300 Sequel

[Ace-o-fire]

I don't think it's going to be a "sequel" like another story of the spartans...

Frank Miller is hard at work prepping a follow-up to 300 based on another mythic tale from Greek history.

That sounds like to me it's not about the spartans but some other people. Same era (or close to it), same area, different culture, different story. I can't wait to hear what greek story he's going to do next.

Athens Greece's obsession with having sex with younger men i here?

[Bwelch]

Jesus, some people just need to watch the movie a second time to understand it. It's okay, it happens and I sometimes do it myself but oh god, lol this thread.

[finale23]

I don't think it's going to be a "sequel" like another story of the spartans...

Frank Miller is hard at work prepping a follow-up to 300 based on another mythic tale from Greek history.

That sounds like to me it's not about the spartans but some other people. Same era (or close to it), same area, different culture, different story. I can't wait to hear what greek story he's going to do next.

Athens Greece's obsession with having sex with younger men i here?

i wonder what parental rating the movie would be given? /b/? hah

[kuronosan]

Wow, you don't fucking say? What gave it away?

Your lack of intelligence.

[Koyuki]

Wow, you don't fucking say? What gave it away?

Your lack of intelligence.

Talk about irony

[Huggo]

Wow, you don't fucking say? What gave it away?

Your lack of intelligence.

Whoosh

[Melchiah]

If you have a legitimate gripe about the filmography of the movie, then ROCK ON. If you didn't like the lighting, or the plot or the writing ROCK ON. If you bitch about historical accuracy then you are a goddamned sexual intellectual moron who clearly missed the point of the movie. If you try to find political undertones to cry about, well like I said before you can find Jesus in a jar of olives if you bullshit yourself enough.

Edit: Ok, for all you history buffs, when you saw 8 ft tall Xerxes with gold body paint did that not clue you in that you were in a place of entertainment rather than a classroom? Or how about the elephants the size of three story houses? WHOOSH Those two things alone should have given you the impression that you were listening to a fantastic, over-the-top exaggerated retelling of the battle by a wounded soldier who was sent home to prepare for the next battle. Jesus.

[Jefe]

Edit: Ok, for all you history buffs, when you saw 8 ft tall Xerxes with gold body paint did that not clue you in that you were in a place of entertainment rather than a classroom? Or how about the elephants the size of three story houses? WHOOSH

You don't have to go THAT far, the movie's tag line is: "They were 300 vs an army of one million." <_<

I thought the movie was very entertaining, and it was well worth the 10 bucks I paid. Also, I knew what I was getting into when I went to see this movie. I just wanted to see people fight and shit. Oh, and I don't know who Mark Miller is and I intend to keep it that way ;o

[Huggo]

Oh, and I don't know who Mark Miller is and I intend to keep it that way ;o

Frank Miller. The guy who saved Batman from being a homo in tights who keeps an underage boy in a cave. The guy who gave us Sin City. The guy who inspired Samurai Jack.

Yeah, not worth knowing, right?

[Koyuki]

Oh, and I don't know who Mark Miller is and I intend to keep it that way ;o

Frank Miller. The guy who saved Batman from being a homo in tights who keeps an underage boy in a cave. The guy who gave us Sin City. The guy who inspired Samurai Jack.

Yeah, not worth knowing, right?

Sin city was amazing but I kinda fell out of the samurai jack universe , wish i hadn't ;;

[Mizango]

Oh Dear God I hope not...I just finished watching it, and it was --awful--


I could care less about the historical inaccuracies, I can convince myself that this is a "movie" and fiction, but even as a movie, it sucked. The lines were unoriginal, and it tried way too hard to be like Gladiator.

Also, here's something to chew on:

Most interestingly, in light of current events, there's also the lily-livered and treacherous politician Theron, who whines and moans to the Senate about Leonidas waging an illegal war against the Persians before getting a consummate smackdown. Director Zack Snyder swore to The New York Times this week that it never occurred to him that these scenes might give his movie the whiff of allegory. I guess we'll have to take his word for it. But after Leonidas' queen, Gorgo, delivers a speech that actually includes the canard "freedom isn't free," the film's hyper-militaristic fantasia gains a distractingly lunkheaded music-and-lyrics-by-Toby-Keith political dimension.

Source: http://www.deep-focus.com/dfweblog/2007 ... _2007.html


I haven't read the graphic novel, but in terms of movies, I was totally disappointed in 300...

You are no longer allowed to have an opinion.[/quote]

LOL

[cassiraa]

Ok, for all you history buffs, when you saw 8 ft tall Xerxes with gold body paint did that not clue you in that you were in a place of entertainment rather than a classroom? Or how about the elephants the size of three story houses? WHOOSH Those two things alone should have given you the impression that you were listening to a fantastic, over-the-top exaggerated retelling of the battle by a wounded soldier who was sent home to prepare for the next battle. Jesus.

Actually: I saw that as PERFECT historical accuracy, and I'm not being sarcastic.

3 story. 2 tusked beasts of war.
one-horned demons [rhino]
Ogres
Their king is 8 feet tall and shines like gold.
Every Persian tent has 2-5 girls making out with random people/things.
They have a goat that plays the clarinet for the king.
Their arrows are so think they blot out the sun.
Spartans kill everything and make awesome one-liners.

What do all of these elements have in common?
It's a perfectly historically accurate representation of how the Greeks would have told this story themselves.

At that time period, Stories were told like that, That was the writing style of the era. If your enemy had developed Gunpowder and you hadn't, you said they had magic, And sorcerers that could create fire in the midst of a battlefield, throwing you asunder. If your enemy was stronger, They were 4 meters tall! and so on.


The movie was about mostly naked men fighting waves of oncoming enemies. And as far as that goes, it does what it was meant to do.

You guys don't know shit about Frank Miller's recent works.

It's far from his best. Stop creaming yourselves in the name of BG Bandwagonnery.

And let's not forget Frank Miller is also responsible for the writing for Robocop 2 AND 3.

I'm willing to think he's gotten better at screenwriting and his relationship with directors has improved since 1993, but there's a lot of brainless 'omg me too' douchebaggery writ dissenting opinions going on of late in General Disc. The second someone disagrees with you it's 'go die in a fire' or 'lol ur opninion sux gtfo.' Grow the fuck up, please.

First off: Who are you to judge or even tell if people are band-wagoning or if they're writing my own opinions. I wrote how I saw it.

You're right that I don't know shit about frank miller. In fact, I hated Sin City and saw almost no redeeming qualities in that film noir-mimic movie. I almost didn't see 300 because that was the only other time I'd heard the name "Frank Miller" I didn't know he did Robocop 2 and I didn't even realize they made a Robocop 3. How does that affect my view on 300? It doesn't. Not at all.

I walked into the theater to watch a movie, I walked out entertained. I logged in to BG, And the rest is history.

[Koyuki]

Ok, for all you history buffs, when you saw 8 ft tall Xerxes with gold body paint did that not clue you in that you were in a place of entertainment rather than a classroom? Or how about the elephants the size of three story houses? WHOOSH Those two things alone should have given you the impression that you were listening to a fantastic, over-the-top exaggerated retelling of the battle by a wounded soldier who was sent home to prepare for the next battle. Jesus.

Actually: I saw that as PERFECT historical accuracy, and I'm not being sarcastic.

3 story. 2 tusked beasts of war.
one-horned demons [rhino]
Ogres
Their king is 8 feet tall and shines like gold.
Every Persian tent has 2-5 girls making out with random people/things.
They have a goat that plays the clarinet for the king.
Their arrows are so think they blot out the sun.
Spartans kill everything and make awesome one-liners.

What do all of these elements have in common?
It's a perfectly historically accurate representation of how the Greeks would have told this story themselves.

At that time period, Stories were told like that, That was the writing style of the era. If your enemy had developed Gunpowder and you hadn't, you said they had magic, And sorcerers that could create fire in the midst of a battlefield, throwing you asunder. If your enemy was stronger, They were 4 meters tall! and so on.


The movie was about mostly naked men fighting waves of oncoming enemies. And as far as that goes, it does what it was meant to do.

You guys don't know shit about Frank Miller's recent works.

It's far from his best. Stop creaming yourselves in the name of BG Bandwagonnery.

And let's not forget Frank Miller is also responsible for the writing for Robocop 2 AND 3.

I'm willing to think he's gotten better at screenwriting and his relationship with directors has improved since 1993, but there's a lot of brainless 'omg me too' douchebaggery writ dissenting opinions going on of late in General Disc. The second someone disagrees with you it's 'go die in a fire' or 'lol ur opninion sux gtfo.' Grow the fuck up, please.

First off: Who are you to judge or even tell if people are band-wagoning or if they're writing my own opinions. I wrote how I saw it.

You're right that I don't know shit about frank miller. In fact, I hated Sin City and saw almost no redeeming qualities in that film noir-mimic movie. I almost didn't see 300 because that was the only other time I'd heard the name "Frank Miller" I didn't know he did Robocop 2 and I didn't even realize they made a Robocop 3. How does that affect my view on 300? It doesn't. Not at all.

I walked into the theater to watch a movie, I walked out entertained. I logged in to BG, And the rest is history.

we make sexy time can now plz?

I really just wish they showed at the end the 43,000 Spartans & greece men clashing with the persians and then the movie would go off

[Creeps]

Cassiraa hit it pretty much right on the head. The movie was more of how the Spartans saw things at that point in history. The Spartans had never seen elephants, Asians or Xerxes, so of course they greatly exaggerated reality when they recorded their history. Some of you people need to pull your heads out of your asses and stop trying to be political scientists and shit.

[Melchiah]

Actually: I saw that as PERFECT historical accuracy, and I'm not being sarcastic.

3 story. 2 tusked beasts of war.
one-horned demons [rhino]
Ogres
Their king is 8 feet tall and shines like gold.
Every Persian tent has 2-5 girls making out with random people/things.
They have a goat that plays the clarinet for the king.
Their arrows are so think they blot out the sun.
Spartans kill everything and make awesome one-liners.

What do all of these elements have in common?
It's a perfectly historically accurate representation of how the Greeks would have told this story themselves.

At that time period, Stories were told like that, That was the writing style of the era. If your enemy had developed Gunpowder and you hadn't, you said they had magic, And sorcerers that could create fire in the midst of a battlefield, throwing you asunder. If your enemy was stronger, They were 4 meters tall! and so on.

Thank you. You get it.

Edit: I think a lot of people are missing the fact that 300 is being narrated by Aristodemus after having been sent home.

[Akiyama]

Go go Cass!

[Fallso]

I heard the Chicken Vindaloos at hell restaurant are really nice.

[Tekki]

a prequel of the battle of marathon would be better

A naval battle scene from the greek time era would get old quick imo. Its arguably the strongest reason this battle was won. All I can imagine is 1 1/2hrs of ships ramming each other and trying to tear at each others oars XD

[Bebopaloo]

You act as if Frank Miller didn't stick his big ass stamp of approval on the movie before it went out. He had a pretty big part in the adaption of the film, even if it wasn't played out line for line from the novel.

it purty much was.

[Xiona]

while we are all entitled to our own opinion, the fact remains that there is still a right and wrong answer... and the wrong one is that 300 was a bad movie.