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I am so goddamned stoked to see the f-ing movie I can't explain it verbally. Me and the lady are going to see it tonight at midnight.. possibly at IMAX. Post your thoughts.

After you two watch this film, will you be ready to display as much manliness as seen in movie when your lady friend looks toward you trying to find approval?

If reviews could win awards, I would vote for this one

frank miller always wins, i've wanted to see this flick for a while.

He didnt win in "High Noon" so maybe you should check up on your knowledge of movie history.

Seeing it tonight, I hope it rocks my nuts.

what does high noon have to do with anything?

It's looked a bit dumb, but maybe not after all.

"This is madness!"

I've been waiting since the first trailer. I'm seeing it tomorrow.

You said Frank Miller always wins. He did not win in High Noon.

You are obviously lying about being male.

Madness? THIS... IS... SPARTA!! *total badassery*

Fixed.

Uh... a fuel tank? This was like 2500 years ago. It's clearly a well.

There was a stupid YTMND that was (is?) popular showing him screaming for an inordinate period of time then launch-kicking the guy over the well and into a fuel tank (which was an image from the Iraq war). Actually, it's just a building that exploded. Anyway, it doesn't matter.

It be here: http://thisisspartaaa.ytmnd.com/

I'm really looking forward to this movie. I was going to see a midnight showing, but my friends dropped out, so I'll be waiting until this weekend. I might even see it in IMAX.

Wow, similar to all other YTMND's, that was quite not-funny.

Haha that actually made me laugh. The fuel tank is so completely random.

I am getting so sick of hearing movies be compared to videogames. They do this with any movie that has a lot of CGI in it. Here's a message to all would be reviewers: Just because CGI and videogames both are created on computers, it does not make them one and the same.

I just got back from the 12:00am showing and I can say that it was awesome.

THIS IS SPARTA!

Also, the comparison to videogames is accurate I think. The armies attacked in waves of what seemed like levels of increasing difficulty and each army had a bigger 'endboss'. It wasn't a bad thing, but I can totally see where people connected this with video games. It was like watching God of War meets Prince of Persia on a large scale.

The acting was pretty good, the action was great, even if it was a bit over the top at times. Also, yes...half the movie is in slow motion. If the movie had no slow motion in it, the film would only last an hour or so. I'm not complaining, but they did use slow motion a lot. It worked and it worked well.

I think this movie has been hyped like crazy, but in the end it was totally worth all the hype. Well done Spartans!

Is there penises?

LOL GUESS WUT GAIZ! I'M GAY!

Yes, we get it.

There is man arse and bulging banana hammocks, but no, there isn't any penis....except perhaps a glimpse of a baby penis.

(There is a good amount of breastage though.)

All the reenactments of this battle I've seen are amazing. The history is interesting. I wonder how accurate it is.

Not accurate at all.

Well there's that whole part about a lot of persians, and not too many spartans... and all the spartans you know, ending up bad... and the whole part about how it took 3 days... and the part about how the spartans were betrayed by one of their own. There's the parts about Leonidas and Xerxes being kings of their respective nations....

Other than all that, yeah, it's not historically accurate. The fact of the matter is, it's as historically accurate as Braveheart or any of the other movies in the same genre. We don't know how William Wallace led the Scottish revolution, and we don't know how Leonidas led his spartan soldiers way back then. Is it stylized? Very. Is it realistic? Not really. Could it be pretty close to the events that happened, just not happening in the exact WAY they happened. Possibly.

Also, another point I'd like to make here. There is a painting. I forget the name and I forget the painter. It is depicting executions during the french revolution. It's not really realistic looking, and that exact scene probably never happened, but does that mean it's not historically accurate? Were there no executions during the french revolution?

The phrase you're looking for is aestheticly accurate. No, it did not look like that. But most of the events that take place in this movie have their place in history. Just not the way it looked on screen.

I got back from midnight showing as well.

I'd give it a 7/10...

Pro's:
Amazing battles
The style, lighting, etc - incredible
Dialogue was actually good for the most part
Humor - some great lines and humor bits
Acting - solid

Con's:
Substance - like noted, SO MUCH of the movie is slow downed. It works, however it feels like there's not much there (except longer battles) then from what we saw in the trailers
Nudity - yes a shocker. I get the whole sexuality of the time period - but really? Did we need to see that many positions for the sex scene? And for a movie that's so focused on style - there's ways to get the message across from scenes like that without just turning it into a softcore porn ex. the two women getting ready to suck each others boob's . I have nothing against nudity - but felt it really did little here


All in all, I'd give it a 7/10. While the battles and the look was great, at the end of it I just wasn't stunned by what I had seen. I guess visuals don't excite as much as when I was younger (kind of like video games as well), but a little more substance could have really helped this movie be a 10/10

Woah calm down! lmao

Can't wait to see this movie. Going with six other people hopefully. If not Ill go by myself.

Seems like an interesting movie, maybe I'll see it someday.

It was incredible. I would have paid more than 8.50

I watched the movie and I wanted them to play it again. It rocked. A lot.

OMGZ, it's out! Too bad it'll probably take a month or two before they finally decide to play it here.

Did the soundtrack feature any NIN music, or just the trailer?

Just got back from it. Great movie! There isn't a whole lot of substance, but the action makes up for it.

From a review:

"I feel comfortable enough in my masculinity to say that if I had to stand in the presence of these men for more than ten seconds, I'd spontaneously grow a pair of ovaries."

I was thinking the same too; there was like an end boss for each army. Fantastic movie though, somehow I feel like my testosterone level increased after seeing it. Been a good while since I seen a movie that doesn't involve any sappy love story or whining about a person's past. It's all intense, ,brutal, and bloody action scenes (though I do agree that slow motion is used alot...) with real men fighting for honor and glory. The music was nice, made me think of Gladiator and Lord of the Rings at time. The exception of the two scenes were they strangely used electric guitars....

I thought the use of heavy guitars was excellent... especially in that one scene where the spartans (one in particular) were extremely pissed about a certain person dying.

I just got back.

300 is like taking the biggest **** in your life while screaming obsceneties, eating raw pig, not bacon, and then kicking 30 women in the vagina.

I have never felt so moved by a movie. In the slow/fast action scenes, I was in the front of my seat, hand on the next seat in front of me, yelling out with every other testosterone filled male in the audience.

The fight scenes wouldn't have been half as amazing without the slow motion. It needed to be there.

The sexuality was a given. There's LOTS of undertones about masculinity and femininity that will take 3 or 4 viewings to fully appreciate. I really think this movie is 10 times deeper than it seems on first viewing.

The only complaints I have are the stupid sub-plots (No one cares about the father/son, no one cares about the wife and the greasy politics. No one gives a ****.)

It could've ended with the arrows, too. Cut out the whole thing with the wife, and even the end with all of those soldiers. The end should've been the arrows.

9.5/10

Except it isn't.

What about the entire male superiority disorder? "All you have to do is kneel." The alure of women. The agreed rape (oxymoron) of the queen. All of this is a very deeper nod towards the sacred.

Also, I picked up on a possibly allusion to Bush's speech after 9/11.