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QUOTE(shipps @ Mar 11, 2007 -> 12:34 AM)
I dont know why,but it bothers me to hear anyone say they didnt like it.What do you expect from this movie?Would you have rather had the Spartans to win the war?Should they have had guns?Should the queen have been Beyonce?

 

See Letters from Iwo Jima. More or less, the same story. But done well. Very well.

 

 

Agree w/ everyone about Sin City. HORRIBLE movie. I walked out.

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QUOTE(juddling @ Mar 13, 2007 -> 03:04 PM)
Well....guess who is 'offended' by the movie......

 

Tehran- Iran on Monday strongly condemned the US film

company Warner Bros. over the allegedly "anti-Iranian" blockbuster

film 300.

Javad Shamqadri, art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

told Fars news agency that the film was an insult to Persian culture

and in line with the American "psychological war" against Iran.

 

Zack Snyder's film, based on a comic book by Frank Miller, tells

the story of the battle of Thermopylae in Greek history in which 300

Spartan warriors led by King Leonidas heroically fought a massive

Persian army attack, delaying an invasion by King Xerxes' forces and

giving Greeks time for a counterattack.

 

Iran's has called foul over what it calls "deviation of history"

but also because the Persians in the film were shown as "ugly and

violent creatures rather than human beings."

 

The news network Khabar organised a special programme in which the

film was evaluated from several angles by film critics who argued

that the film's alleged efforts to expose Persians as violent was a

US political plot implemented through Hollywood and the Warner Bros.

company.

 

The state-run network also linked the film to ongoing political

differences between Washington and Tehran such as the nuclear

dispute.

 

The film critics further said that after Germans, Japanese,

Russians and Arabs, Iranians seem to become the new "villian" in

Hollywood productions.

 

A large number of Iranians abroad have already started a worldwide

email campaign to send protest missives to Warner Bros. for having

insulted Persian culture and history.

 

The film reportedly made 70 million dollars over its opening

weekend, making it the first official blockbuster of the year

 

:bang

 

Considering this movie appealed to the 18-35 male bracket I highly doubt it was designed to corrupt Americans into hating Persian/Iranian/Middle Eastern Culture. Whether they would like to believe it or not, there are still a few educated and cultured Americans who are not swoon by a flash Hollywood movie. I swear, the stupidity that some people display just in an effort to show they are offended is getting extreme.

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QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 06:29 PM)
See Letters from Iwo Jima. More or less, the same story. But done well. Very well.

Agree w/ everyone about Sin City. HORRIBLE movie. I walked out.

 

it's not more or less the same story. One was based off of actual events, the other was based off of a comic book. It's a comic book movie. As was sin city.

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QUOTE(bmags @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 11:07 PM)
it's not more or less the same story. One was based off of actual events, the other was based off of a comic book. It's a comic book movie. As was sin city.

Althought not a historic piece by any stretch of the imagination, 300 wasn't based on historic events?

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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 15, 2007 -> 12:45 AM)

Like I said in the previous post, "Based" on historic events. I never said it was even close to historically accurate. I know the story, I studied it in school (not saying that any schools account is historically that accurate either. It was nearly 2,500 years ago.). I am just pointing out that they used the historical backdrop of the Battle of Thermopylae. That is all.

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It would be nice if that reviewer would mention that the entire story is being told by a Spartan warrior. Why would Dilios talk about some sea battle he wasn't a part of? Why is it unreasonable for him to glorify his countrymen and villify his enemies?

 

He also throws in some ridiculous shots about defending eugenics and presenting Xerxes as a homosexual (the kind of homosexual that lives in a tent full of naked women, apparently). He really sounds like he has an axe to grind.

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I saw it late last night and I was in the mood to see some serious badass action scenes but left thinking eh. It was basically just another movie. The problem was the director was f***ing horrible. The movie lacked the a smooth plot development and was just overall to choppy and that sort of directing prevented the movie from ever really having a climax of any sort. You waited for a legendary battle speach and didnt' get one, you waited for some sort of plot development (without being chopped up) and it just never happened.

 

Get a good director and someone who could have made the script a little more made for a movie and I think you could have really had something.

 

Still I enjoyed the fight scenes its just this movie could have been a very good movie but it just failed in certain areas.

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