300 movie

[IceWolf]

The St Louis Post-Dispatch and salon.com both gave it a bad review. I'm dissapointed and will likely wait for it to come on HBO

IceWolf

[Sarmatian]

Actually I read several excellent critics the film received. It will be fun to see Frenk Miller's version of the battle. I haven't read his comic books, but I enjoyed Sin City very much.

[TinCow]

There are many good reviews and many bad reviews. However, even the "bad" reviews tend to only rate it poorly because of its style. This seems to be a pretty obvious case of making sure the movie fits your taste. If you liked Sin City, you're pretty much guaranteed to like 300. If you don't like stylized comic book violence, don't go see it.

Also, please do not try and analyze it from a historical perspective. 300 was never meant to be historically accurate. It is intentionally a mythical version of the battle. Complaints about accuracy are rather pointless. I'm not saying you're doing that, but this is the Monastery, so it's bound to happen.

[ShadeHonestus]

long thread on this flick in the "Frontroom"

[Pindar]

There are many good reviews and many bad reviews. However, even the "bad" reviews tend to only rate it poorly because of its style. This seems to be a pretty obvious case of making sure the movie fits your taste. If you liked Sin City, you're pretty much guaranteed to like 300. If you don't like stylized comic book violence, don't go see it.

Also, please do not try and analyze it from a historical perspective. 300 was never meant to be historically accurate. It is intentionally a mythical version of the battle. Complaints about accuracy are rather pointless. I'm not saying you're doing that, but this is the Monastery, so it's bound to happen.


See my thread here: The Movie 300 (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=80930)

(intra-forum linking, quite exciting!)

[Suraknar]

Well,

~possibile Spoilers~

I am very Historically inclined, and because I am I recognise the importance of Art in our History.

I was not expecting another version of 60's movie "The 300 Spartans", which fueled my own immagination when I was a kid.

So I went to see an Artistic Perspective of the Historical Events and that is exactly what this is.

I really liked the movie, and how it interprets Historical events, I had heard it had some "fantasy" elements in to it and the degree of it is what worried me, but after watching it I find that any fantasy elements are superbly blended in and not exagerated.

This is like watching a Legend unfold before your eyes rather than visualising a historical Book describing the events.

Two Thumbs up!

So when you do watch it dont judge it from a modern point of view. As what you see could have very well been in the minds of the people back then. From one side Spartans were perceived as they are portrayed in this move on the other Persians were also perceived as they are shown.

Folcloric perception is what this movie is all about, and folcloric perception of the "then" people on top of it.

You will not hear Greek historical phrases, "Itan I epitas" or the famous "Molon Lave", yet they are there translated in english, you will not see Themistocles of the Athenians, not even the Second King of Sparta, yet the spirit of Spartans deeply rooted in to Spartan Tradition is there.

Spartans were a warrior culture, the "Macho" Elite of Greece in terms of Land Warfare, and all that is in that movie interpreted by the the rendering of spartans, tough, hard and muscular.

Yes by todays standards, some people say "homo-erotism", ...and? ...so? ...it is about greece in he 5th century BC, anyone knowing Greek History would know that in the Then Greek Culture, almost all ancient Greeks were Bi-sexual by todays standards, all more credit to the movie I say, these were pre-christian times, the concepts of love and Sex and mariage had very different meanings back then.

All the better, it may even prouve educational to some, who may come out of the theater with the thirst of wanting to find out more, with the thirst to learn the History behind this famous battle and the events sourounding that period, and in the proces learn more about their own selves.

I really appreciated this adaptation from an artistic and a conceptual point of view.

So watch it, and dont get boggled up by its form rather accept it as is, an artist's interpretation of events that did mark our history.

And above all enjoy its entetaining value, it is a movie not a documentary :)

[Decker]

Did anyone watch a program of it on the History Channel? I thought it was pretty good.

[TinCow]

I just saw it and I agree with every word that Suraknar said.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

This movie is badass. Period.

[Decker]

This movie is badass. Period.
SHHHHH!!!! Don't give away the ending!

Yea the History Channel did give it a very nice perspective of the battle. If they did a decent sized show of it and promoted and released it several days after the movie came out, then hecka people probably would've watched either before or after they watched the movie. As I had no idea it was playing.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Yeah, I had no idea until last Friday (the night it was to come out) that it was coming out. It's a good thing I found out though.

[The Wizard]

It seemed a bit melodramatic, to me, as I was watching the trailer. "This is madness!" "This... is... SPARTA!!!" ~D

However, the comic book was awesome and I even saw Snakes on a Plane (which had a similar hype on the internets) and had a laugh about that, so I'll go and see 300 as well methinks.