300

[Jet]

Xerxes was badass. The wife was hot. The codpieces were hottt.

I recognize that the historical inaccuracy might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I was all over it. I think that for good movies to be made, openness to artistic license is not optional.

That said and even though it's a little ostentatious to say so, I think it would have been cool and innovative if they had choreographed more coordinated movement, like Busby Berkeley. I mean, come on. They could have ditched formation fighting entirely, but instead they spent 60 seconds talking about it and 6 seconds actually doing it.

Probably going at least once more this weekend.

 

[Immortal Ace]

The movie was indeed badass.

I saw it on 3/9 at exactly 12:01am. The movie was just awesome. Xerxes was hilarious to me.

Spoiler :

At the end, when Leonidas threw his spear at Xerxes, did the movie try to portray him as missing or simply to make Xerxes bleed so to shatter his belief that he was a god?

 

[JonnyB]

The movie was indeed badass.

I saw it on 3/9 at exactly 12:01am. The movie was just awesome. Xerxes was hilarious to me.

***spoiler****

Spoiler :

At the end, when Leonidas threw his spear at Xerxes, did the movie try to portray him as missing or simply to make Xerxes bleed so to shatter his belief that he was a god?

Spoilers should use [spoiler][/spoiler] tags. I can't turn my eyes off at will.

 

[CurtSibling]

Being of the mind that Mr Miller sucks, I think I will sidestep this movie.

...

 

[Sidhe]

Here's what really happened.

Spoiler :

Xerxes came upon Thermopylae, gateway to Greece, being as he couldn't go round it by sea because of the Athenian fleet he tried to take out the Spartan guard commanded by Leonidas, he was repulsed for several days, eventually they sent in the immortals, so called because when one died he was immediately replaced from the ranks, thus they never numbered less than 10,000, they were beaten off, then Leonidas was betrayed by an IIRC Athenian who showed Xerxes a pass around Thermopylae, Xerxes fell upon Leonidas and his men on both sides, they were all slain; did gain the Greeks valuable time, and Leonidas was practically deified after that for his courage and stalwart resistance. Xerxes or his army at least was eventually defeated at the battle of Platea.

It's a bit like watching Troy, if you know the history then a little bit of artistic licence isn't going to bother you that much.

 

[Immortal Ace]

Here's what really happened.

Spoiler :

Xerxes came upon Thermopylae, gateway to Greece, being as he couldn't go round it by sea because of the Athenian fleet he tried to take out the Spartan guard commanded by Leonidas, he was repulsed for several days, eventually they sent in the immortals, so called because when one died he was immediately replaced from the ranks, thus they never numbered less than 10,000, they were beaten off, then Leonidas was betrayed by an IIRC Athenian who showed Xerxes a pass around Thermopylae, Xerxes fell upon Leonidas and his men on both sides, they were all slain; did gain the Greeks valuable time, and Leonidas was practically deified after that for his courage and stalwart resistance. Xerxes or his army at least was eventually defeated at the battle of Platea.

It's a bit like watching Troy, if you know the history then a little bit of artistic licence isn't going to bother you that much.

Yes, I know this.

My question was

Spoiler :

In the entire move, Xerxes has this belief that he is indeed a god. I remember when Leonidas and Xerxes met for the first time in the movie, Leonidas said "something, something, and a King who will bleed" referring to Xerxes.

Now at the end of the move where Leonidas launches his spear at Xerxes before dying, the spear graced Xerxes right most part of his mouth/cheek. It ended with Xerxes being stunned and surprised. In the movie, did Leonidas miss on purpose to leave his mark and/or shatter Xerxes' belief that he's a god? Or did they try to make it look as if Leonidas tried to kill Xerxes but failed? (For history's sake seeing as Xerxes lived)

 

[Sidhe]

I was talking to Curt actually.

Since it never happened, I guess you'll have to answer that yourself, it is symbollic I suppose, that now Persia knew greece could hurt them and they weren't invincible, both Platea and Thermopyalae were lessons to the Persians, 1 Spartan was worth ten other fighting men, and 3 immortals, from that time on it was a bench mark.

Mind you you'd of thought Persia would of learnt their lesson the first time they invaded, historically after the ignomiminious defeat at Platea Persia never troubled Greece again, preferring to undermine it by sewing discord amongst city states with money and intrigue.Looking Fearfully at Greece and to divide it so it never united. The next time Greeks and Persians met over conquest of territory was when Alexander Invaded Turkey so the Persians failed even at sowing discord, eventually the Persians were crushed.

 

[Synobun]

I'm waiting to get the chance to see this movie, it looks awesome, and if it's anything like Troy, i'll love it.

 

[Jet]

@Immortal Ace:

Spoiler :

I didn't see him as missing on purpose. Almost hitting fits the heroism and tragedy of the story.

 

[Red Door]

I heard it sucked.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I loved it, except for the fact that the queen had the most annoying accent; reminded me of Keira Knightley.

Xerxes was freaking cool.

 

[ShannonCT]

Saw 300 last night. It was a 16-year-old, comic book lover's wet dream. As a 29-year-old, I still thought it was good fun. It doesn't have the depth of a Gladiator, and it won't be up for any Best Picture awards next year, but you don't get the feeling that it was trying for that anyway. For comic book style action/fantasy, you can't do much better.

Xerxes was freaking cool.

But why did he pick such weird women?

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Spoiler :

I think the mutated women were to impress upon Ephialtes that he would be accepted under Xerxes.

 

[downtown]

I just got back from seeing it...pretty decent film. The Persian army did have a lot of supernatural looking freaks though. What was up with the Jabba the Hut thing with the saws for arms? Or the goat who played the flute?

 

[MjM]

The movie was extremely good, I was hooked. Although I do agree about the weird creatures.. Historical innacurracy isnt that bad, but don't put titans and such

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Isn't showing here yet...

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

I just got back from seeing it...pretty decent film. The Persian army did have a lot of supernatural looking freaks though. What was up with the Jabba the Hut thing with the saws for arms? Or the goat who played the flute?

I believe that Jabba the Hut thing was the Persian Executor

 

[Synobun]

Stuff like that did exist in the older days. It'd take a long time for a human to do it to another, but possible.

 

[Taliesin]

Reviews like this make me unlikely to go see 300.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

From my experience, most reveiws are utter bull ****...

The I love about 300 is that I see it as a propaganda film from the veiw of the Spartans. Its like the Spartans are telling the story and they can turn it anything they want... so what do they do?

They claim Xerxes was 8 feet tall.
Persians had War Elephants the size of big ass Dinosaurs
They turn Persian Soldiers into monsters

All that good stuff... Its like the Spartans are starting of a propaganda Campaign to me. It may be bull, but damn its entertaining.