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300: Written by Frank Miller (Sin City), Directed by Zack Snyder (1 Viewer)

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I lost the link, but there was a pretty funny analysis of the rampant fascism in the film primarily through the depiction of Spartan society rofl.

Its a popcorn film, no more, no less, I don't think anyone involved thought it to be anything more than that and for what it aims to do, it does it well I think.
 

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But narrating what we can already see?

It really fucking irritated me.
 

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Hehe it didn't really bother me too much, actually thought it was quite good (david wenham ftw)
 

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well i'm late

but i fucking hated this movie
awful awful awful
 

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I loved it! Wanna see it again. I don't bother with this "is the storylyne gud??!" rubbish, etc. If the movie's entertaining, the movie is good.
 

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My thoughts exactly, if I enjoyed it thoroughly then it's a good movie.
 

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Re: Frank Millers 300!!!!!

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am i the only one who thinks it looks like a bad computer game?
(will see it anyway)
Bad video game with dubious political motives. Probably stunning visuals. Will probably make teenage boys wet themselves (easy to cheer for one side, oozing with homoeroctic overtones and good looking stylised violence).

If it's anything like sin city I'll probably think it's more cool than great

I might watch it on DVD :\
 
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the sea of abs and pecs made me wanna go to the gym and work out for like 6 hours or something. fuckn tanks.

u guys reckon they're real or mostly airbrushed?
 

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Musk said:
airbrushed
'sif. They just took a photo of my abs and copy pasted them on every single spartan.

Serious.
 

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but still, i reckon gerard butler's might be real. and maybe even david wenham. coz i heard they did have some intensive 2 month work out thing specifically to build the abs. probably 5000 situps a day or something. dunno.
that was seriosuly the largest collection of tanks i've ever seen in a movie.
 

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No actually, I heard from an interview that they went through some training to bring out the muscles that were already there (ie getting rid of fat). So all the muscles you see there are all real.

Except for the fact that when editing, they placed the light so the abs are more prominent etc.

And as for entertainment-wise, I never said it wasn't entertaining :) I watch movies for entertainment purposes yes, but I also want to hear a story, I wanna get lost in it. Blatant narration hurts the imagination.
 

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ur_inner_child said:
No actually, I heard from an interview that they went through some training to bring out the muscles that were already there (ie getting rid of fat). So all the muscles you see there are all real.

Except for the fact that when editing, they placed the light so the abs are more prominent etc.

And as for entertainment-wise, I never said it wasn't entertaining :) I watch movies for entertainment purposes yes, but I also want to hear a story, I wanna get lost in it. Blatant narration hurts the imagination.
yea i didn't really like the narration as well..the fact that the narrator sounded like a pirate :uhhuh:
 

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So was Spiderman, Sin City, and V for Vendetta...

Anyway, the more I repeat myself, the more I sound like I hated it, in which I don't!
 

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Overhyped.

Visuals were all awesome.

Script was shit.

If I hear another Hollywood America will conquer all speech I'm going to spew.


Edit: Sin City and V for Vendetta are two of my favourite movies.
 

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Fuck what you all say :D i loved this move! The battlescenes got my heart beating and my blood raging, i was almost breathless on how awesome the visual features were, and i was in awe of just how good it was!

Cant wait till it comes out on DVD.
 

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Horay! You've entered my speciality!

It's by Tyler Bates :) Same film composer who did "Dawn of the Dead".

The trailer had Nine Inch Nails "Just Like You Imagined".
 

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