300 trailer

**Krusader** · 09-22-2006, 12:01

http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=453&item=0

For the movie 300 based on the comic by the same name by Frank Miller. About the 300 Spartans who fought at Thermopylae.

Seems like to be a good enough action movie, maybe not 100% historically accurate or politcally correct

Anywho, don't expect Spartiatai in EB to be like these Spartans.

**Simmons** · 09-22-2006, 13:15

Wow I don't really know what to say its either going to be really good in a surreal non historical action way (sort of like SG-1 but with blood and no science) or really really really bad.

**paullus** · 09-22-2006, 13:37

i'm kinda leaning toward the latter (really really bad)...it looks like it might have been successful in the 80s, as a rock opera for a low quality hair band.

**iberus_generalis** · 09-22-2006, 13:48

i don't know what to think of it...it looks another alexander movie...a fiasco...i looks a bit surreal...some unreal creatrures....but if in the end it good, i don't care if it0s unhistorical... but for now, i must say the arrow tips look a bit too exagerated, who would use such a thing? its not aerodynamic, and doesn't looks too real...and a movie about what? the massacre of 300 spartans by arrow fire? the would be all dead before they had the possibility of landing the first blow with their swords... the persians slaughtered them with arrows...so i don't see the point of making a movie about spartans...and after all, why do they keep going about with the spartan myth? thebans were like the spartans, but at least didn't sufered so shameful defeats...the spartans lost once to peltasts so..i guess the spartan miss is just unfunded reputation and propaganda...

but let's wait and see..maybe it will be a good movie...

**paullus** · 09-22-2006, 13:53

No, the Spartans were certainly worthy of their reputation. They and their allies held out against a much larger force at Thermopylae, and defeated them at Plataea (at which the Spartans again played a critical role), they were the best hoplite force in Greece for a couple of centuries.

Saying they aren't good because of the defeat by peltasts isn't hardly fair: that signalled the end of hoplite supremacy; it could have happened to any unaccompanied hoplite force, and signalled the need for combined arms as cities with inferior hoplites began recruiting peltasts and more cavalry to try to even the balance against states like Sparta.

**eadingas** · 09-22-2006, 14:05

Forget history, enjoy the movie :) It's a comic book adaptation, not a historical lecture... the comic was cool, and this looks like can be quite an entertaining piece.

**iberus_generalis** · 09-22-2006, 14:09

i think the superiority of sparta, is no more than propaganda...sure they had good soldiers, but i think the things ppl say they did, are a bit exagerated...the superiority of sparta, is IMO like the superiority of USA, ppl say it in the news, but when one looks closely we see they are not so superior as they say...the sure did have a culture, and the americans do have good equipement, but that doesn't win everything..take the portuguese military forces, internationaly, and to the public, they are not known, as superior, quite the contrary, but in the military competitions the portuguese military rock, it's said by military experts, that our commandoes, and paratroopers, and common troopers are some of the most better trained, being trained in the arsher conditions, and as troops are as best as you can get, and some of our instructors are requested to go and teach in other countries like spain, britain, and france....but due to our small size, and international unimportance, our military forces go unoticed.. the same i feel happened with sparta and thebes, they had good soldiers and all, at the cost of everything that characterized them as hellenic(they were very poor in culture, and art), but some other cities like thebes, that might have been better than them, were eclipsed by all the propaganda that sparta was better....

i don't know the comic...but i do know that frank miller did sin city...and if sin city is an indicative of the quality...well i guess im gonna look for 300.....now all i have to do is find it in a comic store, and buy it...how many issues were there?

**fallen851** · 09-23-2006, 04:56

Originally Posted by paullus

they were the best hoplite force in Greece for a couple of centuries. Saying they aren't good because of the defeat by peltasts isn't hardly fair: that signalled the end of hoplite supremacy

Well hoplites were still an important part of the battlefield when Thebes laid the smack down on Sparta. I think Spartans are overrated by history in general. They nearly cost Greece the war at Platea, and of course their defeat to Thebes doesn't bode well for them either.

Still I expect an overpowered Spartan in EB.

**Magnificant me** · 09-24-2006, 01:41

I think it is going to be a good popcorn movie. Who cairs if you don't learn some thing from it, it will be fun to wach none the less.

**NeoSpartan** · 09-24-2006, 05:11

HEY I know this isn't going to be 100% hitorically accurate, but still is going to be preatty darn good.

Oh by the way check out this clip of the trainning the actors had to go through. VIDEO JOURNAL #3 scroll down to watch it.
http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/video_journals.html

(man i am going to adjust my workout rutine just like the trainer says in the video)