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If you can, go see this movie in Imax. A fucking experience I tell ya.
This movie blowed. It was just kinda full of itself, 1hour and 50 minutes of fighting and a few minutes of awful dialog. I don't know why they even bothered having half-assed subplots, they might've been better off just having the whole movie being a battle scene. And except for the first 15 minutes or so, the music was terrible.
It was entertaining though.
I wrote sucked first and then changed it to blowed, i know it should have been blew but it didn't have the kick I was looking for.I believe the term is "blew", but "blew" it certainly did not.
I have a question regarding the theme played at the end when the credits were rolling though. Is that song the same one that was in Gladiator? It sounded very familiar, though I haven't seen Gladiator for a long time and I don't have a copy on hand.
Once again, el Barto, it was accurate to Frank Miller's graphic novel, not the actual battle. If anything you should gripe about how inaccurate the graphic novel was, and when was the last time a comic book/graphic novel was held to such high historical accuracy? This isn't a Discovery Channel documentary, the rhinos and war elephants were just cool and badass, so Frank Miller drew them, so Zac Snyder directed them in. Though I did wonder at that too, I can't imagine those being the easiest things to take down...
Cosworth, did the gf enjoy the shirtless ripped dudes like most girls that I know who went to seeit?
@Blind_Io: Where were the Thespians? They played a very large role in the real battle if I'm not mistaken, they even refused to leave at the final battle just like the Spartans. And they made the Arcadians look like bumbling idiots. But mostly, I didn't mind the fact that there were many, many unrealistic aspects to the movie. What annoyed me was that none of those things enhanced the movie whatsoever for me. Take, for example the elephants and that huge rhino. Two things that were completely missing in real life. I assumed there would be some cool battle scenes with those animals added in. Nope. The rhino died with one spear throw by that asshole who's too much of a man to even flinch at a several ton rhino barreling down at him. And the elephants just fell of a cliff because "they were clumsy". Seriously WTF was the point of even having those scenes in the movie?
Gladiator was a "historically-based" movie that probably had tons and tons of errors. The difference between Gladiator and 300 is Gladiator had a story, and a good story too. Not some worthless subplots added onto an on-going battle.
Again, my main problem wasn't the fact that it was inaccurate. The problem is that it's just a bad movie . The inaccuracies were just a mild annoyance. Sure the film looked cool and all, but the storyline was shit, the dialog was shit, and the subplots were laughably bad.
There's 300 muscular, sweaty dudes in little clothing?The usual Frank Miller film. Tasty looking, but of little nutritional value. Worth seeing for one reason though. You know what it is.