300 - art to film

actually SeaFox, I'm willing to bet that the actual true-to-life battle was a bit more cinematic and appalling ;)

I finally saw this movie Satuday on HBO! Those guys were bad asses! Great film, I like what they did with the coloring on different scenes! A true work of art!

OK OK Leonidas...Xerxes is going to march about 1 million filthy Persians over to your city, some 20 to 30 thousand immortals, giant elephants, rhinocerouces, a gang of ogres, giants and sorcerers, a shitload of archers and cavaliers....."Honey, pack your bags we're moving to Italy"

Sounds cool...I think I saw parts of that.

Khan, a buddy at work just gave me a 4 hour documentary about the ballte at Thermopylae, he recorded from the history channel, then I am going to do some research on it. :)

ha! you fool!

Silly me...I thought there could be one discussion out there that didn't degenerate into politics or pedophilia.

I kind of figured it was "hollywooded"; but that was a darn good hollywood mofro...and yes, the culmination is corrrect, Themistoles probably routed them in bulk with his navy, thus eliminating them easier than on just a ground war....logistics dude, logistics, the persians were drawn into a massive loss, and hey... now the Iranians are crying about this being a propaganda film...Uh ok.....now go back and teach your children to die for Allah, and we Americans would be happy to escort them into heaven...

If you get the chance, read the real history of Thermopylae, and the subsequent naval battle of Salamis. Athenian general Themistocles reversed the Spartan strategy to win at Salamis. He lured Xerxes numerically superior fleet into a narrow pass, and bottled them up on both sides. The Persian navy could not maneuver, and lost 200 ships to the Athenian's 40.

thats the first thing I thought too khan, rhinoceroces aren't 9 feet tall, it was pretty well star-trekked, but it was a hell of a show either way.....a must see.

I checked it out last Sunday, fantastic film.

It didn't really stick to the true history of the Battle at Thermopylae, but the movie wasn't written to be a history lecture.

ok, saw the movie, just plain awesome!!!!!!!!!!!The spartans kicked some serious.........booty.

plan to see it this Friday...I saw the trailer and I almost turned to stone in awe....not only that, but I am an admirer of soldiers who get surrounded for a big rout, are outnumbered, and end up kicking everbody's ass.

Which sounds funnier; "Monkey Ninja" or "Ninja Monkeys"?

I want to see this movie soooooooooooooooooooooooooo

badly. And when i saw the trailers, I thought these guys were really cool looking.

They look like Monkey Ninja. Yeah.

Yes, I agree Frostek. Should look incredible on the big screen. This is one where I will definitely not wait for the DVD. And those Immortals look very sinister indeed, like the Uruk'Hai. BTW, have you ever read JFC Fuller's "Military History of the Western World"? He called the Battles of Marathon and Thermophylae the "birth cries of Western Civilization".

Very cool Frost, although this movie/story looks like a highly fantasized and fictionalized interpretation of the Battle of Thermophylae. I think I would have preferred seeing a more historical version (like Steve Pressfield's "Gates of Fire"). Still in all, the movie does look like it's worth a peek.