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Title: 300
Post by: Nighthawk on April 21, 2007, 05:21:53 pm
Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the three hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the three hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the three hundred.


Last week, I think it was Monday, I finally saw 300.


This was me after the movie:

 :biggrin:


Over-the-top, lite, completely banal. Beautiful.

It plays out like a video game, so at one point I jumped up and tried to control the characters on screen. I swear, I managed to do a triple combo. WHAM! Nailed their persian asses.

Now, if one is looking for a serious, meaningful historical movie and is shocked to see 300 is none of the above, one is barking up the wrong tree.

It's not supposed to be a serious, meaningful historical movie - 300 is not about what actually happened, but, rather, about the legend that spawned from it.


I got what I expected and was overjoyed in all my geeky greatness with what I saw. Fun, fun, fun!

(http://www.pvponline.com/images/3074.gif)



How about you?
Title: Re: 300
Post by: The One on April 21, 2007, 05:39:41 pm
Funny little comic, Nighthawk! :lol3:
I also liked 300, nice movie, it's like a great comic, based on the legend this great battle spawned as you say.
Title: Re: 300
Post by: Nighthawk on April 21, 2007, 07:01:45 pm
Funny little comic, Nighthawk! :lol3:
*bows*

The credit goes to Scott Kurtz :) Long live PvP!


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I also liked 300, nice movie, it's like a great comic, based on the legend this great battle spawned as you say.
It's based on Frank Miller's comic, so that explains a lot :)

What I found funny is how Miller negated the homosexuality of the Greeks. He wanted to portray the Spartans as übermen and went so far as to make them mock the Athenians, who were philosophers and boy-lovers, when, in reality, they were all boy-lovers :) It was common for an older man to have a younger protege whom he instructed in all walks of life... including sex, although that was optional. But the man-boy love relationship was present. It was a normal thing, especially in Sparta.

I mean, it's nitpicking really :) But, as I've said, I don't hold it against the movie - I just found it funny how Miller wasn't willing to give them that little bit of fun.


But he *did* give them wolves the size of rhinos, rhinos the size of elephants and elephants the size of mountains, lesbian assassins and whatnot.
Title: Re: 300
Post by: Lucy on April 22, 2007, 07:09:43 am
I saw it the day before yesterday, and I didn't know that it is based on a comic, so I found it strange. Then yesterday I read about it on the internet and understood. Check this page (http://www.solaceincinema.com/2006/10/04/300-comic-to-screen-comparison/), there is a comparison between some pictures of the original comic and film frames.
Title: Re: 300
Post by: TheOFFman on April 26, 2007, 07:22:11 pm
I got what I expected and was overjoyed in all my geeky greatness with what I saw. Fun, fun, fun!

What else can I say? I loved 300! I have read many negative critics but luckly every person I know loved the movie!  :)