maybe this will work

so i just got out of the theater
i thought it was excellent
beautiful, violent
it is about sacrifice more than anything else
seems simple enough i guess
but the bad reviews i have seen seem to miss that point

My washing machine doesn't work. Someone fucked my washing machine. My washing machine does not work. Someone fucked my washing machine. I said my washing machine doesn't work! Why did you fuck my washing machine?!?! FUCK!

Lol.. those are the works to a song I'm listening to.

I don't know. I forgot to look. It was once of my techno songs and I have around 1600+.

It was really close to the comic. Even some shots in the movie were straight out of the comic. I think I'll go see it again this next week.

yeah real close to the comic Chef
right down to leonidas eating an apple after a fight
my girlfriend asked when we were going to see it again already
some numbers for the weekend:

The grim warrior tale sold an estimated $70 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release, setting a new record for a March release, the film's distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday.

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Its achievement was all the more noteworthy given that the previous record-holder for the month, 2006's "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown," with $68 million, was a family-oriented cartoon, while "300" is an unabashedly gruesome spectacle with an "R" rating that prevents viewers under 17 attending without adult supervision.

In fact, the opening for "300" ranks as the third-highest for an R-rated movie, behind "The Matrix Reloaded" ($91 million) and "The Passion of the Christ" ($83 million).

i actually thought happy tree friends was a kid oriented tv show, as i havent seen an episode before. so i turned on the tv and left my then 2 yr old to watch so i could clean the kitchen.

15 minutes later, she was running towards me, crying, saying the poor little creatures's head got hacked off.

next time i'll make sure to stick to cartoon network (minus the adult swim version).

I like Pajiba's comment section and the article that goes into a bit of detailed opinion of the movie. Some slight spoilage if you haven't seen the movie, but I would reccomend that everyone see the movie and maybe forget about the reviews and all the hoity toity commentary. I don't know what it was about 300...I guess my Epic cherry was popped a while back and anything short of virtual reality epic movies (where you experience the battle yourself) could do it for me now.

Female oriented aka shallow plot & lame cookie cut characters?

I'm just throwing that out there. That's not my opinion on female oriented films.

hmmmm...that's because females are not considered to be epic or heroic. Superwoman may be a change, but even she is buff and has to live with lesbians on an island to make the male audience feel she can exist on the plane of male testosterone-pumped action/epicness.

I love those two movies. I was mad at the end of the departed. Real fuckin cheap way to end the movie. It was as if they were shooting and Scorcese said, "Well, 2.5 hours, its about that time, eh? Lets kill everyone off because there is no way we'll end this sonbitch short of 3 hours otherwise."

I'm confused glim.

jm i did see the departed. ah...video.....


jm i'm not saying females can't like the departed. because they do.also of note can females 'idenitfy with male leads alot more than guys do with females...

ok jm what i liked about the departed was the twist/layers.

but maybe it just me i could 'respect' it. but liked no.and was the level of respect i had for it.enough to put it in the 'yeah' support it category for me. no

guess it's just me.that's one of the reasons i never watch anything/but just read reviews. i haven't been impressed with anything in the reality or on aesthics.(sp?) in years and it's been like that for years...

maybe i can't surrendor(sp?) enough of myself when i'm viewing to get ultra immersed.maybe this further proof of what a weirdo i am....

everyone on screen is so much smarted and better looking than me.and all those females i bet i couldn't even get a handshake from. *ha ha*

there's so much/many views concerning art/society or even being human that i think are 300% wrong/backwards or beyond arcane.

and than you have someone that only likes 'for the guy' films or broad comedies telling you your wrong. it just seems that if more isn't accepted things will never change.......

lord or whomever your 'normal' person hates anything different. until it gets absorbed by the mainstream. ha ha....


but seriously.alot of guys just like 'guy things'. and don't like any females with a media profile aside from uh on a hormonal level. depressing yes ?????

sorry i'm more fragmented today than usual...


i wish i could like stuff.it just it's not even worth the effort to watch.nothing wows me.so whay watch if your not going to be impressed.....


i'm a total wimp.more and more i can't relate. don't care about guys beating each other up......

ok at least in 300 they have their shirt off.and are in those speedo type things.....


2007 looks like it's not going to be good year for movies. just sequeals. big action stuff...

maybe later in the year after summer.....but i doubt it...

and no i'm not on drugs. it's just me. this is me....

jm....oprah gets respect from females...not usually from guys. you know guys *love* to make fun of her. ok a lot of females too.

if guys are bothred by oprah. they deserve the annoyance. note i'm neutral on oprah.....whatever........


oprah is like donald trump or whomever. like her or not people do respect the money...

plus if a guy liked oprah. he'd propably get it even worse than a guy with apref for romantic comedies. just thing about it. ha ha...

they deserve the annoyance. because i don't care if they're annoyed !!! :)


*ha ha* :)

I just got back from seeing "300" and loved it. A definite must see on the big screen, if you can. The bods are worth seeing, yes, but the story is even better. Finally, a film worth the money to go see.

why did you think the story sucked? I thought it was great.

remember to show your support by clicking on the ad & watching the movie!!

I'm gonna hit up the IMAX version this weekend.

to tell you the truth, i've never been to one of these things. i figure this is the right movie. hah.

I want to read the comic someday soon. The art in it is unbelievably nice.

I think that there is going to be a re-release of the comic with an accompanying, 'Art Of 300' book very soon.

k.b. will it be a coffee table type book ????

wow...... :)

pinchy so this movie hasn't hit spain yet ??? and don't worry about not seeing it most of america is seeing it for you......

hmm yeah ..seems they often give a movie different release dates for different regions. but it still backfires on them....

well since you mentioned it sin city is a *good*.example of how in some parts of the world when it got a 'big screen'/now you can see in the cinema release.

it was very possible to pop over the states version of amazon.com and buy it. yep....


anyway i think the studios now notice that prople will buy stuff from where ever via the net.

example the film that won best foreign picture 'the lives of others' i think there's retail dvd out(non region one.but all regions players are common. so are computers dvd drives) but it has no subs. wait correction it has no *english* subs... so it's not going to do *me* any good...

and pinchy if you do have to watch 300 with some guy. don't watch unless he brings *alot* of pringles..... :)

tried to hit up an IMAX showing @ 3PM, but it was fuckign sold out.

will try again tomororw!

***WARNING*** Trainspotting spoilers ahead if I can follow Real's logic :-P. CLOSE YOUR EYES!!!! HIT THE BACK BUTTON!!!!

Can you imagine the baby scene in and IMAX? That would be fucked up....

The baby scene would mess me up if I saw it at an IMAX!

Want to see 300 at am IMAX, but after all the rave reviews I just know it is going to be a riotus mob scene. :o(

it would be great....that baby scene would kill me. finally.

300 is a fucking great movie. It is, of course, a highly stylized, inaccurate, and single sided version of history, and I can see them showing this in the US Military -- shit, I was ready to go out and kill some Persians at the end -- but only the winners get to write history. Xerxes and his Persians won that battle but lost the war, and Alexander sealed the deal for good a few decades later.

The great philosophies, arts, and sciences of ancient Greece prevailed, and no 3rd world Middle Eastern country of today poses any great threat to the democracies of the West that followed. 9/11 never really roused much thirst for revenge in me, mainly because I'd like to believe that it was the actions of a few fanatics and some corrupt leaders, not a representation of how most Muslims of the Middle East view the West. But if things were more clear cut, like they were back in the 5th century BC, a war between Western and Middle Eastern ideas and ideals, with the latter wanting to enslave or obliterate the former, then I'd be the first one to push the button. Luckily, no such threat exists.

Yeah Islamists need to pull their heads out their asses already.

So it would be in their interest to join up behind the UN's agenda, rebel against their tyrant leadership etc. Any empire would look bad if they wiped out a peace loving nation.

Same thing. The US wouldn't be able to wipe out a Scandinavian country, because they would look like murderers, and they wouldn't be able to corrupt its leadership, because the people are free thinking and peace loving individuals. But as long as the Mideast keeps fighting internally, its people will continue to take it up the ass from whoever has enough power to stand on someone's back and shout out words they've been longing to hear.

the only figure i can recall that had a chance at reshaping that country and influencing the middle-east was Mossadegh, and the intellectuals and young generation of that time (before Khomeini) and also figures in Arab countries that were hoping to nationalize and basically do their own thing- which I don't know much about except that I saw a documentary on Egypt and thought that the UAE is a great example of how they modernized (albeit they are not a democratic country) and are "peaceful" with the world (they're planning a future on crack for that country...crazy people)

Well, they have oil, and it was the birthplace of early civilizations... it's not like they haven't had time to get their act together. But riches are of course a curse, unless it is at least perceived to be distributed somewhat widely among the people protecting and dying for it.

Well, that's what I said. In some countries you have people paying taxes without getting much back, they're relatively lucky; in other countries you have people dying for resources they can't even call their own.

I don't think Socrates is next in line for a pop movie, but the Odyssey should be pretty ripe by now.

Do you think the rising tensions in Iran are enough to spark a revolution in the near future?

pinchy, supposedly the dialogue was true to to the graphic novel ????

Hehehe...

I haven't seen 300 yet because I was banned from my cineplex. We had all lined up in front of the theater for about 30 minutes, and then they brought us in. I had to stand right beside these two fat, horse-faced lesbians eating each others tongues like they were making a political statement or something. So, like 30 minutes later, we end up shuffling in the theater and these *beep* bitches start bitching about having to wait when the movie is about to start, mind you, it was 11 and it was a midnight showing. It turns out they were going to see that stupid Jim Carrey movie 23 and they were missing it. So, the ugliest of the two bitches just exclaims like no one's there "This is the wrong *beep* movie!" I just had to do what I did next. I shouted at the top of my lungs "This is SPARTA" and kicked her in the chest, causing her to fall down about 8 steps to the floor. Most were shocked, but about 80% of the theater started to cheer, and I was forcibly thrown out by 2 officers. Charges are going to be pressed against me apparently, but it was worth it.