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300: This time there are more than 300 What's that? You forgot about Sparta? 300 came in 2006. Yeah you're that old. That's right folks it's the sequel to the movie that made the Iranian ex-pat community wonder if they should forego the Persian thing entirely in favor of pretending to be Mexican for a while. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zqy21Z29ps This time it's a prequel sequel or I don't even know. No longer directed by Zack Snyder but instead Noam Murro (hope we still get sick speed ramps). All I know is King of Scotland MacLeonidas is still dead. Probably should have worn some armor over those sweet abs. Instead we have this dude playing Themistocles The famous Greek general who united the Greeky city state navies into defeating the Persians (spoiler). And then umm...found himself in the employ of the Persians til the day he died http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themistocles#Later_life_and_death We'll forget about that part though, grey area doesn't test well with audiences. Returning is Lena Headey, (probably relieved to play a fan favorite again after that whole Sean Bean thing) as Queen Gorgo (still pissed about that whole McNutty incident) Also returning Rodrigo Santoro as Newcomer Eva Green (still playing off-white roles). Actually based on a historical figure as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_I_of_Caria And umm...juggalos? Bro we need to bring back Sparta they were loving hardcore. Back then I would totally make some Helots tap the gently caress OUT Here's hoping Gorgo and Artemesia sail to the isle of Lesbos Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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I am going to pay $10 to see Eva Green ham it up, kick rear end, and go across the screen slaughtering dudes left and right like a beat em up. EDIT: Also, that is a really excellent OP. Thanks.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 13:53 |
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Xerxes' actor is Rodrigo Santoro. Unless you're misspelling on purpose, in which case nevermind.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 14:13 |
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DOES NO ONE ELSE WANT TO SEE EVA GREEN RENDER GREEKS LIMB FROM LIMB AND COMMAND A NAVY TO gently caress poo poo UP? Come on now! Hype for this move!
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 19:32 |
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Can't wait to see how they remove any possible subtext from Zach Snyder's 300 and update it for the tap-out MMA generation. Lena heady is a severely underrated actress though so she deserves all the work she can get. Koivunen fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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I'm gonna watch the gently caress out of this and it's gonna really suck and I'll probably be okay with that.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 21:54 |
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The first trailer I saw for this had the score over lain with War Pigs, and my first thought was "no matter the actual quality of this movie, everyone will probably say that it sucks", and I stand by that. That said, on the incredibly unlikely off chance that the entire movie score is based off of Black Sabbath or similar hard rock classics, it will indisputably own.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 23:25 |
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Alan Smithee posted:
Faygo is in my blood.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 23:31 |
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After I started going to the gym the guys in 300 and this movie don't look so buff and manly anymore and that removed my only reason to watch them.
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# ? Feb 24, 2014 23:53 |
Will this one also have non-sequitur homophobia in it? I can't imagine who was clamoring for a sequel to this movie 8 years later. The Mr. Peabody movie makes more sense.
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acephalousuniverse posted:Will this one also have non-sequitur homophobia in it? I can't imagine who was clamoring for a sequel to this movie 8 years later. The Mr. Peabody movie makes more sense. "loving boy fuckers from Athens what a buncha fags am I right bro? "Yeah bro. Say bro wanna lather me up with some oils" "gently caress yeah bro let's do it!"
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 02:51 |
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I'm kind of excited purely for the trainwreck factor. The original 300 was based on an old existing Frank Miller comic but the script for this is all new, and for those of you who don't follow comics modern-day Frank Miller is batshit insane. After The Spirit (2008), Holy Terror (ie the comic where Not-Batman and Not-Catwoman kill Muslims because they hate freedom), and his screed about how the Occupy movement was a bunch of rapists and thieves who are just jealous that rich people are so much better than them I am expecting top-tier from the man.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 03:25 |
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Alan Smithee posted:Instead we have this dude playing Themistocles Not Spartan. Themistocles was an Athenian general. That's right. Athenian. Dude's a boy lover. In addition, the Spartans pretty much sat out the Battle Of Salamis because they had no navy. As a compromise, the Athenians and the other Greek nations gave the Spartan general Eurybiades command of the fleets, but it was mostly in a name only because they knew more than him. Also, given enough time, everyone in Greece worked for the Persians. There's that whole thing about Xenophon and 10,000 Spartans crossing into Asia Minor under Persian king Cyrus' banner. Until Cyrus was assassinated and the warriors had to escape across a land teaming with their enemies to get back to Young Freud fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Young Freud posted:Not Spartan. Themistocles was an Athenian general. I'm wondering how this movie will address the other Greeks being bad asses since they talked so much poo poo about any one other than Spartans in the first movie. They probably just count on no one having watched it in 8 years.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 06:21 |
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Or you could do a movie that explains why a frat based society isn't always bestYoung Freud posted:Not Spartan. Themistocles was an Athenian general. Yeah, point was less to demonize him for working with the Persians and more that those actual literal demons the Persians were portrayed are closer to the Greeks than people seem to realize I mean hell by the time Xenophon came around the Greek city states were all at war with each other.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 06:31 |
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Also, gently caress me for forgetting The Warriors source material
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 06:34 |
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I find it really weird that this got made. 300 was a decent hit at the time, but it's one of those movies that was popular for a year after it came out and then everyone just forgot about it. And as far as I'm concerned it wasn't that good to begin with. Plus it came out almost a decade ago. I'm interested to find out if people are actually going to see this.
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I can't wait for the crypteia scene . Vincent fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Young Freud posted:Not Spartan. Themistocles was an Athenian general. Young Freud posted:Also, given enough time, everyone in Greece worked for the Persians. There's that whole thing about Xenophon and 10,000 Spartans crossing into Asia Minor under Persian king Cyrus' banner. Until Cyrus was assassinated and the warriors had to escape across a land teaming with their enemies to get back to Fun thing about the Persian Empire too, it was actually pretty progressive what with the multiculturalism and not having slaves, but of course we believe in that totally great democracy of Athens who treated there women terribly. I mean hell look at Eva Green's character and how remarkable her life was, in Athens she would have been stuck in an Attic. The only good thing about Ancient Greece seems to be its mythology, science, philosophy, and being a template for a lot of stuff that the Romans would perfect. E: Found the post about how terrible Sparta was Halloween Jack posted:Even just trying to add to what others have said, Sparta's reputation is so full of bullshit I don't know where to begin. I believe it would be most illuminating if I just go through it chronologically. achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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poo poo getting old? Have some Stalingrad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Da3EgZUA0Y Executing BURN Therapy
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 10:23 |
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Honestly the most thing about that Stalingrad trailer is the random shot of the woman taking a bath. I guess nothing says sex appeal like a battle that killed more than a million people.
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Mantis42 posted:Honestly the most thing about that Stalingrad trailer is the random shot of the woman taking a bath. I guess nothing says sex appeal like a battle that killed more than a million people. The thing that got me about it is how overstaturated everything is and shot with those HDR cameras.
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# ? Mar 1, 2014 17:44 |
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I would watch Eva Green clip her toenails and I'm still not sure I have any interest in watching this.
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origami posted:I would watch Eva Green clip her toenails and I'm still not sure I have any interest in watching this. Granted she's a little older than she was but they really film her in some unflattering light, and not just the whole SHE DIPPED HERSELF IN PURE EEEEEVIL
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origami posted:I would watch Eva Green clip her toenails and I'm still not sure I have any interest in watching this. Watch Womb instead then. edit: That's the film where she gets impregnated by her son who is a clone of her boyfriend or something?
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 03:57 |
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I think I will see this in the cheap theatres or with a free ticket that I sometimes get because while it will be interesting for seeing how over-the-top Eva Green will be it won't be the same without David Wenham narrating Unless I completely missed something and his character is still present, because I could listen to that man read the phone book
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Alan Smithee posted:poo poo getting old? Don't see this. It is literal Soviet propaganda and glorifies Stalingrad waaaaay to much for what was probably the greatest concentration of human misery ever. Can't wait for 300 gently caress historical accuracy wanna see ludicriously massive triremes with shirtless dudes on horses doing sick jumps
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Aces High posted:I think I will see this in the cheap theatres or with a free ticket that I sometimes get because while it will be interesting for seeing how over-the-top Eva Green will be it won't be the same without David Wenham narrating If he is narrating the movie it might yet still be watchable.
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# ? Mar 3, 2014 14:13 |
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I saw a preview in IMAX before Robocop and before this I was gonna blow this off - the trailers weren't doing anything for me. But seeing it up on the big screen changed that - this looks loving amazingly insane - in a good way of course - plus the whole wall of sound is gonna rock the audiences seat off. I cannot wait to catch this and while it may not live up to the first, it's going to be a worthy sequel.
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MA-Horus posted:Don't see this. But literal Soviet propaganda films are awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec
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MA-Horus posted:It is literal Soviet propaganda and glorifies Stalingrad waaaaay to much for what was probably the greatest concentration of human misery ever. I applaud this hilarious post.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:But literal Soviet propaganda films are awesome: poo poo's black and white and does not contain sick slowmo lol formalism Eisenstein can kiss my rear end Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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The correct answer for best Soviet propaganda is Russian Commando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFbFhSgutTw
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Alan Smithee posted:The correct answer for best Soviet propaganda is At first it looks like one of those fake trailers, but there is actually a full movie "inspired" by Commando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLd_dz1ID4Y
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MA-Horus posted:Don't see this. I hope the irony in this post was intentional.
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Russian Commando is badly missing the STEEL DRUMS, gently caress YEAH of the original. And that ending isn't a patch on "let off some steam" I had absolutely zero interest in this but given the reviews I've read so far have said that Eva Green absofuckinglutely nails it and owns every frame of the film when she's around, I'm actually quite tempted now.
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I'm curious if they'll include the historical scene where Themistocles comes across two roosters fighting along the road and inspires his troops by saying:quote:Fellow soldiers, observe these animals; they do not assail each other for the sake of country, nor for their paternal gods, nor for the monuments of their heroic ancestors, nor for glory, nor for liberty, nor for children; but only because one will not give way to the other. How then ought you to fight, who have all these things to contend for? Chickens: making history.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:12 |
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I'm pretty sure Artemisia and Gorgo are supposed to be the chickens
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# ? Mar 6, 2014 03:56 |
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This was not good. It had the hyper-violent action of the first film, but the action wasn't as frequent. There's no sense of escalation with the action either. There's a huge emphasis put on Xerxes at the beginning of the film but he's pretty much disappeared by the second act. The politics are largely the same, and those that read the first one as a satire will likely have the same view as the narration of the film is from the Spartan viewpoint. The jingoism and masculinity that defined Sparta in the first film isn't as prevalent in this film though. If you felt that the first film demonized Arab people, you ain't seen nothing yet. Xerxes forces now include suicide bombers. There's constant reference to how Arab blood needs to be spilled as well. Edit: This movie did have the funniest sex scene of the year.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Edit: This movie did have the funniest sex scene of the year. Welp, I'm in.
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