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Feb 11, 2007 20:14:08 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Feb 11, 2007 20:14:08 GMT -5
Anyone else as excited about this as me?
From what I have seen it looks like they are going to add scenes with Leionidas' wife which may be cool or may not... may just be an excuse to show more women in togas and stuff.
All I know is, I can't wait for March
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Feb 11, 2007 22:01:33 GMT -5
Post by David on Feb 11, 2007 22:01:33 GMT -5
Just saw a preview for it before Pan's Labyrinth (which I really enjoyed, BTW)--- It made me want to go out and kill a Persian eunuch.
... And I don't get those urges a lot, so...
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Feb 11, 2007 22:19:25 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Feb 11, 2007 22:19:25 GMT -5
I do...
freaking persians....
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Feb 12, 2007 8:59:50 GMT -5
Post by Brandon on Feb 12, 2007 8:59:50 GMT -5
Oh, there's a story and stuff? From all the ripped mostly naked dudes in the commercial I thought it was some kind of softcore porno or something.  |
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Feb 12, 2007 9:35:45 GMT -5
Post by David on Feb 12, 2007 9:35:45 GMT -5
I visited Thermopylae as an undergrad intern on a grad student summer "dig" about 11 years ago--- the place is hallowed, and practically resonates with what was accomplished there. The sacrifice of Leonidas and his men was one of those cornerstone moments in history. The world would have been a very different place today if the Spartans had not held the Hot Gates.
No homoerotic jokes, there, please; that last bit wasn't a pun.
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Feb 12, 2007 10:00:07 GMT -5
Post by Brandon on Feb 12, 2007 10:00:07 GMT -5
Bwah-hahahahaha!
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Feb 12, 2007 10:27:20 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Feb 12, 2007 10:27:20 GMT -5
Even if I was clever enough to make an innappropriate innuendo to that, I don't think I could live up to whatever build up you laid down before me... freaking dave..... That sounds awesome about how you went on that dig though! I was reading message boards about how people were angry at how historically unaccurate it is, but I am pretty sure when Miller wrote it he wasn't thinking to himself, "Jeeez, if only I could write this comic book like it was an exact docmentation of what happened there." Because if nothing else, Frank Miller is concerned about things grounded in reality. |
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Feb 12, 2007 10:52:06 GMT -5
Post by David on Feb 12, 2007 10:52:06 GMT -5
I've not read Miller's version yet, though it seems I should. The movie looks incredible, if a bit visually anachronistic in parts.
BTW, that same summer, we visited the site of the naval battle of Actium (where Octavian's fleet defeated Antony's and Cleopatra's). This was actually the "dig" we were on (I say "dig" becase we were on the water); Thermopylae was just a side trip.
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Feb 16, 2007 1:18:30 GMT -5
Post by capeandcowl on Feb 16, 2007 1:18:30 GMT -5
First, yes I am super pumped...as my avatar probably shows.
As for Miller's amazing graphic novel. No it is not 100 per cent accurate. But then it is not intended to be a documentary.
For instances, Spartans wore ARMOUR into battle. Miller's Spartans are naked but for the cloak and helmet. It was done, as I understand it, to highlight a Spartan reality....the uber intense training they underwent from childhood and the Spartan obsession with physical perfection. These boys were as near perfect physical specimens as you could get.
He also takes some licence with the Persians, particularly Xerxes. We know generally want he looked like from Persian frescoes. He was bearded, wore a typical style of Persian clothes included the crazy slippers with the curled toes. Miller's Xerxes, like his Spartans, is a much more physical character. He appears African and is draped in gold. Makes for an amazing visual.
Perhaps the most interesting artistic change he makes though is in the character of Ephialtes - who historically was a Greek farmer who betray the Spartans at the Hot Gates. Miller draws him as a grotesque hunch back, almost monstrous in form. Compared to the almost perfect looking Spartans, his appearance highlights what he is truly is - ugly. But his ugliness is bore out by what he does, not what he looks like. In effect, he becomes the monster he appears to be.
There are other things you could nit pick, but the brilliance of the book is how it lays out the battle as the Greeks at the time must as seen it. The battle became the rally cry for Greece to fight off the Persians, much like the Alamo was for the Americans.
I am totally pumped to see this.
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Feb 16, 2007 1:41:02 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Feb 16, 2007 1:41:02 GMT -5
Yep, I beleive I said the same thing in not so many words. Some moron went on IMDB message board claiming to be a descendant of Xerces and was bitching about how is ancestor was being represented. Argh, people on the internet are frustrating sometimes. |
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Feb 16, 2007 2:42:20 GMT -5
Post by capeandcowl on Feb 16, 2007 2:42:20 GMT -5
Yep, I beleive I said the same thing in not so many words. Some moron went on IMDB message board claiming to be a descendant of Xerces and was bitching about how is ancestor was being represented. Argh, people on the internet are frustrating sometimes.  he claimed to be Xerxes descendent? BWAHAHAHA. oh I have to read this.... |
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Feb 16, 2007 2:52:54 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Feb 16, 2007 2:52:54 GMT -5
Danf, I shoulda saved it but I didnt and now I can't find it because it was so long ago.
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Mar 12, 2007 14:48:42 GMT -5
Post by capeandcowl on Mar 12, 2007 14:48:42 GMT -5
have you guys seen 300 yet? sooo awesome.
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Mar 13, 2007 20:33:20 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Mar 13, 2007 20:33:20 GMT -5
i'm gonna have to agree with you, it was all kinds of awesome.
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Mar 13, 2007 20:47:17 GMT -5
Post by David on Mar 13, 2007 20:47:17 GMT -5
I will be seeing in this Saturday--- don't ruin the end for me!
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Mar 13, 2007 22:00:21 GMT -5
Post by capeandcowl on Mar 13, 2007 22:00:21 GMT -5
oh you mean the end where Leonidas takes up knitting?
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Mar 14, 2007 10:04:57 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Mar 14, 2007 10:04:57 GMT -5
GAHHHH! |
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Mar 14, 2007 18:10:46 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Mar 14, 2007 18:10:46 GMT -5
I will be seeing in this Saturday--- don't ruin the end for me!didn't you study this stuff? that's kinda like me going, no don't ruin the ending of the titanic or passion of the christ. |
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Mar 15, 2007 11:44:13 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Mar 15, 2007 11:44:13 GMT -5
Or Star Wars...
Wait a minute...
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Mar 15, 2007 12:00:11 GMT -5
Post by David on Mar 15, 2007 12:00:11 GMT -5
I will be seeing in this Saturday--- don't ruin the end for me!didn't you study this stuff? that's kinda like me going, no don't ruin the ending of the titanic or passion of the christ. Right. It was a joke. I'm droll like that. |
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Mar 15, 2007 14:47:01 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Mar 15, 2007 14:47:01 GMT -5
 GAH so good... |
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Mar 15, 2007 16:55:15 GMT -5
Post by brigante133 on Mar 15, 2007 16:55:15 GMT -5
didn't you study this stuff? that's kinda like me going, no don't ruin the ending of the titanic or passion of the christ. Right. It was a joke. I'm droll like that. preaching to the choir. |
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Mar 16, 2007 14:51:31 GMT -5
Post by Crow on Mar 16, 2007 14:51:31 GMT -5
I saw the movie two days ago...Loved it.
Had a thrill-gasm from the fight scenes.
Felt intense emotion at some of the plot twists
Took five minutes or more after the movie had turned black adn the credits had finished just to get myself together
Lovely
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Mar 29, 2007 17:11:45 GMT -5
Post by darthsylly on Mar 29, 2007 17:11:45 GMT -5
I didn't have my hopes up too high for myself actually liking it... but by God it was fantastic! Cinematic gold-dust!
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Mar 30, 2007 2:18:52 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Mar 30, 2007 2:18:52 GMT -5
"SPARTANS! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!" .... hee hee  |
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Apr 1, 2007 17:05:26 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Apr 1, 2007 17:05:26 GMT -5
Just saw it.
*ahem*
OHMYGOD THAT WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME. I MIGHT NEVER WATCH ANOTHER FILM AGAIN, AND JUST WATCH THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN ON DVD WHEN I GET IT.
Honestly.
JESUS H. CHRIST!
SO GOOOOOOD!
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Apr 1, 2007 22:14:22 GMT -5
Post by Crow on Apr 1, 2007 22:14:22 GMT -5
Charlie, you just summed up why I had to sit for five minutes before leaving the theatre
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Apr 2, 2007 14:36:02 GMT -5
Post by HoM on Apr 2, 2007 14:36:02 GMT -5
I'm betting that some of us had the urge to go HAROO![/b] before we left the cinema? I know I did. |
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Apr 2, 2007 22:19:44 GMT -5
Post by Mr Clown on Apr 2, 2007 22:19:44 GMT -5
Best comedy ever!!!
Seriously, it was an awesome movie. Even when Ephialtes betrays the Spartans, you completely understand why... Um, not just the taking part in the orgy, but also because all he wanted to do was fight alongside his people. And the fight scenes? Amazing, absolutely amazing.
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Apr 2, 2007 22:42:05 GMT -5
Post by Crow on Apr 2, 2007 22:42:05 GMT -5
Best comedy ever!!! Seriously, it was an awesome movie. Even when Ephialtes betrays the Spartans, you completely understand why... Um, not just the taking part in the orgy, but also because all he wanted to do was fight alongside his people. And the fight scenes? Amazing, absolutely amazing. I'm a thrill junkie, and watching breathtaking fights gave me eyegasms. They were beyond awesome. And the funny thing with Ephiates (good job remembering that name by the way) is that my gf was mad at him for betraying the spartans. Me...I told her if he was a normal guy, yeah, I'd be ticked. But...the guy made Quasimodo look like Esmeralda...yes, I said Esmeralda. If I was him, I'd participate in licking and fondling and lesbians. |
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he claimed to be Xerxes descendent? BWAHAHAHA. oh I have to read this....
