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- retral, on 10/12/2007, -20/+280Boobies!
- jcblitz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+185Direct: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IjXoTP4yg
There is 2:55 seconds of empty film at the end. Perhaps they should have cut it. - Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -13/+173Soemone doesnt listen very well, it's not "Thousand Arrows will descend upon this Earth..... Then we will fight in the shade...."
It should be
"The thousand nations of the Persian empire will descend upon you.... Our arrows will blot out the sun..."
"Then we will fight in the shade."
I guess BlazedNTwisted, must have been blazed during the preview and didn't hear it correctly - H3LLSL337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+155"The Spartans are a super-human elite squad of lumberjack pirates who were trained by the the great-great-grandpa of Chuck Norris' paternal ancestor. A prologue explains that from the age of 7, Spartans are forged into die-hard dynamos of fury who can kill with their bare hands. It was either their forced sojourn into wilderness that makes them that way or that they played violent video games."
Best review ever.... - DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+149Movies that also got bad initial reviews:
Office Space
The Matrix
Fight Club - therodersabides, on 10/12/2007, -12/+128There are no girls on the internet. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -39/+135The movie looks great from a cinematic standpoint... but i HATE that the story of this battle is being told to the masses as a tarted up comic book with monsters and love stories. The true story of the spartans stand is phenomenal and stands well enough on its own.
And is anyone else irked by the line "tonight we dine in hell"? Or was ancient Sparta really a christian city-state? Something like "tonight we dine with Hades" would have been more appropriate. :/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+90I have to admit this movie looks extremely sexy. I keep hearing how this movie tested 100% at the premieres amongst us women. Well no *****, a bunch of great looking guys wearing little too nothing and kicking ass every second....it really doesn't matter whether you're a guy or a girl with a movie like this.
P.S. I have a crush on Frank Miller. Does that make me weird? - lordshank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+73Pretty much everything that is great to watch gets bad reviews. You're on Digg, not Ebert and Roper. What, do you want to stay home and pop in the Titanic DVD or something? Screw reviews, formulate your own opinion.
- nightsweat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71Other movies getting bad initial reviews
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!
Zardoz
Police Academy 7
Kevin Costner's Robin Hood - dasluvaluva, on 10/12/2007, -9/+70Just so you guys know, the concept of hell was known long before Christ walked the earth :)
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+65too bad the critics' opinion doesn't mean jack.
- daedalus1982, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50@Monolith2
you thrice be-damned purists. how about we have it spoken in greek? the movie is not directly about the battle of Thermopylae
it's a movie about a Graphic Novel written about the battle of Thermopylae. As interpretted by historians (what can be dubbed as factual) then as interpretted by a comic artist then as interpretted by a screenplaywright.
what kind of accuracy were you hoping for exactly?
i just wanna see the movie
edit: i laughed when he used dan brown as a source too. nope turns out DaVinci code is not canon oddly enough - ArchonSG, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50One thing I learned is that opinions from movie critics especially those self styled artsy fartsy ones are for people who don't have a mind of their own. I mean, come on, its a fraking movie based on a rather gory and stylised graphic novel, based on one of the most legendary of battles where just a handful of men held off an army of better then a 1000 to one odds you didn't expect alot of killing and or violence?
Go see the movies, screw the reviews and form your own opinions about them, read reviews to get an insight as to what the movie is like if you must but always bear in mind that its someone else's opinions colored by his or her preferences. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+55@ avasol
Uh, no. Hades and Hell are not the same thing. If you REALLY studied theology then you'd realize that theyre similar (and one idea led to the next), but theyre not the same. *****, 5 minutes on wikipedia could have told you that.
And FFS, if you're using a Dan Brown book to defend your point, you've already lost the argument. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41@lordshank
Nah. I'd rather let people tell me what to think. - roastnewt1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39@stvspl
Seeing as those movies came out almost 8 years ago, the reviews you found on rotten tomatoes this morning hardly count as "initial reviews" do they? - jstem1994, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35I just want to know if the whole movie is in slow-motion. Every preview, every scene, it's all slow-motion...
- avasol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Yeah because nipples will get you fired but watching people slaughtering each other is usually OK with your employer.
Looks stupid when it's written down in plaintext doesn't it? - shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33I wanted to see it at the iMax too, but tickets were sold out a week in advance
the song is by Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined - doit3d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32R-rated trailer means extreme violence & boobies in this trailer, for those who may not realize it.
Very nice boobies at that... - thekarmastrike, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Shut up, pussy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36@4ooFdvr
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/300/
Village Voice, AP, Seattle Times, Slant Magazine, USA Today didn't like it.
We have to wait until tomorrow for major pub's reviews (NY Times, Wash Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, etc.)
But everyone's going to go out and see it anyway... sigh.
Why exactly is vofuse getting dugg down? He speaks the truth. - therippa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30NSFW - I expected R-rated violence, but R-rated nipples
- hipnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28I saw the sneak preview as well and was blown away by it. The original graphic novel made me read up on the historical Battle of Thermopylae, and although many liberties were taken, the story is not that far off. A Greek force numbering in the thousands led by 300 Spartans held off a Persian army numbering in the millions. They were betrayed by a traitor who led Xerxes immortals behind the Greek lines on a goat path. Leonidas and his 300 held the Persian army back in the face of certain death in order to protect the retreat of the other Greek forces.
Many of the great lines from the comic.film were taken directly from historical accounts:
"Come home with your shield or on it," was a common saying of Spartan wives.
When Xerxes asked the Spartans to lay down their arms, Leonidis replied, "Come take them."
Dienekes, a Spartan soldier, was informed that Persian arrows would be so numerous as "to blot out the sun", he remarked, "So much the better, we shall fight in the shade."
On the third day of the assault, when it was clear they would soon be overcome, Leonidas told his men to eat a hearty breakfast, because that night they would dine in Hades.
These men deserve to be legends. The film captures that sentiment well. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26If there's one thing critics like, it's to say they hate popular movies. 'Cos you know, their tastes are obviously so much better than everyone else's they can't possibly enjoy the a film enjoyed by the unwashed hordes.
- Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28For all your purists bitching, let me just ask you this, how many of you have actually read Herodotus' History, the primary source on the Battle of Thermopylae? I have and anyone else who has knows that you have to read it with a few grains of salt and judge for yourself what was probable or not. A lot of the work is based on hearsay. So you have something that's somewhat fictional to start with and yet you're bitching about accuracy... That's just retarded. The whole thing should be taken as legend. Be glad that Frank Miller was able to bring it to life.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Most of the negative reviews were essentially this: After a few minutes, the visual style gets old, and actually interferes with the movie by the end of the film. IOW, like Sky Captain, which used the exact same technology, for the same reasons, in the same color tone, but with more sepia-hued blood and guts.
While the rest of us don't see that many movies and can live with the visual style of 300 and Sky Captain for a movie or two, critics see hundreds of movies a year, and need something more than just pretty visuals to hold their attention. That's probably one of the reasons for the disconnect between reviewers and the public. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29@ mcvarmazi
I think you missed my sarcasm. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27Archongs, 10 years ago, I would've been right there with you, but since then, the movie-going experience has skyrocketed in price, and a typical trip to the theatre costs about as much as a nice dinner. Ergo, I would rather listen to reviews and those around me for their take, than just fly on into the theatres willy-nilly for a ***** 2-3 hour waste of time and money. At least until I start making more money.
- TheActionCombo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22To be fair, most of the negative reviews do seem like a pile of horse crap. The movie is supposed to be about 300 Spartans whooping ass. That's all. So don't criticize it for not having much in the way of plot or for being over-the-top. It's like criticizing Schindler's List for not being funny enough.
- deltwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Umm, no they aren't. Do you think those 3 seconds alone made the trailer R-rated? Ever notice how the other trailers DON'T show full slashes with "blood" (that kinda looks more like dirt or mud, to me)? Or impaling, or sex scenes, or ...
- GenerousLinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18It's because the majority of it is CG. The movie was filmed almost entirely in the winter, indoors, against a green screen. Even the blood was done in post.
- axiomata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You know not all Hollywood movies have to have political undertones.
- lansuggs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17The actual term "Hell", came later though. I think it comes from some Nordic God who Christians adapted as the term for the bad side of the afterlife.
Edit: nvm avasol said it. - Achilles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Looks like I'm not watching this with mommy
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Yeah he totally should have kept those scenes in and never got his film released.
- Elistarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Looking at the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, most of the "bad" reviews actually make me want to see the movie more.
- MoeWasHere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Her nippies were the size of MARSHMALLOWS!!
No wonder they chose her for the scene, to make sure that you KNOWN that you're seeing boobies. - krets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I saw a sneak preview of this on Tuesday night and personally I think the critics who hated it are way off base. They were either expecting something completely different or did not realize that this movie is not based on real events, it's based on a graphic novel based loosely on real events.
Reading some of these reviews after I've seen the movie leaves me shaking my head. - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12maybe you shouldn't be youtubing at work?
- mblitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Much of the music is Nine Inch Nails 'Just Like You Imagined'. The choral part is 'Returns A King' on the soundtrack and written by Tyler Bates. You can actually download it here from his official site: http://www.tylerbates.com/media/audio/ (look for 300 returns at the top of the list).
For finding trailer and commecial soundtracks, one of the best sources is Ad Tunes. http://adtunes.com/ - cresswga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Now THAT is how you do a ***** red banded trailer!
Boobs and decapitation. Awesome. - kazersoza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I need a Spartan Army to unblock YouTube in my companies firewall!! Damm you content blocker!!!
- randroid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I like this one at Rotten Tomatoes: "Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film."
More substantial comment: Why is the main theme of the negative reviews that the movie takes itself "too seriously." I don't even understand what that means. I like my movies to take themselves seriously. Must art be full of eye-winking, multi-layered irony and self-ridicule in order to be acceptable these days? - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I'm lovin' those boobies . . . not the girl's . . . the fat guy with the collar.
- Mosatii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Every bad review pretty much said this:
-It lacks an engaging story
-The coloring effects and gore get dull
So if you like the graphic novel and Frank Miller, and are going to see it partially because of that then ignore the bad reviews completely. - Daunting, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Dang this movie is going to be bloody. I should bring my raincoat along with my battle ax.
- MikeyDubs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12the quote which is the same in the movie and comic book is wrong in the description of the link. really really wrong.
- king1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I dined in hell once... not that good of service. Perhaps Frank Miller had a better experience.
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