300

[BLACK]

Fucking amazing. Did anyone else see it?

[Siri]

Not yet but Ill be going tonight with my brothers :D

[BLACK]

It owns. Face.



Everyone in it is absolutely ripped, except the pussy ass Persians.

[Pseudonymous]

i would of seen it yesterday and tonight, but the tickets were sold out :o

[Infamous]

Just saw the movie.
Proud to be greek. :>

[Archaos]

Saw it yesterday...or well two days ago now.

Friday night.
I thought it was pretty good.

[Hetzle]

The movie was such eye candy.

Complete shit of a plot, but it looked really cool.

Oh yeah, and if you do the math...near the start they say that the Persians have 2-3 million soldiers, and at the end they have 10,000 Greeks commanding 30,000 more (30+10=40), so 40,000 Greeks. They then say that the Persians have 3 times the numbers of the remaining Greeks, so that makes out to 120,000 Persians.

300 Spartans killed 1.8-2.8 million Persians, try touching that siege score, Catalyst.

EDIT~That's 6266 and 2/3 to 9600 kills per person.

[Grindrolas]

in before one of the faggots claim they could

[Tengil]

Lol ofc they could!!!!11111oneoneoneone5

Red sauce on pasta, never forget that.

[LordChowder]

lol IRL the spartans did kill a couple thousand of the persians. the biggest thing they accomplished was delaying the persians a bit, and giving the rest of greece something to unify under. so while in reality they didnt kill that many persians, they did do alot in the overall scheme of things. but anyone that watched this movie thinking it would be a documentary is rather silly... xerces is like a 7 foot tall pierced and tattooed brazilian man. that should cue in speculation. and sure, while spartans DID wear armor, sometimes man tits are so profound they need to be viewed by the world.

[lilcookie]

Yeah saw it today, awesome movie. Sat next to a makeout couple though, really pissed me off. They were either slobbering all over eachother or the girl was going awwwwwwwww or grossssssssssssssss at everything in the movie. I wanted to smash her in the face.

And lol at the leper with the wizard hat at the end of the movie.

[Craysh]

Damn good. And the last scene looked like a painting.
Damn good skillz in this movie.

[Infamous]

The movie was such eye candy.

Complete shit of a plot, but it looked really cool.

Oh yeah, and if you do the math...near the start they say that the Persians have 2-3 million soldiers, and at the end they have 10,000 Greeks commanding 30,000 more (30+10=40), so 40,000 Greeks. They then say that the Persians have 3 times the numbers of the remaining Greeks, so that makes out to 120,000 Persians.

300 Spartans killed 1.8-2.8 million Persians, try touching that siege score, Catalyst.

EDIT~That's 6266 and 2/3 to 9600 kills per person.
The actual premise of what really happened is something like 300 spartans delayed the hundreds of thousands of persians for like 1-2 weeks while the rest of greece and the spartans army united and unified to fight the persians. Of course everything is played up its a movie. Also kald if you listen theres a considerable time period between the 300 falling, and the unified greeks attacking the persians. :P

[Craysh]

The actual premise of what really happened is something like 300 spartans delayed the hundreds of thousands of persians for like 1-2 weeks while the rest of greece and the spartans army united and unified to fight the persians. Of course everything is played up its a movie. Also kald if you listen theres a considerable time period between the 300 falling, and the unified greeks attacking the persians. :P
I'd think it was more vise-versa.
Their was a lot of time between the Persians attacking Sparta :P

[Infamous]

Same difference :C

[Craysh]

Not really. It shows that the huge Persian force stalled because of the 300 men instead of the Spartans taking forever to pull people together.

[Infamous]

The moral of the story is still that greeks > you.

[Archaos]

and of course irish > greeks

[Grog]

if i went to the cinema and saw a film that was factually and historically accurate id want my money back

[Archaos]

if i went to the cinema and saw a film that was factually and historically accurate id want my money back

it would be like a bunch of people dying from the plague and farming...not that interesting. lol

[Zelandra]

The movie was flawless and now I will be dissapointed every time I go to the movies because no future movie will live up to what 300 has done.

Absolutely flawless.

Even the little romance they had in the movie ended up with even a woman being fucking badass, loved it.

You'd think they ruin the story by inserting some sort of romance, just like they did with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (awful movies), but luckily they decided that killing people is better.

[Infamous]

It also displayed that greeks are indeed superior lovers.

[Craysh]

And the clothes that the queen wore? ..:: Drool ::..

[Zelandra]

It also displayed that greeks are indeed superior lovers.

Did you see the preview for Pathfinder? Seems like my forefathers went over to North America, raped people, and left. Then came back to fuck them up again.

"Hey Sven, want a good fuck? Lets head over to America again. Bwhahaha"

[Siri]

lol IRL the spartans did kill a couple thousand of the persians. the biggest thing they accomplished was delaying the persians a bit, and giving the rest of greece something to unify under. so while in reality they didnt kill that many persians, they did do alot in the overall scheme of things. but anyone that watched this movie thinking it would be a documentary is rather silly... xerces is like a 7 foot tall pierced and tattooed brazilian man. that should cue in speculation. and sure, while spartans DID wear armor, sometimes man tits are so profound they need to be viewed by the world.


Mmmm man tits:shock:

[Pseudonymous]

Finally saw it and i'm glad i went to the earliest show time at the theater. Everything else was sold out and there were many lines

[Hetzle]

The actual premise of what really happened is something like 300 spartans delayed the hundreds of thousands of persians for like 1-2 weeks while the rest of greece and the spartans army united and unified to fight the persians. Of course everything is played up its a movie. Also kald if you listen theres a considerable time period between the 300 falling, and the unified greeks attacking the persians. :P
The movie didn't really follow history lol, we all know how it really went down, but the movie kinda blew it all out of proportion.

And it was 10,000 Spartans leading 30,000 Greeks, and the Persians had 3 times their numbers at the end.

[Infamous]

Greek hater.

[Craysh]

Didn't the persians originally have like 10x their number Hetzle? O.o

[BLACK]

Nobody can agree what the Persian attack force was precisely, but most historians speculate that it was between 200,000 and 2,000,000 men.

[Digita1]

I don't care what you say about accuracy. Go fuck yourself if you take a movie that seriously.

That movie was fucking EPICENDARY! That's epic and lengedary, ALL AT ONCE.

Goddamn, between watching Troy and drooling over Brad Pitt and watching 300 now, I must say, I want them all! :D

[BLACK]

GANGBANG


Apparently to join the Spartan army, you needed to do a shitload of crunches.

[Hetzle]

Didn't the persians originally have like 10x their number Hetzle? O.o
The movie said there were 2-3 million Persians that were gonna attack Sparta in the beginning.

[Hetzle]

I don't care what you say about accuracy. Go fuck yourself if you take a movie that seriously.

That movie was fucking EPICENDARY! That's epic and lengedary, ALL AT ONCE.

Goddamn, between watching Troy and drooling over Brad Pitt and watching 300 now, I must say, I want them all! :D
Lol I could give a shit about historical accuracy, they had an insane kill-death ratio >_>

[BLACK]

If I'm not mistaken, they didn't have anyone die in the first fight :O

[Digita1]

No one died until the Immortals came into the battle. And yet they prevailed!

[BLACK]

All those ab workouts paid off imo.

[Magir]

Did you see the preview for Pathfinder? Seems like my forefathers went over to North America, raped people, and left. Then came back to fuck them up again.

"Hey Sven, want a good fuck? Lets head over to America again. Bwhahaha"

that preview reminded me so much of Conan the Barbarian.

[WiGgLr]

It's based on a comic book fiction by the same name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(comic_book)).

It is not supposed to be historically accurate!

[Zengetsu]

The movie didn't really follow history lol, we all know how it really went down, but the movie kinda blew it all out of proportion.

And it was 10,000 Spartans leading 30,000 Greeks, and the Persians had 3 times their numbers at the end.

Its a movie based off a fucking comic and it served its purpose of entertaining and then some..... who the fuck cares about historical accuracy that countless critics keep moaning about to try and sound like they are the hardcore rebels trying to be the only ones giving it bad reviews... besides what the fuck else is a movie BESIDES eye candy... just enjoy the damn thing

[BLACK]

Yeah.

[Talorth]

ZOMGZ LOTR IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!

I have yet to see this movie. I'm lazy.

[Hetzle]

Its a movie based off a fucking comic and it served its purpose of entertaining and then some..... who the fuck cares about historical accuracy that countless critics keep moaning about to try and sound like they are the hardcore rebels trying to be the only ones giving it bad reviews... besides what the fuck else is a movie BESIDES eye candy... just enjoy the damn thing
Lol it was an awesome movie, and I never said anything about historical accuracy, that's just an insane kill ratio :P

[Zelandra]

Lol it was an awesome movie, and I never said anything about historical accuracy, that's just an insane kill ratio :P

Only way they could get the kill ratio down was to include the hunchback. Did anyone realize how there was no way they could die (the way the movie made it look) unless they were attacked from behind? I mean, Cavalry on horses, elephants and a charging rhino couldn't take them out, I'm pretty sure nothing could ;p

[Craysh]

They showed a lot of the spartans dying before the end too.

[BLACK]

NERF THE PHALANX

[Pseudonymous]

the disfigured midget was a backstabber, i hope he died from that giant tumor on his back

[Digita1]

Or....

You hope he lived forever, so that he had to live with what he did forever, probably torturing him far worse than the release of death?

[Pseudonymous]

how about chop off his penis, legs, and arms and have him live forever?

[Damascus]

Or just kill him. Stabby stab yay.

[LordBelial]

It also displayed that greeks are indeed superior lovers.

qft oO

THIS IS MADNESS! :p

[SLCR]

lol IRL the spartans did kill a couple thousand of the persians. the biggest thing they accomplished was delaying the persians a bit, and giving the rest of greece something to unify under. so while in reality they didnt kill that many persians, they did do alot in the overall scheme of things. but anyone that watched this movie thinking it would be a documentary is rather silly... xerces is like a 7 foot tall pierced and tattooed brazilian man. that should cue in speculation. and sure, while spartans DID wear armor, sometimes man tits are so profound they need to be viewed by the world.

Eh, most of it's already been covered by other users' comments, but...

If you've read the book Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield, you'll find that Xerxes, along with most of the Persian and Immortal(s) soldiers were heavily ornamented with jewels, piercings, etc. As in literally, A LOT more looks than armors and practicality in general. Generally they just relied on their sheer numbers to overwhelm their foes, as opposed to outright grisled combat ala the Greek armies. Xerxes has always been depicted as a visually elegant/wealthy conqueror, just like he was in the movie/graphic novel 300, and he was similarly depicted in the critically acclaimed novel Gates of Fire.

But yeah, I realize that most of you were probably already aware of all that, heh. <shrug>

Edit: Since people are mentioning LOTR (novels or otherwise), keep an eye out for the upcoming HBO series A Song of Ice and Fire. The author, George R. R. Martin, is widely considered the American Tolkien of our time, in terms of the sheer gravity of his seven-book series (aforementioned). The first novel A Game of Thrones was written in like 97-98, and the final two (I think) novels are still in the works. HBO is going to fucking rock this series so much better than it could have ever been presented on the widescreen.

[Grog]

just saw it, pretty damn good i must say

[Craysh]

Edit: Since people are mentioning LOTR (novels or otherwise), keep an eye out for the upcoming HBO series A Song of Ice and Fire. The author, George R. R. Martin, is widely considered the American Tolkien of our time, in terms of the sheer gravity of his seven-book series (aforementioned). The first novel A Game of Thrones was written in like 97-98, and the final two (I think) novels are still in the works. HBO is going to fucking rock this series so much better than it could have ever been presented on the widescreen.

Damn good series
I'm still waiting for Jon Snow to take his birthright despite being a bastard

[mono]

bwL0_izeNuQ

[Craysh]

Damn you Mono, I thought you had the A Song of Ice and Fire preview >.<

[mono]

:twisted:

[Mordenkainen]

Lol, that's pretty cool.
Meanwhile... 300 isn't even in cinemas where I live >.>
It'll be here in a little under a week.

Fucking bum country.

[Craysh]

http://www.acc.umu.se/%7Ezqad/cats/1174327506-madness.jpg

[SLCR]

I'm simultaneously suprised and not surprised how black and white opinions have been of 300. People are apparently either loving it, or disappointed with it. Huh. I chalk it up to a misunderstanding of what to expect, TBH.

[Damascus]

I fully expect men stabbing each other, and a bit of yelling. Maybe someone gets chopped? It's entirely possible another man gets kicked, but that might be hoping for a bit much.

Just finished up reading a bunch of Sin City comics though, and I actually found I enjoyed them. Marv is such an awesome character.

[ACB]

didnt watch it yet and not goin 2 seems like it sucks ass... well what to say a american movie... a army of 300 that kills a army of 500000 yah right lol

[Damascus]

didnt watch it yet and not goin 2 seems like it sucks ass... well what to say a american movie... a army of 300 that kills a army of 500000 yah right lol

>.>

[ACB]

>.>

i mean there is plenty of movies that i like tho but it seems to be one of these totally unreal movies :<

[Damascus]

Funny, considering it's based off of true events more so than most movies like that :p

[ACB]

orly? didnt know that lol

[Damascus]

Yea, read over the earlier posts in this thread - people discuss the numbers thing. I think the basic summary is that while historians can't agree on just how many the persians really took to the field, it was at least 10,000, and there was no more than 300 spartans. The spartans were born and raised as warriors, and picked the right spot to hold the enemies off at. The cinematography in the movie is pretty stylised though, as it's based off of a graphic novel.

[SLCR]

orly? didnt know that lol
See, there's this thing called "reading a thread" before you post. That way, you actually know what's going on!

<___>

I'm surprised you never learned about the Battle of Thermopylae in school. Or just have never heard about it in general...

[Craysh]

I'm simultaneously suprised and not surprised how black and white opinions have been of 300. People are apparently either loving it, or disappointed with it. Huh. I chalk it up to a misunderstanding of what to expect, TBH.
I think it depends on your knowledge of it.
I enjoyed it but I haven't exactly studied the war.
When I saw shooter I think I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so pissed that this supposed elite sniper was shooting incorrectly :P

[Damascus]

See, there's this thing called "reading a thread" before you post. That way, you actually know what's going on!

<___>

I'm surprised you never learned about the Battle of Thermopylae in school. Or just have never heard about it in general...

Depends where he comes from though, we don't tend to learn much in the way of history in high school in Australia, and I'm betting you that the average korean or chinese high school curriculum doesn't include all that much ancient greek history.

However, if ACB is american then yeah, I'd be surprised too.

[Grog]

he's german, clearly it was deemed inefficient to teach them about history

[Alrus]

See, there's this thing called "reading a thread" before you post. That way, you actually know what's going on!

<___>

I'm surprised you never learned about the Battle of Thermopylae in school. Or just have never heard about it in general...

Actually I never heard about it... over the past years I learned about European history during the last 300 years...

[ACB]

See, there's this thing called "reading a thread" before you post. That way, you actually know what's going on!

<___>

I'm surprised you never learned about the Battle of Thermopylae in school. Or just have never heard about it in general...

i dont give a shit :3

its b/c i can fuckface

[Siri]

Depends where he comes from though, we don't tend to learn much in the way of history in high school in Australia, and I'm betting you that the average korean or chinese high school curriculum doesn't include all that much ancient greek history.

Yeah /agree
I was going to say that actually but Damascus said it before me >.<

[Siri]

I thought it was pretty neat tho . The Spartans were so buffed and intimadating.
And I loved how they used spears and actually used their shields more. I enjoyed that more than seeing the whole sword fighting in every other movie.

[ACB]

yah never heard of that fight tho o_o we didnt learn that much history we focused mainly on ww I / II

[Damascus]

We learned about WW1/2, and the settlement of Australia in our high school history lessons. Those who chose the study a higher level of history went on to learn about ancient greek, egyptian and other stuff like that, but it didn't fit in my the other subjects I'd chosen so I never got to study them.

[BLACK]

World History is a joke of a class.

I don't see why everybody bitches about the so called incorrectness of the movie. It was based on a graphic novel. If you want to bitch about historical correctness, go bitch at Frank Miller.

[Damascus]

I think sometimes people forget that movies are a form of entertainment.

[SLCR]

Good points made over the last few posts. ACB, I can understand how you wouldn't have heard of it. However if you have the opportunity to learn more about ancient Greece, I'd recommend it. IMO, it was one of the more fascinating periods.

[WiGgLr]

When your own country has a history, you get taught about that and not about other countries :D

[Archaos]

Low blow.

[Zelandra]

When your own country has a history, you get taught about that and not about other countries :D

It took me about 8 years to learn Swedish History.

It took me 2 months to learn American :<

[Infamous]

The US is only a few hundred years old......

[Damascus]

Australia is even younger! OLD COUNTRY!

[SLCR]

I have 300 on DVD, and it's so hard not to watch it, lol. Jennie's been so sweet and dilligent at waiting to see it with me in a few weeks :3

[WiGgLr]

Not sure that Lesley and I will get to see it at the Cinema, so *AHEM* (http://rapidshare.com/files/22090749/nep-300dvdscr-xvid-sample.avi.html)

BTW, if you use that link, you'll want to change your trackers to:
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[stockfisch]

Not sure that Lesley and I will get to see it at the Cinema, so *AHEM* (http://rapidshare.com/files/22090749/nep-300dvdscr-xvid-sample.avi.html)



got deleted

however, i'll go see the pre-premiere tonight woot woot

[WiGgLr]

got deleted

however, i'll go see the pre-premiere tonight woot woot

That's why I posted alternative trackers, I started downloading it shortly before I posted the *ahem*

[stockfisch]

mother fucking awesome movie
just epic

[HooB]

need a damn 720p dvd release before i'm gonna watch it

[stockfisch]

go to the movies slacker, or dl it from damme's ftp just like i did (haven't watched damme's though so idk if it's a good quality or not)

[HooB]

go to the movies slacker, or dl it from damme's ftp just like i did

It's a dvdscreener >< Might be worth watching on my computerscreen but not on the really nice 42" plasma

[WiGgLr]

It's a dvdscreener >< Might be worth watching on my computerscreen but not on the really nice 42" plasma

My HDTV is a 32" LCD, so I can still get away with watching non-HD without it looking too bad. I don't have an HD-DVD player yet though. I refuse to get the xbox360 add-on until it's needed for games as the 360 makes too much noise.

It'll be on SkyHD soon enough though :D

[dejaVu]

watched 300 tonite....and its fucking awesome!!

[exiledone]

this movie is so fucking good, the moment i left the movie theater, i grabbed a small child, set him infront of me, yelled THIS ISSS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and kicked him across the parking lot.


needless to say his parents shook my hand and thanked me.

[ACB]

LOL

[Craysh]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/070415.jpg

[Zelandra]

I cried when I saw that

[exiledone]

I cried when I saw that

same i just shit my pants in a torrent of laughter and tears

[Archaos]

lol. that is awesome.

[WiGgLr]

http://leonidasunstoppable.ytmnd.com/