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milohimself

milohimself

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Saw the midnight showing... This movie is seriously giving the Tarantino catalog a run for its money as the most badass movie I've ever seen. Everybody should go see this. Fantastic acting, action, special effects, script, cinematography... Everything. Everything about this movie is top notch. Go see it, now.
 
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milohimself said:
Saw the midnight showing... This movie is seriously giving the Tarantino catalog a run for its money as the most badass movie I've ever seen. Everybody should go see this. Fantastic acting, action, special effects, script, cinematography... Everything. Everything about this movie is top notch. Go see it, now.
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Define "top notch".
 
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I'm going to the movie because my AP European History teacher said that he will give us extra credit but after hearing so many things about it..I'm actually looking forward to seeing it.
 
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milohimself said:
Saw the midnight showing... This movie is seriously giving the Tarantino catalog a run for its money as the most badass movie I've ever seen. Everybody should go see this. Fantastic acting, action, special effects, script, cinematography... Everything. Everything about this movie is top notch. Go see it, now.
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I'm seeing it tonight. I'm totally pumped. I was gonna go see it at midnight but i'd miss the UT game so i'm going today.
 
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utvols07 said:
I'm going to the movie because my AP European History teacher said that he will give us extra credit but after hearing so many things about it..I'm actually looking forward to seeing it.
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Look no further for reasons why our public education system is failing us...
 
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I thought this looked sick...Cant go tonight cause of a soccer game in the middle of no where but Im trying for tomorrow...
 
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From the reviews I am reading it sounds like the usual panty-waste, nanny crybabies are decrying this movie. Now, I really want to see it.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
From the reviews I am reading it sounds like the usual panty-waste, nanny crybabies are decrying this movie. Now, I really want to see it.
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:lol: Yeah I cruised Rotten Tomoatoes last night afte I got home. Every single bad review the movie got decried it for too much violence. Obviously the movie feels self-important and extremely violent, but that is the nature of Spartan history. They really did slaughter disfigured, weak and sick babies after birth. They really did raise male children with the sole purpose of becoming a warrior through incredibly violent means. Those who claim the movie is too violent obviously have no grasp of Greek history. Spartans were rough to their own, brutal to others, and truly cherished bloodshed.

The movie is not stylized to the extent that Sin City is, but it's not like that says anything. Everything is still bronzed out, the costumes are still outrageous, and the look of Xerxes and the rest of the Persians are eye-grabbing to say the least.

The main bad review I read came from the New York Times, dogging the movie for too much violence and racism. Something along the lines of all the good guys being white, and all the bad guys being black, Arab and Asian. Um, yeah. Greeks were caucasian and Persians were largely made up of those three races.

All the bad reviews I've read so far for it knock it for those asinine reasons. Hillybilly is right as well, all of them sound like complete sissies. Well listen you Magnolia and Eyes Wide Shut fans, time to grow a pair. This is some great cinema.
 
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vader said:
:eek:lol: You should be the next Ebert. :salute:
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milohimself said:
The main bad review I read came from the New York Times, dogging the movie for too much violence and racism. Something along the lines of all the good guys being white, and all the bad guys being black, Arab and Asian. Um, yeah. Greeks were caucasian and Persians were largely made up of those three races.
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Wow... I need a link for that review. They probably evenb tried to tie it in with the war in Iraq somehow, I bet. Playing the East vs West angle and what not.

I bet it was a very interesting review coming from NYT.
 
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Hope all of you have fun watching 300. Maybe Frank Miller will make enough money to inspire him to "artistically recreate" Braveheart, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, Hamburger Hill, etc. and we won't have to worry about great historical films ever again...

Way to bastardize one of the greatest battles in the history of warfare, Frank. My hat is off to you!
 
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therealUT said:
Hope all of you have fun watching 300. Maybe Frank Miller will make enough money to inspire him to "artistically recreate" Braveheart, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, Hamburger Hill, etc. and we won't have to worry about great historical films ever again...

Way to bastardize one of the greatest battles in the history of warfare, Frank. My hat is off to you!
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Who p!zzed in your Wheaties? :eek:hmy:
 
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Tenn_Vol_Authority said:
Who p!zzed in your Wheaties? :eek:hmy:
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Frank Miller and Zack Snyder.

"The film is mythology out of history," Snyder said. "I think historians have been obsessed with taking mythology and making it real. We went the other way."

He's not too concerned about critics who say his movie departs from the historical record. When someone suggests that perhaps the Spartan soldiers who fought so valiantly wore more body armor than he depicts in "300," he counters with, "Really, so you were there?"

Then he mentions that the only known statue of King Leonidas, the Spartan leader, is quite nude.

'300' recounts momentous battle of Thermopylae
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Thanks Zack. Here is a tip for the future: if you don't want to make a historical movie...DO NOT MAKE A HISTORICAL MOVIE!

However, I am glad that someone is getting AP European History credit for viewing this garbage. Maybe they will also get some AP American History credit for watching Apocolypse Now...
 
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therealUT said:
Hope all of you have fun watching 300. Maybe Frank Miller will make enough money to inspire him to "artistically recreate" Braveheart, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, Hamburger Hill, etc. and we won't have to worry about great historical films ever again...

Way to bastardize one of the greatest battles in the history of warfare, Frank. My hat is off to you!
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YOUR GUNBELT IS TO TIGHT SOLDIER LOOSEN UP
 
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therealUT said:
Frank Miller and Zack Snyder.
Thanks Zack. Here is a tip for the future: if you don't want to make a historical movie...DO NOT MAKE A HISTORICAL MOVIE!
However, I am glad that someone is getting AP European History credit for viewing this garbage. Maybe they will also get some AP American History credit for watching Apocolypse Now...
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I saw Glory in the theater with my HS history class but I sure didn't get any credit for it, other than not being counted absent for the day.
 
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Trut was not is not historically accurate about this movie?

Almost 1,000 Thespians who actually stayed and died with the Spartans.

The 6,000 other Greek allies who fought at the battle.

The naval battle that Themistocles fought?

Or that Themistocles was the actual planner of the battle.
 
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milohimself said:
Saw the midnight showing... This movie is seriously giving the Tarantino catalog a run for its money as the most badass movie I've ever seen. Everybody should go see this. Fantastic acting, action, special effects, script, cinematography... Everything. Everything about this movie is top notch. Go see it, now.
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I cant flippin wait. This thing looks Incredible. I have read mixed reviews from Critics but they are all liberaly ass*****. Plus I live in Sparta so that will be cool.

Better than Sin City, Milo??

As far as greatest movies ever goes, is it in that kind of category???
 
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