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Offline bozon

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« on: April 05, 2007, 05:42:18 PM »
I just returned from the movies after watching "300".
I am familiar with how Hollywood treats historical stories. Some made up side stories is fine. Change the costumes somewhat for beautification. Even "spice up" the original story by taking some liberties with the historical detail. I can take that.

GOOD GOD! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?!:O :mad:

I never realized Sauron has extended his conquests from Mordur to Greece. Finding historical inaccuracies is a fun exercise, but in this case it was futile. A few character names, the use of round shields and the red cloaks is all that remains of history.

Forget Athens part in the story, forget authentic costumes, throw history books to the floor and step on them - why oh why did they need to include orcs and trolls as troops of the Persian army. They came right out of lord of the rings! including the disproportional elephants (Uliphants)!
At some point I was waiting for Gandalf to appear with the Ruhirs and save the day...

I hear the next historical movie will be about the battle of Britain. Never in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few elves in golden spitfires that fought rugged, all steel Messerschmidts driven by nazi orcs.

I'm sorry for this outburst. I just feel cheated and felt compelled  to warn those who inted to watch it. I should have listed to reason and downloaded it from the web because the producers don't deserve getting the ticket money.

Does everything has to be fantasy ?! :mad:
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2007, 06:04:11 PM »
Well, it is a pretty average film. The killing soon gets old and I just got bored.

However, historical inaccuracy is not a valid criticism, if you ask me. Herodotus was the classical historian who dealt with the Greek-Persian conflict and he was apt to talk about dog-headed men and ants that dug gold from the earth. 300 is just a spin on the Greek style of 'history' (or storytelling), but perhaps doesn't realise it.

I'd give it 6/10, and wouldn't go out of my way to catch it on TV. Unlike Gladiator.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2007, 06:11:48 PM »
You do realize that the movie 300 is based off of a graphic novel?  And not the actual battle?


While it was a great ride, I wouldn't say that it is a good movie.
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2007, 06:13:13 PM »
This wasnt a "history" war film like Letters from Iwo Jima or Alexander or whatnot. It's an action move based on a graphic novel lossely based on the timeperiod.
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2007, 06:17:52 PM »
Alexander was fantasy too - very little is known about the man or his conquests apart from the bare facts.

Gladiator was a film based on a time period, but it succeeded completely as a film.
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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2007, 09:19:00 PM »
You want a documentary, go watch PBS.

300 was a good film, being what it was intended to be, pure entertainment. I never go to hollywood to get a history lesson.
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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2007, 09:26:22 PM »
I never intended to watch it, but that was good fuel as to why I'd rather skip it.
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2007, 09:47:24 PM »
Yeah, they really messed up.  I mean, come on, they had British accents.  If the producers wanted to butch the Greeks up to '11' they should've given them Brooklyn accents.
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2007, 11:12:21 PM »
Didn't you know that any foreigner in a movie based on a comic book has british or german accents?
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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2007, 11:13:57 PM »
Foreign to whom exactly?
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« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2007, 11:23:11 PM »
Is they from Texas? That's your answer right there.
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« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2007, 11:24:55 PM »
Ooops, my bad.
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« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2007, 12:03:18 AM »
That movie kicked ass. Popcorn, drink, thousands of dead Persians, and boobs. wtf is the problem?
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« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2007, 12:10:27 AM »
:rofl  slash

i havent seen it yet...thinking about it....


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« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2007, 02:13:03 AM »
at then end there, i was expecting captain sparrow to coming swooping in on the black pearl and sink the entire persian fleet.

some good fight scenes tho.
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