300 Semi-Review

[BLINGMW]

how come all the promos and clips I've seen seem so horribly corny? I'm not sure I can pay to see this. :dunno:

[Dave]

I haven't seen any corny commercials, but then again, i don't watch much TV. A guy on the radio said it was really good if you like battles and that it was virtually all fighting with only a little bit of story & dialouge.
Now, I did get stuck in "this guy's an idiot" mode b/c he made it painfully obvious that he had no clue that it was based on real events (while the numbers of participants have been disputed). However, if the general public goes to see a fighting movie, they're probably not looking for a ton of drama and story line, just enough to make the characters a little more round and propel the story line. I already know and understand the history, so I'm ready to watch some people get skewered :-).

The reveiwer did comment that there's a lot of beheadings....

[Ryan T]

Agreed, I really enjoyed the movie. I got to see it in one of the top theatre's on the east coast, one of the few with the lucas art soundsystem and that movie sounded amazing.

Really? what theater was that?

Cinemall in my home town. Here's a lil info from the website on it:

ALL of our sound systems are DIGITAL, and the Abingdon Cinemall® is the ONLY theater in Southwest Virginia, the Tri-Cities and Northeast Tennessee fully equiped with the Fly-Overhead Extended Surround Sound System designed by George Lucas and Dolby Laboratories, originally for StarWars Espisode 1.

The Cinemall® has been showcased on ABC's 'GOOD MORNING AMERICA SHOW' and designated as the best movie theater in the USA by both news media and our loyal patrons. For StarWars Episode 2 we set a national record seating patrons from 42 different states and 3 foreign countries. These distant patrons learned that the reports were true - you could literally 'feel the force flow through you'.

In addition, the Abingon Cinemall® is the ONLY theater anywhere featuring the custom-designed Hyperdrive Sound System, containing as many as 65 speakers in all of our 12 theaters, and each of which are specially configured based upon each particular movie's soundtract to deliver as much as several thousand watts of driver-power. Our patrons rely on our unique sound systems to heighten the excitement of the movie-going experience, particularly in action/adventure, sci-fi and horror movies, and we respond by delivering the highest quality of movie sight and sound - consistently, since we first opened in February of 1998.

[REED]

dang that sounds awesome

[Ryan T]

Lord only knows why they put such an awesome theatre in bum-fuck Abingdon. I know the owner comes from some old money his grandfather made when coal was huge in this area.

[WRXtranceformed]

Lord only knows why they put such an awesome theatre in bum-fuck Abingdon. I know the owner comes from some old money his grandfather made when coal was huge in this area.

Bum fuck is right! I spent a night in jail in that town when I was 18 lmao!! I ended up walking down the road toward Emory & Henry in the morning with the town drunk until my friend who was driving the road looking for me found us.

There are lots of beheadings and amputations, and you even get to see some tittays! You really can't get much better for a movie based purely on fighting...you feel like you're right in the middle of a comic book or crazy anime / real life movie.

[Goodspeed]

This movie was pretty sweet, I like the overall style of it, much like the director's earlier Sin City, kind of surreal. It was pretty refreshing actually, a movie that cut the crap and got straight to some serious and well-done action.

[Andy]

This movie was pretty sweet, I like the overall style of it, much like the director's earlier Sin City, kind of surreal. It was pretty refreshing actually, a movie that cut the crap and got straight to some serious and well-done action.

Frank Miller's graphic novels is the basis for Sin City and 300 but he wasn't the director for either movie.

[Goodspeed]

This movie was pretty sweet, I like the overall style of it, much like the director's earlier Sin City, kind of surreal. It was pretty refreshing actually, a movie that cut the crap and got straight to some serious and well-done action.

Frank Miller's graphic novels is the basis for Sin City and 300 but he wasn't the director for either movie.

My bad, I knew he did both novels, thats what I meant. Actually, Sin City had 3 directers, Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, and Quentin Tarantino was involved as well

[ScottyB]

saw it tonight...i liked it alot. i'd be kicking myself if i rented it later...this really needs to be seen on the big screen if you want to see it at all.

[Dave]

saw it tonight...i liked it alot. i'd be kicking myself if i rented it later...this really needs to be seen on the big screen if you want to see it at all.

oh so true.
Saw it on Saturday night. Absolutely awesome. I'll be buying this on DVD in the future.

[HAULN-SS]

read this on another forum"

"I just saw a movie thatÔÇÖll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. ItÔÇÖs called 300. I donÔÇÖt know what the title has to do with the movie, but they couldÔÇÖve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and itÔÇÖd still rule.

ItÔÇÖs about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated shit out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and itÔÇÖs sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, ÔÇ£I need some extra sauce packetsÔÇØ guess what? YouÔÇÖre getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I canÔÇÖt spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISNÔÇÖT ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass thatÔÇÖs hitting someoneÔÇÖs balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDNÔÇÖT LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a shit if the music isnÔÇÖt historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS couldÔÇÖve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at WetzelÔÇÖs Pretzel is telling you that youÔÇÖll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. ThereÔÇÖs wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like heÔÇÖs got Rosie OÔÇÖDonnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (ÔÇ£DUDE-ITYÔÇØ)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think theyÔÇÖre serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this ÔÇô ITÔÇÖS OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

CanÔÇÖt someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most ass-ruling movie IÔÇÖve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf."

[ScottyB]

haha golden

[HAULN-SS]

also - i didtn want to start another thread for this - but has anyone seen Black Snake Moan? Looks like Sam Jackson is yelling again! I kind of want to see it, but havent made it yet. Might wait til DVD on that one, i dunno.

[CaptainHenreh]

I saw the parts of Black Snake Moan that I really wanted to see.

[HAULN-SS]

in the preview?

[Dave]

so, I take it that was a rave reveiw :-)

so far Black Snake Moan looks retarded to me, but I haven't really looked into it much.

[Goodspeed]

300 and Shooter are the only movies this season I've looked forward to seeing, Shooter looks pretty good

[HAULN-SS]

haha..yeah, it's definately a raving review. Definately some of the most creative imagery i've seen used in a movie review:

kicking yet more ass thatÔÇÖs hitting someoneÔÇÖs balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

[ScottyB]

haha..yeah, it's definately a raving review. Definately some of the most creative imagery i've seen used in a movie review

no kidding....where did this come from? haha!

ÔÇ£I need some extra sauce packetsÔÇØ guess what? YouÔÇÖre getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.