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300 #1 Movie at Box Office this weekend



300 starts next thursday here in Puerto Rico so I will go and see it next weekend.Any of you has seen it already?

Defenitely going to watch this one, even though I have to wait a bit longer (it starts a week later).

I just hope they didn't change the original story too much as they did with Troy and Alexander

My son just came in from seeing this, he said it was awesome

I'm watching it w/ the bro tomorrow! Can't wait!

Marty's sons saw it and said it was great as well!

It boosted my morale.

I went and saw this last night, it's pretty awesome.Definitely the best movie I've gone to see in a while and I recommend everybody to go see it!

But I've never LOLed more times in a movie that wasn't actually intended to be funny.I'm not going to spoil it for anybody but there were just some scenes that seemed rather tacky and exaggerated.There was more style to this movie than substance,but the movie succeeded well in doing what it intended - presenting the story of Leonidas as a sort of campfire tale, a parable told to inspire others.


And yes,the scene towards the end crams a rather large moral message down your throat.

I really really wanna see it.

Absolutely awesome movie. I highly recommend it, especially if you saw Sin City and liked that movie as well.

It's not often that a movie will leave you yelling "FOR SPARTA!!!" over and over afterward. That's what it did for me and my friends.

It looks too comic-bookish to me. If I want to see an animated movie, I'll see an animated movie. But I don't care to see actors who don't move, walk, and fight with natural movement. It doesn't look all the true to history either. Why is Xerxes all decked out in jewelry, tattoos, and plucked eyebrows while Leonidas is brutish and clad only in armor? Xerxes didn't really look like that (he actually had a beard also), but they wanted him to look "weak" (ahem, you get my drift) and unable to win. Of course, he was the villain so we don't want him to win. But couldn't Frank Miller have painted him as more of a warrior than a wimp?

GalvestonDuck wrote:It looks too comic-bookish to me. If I want to see an animated movie, I'll see an animated movie. But I don't care to see actors who don't move, walk, and fight with natural movement. It doesn't look all the true to history either. Why is Xerxes all decked out in jewelry, tattoos, and plucked eyebrows while Leonidas is brutish and clad only in armor? Xerxes didn't really look like that (he actually had a beard also), but they wanted him to look "weak" (ahem, you get my drift) and unable to win. Of course, he was the villain so we don't want him to win. But couldn't Frank Miller have painted him as more of a warrior than a wimp?

You're quite correct; as a 'test of manhood", Xerxes ("Ahasuerus" in the Book of Esther) was locked into a room armed only with a spear, and told to kill whatever came through the door. It turned out to be a lion, which he killed with one thrust.

Xerxes was NO "pantywaist".

Just came back from seeing it with the family...Besides a couple of tit scenes I wasn't expecting (since I had the kids with me)..All I can say is wow...Very well done...

GalvestonDuck wrote:It looks too comic-bookish to me. If I want to see an animated movie, I'll see an animated movie. But I don't care to see actors who don't move, walk, and fight with natural movement. It doesn't look all the true to history either. Why is Xerxes all decked out in jewelry, tattoos, and plucked eyebrows while Leonidas is brutish and clad only in armor? Xerxes didn't really look like that (he actually had a beard also), but they wanted him to look "weak" (ahem, you get my drift) and unable to win. Of course, he was the villain so we don't want him to win. But couldn't Frank Miller have painted him as more of a warrior than a wimp?

That was actually the only part I didn't like about the movie, and even then it was minor seeing that Xerxes didn't appear all too much. Xerxes was way too flamboyant, but that problem was also present in the comic (which the movie was supposed to be a direct adaptation of, hence the comic bookish feel of it). I'm a history buff, and I know that Xerxes wasn't flamboyant. Then again, you can't really expect the movie to be true to history - it's supposed to be entertaining.