southsider2k5 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well I am offended by "Death to America" chants every Friday, but somehow I don't see that changing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddling Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 ...and we all know that Hollywood and the Bush administration are totally hand-in-hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 10, 2007 -> 03:25 PM) I didn't hate it. It just left me cold. I concur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshot7 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 QUOTE(shipps @ Mar 11, 2007 -> 12:34 AM) I dont know why,but it bothers me to hear anyone say they didnt like it.What do you expect from this movie?Would you have rather had the Spartans to win the war?Should they have had guns?Should the queen have been Beyonce? Â See Letters from Iwo Jima. More or less, the same story. But done well. Very well. Â Â Agree w/ everyone about Sin City. HORRIBLE movie. I walked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFanForever Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 QUOTE(juddling @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 03:04 PM) Well....guess who is 'offended' by the movie...... Tehran- Iran on Monday strongly condemned the US film company Warner Bros. over the allegedly "anti-Iranian" blockbuster film 300. Javad Shamqadri, art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told Fars news agency that the film was an insult to Persian culture and in line with the American "psychological war" against Iran.  Zack Snyder's film, based on a comic book by Frank Miller, tells the story of the battle of Thermopylae in Greek history in which 300 Spartan warriors led by King Leonidas heroically fought a massive Persian army attack, delaying an invasion by King Xerxes' forces and giving Greeks time for a counterattack.  Iran's has called foul over what it calls "deviation of history" but also because the Persians in the film were shown as "ugly and violent creatures rather than human beings."  The news network Khabar organised a special programme in which the film was evaluated from several angles by film critics who argued that the film's alleged efforts to expose Persians as violent was a US political plot implemented through Hollywood and the Warner Bros. company.  The state-run network also linked the film to ongoing political differences between Washington and Tehran such as the nuclear dispute.  The film critics further said that after Germans, Japanese, Russians and Arabs, Iranians seem to become the new "villian" in Hollywood productions.  A large number of Iranians abroad have already started a worldwide email campaign to send protest missives to Warner Bros. for having insulted Persian culture and history.  The film reportedly made 70 million dollars over its opening weekend, making it the first official blockbuster of the year   Considering this movie appealed to the 18-35 male bracket I highly doubt it was designed to corrupt Americans into hating Persian/Iranian/Middle Eastern Culture. Whether they would like to believe it or not, there are still a few educated and cultured Americans who are not swoon by a flash Hollywood movie. I swear, the stupidity that some people display just in an effort to show they are offended is getting extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 06:29 PM) See Letters from Iwo Jima. More or less, the same story. But done well. Very well. Agree w/ everyone about Sin City. HORRIBLE movie. I walked out. Â it's not more or less the same story. One was based off of actual events, the other was based off of a comic book. It's a comic book movie. As was sin city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFanForever Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 QUOTE(bmags @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 11:07 PM) it's not more or less the same story. One was based off of actual events, the other was based off of a comic book. It's a comic book movie. As was sin city. Althought not a historic piece by any stretch of the imagination, 300 wasn't based on historic events? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 05:37 PM) Althought not a historic piece by any stretch of the imagination, 300 wasn't based on historic events? Link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFanForever Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 15, 2007 -> 12:45 AM) Link. Like I said in the previous post, "Based" on historic events. I never said it was even close to historically accurate. I know the story, I studied it in school (not saying that any schools account is historically that accurate either. It was nearly 2,500 years ago.). I am just pointing out that they used the historical backdrop of the Battle of Thermopylae. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodAsGould Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Yeah, a lot of the movie was based on historic events, they even had a thing about the oracle right... besides the part of her boob slipping out and the guy licking her.(not saying Leonidas actually went to the oracle historically but if he did...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonWeltall Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 It would be nice if that reviewer would mention that the entire story is being told by a Spartan warrior. Why would Dilios talk about some sea battle he wasn't a part of? Why is it unreasonable for him to glorify his countrymen and villify his enemies? Â He also throws in some ridiculous shots about defending eugenics and presenting Xerxes as a homosexual (the kind of homosexual that lives in a tent full of naked women, apparently). He really sounds like he has an axe to grind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LosMediasBlancas Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Just got back from seeing it, enjoyed it a lot. I've heard a lot of people complaining about the slow mo battle scenes. That was actually one of my favorite things. I don't like the hyper speed, dizzying way that some of the recent battle films have been made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 10, 2007 -> 11:59 AM) I'd argue that Hollywood is already in ruins because the standards aren't high enough. Â Â what, Dukes of Hazzard II wasn't up to your standards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I saw it late last night and I was in the mood to see some serious badass action scenes but left thinking eh. It was basically just another movie. The problem was the director was f***ing horrible. The movie lacked the a smooth plot development and was just overall to choppy and that sort of directing prevented the movie from ever really having a climax of any sort. You waited for a legendary battle speach and didnt' get one, you waited for some sort of plot development (without being chopped up) and it just never happened. Â Get a good director and someone who could have made the script a little more made for a movie and I think you could have really had something. Â Still I enjoyed the fight scenes its just this movie could have been a very good movie but it just failed in certain areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipWellsFan Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Pretty decent movie but doesn't hold a candle to Sin City. Xerxes was badass though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan1 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Finally going to see this tomorrow. Can't wait... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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