me and doob just went and caught a advanced screening. fk it was good. that satisfies my warhound for a while. the obvious animation and over exaggerated characters did not detract from it at all as i thought they might.

i definitely recommend this to all, but darn it makes u wanna go out and slaughter persians. and since there are no persians now... i think they will be screening this to all the soldiers in iraq/middle east region

turn back. WRONG WAY!

Can you believe that I heard it is so popular they are going to make a sequel!

hollywood is f***ed up

i doubt frank miller will have anything todo with the sequal, unless its his idea, in which case it will be awesome.

So what you are saying is....

"he wont have anything to do with it, unless he has something to do with it"

its not as if its a myth tho. this story is of actual history and these events happened. 300 (or so) spartans held them at the pass in thermopalaye for a few days, just enuf time so the greeks got their s*** together to fight em off at the battle of platea (end of 300).

so if there was a sequel, it'd just be the next battle, or maybe the aftermath or maybe even a prequel at the battle of marathon.

i got no probs with sequels if they are reciting historic happenings.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/02/11/300-sequel-very-likely-but-not-100-confirmed/

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070318e.php

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/17/frank-miller-prepping-300-sequel/

So what you are saying is....

"he wont have anything to do with it, unless he has something to do with it"

no thats not what i was saying.


what im saying is that if its a cash in sequal brought out by hollywood and frank miller has nothing todo with it then it will suck, but if its his idea and hes working on it then it will be awesome.

last edited by groydis at 22:29:32 02/Apr/07

Why can't they just make an awesome movie and leave it at that

Why can't they just make an awesome movie and leave it at that

dunno, people want to be creative, people want to make money, or they just want to s*** you off, all good reasons.

This is madness!

f***ing Awesome movie!

its not as if its a myth tho. this story is of actual history and these events happened. 300 (or so) spartans held them at the pass in thermopalaye for a few days, just enuf time so the greeks got their s*** together to fight em off at the battle of platea (end of 300).

Well it wasn't just 300 spartans, but what they did was still impressive.

I have to wonder if they'll introduce Thermisticles in the sequel, if they're doing what happens after the battle it'll be hard not to. It was surprising that he wasn't in the film at all.

Given the success of this film, the sequel will probably do just as good, even if it's s***. It's a never ending story, they have plenty of battles go over (Plataea, Mycale, Sestos), then there's all the s*** with Macedon and eventually Alexander the Great.

Why can't they just make an awesome movie and leave it at that

Tell that to guys who did Saw, they're up to number 4 already.

Well it wasn't just 300 spartans

hence the (or so) afterwards

Thermisticles

warm testicles?

It was 7,000 greeks. A large number of which were prisoners (Thebe prisoners IIRC? or maybe that was the Persian prisoners I forget).
1k or so of the original 7k survived, they killed approximately 2k.

Xerxes actually sent alot of his recently conquered lands' military/citizens to fight the greeks, so it was basically a massacre.
Greeks made xerxes bleed (but did not kill) which proved that xerxes was not in fact a god (As they often did establish themselves as gods).

All in all in the end in the very end, the greek's got smashed.
They were beaten because, the greeks always had their guardsmen on the right side of the phalanx - these were usually the stronger, better equiped and more experienced.
Forget who it was basicalyl made an insanely deep phalanx, threw it at the greek's 'strong' side which overwhelmed it, literally 'turned' the greek Phalanx and then they got flanked (as Phalanx vs. Phalanx matches were often pushing contests - usually drifting to the right because of the shield covering the left man so people would huddle closer together), decisively lost that fight.

Or something to that effect anyways, im sure you could find more accurate description of what really happened somewhere.

in history they didnt get to xerxes like that

they made a V formation, with leonidas at the front and charged at xerxes's entourage but were shot down before they got there.

that spear s*** is hollywood

so they had Emilio Estevez leading them in a flying v eh?

That "V" is a Phalanx and the spear s*** is not "hollywood" as such, the "push back and stab" was yea.
But the greeks did use spears... alot, the spartans were hoplites which were for all intents and purposes 'short' spearmen that carried swords (the greeks actually lost alot of cavalry to persian arrow showers while retreating - the corpses of horses and its rider would then caused 'breaks' in the phalanx and weak spots - not specific to thermopylae there just one particular battle).

And of course, throughout history different phalanx's used spears that was were so long (More like really long lances), that the third or fourth man deep in the phalanx's spear would actually be in front of the front line.
Which created a staggered effect of spear heads so in short, there was always a spear head to find contact with the enemy.
Both phalanx's would charge at each oter and become involved in a literal pushing match (whereby generally the larger/deeper phalanx would win), generally, whomever broke the front-line first and created a hole would lose.

Which is why the Spartans were formidable, because they were raised to know no fear and not retreat, and a phalanx's weak spot pretty much was it's own front line and own men.
Some other armies actually had straps on the backs of their shoulders such that the guy behind them could hold onto the strap and pull them back into line or push them forward to maintain proper formation and create no gaps.

Alexander the Great and other leaders were people who realised there was more to a fight than just push and shove.

Greeks actually got quite f***ed up throughout history despite having a very strong military.

But yeah, specific names of battles and some leaders/their fights elude me in pieceing them together.
Just always had an interest (not enough to 'study' so I could be wrong on points) in Achaemenid Empire, Laconia/Greek and general sword and shield over guns. ^_^

last edited by Loki at 00:56:23 03/Apr/07

Awesome movie, nuff said.

best movie ever - going to see it in again this time in gold class.



and go back to age of empires loki

how do they plan on making a sequal Spoiler:
WHEN THEY ALL f***ING DIE

darn it makes u wanna go out and slaughter persians. and since there are no persians now.

Iran = 20th Century name for Persia

haha thats why i did the no persians now....

meaning that yea iran is the new persia :-p

Saw it last night, loved it, beautifully done.

And everyone should stop getting so caught up in the 'historical acurateness' of the whole thing. The makers obviously didnt, otherwise Xerxes wouldnt have been 8 feet tall, and there wouldnt have been masses of freaks in on the action.

Nobody was caught up in the historical acurateness.
The movie wasn't meant to be historically acurate der, was just some information on how things really happened for pure interests sake.
L2Read. Movie rocked.

For the people that actually haven't seen the movie, casa's spoiler is a real spoiler, but i'm guessing if you dont take those spoiler tags seriously anymore and you've just read my post now then it's too late.

Spoiler:
SO SUCK s***!


Either way, the sequel can take off with the entire greek army going to war to wipe out the persians, which wouldn't leave for much of an anticipated ending anyway, but then you'd be able to see greeks enslaving persians and raping their women, much like what the persians were threatning the greeks of doing.

L2WRITE

Its 3 parts Troy and 1 part star wars. You'll know what I mean when you see it.

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/sata.jpg

just got back from seeing it in gold class. best movie ever.

i want a harem like xerxes had :(

Spoiler:
careful not to get your eye poked out by all the erect nipples. especially the huge and deadly 3-inch oracle nipples

rofl parabol. that's tops

I thought it was s***house. They could have made an (even semi) historically accurate movie and had an awesome story along with great action scenes. Instead they massacred it to satisfy the usual hollywood bs. I like mindless action as much as the next guy, but it could have been so much better :/

SHUT UP ASS

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/shorty323/this-is-tartaaaar.jpg

last edited by Alize` at 23:14:55 06/Apr/07

wtf are you all on about being historical. Isn't this based off Frank Miller's Graphic novel/Story? Sure some parts are historical, but the graphic novel would take liberties which were then translated to film....

or am I wrong?

last edited by partyhat at 23:15:30 06/Apr/07

Yeah it's based off Frank Miller's thing, dunno why people are expecting it to be so historically accurate

I thought it was s***house. They could have made an (even semi) historically accurate movie and had an awesome story along with great action scenes. Instead they massacred it to satisfy the usual hollywood bs. I like mindless action as much as the next guy, but it could have been so much better :/

you have to keep in mind that its a comic book conversion, the comic was epic and fantasy mixed with history. its like those stupid ww2 movies set in ww2 about super soldiers and s***. any prior research into the moive would of told you it had a fantasy element at which point you should of set proper expectations before walking into the cinema.

LOL

If it was gonna be based on fact you can kiss those awesome battle scenes goodbye. Movie would have been s***.

any prior research into the moive would of told you it had a fantasy element at which point you should of set proper expectations before walking into the cinema.

I'm not in the habit of doing 'prior research' into movies I go see, as I like to go and see them and enjoy/not enjoy them based on their own merits and not have expectations. I didn't like it regardless of what subject matter it was based on, although it's pretty obvious I wouldn't like the comic book either then ;)



last edited by Lunch at 00:19:55 07/Apr/07

probably because you need to harden the f*** up

Don't be dirty cause "you're a draftsman who works in the industry" studying at Tafe pretending to know what your talking about. But hey, that was a really good one liner, no really.

just a side comment, but i think using "your" instead of "you're" took a bit of the bite out of your post

ooohhhhhh snap

best moofie evar

wifey was left a weeping mess!
hahah

yeah right

so what has that got to do with you being soft, and this thread in general

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awesome movie 10/10

yeah right
so what has that got to do with you being soft, and this thread in general

Probably from you still suffering from teenage angst and the need to try and be insulting to make up for what you obviously feel you lack in another thread? I dunno you tell me.

And to try and keep on topic

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/herrok/SpartaMechanic_1.jpg

http://i14.tinypic.com/44bwsio.jpg

hahaha i wasn't actually having a go at you when i said what i did in that other thread

clearly you're the one carry angst

sorry if i offended you somehow lol

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seriously, i saw the movie last night

and it f***ing rocked

quit being such a fag lunch

movie caned, me and pave faced off in the carpark with shields afterwards

Thread needs more 300 photoshop pics please.

maxe i'll probably cut your leg off next time i see you

awesome movie!! :D sure a historically accurate version would probably have been awesome too but this wasn't it. this was pure frank miller comic goodness... orrrjeh.
the only thing that was 'too hollywood' for me was the metal soundtrack when the spartans are marching... lame.

The other lame scene was when a sparatn son threw the spear and got the big rhino beast in eye and dropped it in one.

I was like fk off kun.

The other lame scene was when a sparatn son threw the spear and got the big rhino beast in eye and dropped it in one.

In iraq you'd be slapping the rhino with your sandles.

^ no in iraq you'd strap all those medieval grenades to yourself and blow yourself up when the rhino attacks.

fk off kuns.

A jihad on all your houses.

if the spear went through his eye into his brain, i can't see why it wouldn't have dropped it

poor rhino imo

f*** that rhino, it can get smashed the f*** up like the elephants

that s*** was awesome too

i mean someone told me an elephant was going to fall off a cliff and bang its head on the way down, but it sounded too good to be true. Then f***ing WHAM f***ing elephant goes down

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last edited by TicMan at 10:11:26 10/Apr/07

hahaha my god im in stitches ticman

hahahaha thats f***ing great

bwahaha

EDIT INCASE YOU MISSED IT:

http://www.gronks.com/300/SPARTA_2.gif

ROFL!!!!!

last edited by Suckah-Free at 10:41:57 10/Apr/07

bravo :D

+++++++Ticman you win LOLOLOL

I had to do something while the boss is on holidays.

he's giving the "oh" face.

his wife was pretty hot though

Haha

f*** those are good.

Yes ticman well done. I like the splenda one particularly.

four chon

Haha Ticman wins this thread.

Also - 300 is my favorite movie ever.

so when is the ausgamers competition being drawn

Haha Ticman wins this thread.

QFT
flatmates are now looking at me weird for all that laughing

QFT?

What does that mean ^_0

Hi adam, welcome to the internets here you will find such things as people s***ing on there own faces and holding there asses open with there bare hands.

ps can i f*** ur mum and or g/f

also qtf = quoted for truth


and for the thred

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/682/spartaew9.gif

lmfao^

SPOILER (I'm not using the tags cause I cbf so don't read my post if you don't wanna know what happens)







I didn't like the way Leonidas' wife f***ed that other dude. I get why she did it and blah blah blah... it would have been much cooler if she just found out the Counselor was a jerk and then slayed him hardcore style, cause in the end, she is the one that is left, and she is left a whore.

how could you not f*** mcnaulty from the wire!

Haha

Nice gif Superform

I didn't like the way Leonidas' wife f***ed that other dude. I get why she did it and blah blah blah... it would have been much cooler if she just found out the Counselor was a jerk and then slayed him hardcore style, cause in the end, she is the one that is left, and she is left a whore.

The whole section involving Queen Gorgo was added for the movie. If it followed the graphic novel, you wouldn't have seen her after she says "Come back with your shield... or on it".

SPOILER (I'm not using the tags cause I cbf so don't read my post if you don't wanna know what happens)

the amount of time it took you to type that would of been twice as long as putting in spoiler tags...

Trog - hurry up and draw the 300 competition. I want to hear peoples last stands

I want to know whether I'm paying for tickets tonight or not..

with regard to the rape of leonidas' wife... typical hollywood simplified justification. the bad guys have to be all bad & rape & kill with impunity. good guys (like leonidas' wife) have to have justification before they kill someone... even a bad guy! yah, it's cliche & stupid but there ya go.

He gave it to her greek style so he still did his country proud.

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Bonus points if anyone finds a GIF of three Leonidases in a car ala that one with Picard, Riker and Data (or 3 x Bill Cosby)

ermm....superform, QFT = quit f***ing talking :)

haha the Che Guevara one is really well done.

He gave it to her greek style so he still did his country proud.

So... he called up 50 cousins and raped her in a public toilet?

Bonus points if anyone finds a GIF of three Leonidases in a car ala that one with Picard, Riker and Data (or 3 x Bill Cosby)

Done:
http://i19.tinypic.com/2n1c56g.gif

ahah those animated ones are hi-f***ing-larious

Top thread :)

ermm....superform, QFT = quit f***ing talking :)

No he was right.
It's quoted for truth.

I suppose you extend it further to say it depends on context. but meh.

Aha wd tael

sif half of em aren't stolen from SA though