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2 Reviews Of 300 To Snack On Before You Dine In Hell!!

pass... by theonecalledshoe	Mar 9th, 2007 08:28:45 AM
I'm sick and tired of these mf'n period pieces. Give me the Jamie Pressly's Dead or Alive now dammit.
ATTN: Merrick by Gwai L0	Mar 9th, 2007 08:29:54 AM
Would you happen to know what page number of the Halloween Remake script the GOTTA TAKE A SHIT mask might appear on? I have the script, you see, but I don't want to read the whole thing. In fact I'll go ahead and open this question up to anyone out there who wants to answer. Is the GOTTA TAKE A SHIT MASK really in the script? And what page number is it on, if so? Thanx!
i skipped breakfast, so a hearty lunch is in order by triplefive	Mar 9th, 2007 08:33:22 AM
before meeting Hell's cafeteria lady
Funny how the first pro review.. by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 9th, 2007 08:35:30 AM
doesn't mention dialogue or narrative and merely creams himself on the action and visuals. 300 is going to suck...
What gives? by Playkins	Mar 9th, 2007 08:36:03 AM
I sent in a review more than a week ago from an early screening I saw in Pasadena. Either it sucked (because I was extremely positive?) or you didn't run it because I mentioned my distain for negative talk-backers. Well, I thought it was amazing.
Playkins: What was amazing...? by mbeemer	Mar 9th, 2007 08:44:55 AM
The film, or your review? ;-)
has anyone else... by greyspecter	Mar 9th, 2007 08:53:41 AM
...been as entertained by the tv ads for this movie? they make outrageous claims like, "This is the greatest movie in a generation!" or "This is as groundbreaking as The Matrix!" or "The Academy might have to make up a new category of awesomenity for a movie such as this!!" Okay, I made up that last, but the superlatives surrounding this movie are so asinine that I'm actually leaning towards seeing this. It's kind of a brilliant scheme, to overhype such a potentially shallow and pedestrian movie so greatly that you want to see it just to prove to yourself that it can't possibly be as good as that. "This Summer: Evan Almighty will redine moviemaking in ways not seen since Citizen Kane!"
seems people will either love it or hate it... by just pillow talk	Mar 9th, 2007 09:03:28 AM
from the get-go. For me, it doesn't interest me. The concept is great in terms of few against many, but the trailers did nothing for me. Those that loved the trailers I'm sure will love the movie.
Gwai Lo by Mr_Sleep001	Mar 9th, 2007 09:08:29 AM
It's on pages 4,5,18-22,76 and 101. It just keeps on popping up. Or you could not be so lazy and read the script, if you even have it. By the time you've waited for someone to answer you could've read it.
300... by datachasm	Mar 9th, 2007 09:14:14 AM
does this movie have lots of slomo crap in it? i hate that! and goofy action? i finally started watching Casino Royale, and the beginning super jumps and sliding around the building was so forced, its like watching a storyboard.
Dunno by kbass	Mar 9th, 2007 09:15:47 AM
What movie 30frames is talking about...but to say there is more speechifying than fightifying doesn't jibe with the movie I saw. Sure they talk a lot about killing Persians...but then they actually kill a lot of Persians. I loved it.
Mr_Sleep001, you killed my gimmick! by Gwai L0	Mar 9th, 2007 09:27:35 AM
But thanks. I was particularly moved by the long scene on pp. 18-22, where Doctor Loomis helps Michael create his new, updated Gotta Take A Shit Mask, in a montage sequence set to a Creed song.
Finally...a pro-America film by 9000rpm	Mar 9th, 2007 09:39:13 AM
The vision of a film that is pro-Bush, pro-USA, anti-gay, anti-United Nations, and flaunts the philosophy that "all men are NOT created equal" is even more striking than the visuals.
Sparta = Freedom? by Oberon	Mar 9th, 2007 09:39:17 AM
I had the same thought as 30Frames when I saw the pile of infant skulls...and the reality is that the Spartans seem sympathetic and free (even in Herodotus, not just Miller) only in comparison to the Persians - especially when you consider that part of the reason they were reluctant to deploy the full army was that they held down about 7 helots (slaves) for every Spartan. In the end Americans would find (and always have found) the Athenians more sympathetic than the Spartans. Of course, then again, over 90% of Downs Syndrome babies are aborted now, so maybe we're just more squeamish about our culling.
When the rhino showed up... by AvengingFist	Mar 9th, 2007 09:53:42 AM
yesss....
actuall release-version? by Romoehlio	Mar 9th, 2007 10:21:24 AM
does that mean theres a different cut out there? longer? or in terms of fx? saw this at the berlinale, sadly my review wans`t posted but hey... the movie is gold! extremly cool (like matrix-lobby-sequence cool). got me and my best friend giggling due to excitement the whole way through. they made the-xerxes/leonidas meeting kind of gay (he`s to big and then "bow down") but still. am i the only one who thinks they put the spark into the eyes of the true spartans with fx? anyway. go see it. THE start of blockbuster-action season. enjoy, i will as soon as it gets releases ober here (3 weeks)
that ought to be..."over by Romoehlio	Mar 9th, 2007 10:23:53 AM
that ought to be..."over here" not ober here...sorry. and i forgot to mention that i will enjoy it once again, and again, and again, and again...
McNulty in the HOUSE!!!! by Russman	Mar 9th, 2007 10:41:38 AM
I didn't know West was in this. Very cool!
FREEDOM by CaptDanielRoe	Mar 9th, 2007 11:08:02 AM
Means that individuals have rights and are respected whatever their differences. To call freedom anything else is propaganda of the worst Orwellian order. Of course Miller is a bit of rightwing nutjob and I love him for it in the context of his chosen mediums, but it's a bit much to see it reflecting reality.
S P A R T A N S !!! PREPARE FOR GLORY!!! by Motoko Kusanagi	Mar 9th, 2007 11:46:05 AM
isn't it?
Saw it in the Imax last night for the midnight show by JBouganim	Mar 9th, 2007 12:47:51 PM
The film just set a standard for how future battle films will be shot. Any film that shows a decapitation in slow motion like that has my seal of approval of being one of the best battle scenes ever. And the speeches? Just made you pumped up all the time. The film wasn't a bunch a of liners as the previews show. I suggest everyone go see this in the imax.
And as for the dialouge... by JBouganim	Mar 9th, 2007 12:51:32 PM
I had no problem with it. Yea its not Russell Crowe in Gladiator but just check it out and see for yourself. I kinda hate when people just assume a movie is going to be bad. You cant afford $10 to see a film that you might actually even like? What are you spending your $10 on? Thats what I am curious about...Hilary Duff films? Like what is a good film to you recently? I personally liked Smokin Aces. Didnt see Zodiac yet but I want to. Black Snake Moan was alright. But seriously what constitutes as a good film for you?
300 THUMBS DOWN! by frik1	Mar 9th, 2007 02:41:42 PM
Saw 300 at a midnight screeening and I have to agree with 30frames. It was very disappointing. I'm a big fan of Miller and 300, and I don't know if Snyder had to soften his movie for Hollywood execs, or what, but a great action/fighting story convuluted with added/unneccesary pointless dialogue. I gotta ask why? The Spartans are supposed to be bad ass, no retreat, no surrender, no mercy...etc. and they have sappy father/son plotlines and dialogue such as "It is an honor to die next to you...", "It was an honor to fight next to you!" BLAH! It was 30 minutes too long due to all the pap Snyder added. Who cares about the wife or Leonidas' son, and the tooth necklace symbolism, such Hollywood whitewash. So dissapoionting.
Excellent review 30 frames by Quin the Eskimo	Mar 9th, 2007 03:22:57 PM
Really well written
What's with everyone saying the spearing is homoerotic? by 'Cholera's Ghost	Mar 9th, 2007 03:25:53 PM
I read that somewhere else. When you write with a long pencil, is that homoerotic too? If you cut open a fruit, does it spurt like--"well you get the point"? Does everything in you people's minds have to be a metaphor for phalluses? (phallasi?) Hey, you know what? Guns are long, hard, and shoot stuff out, but I don't remember anyone so quickly reading so much into Die Hard or Rambo (who was, gasp, shirtless at some points).
LETS GET HOMER EROTIC by gride9000	Mar 9th, 2007 03:34:00 PM
Just saw the Imax in SF. Wow, so entertaining. Most entertaing film in a year or two. The look, the over the top enemys and diolouge and lets not forget the 75% of the film that is comleatly fucking gay. Not like lame gay. Not insulting gay, just homocentric. Hot sweating warriors, fighting together (naked), sleeping together (naked), eating together and stiking their swords in any man they can find at "The Pass". Mcnulty from "The Wire" is just sorta gay, but he's a bad guy. The persian king was sooooooooo gay he needed hella trannys around just to look less gay. I think if you are compleatly straight, you cannot like this film. Look into your heart you fag. that adrinaline you felt when the rugged king penitrated his shaft into the soft flesh of his advisary, that makes you sooooo gay.
Die Hard or Rambo? by jasper Stillwell	Mar 9th, 2007 04:32:09 PM
That's stuff as gay they come. You think that big building that Willis is running around in his underwear throughout is just there as a plot mechanism? One MASSIVE phallic symbol. Oh yes.
WooHoo!!! by joeyjojojrshabadoo	Mar 9th, 2007 05:54:52 PM
Can't wait to see this tonight!!!
Die Hard and Rambo!?!? by Tal111	Mar 9th, 2007 06:11:52 PM
Next thing you guys are gonna claim that Top Gun is homoerotic too!!! What a buncha nuts!! All I know is it's a good movie that gives me a boner!! What else does a completely straight guy need from his flicks?!
9000rpm on the money by Angel Blake	Mar 10th, 2007 04:48:33 AM
of course a film that depicts a war-hungry race that uses rhetoric like "Freedom" while endorsing a culture of competition against all odds (ie- natural end of capitalism) is going to be compared USA.
You lots are all so intolerant; enjoy everything. by Sepulchrave	Mar 10th, 2007 12:43:48 PM
This film is probably a whole lot of fun. For fan-boys and for gays. You can be a heterosexual fan-boy and still think that a guy with big biceps kicking ass is cool. It does not make you gay. You can be gay and enjoy the sexiness of the rippling muscles AND the violence, as a fan-boy would. Women are of no consequence in these movies and are just levered in to make heterosexual men feel safe and not gay. Really, a lot of heterosexual men would LIKE to be involved in all-male activities much of the time; this does not make you a homosexual. Every guy who likes to play sports or go hiking about without girls about is not gay. But that doesn’t mean that gay men can’t bond in this very masculine way too; they do. Male-bonding is often connected to homoeroticism but that doesn’t mean that it is gay. Nor does it mean that it is exclusively heterosexual. My second point is that just because someone wants to judge this film on a political/ intellectual level (Bush, racism, war) does not mean that you have to fly into a fucking hissy-fit defending your gung-ho, action-man sensibilities, Frank Miller’s comics or your hard-on for muscular men or violence. The meanings ARE THERE to be read IF you want to do so. Ignore them and enjoy the gore and the abs but they are present and spotting them is just a game, an intellectual game; it does not make you a shrill feminist killjoy, a paranoiac or an asshole to do so. It’s just another way of processing the film. I think that this film is probably a bit racist; I also think that it’s probably homoerotic (Sparta muscles), homophobic (Xerxes’ lip-gloss), fascist (slave-owning militaristic assholes), pro-Bush-conservative (Freedom isn’t free), and very hummersexual (for new men who are trying to bolster their flagging 21st century masculinity with boot camps, big cars and designer stubble). But I will still enjoy it. Because it’s fun.

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