Just got back from seeing 300 and it completely lived up to the hype. It was by far one of the (if not the) best action movies I have ever seen. So violent, so bloody and so visually stunning...I could go into more detail but there's not much point...

Think gladiator on crack with better special effects and a lot more slow-motion

Me and my friend are going to see it in imax on Sunday. Should be awesome

I literally just got back from seeing it. The movie was amazing - just a great action movie in every way. I'd recommend everyone to see it if they can.

I WILL FUCKING KILL EVERY LAST PERSIAN IN HERE.

I 300.

that queen is HOTTT!!!!!

damn skippy

btw, the movie was great... a few technical things i wasn't too happy about... but this is definitely a great movie to watch regardless. the artistic direction of this movie is SUPERB....

and not to mention the director was a fellow artcenter alumni

Plenty of boob shots too.

Terrible. Outside of the battling scenes, nothing was worthwhile. Dialogue was shit (FIGHT! SPARTA! GLORY! DEATH! I'M A BADASS!), story was clearly cobbled together as a second thought, cinematography was nothing special and frequently annoying, the costumes/design people had too much liberty (wtf this is greece not Star Wars, idiots...) and all I wanted the movie to do was end. 1 and a half stars.

I really enjoyed the trailer of this movie with the NIN song... made it epic.


A Good movie. Some of the motiviational speeches and scenes made my hair stick up and gave me shivers. (the sky full of arrows for an instance)

If I had to rate it out of 10, I'd give it a 8, but the use of tits were brilliant, so I'll give it a 9.

Clark I know your gay and all but damn.

This thread is great!

Historically, the spartans went to war stark naked. I bet you would have loved that part of historical accuracy wouldnt you

Not even any comments about a bunch of half naked muscular men in the same picture.





Clearly a MAN's movie. Who needs intellectual dialogue when you've got special effects(mass arrows ftw), fighting, gore, and BOOB shots? Besides, bad scripting or not, you can't possibly expect Spartans to be intelligent with words anyway.

Speaking of boobs, who's in Duke's avatar?

fucking amazing movie. Definitely a top 10 on my movie list.

I liked the dialogue, the spartans were crazy and proud back in the day, i think the dialogue fitted what would be historically represented.

i agree completely with clarkma. the action scenes were pretty cool but thats as far as any positive aspects will go. the script was ghastly, the cooletely oversaturated scenery became an eyesore after 5 minutes, and the ideas of some of those persians were just like... uhh wtf. the fucking hunchback, lobster hand man, 9 foot god dude, and there was even some goat head guy. i did enjoy breasts, and had agood laugh when the queens tatters were jiggling. i cant bemad though, i snuck in as i have been doing for the last 5 years... so no wasted money. gladiator definitely was the better movie despite the over the top action scenes in this one. damn. that took long to type on my cell phone

Gay I may be, but the women turned me on more than the men. And I was laughing when the women got naked because, from a plot POV, those scenes were more retarded than the rest. So yeah. Bad movie.

Many, many man dongs.

I wanted to see a movie about war and their fighting and I got a movie about war and fighting. No bullshit fucking love story for 2hrs. No bullshit nonstop dialogues that didn't pertain to the point of the film. 300 didn't give me that and thats why it was badass!

It all depends on your perspective. If you went to go see it to have your soul polarized in some abstract planet changing way, then perhaps you might pass on a movie like '300'. If you smoked a nice fat spliff before and wanted your $8.50 worth of movie on a saturday night, then I have to say that 'Transformers' better raise the fucking bar on July 4th.


4 out of 5 stars.

You do realize that it's a rendition of Frank Miller's version of the 300 Spartans, right?



GREAT movie. Completely stayed on key with the comic, even doing actual screenshots from it. Crazy!

I think you didn't realize it was based on a GRAPHIC NOVEL / COMIC BOOK (whatever you want to call it) by FRANK MILLER... the same guy who did SIN CITY.

This is NOT a historical representation of Sparta at all. It uses a historical backdrop LOOSELY.

Ummm my problem with it is actually that is DID have a bullshit fucking love story and bullshit nonstop dialogues. The badass fighting and war represented roughly one quarter of the movie. If the movie had been 2 hours of kickass fighting, I would have liked it much much much MUCH more.




I know it's based on a graphic novel/comic book. I don't think that's an excuse to make it a retarded movie.

Did you pay to see 300 and accidentally see Music and Lyrics?

I dont understand how people could actualy hate a movie. If you hated it, you would leave.

I was close to leaving it, but I had paid to see it after all, and I was with friends.

I don't care what anyone says. Freaking amazing movie for men and women alike --well, at least I loved it! The battle scenes were awesome, the whole movie played out well, and the characters were amazing! Even though it may not be my favorite movie, it definitely made my top 10 list aswell! The only thing I was disappointed about was the cinematography of the sky and landscapes. It mostly seemed like the whole thing was filmed in front of a green screen and nowhere other than a studio. Didn't take away too much from the greatness of the movie though. Go ring-covered-god-guy with lots of make-up! High five to Frank Miller's comic!

Don't forget, he brought the Dark Knight to the world. ( AKA, BATMAN as we know it. Dark, corruption, grit and grime. )




Yeah, it was basically almost 100% done on the green screen to give it that comic book effect. They wanted to keep it as much of a live comic as possible.

For fuck sake it won't be another month before I can see it on the big screen down under.

It's supposed to be surreal and over-the-top, like a tall tale. A story told over generations that gets exagerrated, and the characters are moreso archetypes than anything, so bitching about anything being 'cheesy' or "wtf mutants?!" simply indicates you completely missed the point and are truly, a dumbass.

Comments about the cinematography being "nothing special" are so off the mark I think I just shat my pants. From the perspective of a professional in the industry (ie. myself), I can simply say that clarkma, you are wrong.

Different strokes for different fucking folks, 18s. There is no objectively good/special cinematography, and I was unimpressed. Sorry.

Some interesting info..

I heard on the radio that this film made over 70 million at the box office on opening weekend, the most money an "R" rated movie has ever made in an opening weekend, ever. The production estimated only making 30 million due to it's R rating, and the 70 million made has already paid for the cost of making this movie.

It's a fact which isn't a matter of opinion.

I can say the Veyron is a pile of crap, but that doesn't stop it from being the fastest car on the road. That part's a fact.
The fact is, the cinematography was techincally excellent, and near flawless. The fact that you weren't impressed simply indicates your lack of education on the matter, or a trained eye.

I've learned to appreciate movies that I didn't particularly enjoy, but that doesn't make them 'bad' movies.

I liked some of the cinematography of the battle sequences, particularly the first battle. Outside of that I found nothing compelling.

Regardless, the movie was neither made nor broken by its cinematography, I hated it because it was atrociously written and not very well acted, among other things.

lol. that's not a fact. that's an opinion. A fact is information that cannot change over time. Consider it this way.. if you were to look back on this cinematography 50 or 100 years from now.. it would be less "technically excellent, and near flawless". People's tastes and likes are not supposed to change facts.

It's technically excellent and near flawless FOR ITS TIME, then.

You could say "Jim is alive" but in 50 years if he's dead, has the fact changed? yeesh.

"People's tastes and likes are not supposed to change facts." is exactly my point. Clark may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that it was good (the cinematography).
It's comparable to posting in the photography forum that you hate everything posted there and it's all crap. That's simply incorrect. There's a million different 'rules' in photography which one follows in order to achieve the best result. That moves past opinion into simply commenting on things you either don't know enough about to comment intelligently on, or base completely on YOUR personal taste, and not the FACT that it's technically well done.

Not everyone is gonna love the movie. However, I don't understand where you are coming from Clark

Bullshit, the rules are guidelines in photography and there are many great artworks that break all/many of them and there are many shitty works that follow all/many of them. Cinematography is more of the same.

Clark, admit the fact that you really didnt follow the movie since you were fantasizing about all the semi nekkid guys the entire movie.

*sigh*, you just don't get it. I suggest reading your own signature.

I SUGGEST YOU READ YOUR OWN SIGNATURE SIR!

You dare be so bold as to try and tell me that there are objective hard and fast rules for good cinematography and then tell me I'm stupid and need to shut up. Think about it.

bitch fight!

Listen 18s and clarkma:

i'm sorry i have to say this.. but PLEASE LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "FACT". a FACT does not change. a FACT is not dependent on thoughts and beliefs.

A FACT IS A FACT.

when you say this movie is technically excellent.. it is not stating a FACT. it is stating a belief. If we replace the word "cinematography" with the word "red", your statement thus becomes "RED IS TECHNICALLY EXCELLENT". Do you see how this now is a statement about your beliefs and not a factual statement? lots of people can argue with you that RED is in fact NOT technically excellent. Perhaps they prefer blue. or green. Whatever. My point is that statement is NOT a factual statement.

now.. your statement about the photography rules.. again.. those rules are not FACTS. Those are simply PREFERENCES people use as guidelines in order to take better pictures. Those preferences CAN and WILL change with time.

Man I've been watching the previews just dying to see it. Doesn't come out till the 22nd here though. For me it'll either be movie of the year, or disappointment of the year, and from what you guys are saying it should be awesome.

The movie was basically made so they could cut it into a cool preview, instead of...ya know, to make a good movie.

I'll let you know what I think on the 22nd.

This is somewhat true.... every cool part of the movie is seen in the preview.... it was one amazing preview by the way.

Fact: There are no facts.