300...

[Captain Faramir]

I actually thought it was quite a well-done review; it's nice to see a new perspective. I won't be seeing the movie, so it's nice to see what different opinions there are on it. Nothing wrong with a fresh take on something. I know somebody who hates Lord of the Rings with a passion, but I still value his opinions, even though they don't register with me. I like hearing different opinions.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Re: Bad Review...

This guy is a MORON!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802188.html

yes he is a moron...

It's entirely an overblown visual document with an IQ in the lower 20s. It doesn't even bother to mention the strategic context of the Battle of Thermopylae or to follow the story through to its end at Salamis, where the Athenians sent the Persian minions to meet Mr. Jones at the bottom of the Aegean, and drove the Persian Big Boy Xerxes back to his harem where he ultimately perished on an intriguer's knife

First off, never, EVER, did Snyder nor Miller, say the movie was historically accurate. Even if they did say that, does that take away from what the movie is? This is a writer who probably complained saying the The Titanic didn't sink the way it was supposed to in the movie....MORON !!!

There's also trouble in the staging: The action is all showy and stylized, never quite realistic, in a kind of van-art gray-brown patina. The director, Zack Snyder, hasn't a gift for kinetic action and the battle choreography is stilted. He overdoes the slow-mo until it becomes comic and the whole package aestheticizes violence, leaching its meaning, distancing us. There's nothing like the horror of the close-in stuff in "The Seven Samurai" or "Zulu," to name two great battle movies.

Was he watching the same movie I was watching? Battle Choreography stilted? ...I can only shake my head.

Instead, we get a Spartan culture that seems notable primarily for one thing: the invention of the ab machine.

The only thing he said that was true, kinda funny too, but he's still an idiot. I can't post any more, reading the rest of the article will just make me angry and want to find him and stab him with a spear..

 

[twistedfreak]

Re: Bad Review...

This guy is a MORON!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802188.html

I read that whole article and I will only say this... I would like to take a spear and shove it through his gut. He's an idiot. He knows very little about the movie. His words are null and useless. Really. Nothing he says matters.

 

[Jen]

Re: Bad Review...

I read that whole article and I will only say this... I would like to take a spear and shove it through his gut. He's an idiot. He knows very little about the movie. His words are null and useless. Really. Nothing he says matters.

Apparently this guy never read that this was based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. If he had read it, he would see that it was a spot on interpretation. Reviews like this always make me laugh....they try to sound so smart but just come of sounding like imbeciles. He needed to do his homework, which clearly he failed to do.

 

[Jen]

I read that whole article and I will only say this... I would like to take a spear and shove it through his gut. He's an idiot. He knows very little about the movie. His words are null and useless. Really. Nothing he says matters.

Apparently this guy never read that this was based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. If he had read it, he would see that it was a spot on interpretation. Reviews like this always make me laugh....they try to sound so smart but just come of sounding like imbeciles. He needed to do his homework, which clearly he failed to do.

 

[Darklord Dave]

There are some reviewers that care more about making themselves look clever than telling people if they will like a movie. Certainly a personal perspective makes a review interesting, but when the reviewer's ego gets in the way the review becomes worthless.

I can't say he's wrong about anything though, although I'd disagree about the action sequences - I think Snyder did a good job with that. I do disagree with his conclusions. And trying to politicize the film and interpret it in light of modern events is a bit foolish.

 

[Captain Faramir]

Not to defend the guy, but I think the man is perfectly entitled to say what he has--simply because somebody doesn't like a movie doesn't mean he's a complete blockhead. I'd take it with a grain of salt; not everybody likes that kind of movie and that's ok. I'm not going to see the movie because I can't watch much violence without it affecting me deeply (I've always been sensitive to it; even LOTR gets to me sometimes), but that doesn't mean I think other people are savages if they love that kind of stuff. It just means there are different tastes and opinions, and that's a good thing. Besides, I found some parts of his article really funny. There was, after all, a bit a sarcasm throughout the whole thing. Let's not get so angry at one man, especially when it could spoil the thrill you all seem to be getting from this movie.

 

[Jen]

Originally Posted by The Idiot Who Wrote The Article
It's entirely an overblown visual document with an IQ in the lower 20s. It doesn't even bother to mention the strategic context of the Battle of Thermopylae or to follow the story through to its end at Salamis, where the Athenians sent the Persian minions to meet Mr. Jones at the bottom of the Aegean, and drove the Persian Big Boy Xerxes back to his harem where he ultimately perished on an intriguer's knife


Now I don't mind reading people's different opinions on things...but what this guy wrote above shows that he did not pay attention to the fact that this was based on the graphic novel. If he had read the graphic novel he would know that no where do they discuss great strategies of battle and that the story ends when Leonidas dies...not when the Persians are finally defeated. His complaints are not credible because he is wanting this to be a totally different movie than what it is and what Zach Snyder said it would be. It would be one thing if Snyder said he was going to do a movie on the Battle of Thermopylae or ancient Greek battles, but he did not. He was making a movie from Frank Miller's work. These are two very different things.

I for one, don't let things like this bother me. I loved the movie and even if the movie was a bomb and no one liked it, I would still think it ROCKED!!!

 

[darth dypshyt]

I am hoping that it is screened at IMAX theatres here in Australia too, I am pretty sure there is one in Brisbane, about an hour away from me...I may have to look into it..

 

[darthviper107]

Not to defend the guy, but I think the man is perfectly entitled to say what he has--simply because somebody doesn't like a movie doesn't mean he's a complete blockhead. I'd take it with a grain of salt; not everybody likes that kind of movie and that's ok. I'm not going to see the movie because I can't watch much violence without it affecting me deeply (I've always been sensitive to it; even LOTR gets to me sometimes), but that doesn't mean I think other people are savages if they love that kind of stuff. It just means there are different tastes and opinions, and that's a good thing. Besides, I found some parts of his article really funny. There was, after all, a bit a sarcasm throughout the whole thing. Let's not get so angry at one man, especially when it could spoil the thrill you all seem to be getting from this movie.

The problem is that he's not just your average person telling you what they thought of a movie. He's paid to review movies and write about them so that people can see if they might want to go see it. And so in that case they have to think of what the general audience would see in the movie and leave their bias behind, this guy obviously doesn't and should be fired, he sucks at his job.

And why oh why does every review I've read think that there's something about the film that's gay? Just because they are men in a small amount of clothing doesn't mean that they are gay or that was done as some kind of gay porn. It's crazy that people get those ideas whenever a guy takes his shirt off, and yet they don't call it a lesbian movie even though there is female nudity and women kissing.

Dang, critics are getting so bad, I think we should kill them all and start over.

 

[DannieDarKo]

Not to defend the guy, but I think the man is perfectly entitled to say what he has--simply because somebody doesn't like a movie doesn't mean he's a complete blockhead. I'd take it with a grain of salt; not everybody likes that kind of movie and that's ok. I'm not going to see the movie because I can't watch much violence without it affecting me deeply (I've always been sensitive to it; even LOTR gets to me sometimes), but that doesn't mean I think other people are savages if they love that kind of stuff. It just means there are different tastes and opinions, and that's a good thing. Besides, I found some parts of his article really funny. There was, after all, a bit a sarcasm throughout the whole thing. Let's not get so angry at one man, especially when it could spoil the thrill you all seem to be getting from this movie.

Yeah but he doesn't post on these boards, WE DO! So we can and will bash the crap out of him.

 

[The ill Jedi]

As Jen said, this guy clearly did not do his homework on the graphic novel and proceeded to give a history lesson on the battle of Thermopylae rather than review the movie for what it was. He wanted to sound smart and yet most of what he said was stupid, I mean to say that the Spartans were 'kind of gay' is retarded coming from someone who sounds like a pompous jerk. It is clear to me that he is not the type of person who can just sit down with some Nachos, a Hot Dog and a Soda to enjoy a kick ass film; whether or not it is 'historically' accurate. Maybe since he was so fascinated by 'Effeminate Persians', Spartan's 'Abs and being 'Kind of Gay' we should put him in Xerxes' harem.

P.S. This guy is still an idiot.

 

[darthviper107]

Another idiot:
https://www.screenit.com/ourtake/2007/300.html


Somehow it seems critics play different video games than I do because they all keep comparing it to a video game, and while I'm not a huge gamer I do pay attention to the latest game tech and have never seen anything remotely like 300.

And again they think it's gay.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Another idiot:
https://www.screenit.com/ourtake/2007/300.html

"3.5 out of 10", what a Dip S#!t! :emperor

No offense to our own Darth Dyp****!

 

[The ill Jedi]

From now on their should be two types of people:

Those who thought 300 rocked

&

The Idiots.

 

[Radagaster]

I'm just happy the movie passed the 50% mark in rottentomatoes.com which culls reviews from all these idiots. For me, the only thing I could do now is wait for the HD version hit the stands so I can keep a copy for my own personal collection. 300 rawkz!

 

[Bardoon]

Don't know if this was posted but Richard Roeper of "Ebert & Roeper" gave the movie a fantastic review,giving it FOUR STARS!!!!

https://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/289178,WKP-News-hundred09.article

I tend to lean toward Roeper and Ebert because they are at least critics who RESEARCH the source material to better understand what they are seeing on-screen.Roeper even comments that 300 is the "Citizen Kane of cinematic graphic novels".

 

[darthviper107]

Yey, chalk one up for the winners.


I still can't see how it looks like a video game (at all) a but then again I'm in 3D Animation so I can see a big difference between video games and movies.

 

[Jen]

Now the Iranians are pissed off about 300.

https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-03-13-300-iran_N.htm?csp=27

 

[Bardoon]

Now the Iranians are pissed off about 300.

https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-03-13-300-iran_N.htm?csp=27

Oh please....how they get all self-righteous...I'm sure their real Persian ancestors were much more honorable and noble people than the way their government portrays themselves today.