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21st March 2007, 4:22pm
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| | A Jubilant Mass Editor
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Team Sparta: Greece Police is the latest result of Hollywood's burning compulsion for translating comic books into big screen fodder. It's not so much a film as a slideshow of gorgeous desktop wallpapers. It is, however, huge amounts of fun.
The eponymous comic, of which the film is (for the most part) a faithful scene-by-scene translation, is itself extremely loosely based on the battle of Thermopylae, in which a small Greek contingent faced off against the might of the Persian Empire in 480 BCE. The group comprised some 300 Spartans, plus a few thousand assorted Greek soldiers of lesser calibre, and estimates of the invading forces arrayed against them range from 100,000 to over five million. Despite these overwhelming odds, thanks to martial superiority and clever use of terrain the Greeks managed to hold up the entire Persian advance for a period of several days, and inflicted a grossly disproportionate number of casualties.
While the magnitude...
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25th March 2007, 4:09pm
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| | Better not to err
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was I the only one who thought the bits with the wife and the council flew by? | |
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25th March 2007, 4:12pm
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| | circle.square.triangle
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Uddingston
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| Re: 300
Still not seen this yet. Hopfully see it soon though. Looks fantastic. | |
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26th March 2007, 3:44pm
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| | Quit Yo Jibba Jabba, Fool
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I've been talking about this since 3 months before its release date, but I've still not seen it yet as I'm an annoyingly busy-bee - but cannae fucking wait.
Will hopefully get to see it by the weekend at the very latest! *excited*
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26th March 2007, 4:14pm
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| | MANLEGEND SuperMod
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| Re: 300
Rumour mill is churning that Miller may be writing a thematic sequel (meaning another great battle in Greek history, but since Zach Snyder did the Dawn of the Dead remake it could be Leonidas returning from the grave as a zombie and Xerxes hiding out in a shopping mall) | |
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26th March 2007, 11:34pm
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| | Let's Pray I'll Be Ok!
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| Re: 300
Seen this today.
Gorgeous movie, loved every minute.
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27th March 2007, 5:00pm
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| | Belligerent Ghoul
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| Re: 300
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Originally Posted by MarkMono  was I the only one who thought the bits with the wife and the council flew by? | Nope, I'm the same. Didn't think they interupted the flow of the film or anything.
Anyway, this was indeed magic, though I think the trailer pretty much encompassed all the best bits, and the film just brought them together (semi-)coherently.
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27th March 2007, 8:14pm
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| | The Dude abides...
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| Re: 300
Saw this again tonight, still fucking excellent! 
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3rd April 2007, 7:56pm
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| | adrift: 漂流者
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Oh dear. | |
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3rd April 2007, 9:25pm
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| | Registered User
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| Re: 300
I thought that was pretty excellent, as did the missus.  | |
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4th April 2007, 5:55pm
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| | tear you apart
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Loved it. | |
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5th April 2007, 7:11pm
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| | cromulent
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See the bit where he's nonchalantly eating the apple after doing in all those guys? Where had the apple been that entire time? I want answers!
But aye it was alright, good fun. | |
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5th April 2007, 7:31pm
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Glasgow
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Haha, I wondered that! That's a very ungrubby apple you've got there in all that gore and ichor!
Also - the hunchback welshman... | |
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7th April 2007, 4:02pm
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| | rebel hiss
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| Re: 300
Ach, it was alright. Visually impressive, some snappy dialogue, tits'n'gore, blahblahblah. It's gotten a hype way beyond what it merits though. | |
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7th April 2007, 4:21pm
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| | different kind of monster Moderator
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Here and there
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| Re: 300
might try and see this sun/mon....on a semi related question is anyone out there a god at making AMV type music vids? *scemes*
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7th April 2007, 7:38pm
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| | aka that bloke from 300
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absolutely loved the movie, nuff said
no doubt a nice wee 300 sig and ava to come later on when I can be bothered with photoshop | |
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