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PolkThug
PolkThug Posts: 7,532
edited April 2007 in Music & Movies
Effing awesome. The whole audience clapped after it was over. I'm think I'm gonna go hit the weight room now.
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  • punk-roc
    punk-roc Posts: 1,150
    edited March 2007
    lol, I saw this last night as well. It was good. They should have given up on trying to have a story at all though... The fight scenes were really cool, they were cutting between a bunch of short scenes from weird angles so you really dont know whats going on... Long shots centered on one "combatant" and even appropriately used slow-motion shots. I'd recommend anyone who likes action movies see it at some point

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2007
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49962
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2007
    I've been dying to see this. I've always had a thing for the 300 Spartan story. I remember loving the original movie with Richard Egan playing King Leonidas . . . that moving was inspiring, I would imagine that this version with all the effects, drama, and history added to it would bring goosebumps and tears of inspiration.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2007
    Very little here that is historically accurate, it's all about the eye candy and it is very well done in that respect. Saw it this morning and loved it, a must buy when it hits Blu-ray.
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  • Deadof_knight
    Deadof_knight Posts: 980
    edited March 2007
    This movie is a story that someone is telling , you guys know as well as anybody its their version ......... Very nice looking eye candy wise the visual affects are splendid....its a no brainer buy when it comes out
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,774
    edited March 2007
    Freaking great.

    11/10
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2007
    11/10

    Yeah, for getting to see Lena Headey's knockers. She is one hell-of-a hottie.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2007
    Ron-P wrote:
    Yeah, for getting to see Lena Headey's knockers. She is one hell-of-a hottie.

    Shes the new Sarah Connor......

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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited March 2007
    Ive been dying to see this too. Glad to hear its getting rave reviews.

    Maybe we can swing out and see it today.
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  • dholmes
    dholmes Posts: 1,136
    edited March 2007
    Seen it Sat AAA+++ lots of fun, the acting was good also. Going to see it again Tuesday!!!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2007
    From the previews I've seen on TV, I'm really dying to see it. I also like the story from history, but it's not historically accurate?

    I guess that's ok. I saw Gladiator on TV last week for the first, and it wasn't historically accurate, either. However, I thought it was awesome. Hate I waited so long to see it.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2007
    audiobliss wrote:
    I saw Gladiator on TV last week for the first, and it wasn't historically accurate, either. However, I thought it was awesome. Hate I waited so long to see it.

    Gladiator is awesome. I saw it in the movies when it first came out. The scene where the whole arena is chanting MAXIMUS, MAXIMUS, raised goose bumps. I would imagine on a good HT it would be even more enthralling.
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  • millerman 3732
    millerman 3732 Posts: 1,488
    edited March 2007
    Very entertaining movie, the slow motion battles scenes where awesome. And now my wife thinks that Leonidas is the finest thing since sliced bread.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited March 2007
    Very good movie :) Worth the wait! (since I saw the 1st preview 4 months ago).
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  • capecodder
    capecodder Posts: 613
    edited March 2007
    Not trying to down play it since I also liked it. I just didn't love it. Visually great. I thought the short oracle scene with the young woman was fabulous. I guess my "problem" was that I knew the story (from reading the graphic novel) and the most of the movie was really just one quick battle scene after another, wave after wave. Never really had me at the edge of my seat. For Sin City for instance I had a grin from ear to ear throughout the whole movie. This one didn't do it for me like that did.

    Regardless, still a definite go see film.
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  • Ferres
    Ferres Posts: 310
    edited March 2007
    :( sigh...
    Theaters suck where I am. I'll just have to wait for the dvd.:o
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2007
    Face wrote:
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49962

    This movie kicks so much ****, there should be at least 5 threads.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited March 2007
    I want to get ripped and go spear people.
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,833
    edited March 2007
    The only negative I saw in the movie was King Leonidis's wife, played by Lena Headey.

    Nice hooters ? To be sure.
    But she seemed out of her league in this movie. Her character, who was supposed to be a Spartan queen, seemed more like someone you'd see in a slasher flick; running away, falling down, twisting her ankle type.

    Other than that: must see.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2007
    Toxis wrote:
    I want to get ripped and go spear people.
    :D
    I'm waiting to hear about that at a showing.
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  • Deadof_knight
    Deadof_knight Posts: 980
    edited March 2007
    Remember US !


    KICKASS!!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2007
    Toxis wrote:
    I want to get ripped and go spear people.

    I beat up some emo kids right outside the theater.
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  • Deadof_knight
    Deadof_knight Posts: 980
    edited March 2007
    Kinda thought there for a second Leonitis was gonna spear Zirkzis right in the chest , Die self proclamed god DIE!
    :cool: " He who dies with the most equipment wins Right ? "

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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2007
    Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast and eat heartily, for tonight we dine in Hell!
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited March 2007
    PolkThug wrote:
    I beat up some emo kids right outside the theater.
    hahahahahahaahhahaahahahhahahhhhaa Good! But now they'll get even more emo on us. Ugh...

    Greatest line I've seen online in a while.
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  • Tim B.
    Tim B. Posts: 105
    edited March 2007
    That was a great movie. Definite buy on DVD.
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited March 2007
    Iran is mad about 300..."psychological warfare" ROTFLMAO!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6446183.stm
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2007
    fireshoes wrote:
    Iran is mad about 300..."psychological warfare" ROTFLMAO!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6446183.stm

    This link doesn't load. I started it loading and came back a half hour later and it was still loading.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited March 2007
    I first didn't know where I had seen 'Leonidas' before but then it struck me, 'Phantom of the Opera'. It must have been the difference in conditioning. Very well casted, an excellent choice. Xerxes, while propably not a very accurate historically, was also a good choice.

    I'm glad they didn't have much mythical history in it and Heracles was only briefly mentioned.
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited March 2007
    hearingimpared wrote:
    This link doesn't load. I started it loading and came back a half hour later and it was still loading.

    It loads for me at work. Maybe teh interweb is broken? :)
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