The 300 movie trailer:

alright gays!

So i got my history slightly wrong It was more of my opin/rant then a factual statment

Ok so I finally saw this movie - and frankly if you've seen the trailer you've seen the entire movie. Mainly because if they hadn't used such an excess of slow-motion the film would have been about 10 minutes long.

The political undertones of this movie are thinly veiled and make for some cheesy viewing (Red Dawn would be a good way to put it, but more special effects).

And speaking of special effects, by god they didn't cut short on those, I'm assuming the budget on the special effects was astronomical, because every single frame of the movie is plastered in recolouring, retouching, overlaying and anything else you could think of.

As with any film that depicts brave men fighting and dying for something they believe in, and slicing off limbs and fighting rhino's and elephants and giants and men with arms replaced by bone saws (technically they didn't fight him but it's so ludicrous I had to mention it) there are some enjoyable moments. But then the slow motion kicks in and a full 10 - 20 seconds elapses whilst a character has taken less than a single step.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the dramatic effect they were going for, I just think that showing the whole movie in slow motion made it feel like it lasted twice as long, and 116 minutes is long enough considering the mindless filler that was prevalent throughout most of it.

All in all, unless you like watching men prance around half naked wearing capes and shouting "hoorah" (which it might as well be) then you probably won't enjoy it; if however, you like a movie that doesn't suck then you definately shouldn't watch it.

Still, not many movies out there that features swords and spears as the main weapon for killing people so you might as well check it out, after all - it's not like Arnie is going to make another Conan (which, by the way, were less cheesy and better to watch than this mindless shite).

I saw it, I loved it. Was like watching a moving comic book.

I got a thousand "omg how awesome was that" moments while watching it,

truely one of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen. Story-wise

a bit of a dissapointment.

The movie sucks imo. Not only the story is complete twisted fascist crap. I also didnt liked the artistic side of the movie. Someone called it a two hour perfume advertisement and thats exactly how the esthetics look like. The static backgrounds = cheap. They better had spent some of the budget for filming in real locations. I know its based on a comic but thats no excuse to make the movie so cheesy looking.

I thought it was totally awesome.

I thought it was an awesome action flick, looks amazing. But also pretty damn forgettable tbh.

it sure is a "must-see-but-then-forget-about-it" or "must-see-so-you-can-spot-bad-special-effects-in-other-movies"

I loved it

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAA

It rocked, stop moaning you geeks.

I'd like to see some arguments about why it wasn't a good movie that weren't in the south park sattire.

awesome

It was great, totally like a moving comic book as someone else said. The only thing I didn't like was the addition of 'unnecessary sex scene #1932837832463274'

My complaint is there wasn't enough sex.

Yeah, the moving comic book idea is one that describes 300 perfectly. It was a brutal action movie that was done in a cool memorable style. There are tons of scenes that would make good compelling comic book frames and that's a pretty good compliment to give a comic book adaptation. It's not supposed to be a hyper-realistic historical film, it's supposed to be exactly what it is, a cool, stylistic action flick, kind of like Gears of War but a movie. In fact, does anyone think it would be pretty cool if the director of 300 made the Gears film?

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It was great, totally like a moving comic book as someone else said. The only thing I didn't like was the addition of 'unnecessary sex scene #1932837832463274'

What version did you see? Since I only saw 2 sex scenes and 2-3 other scenes of bare breasted chicks

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What version did you see? Since I only saw 2 sex scenes and 2-3 other scenes of bare breasted chicks

One sex scene between Leonidas and his wife, the rape scene with her and Theron (well I'd class it as rape) and the topless girls.

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I'd like to see some arguments about why it wasn't a good movie that weren't in the south park sattire.

Well looking at the replies to the "this movie wasn't good" comments mainly contain "it was awesome, you're a fag" style responses, I would actually like to read some reasons for why it was a good movie - it's entertaining for a few scenes, and like I said with a film where the fighting is done with thousands of people and the weapons are swords and spears etc there's bound to be some memorable, and exciting scenes. The fact that it is incredibly slow once it got going (40 minutes to build up the backstory, and then over an hour to wind it all up), the fact that the slow motion is horrendously overdone and repetitive makes that hour+ last forever - if you enjoy seeing men prance around half-naked and sweating then it's an enjoyable hour - but I found it boring for the most part.

The special effects made it seem like a comic book, sure, but what about the numerous other movies that didn't need to plaster their frames with all the latest gadgetry they could get their hands on, and still turned out ok.

The premise of the movie was also shit, and mainly revolved around the copious amounts of incredibly fake blood flying about with a life of it's own at the slightest fleshwound.

Overall, I don't regret seeing the movie, but I just think it was a bad movie, I didn't like the political undertones that were present in a number of the scenes, I didn't like the constant slow motion (yeah it's a nice effect but the movie looks like the director is a 12 year old kid who just discovered a new feature on his home camera) and most of all I thought the final few minutes were totally rushed when they spent a full minute watching a child run up to it's mother.

Rape scene? I have either seen a cut version or must have blacked out for a short period of time in the cinema

Why do I always miss the good scenes

she consented to it, against her better judgement/will - but technically she consented.