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    Default Frank Miller's 300

    [Backstory] So... me and the gf went to watch Rocky Balboa Saturday evening (same old same old, which is NOT a bad thing, we both thoroughly enjoyed the movie!) but before the movie they showed a trailer of a new movie based on Frank Miller (from Sin City fame) comic book: 300...


    [Uh...Main Content..I think] It looks pretty awesome, it's about these 300 badass Spartans (erm,I think they're called Greeks today ) that defend a pass against (queue Dr Evil Voice) ONE MILLION Persians..or something like that...

    It looks totally cool, with a very distinctive look, almost like everything as painted, or like a animated comic book, (or graphic novel, or whatever you want to call it) so because this trailer got me totally pumped I went and searched for it on IMDB... I checked the user comments (as I usually do), and I found this little gem there, I almost rofled off my chair when I read this:
    (uhm,I hid it behind a little spoiler thingy, I don't think it's too crude, but just in case there's some parents out there that don't want their kiddos reading this TOO easily)

    Stunning in almost every way., 17 February 2007
    Author: Jeff from Maryland

    I just saw a movie that'll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It's called 300. I don't know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could have called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it'd still rule. It's about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh-- out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper. The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it's sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, "I need some extra sauce packets" guess what? You're getting twenty sauce packets because the look on your face will punch him in the brain. I can't spoil the plot because THERE ISN'T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that's hitting someone's balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

    TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN'T LIKE: COOL THING ONE: HEAVY METAL MUSIC DURING BATTLE SCENES: Who gives a sh-- if the music isn't historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could have used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Starbucks is telling you that you'll have to stay late for clean-up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

    COOL THING TWO: FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS: Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There's wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he's got Rosie O'Donnell on his back. Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

    NOT SO GOOD THING: DUDE NUDITY ("DUDE-ITY"): These were Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they're serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties. Any directors reading this - IT'S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES. Can't someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it "PAUSE BUTTON"?

    My final analysis is 300 the most ass-ruling movie I've seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.

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    sounds like a movie one would want to buy to keep
    will definitely keep an eye out for this one

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    Yeah, I saw the trailer for this on apple awhile ago - looks very very very awesome.
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    ooooooh another review:

    Short quote from the review!
    In fact, “Rings” devotees may wish to avoid “300,” because after seeing Frank Miller’s widescreen illustrations come to life and start moving, leaping, hacking, gouging, tearing and bleeding all over their neighborhood IMAX, the Tolkien trilogy will be reduced to little more than the very long story of a schizophrenic Muppet and his curiously affectionate companions. And I love those movies!
    Full review here
    Sounds fantastic, I see NuMetro has 30 March as the release date...

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    i heard about it several months ago...AND I MUST SEE IT!!!!!!

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    In fact, “Rings” devotees may wish to avoid “300,” because after seeing Frank Miller’s widescreen illustrations come to life and start moving, leaping, hacking, gouging, tearing and bleeding all over their neighborhood IMAX, the Tolkien trilogy will be reduced to little more than the very long story of a schizophrenic Muppet and his curiously affectionate companions. And I love those movies!
    Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves there. I think it will still be a long time until someone tops the mastery of peter Jackson's LOTR adaption. Not saying 300 is bad, but that's just exaggeration there...
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    The hard core spike-your-adrenaline get-you-wanting-to-beat-the-$#%$#^-out-of-everybuddy clinch about this movie is
    1.) It's based on a true story
    2.) in true story : every Spartan to the last man stands his ground and dies

    I read a dramatisation of this called "Theopolus" (or "Theopolis") ... awesome book. Being half greek and reading this it was hard not to associate myself with the story. One interesting thing picked up from the book is that if you were a Spartan picked for the assignment; you were only picked if you had children already. Single men, Husbands with no kids were not part of the 300... as they had no legacy behind to continue their name. they went knowing they would die. The plan was to have them hold up at a pass and keep the persians at bay long enough for the rest of Greece to rally and get their army together for a counter attack.
    300 Spartans died... nearly 15000 Persians died at that pass !!! And the Spartans were only taken, when one of the Greek Villagers betrayed them and showed the persians a secret back route into the pass.... the persians sent a few thousand men through the back pass and hit them from both sides ... Every Spartan went down fighting ... but they saved the rest of Greece ... their families included.

    Gives me goosebumps thinking about the story... get the book if you can ...read it before the movie... it's awesome !!
    I can imagine the movie will be too.... regardless one what one poor Iranian idiot has to say about wrecking ISLAM... ISLAM was nowhere near as much of a force then as it is now (If my history is correct this event was before Mohammed was around)

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    Been following this one around for a while now as well.
    Can't wait to see it, looks freaking awesome!

    @wingnut - That spoiler is brilliant, I really like the way that guy explains it, gets you all exited without using any big words. Love it!

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    Impressive 500:1 K ratio there, But I think they were hackers, cause, like hwo do you maintain a 500:1 KD ?
    I think they were using aimbots and wall hacks ...

    But yea, I started the dl of this this morning, Hope it lives up to the previews and they hype, That said i dont know if this will be for everyone ...

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    lol,check this review on TwitchGuru... I laughed quite a bit at the guy's "interview" with his wife at the end of the review...proof that your better half will also enjoy it...

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    *edit: esih the speling *

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