn't have done the true story justice. I had been hoping for an amazing historical epic, and all I got was a paper thin music video that happened to look really cool.

There's a difference between "badass" and "good". People seem to have forgotten that.

 

[CaptainClown]

not great fun to watch.

 

[Nivek]

I didn't miss the point, you just like bad movies and hate when people call them bad. Seriously dude I didn't like the movie, deal the hell with it.

Yes, we get it. Now, "see" ya later...

Unless there is more bi@tching to do, which there always is.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Yes, we get it. Now, "see" ya later...

Unless there is more bi@tching to do, which there always is.

Can I get you your bottle? I haven't even complained about the film that much, I've bearly visited these boards, you must be mad at me for something else.

 

[The Joker_1000]

I loved this movie, it was done greatly. I didn't get a chance to watch the whole movie but I saw most of it & it was a great movie. I see why it got so much hype & a great reaction from fans & movie goers alike.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I saw the film,quite better than what i had thought.But i would say there was a bit too much action,i know it..sounds odd..but the story was very good and there could have been a bit more.

 

[strikezone89]

am i the only one who turned this movie off after 20 mins>?
i couldnt stand it, it was horrible

 

[CaptainClown]

Uhhh what was your problem with it? Story? boring?

 

[Caliber]

I finally saw it and it is f***ing amazing. It is what an epic movie movie should be. Give Butler an acadmy award and Snyder one for directing. This was the movie of the year.

 

[CaptainClown]

you serious?

 

[Caliber]

you serious?

Yes, but I've yet to see Zodiac so it could change.

 

[CaptainClown]

soo many posts!

 

[CaptainClown]

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