I wished they made a movie based off of Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire". A great book and anyone interested in the Battle of Thermopylae should give it a good read. Has anyone else here read that book?

...what? I'm not comparing the movie to the comic. I don't even care about the comic that much; I just want to see a good and interesting movie. I'm acknowledging that the visual style is done to mimic the look and feel of the comics, and I don't think that's inherently a bad idea. But watching Sin City, all I saw was a visual style, with a lot of forgettable directing and absolutely terrible dialogue. It wasn't a "one or the other" sort of thing; you can have a good visual look and still have decent directing and acting and plot.

That is what I'm fearing with 300; that it has this look to it and nothing to back it up. Style over substance, I believe the term is. At the very least, it should be entertaining, which I can say of Sin City as well.

Well the directing was done by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller taken straight from the novels. If you watch the extra stuff on the uncut edition of Sin City, they admit to having Miller direct it while they watched over the shoulder, as well as using the novels they needed the entire time to set up shots and get a directional feel on how the movie should look. As for dialogue, they where reading from the novel, not some dumb ass script that was written. Every last word came from the book or from Frank Miller telling them to say something different. When it comes to this movie, you have to compare to book because that's what they did when directing it.

Pay attention kids, this is called an opinion, everyone has them and they are killing off logical thought patterns in a timely manner. So please, hit yourself with a rock, it's better for everyone.


Well from the look of things, that is the kind of stuff that has made movies box office hits over the years. Weather you like it or not the fact that these where the box office hits doesn't matter because, well that's just how the movie industry goes.

Yeah, if the film is modeled directly after the source material, then el jacko is pretty much saying the comic is gay irregardless of his ignorance.

You're not really making much of a point here.

Wow, I gotta this movie looks incredible! They were showing the trailer during the previews before Ghost Rider. Really impressive visuals with the cgi environments. I'll definitely be checking this one out, if not opening night then for sure the weeknd of. Hell, I think I'll even look into grabbing the trade for it.

Love the NiN song they used in the trailer too, kicks ass!

Oh dear. =/

This film looks excellent, I cannot wait until its release. Finally something worth watching at the theatre.

TONIGHT WE DIE IN HELL!!!!

Yeah, I'm probably going to see this.. It would be the first movie I saw in theatres since Pirates of the Carribean 2, but it looks worth its 9.50.

Um.

That's "Tonight we DINE in Hell."

i am very excited for this movie and i know it will do very well!

You know, it's odd. This movie has all the things I hated about the Matrix sequels (except bad plot): over-used slow motion, over-used color correction, way too much unnatural choreography, and lots and lots of CGI; and yet I'm totally going to enjoy this movie! I don't even feel like this movie can disappoint (of coarse, that's how i felt about Matrix Reloaded). Maybe it's the fact that I already know and like the story (as opposed to weak plot), and maybe the cinematography is just way better than I'm used to. Maybe it's because the slo-mo, color correction, and CGI are used ARTFULLY rather than just thrown in there for cool points. Maybe it's the idea that the slow motion and choreography help illustrate the emotion, ferrocity, and skill of the 300 Spartans' final moments, and not just "Hey guyz, let's slow down this long kung-fu fight to show how cool it is!". Maybe its the idea that this movie is true to a very awesome source material, which in turn is based on a true story that is well known. I don't know what it is that makes this movie seem so much better despite it's Hollywoodness (MADNESS?), but I do know that I'm going to watch this movie and be extremely entertained by it.

300 Soundtrack

I thought some might be interested.

edit: if it says the file is unavailable, you might want to try back at a later time. if this persists, i'll do a re-upload

Holy crap! Nice find, gonna download that as soon as I get home!

What quality is the rip?

file only 88 meg, so its not going be super :(

You get what you pay for so I shouldnt complain.

It's in vbr. The file size is slightly small because the album's a little under an hour long. Here are the dirty details:

ENCODER : LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
QUALiTY : 189kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo

I re-uploaded it to SendSpace to help with the circulation, and incase megaupload isn't to your liking.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m2uyrt

I just came out from the movie (which I saw in advance screening).

No spoilers ahead.

So here comes the main opinion: If you like blood, battle and special effects, this is full of it. You're going to get 2h00 of that and only that. The story is secondary to the visual effects and battles if you ask me. Expect to see lots of blood and gore.


The music of the movie isn't that bad considering it's the first time I ever hear about this composer.

So that's my opinion. If you want to see 2hours of intense battle, blood and gore. Go see this movie. If you're not in the mood for that. Don't go.

There is a story?

Thanks for the review; that's pretty much what I thought this film would contain after seeing the trailers. It looks like a CG version of an ancient-greece-based DBZ game.

Lol, nothing to spoil as far as story. Quite simply 300 Spartans fight to death against a million Persians. Simple, basic, all we need to know. Haha, I'd be surprised if people went into this expecting a story like Gladiator's. Hell, even the director said he's not even interested in doing an accurate retelling of history.

Intense battle, blood, and gore is exactly what I'm expecting and wanting to see. This'll be one kick ass movie!

I'm going to be seeing this at the local Omni-max on Friday. I'll be sure to post a review when I get back.

No shit it's not supposed to be a direct re-telling of history, it's based on a comic book. In terms of story, 300's plot was severely outpaced by its themes.

It seems that everything any character says in this movie is badass.
"The arrows will block out the sun"
"Then we'll fight in the shade."

"Spartans, lay down your weapons!"
"Persians, come and get them!"

Even if the story may be thin, I'd gladly take this type of style over substance any day.

It's because those lines are actually said in history, much to the delight of military history buffs. The first was said by Dienekes with the "shade" thing. The second line with the Persians is the English term for "Molon Labe!"

Having read the story of the war as well as the comic, I can't help but feel excited. Definitely watching it this Friday.