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This could be the greatest movie of all time 8)
No probably not but this is going to be AWESOME. Who's seeing this? Haven't looked forward to any movie this bad since Rocky Balboa. I loved Sin City, wanna see this one on IMAX 8)
Who's lookin forward to it?
Gonna go and see it, working part time in a cinema till I get my self on the Registered Exercise Profesional list so it's kind of hard to get worked up over films coming out...
Rocky was good, just seen Hot Fuzz... best film I've seen in a while, this looks really good.
comes out at the end of the month... along with Mr. Bean the Movie... ;D
Mr. Bean the Movie. Couldn't thought of a more stereotypical British comedy if I tried ;D That's cool about workin at the theater though, are you going to become a personal trainer or w/e? Always thought that was a cool profession.Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamGB
Anyways...heres the trailer for The 300 for those who haven't seen.
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(Rowan Atkinson) Mr. Bean is a legend.... 8)
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Originally Posted by CutMeMicK
That's the only way I know Mr. Bean. That picture is the only time I've seen any of his.....work?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDukeof74
Heres a scene from his 1st movie....Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
So you know he doesn't speak, he might say a word or two but thats it. He uses gestures & faces to communicate what hes thinking or feeling....
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That films looks cool! Are you Stateside amat? If so that means ive got a long wait for that to land in my local cinema.Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
Yeah I'm in the U.S. It comes out Saturday for me, and the 22nd and 23rd respectively for Australia and the UK.
23rd of March? Thats not bad at all. Cheers for the trailer and info amat :coolclick:Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
Sorry guys, but I am going to be a bit anal here.
I was really looking forward to this film as the battle of Thermopylae was an absolute crucial event in the history of the Western democracies. There would have been no Britain or US without that battle.
The Greeks were a series of feuding city-states (Athens was democratic, but none of the others were. In fact Sparta was a fucking inhuman place that practiced institutionalised paedophilia, genocide, forced conscription, brutal laws and hardship. Cool)
Persia was the single largest superpower on the planet. The King,Xerxes, decided to expand his empire and marched to Greece with something like A MILLION strong army (only about a quarter were combat troops though, as logistics etc were all involved) In fact he could have mustered an army of over 10 million but saw this as a brief skirmish.
The Spartans were famous for their brutal and efficient hoplite fighting, in which they fought hand to hand with great discipline in phalanxes. The Persian army split and a smaller part of it was heading through the straits of Isthmus to invade Greece through a land bridge. The Spartans sent 300 finest volunteers to what they knew was a suicide mission. They were reinforced by some 3000 other troops from other Greek cities. When they heard that a second part of the Persian Army was threatening Athens, their King Leonidas sent all the other troops home and resolved to hold out against the Persians to the last man.
Amazingly, they held out for some three days, causing great casualties to the Persians, before they were outflanked and cut down. They fought seriously bravely.
BUT, the Persians won the battle, impaled Leonidas and advanced into Greece. Eventually the Babylonions (Baghdad) revolted and King Xerxes left to subdue them (a measure of how important his conquest of Greece really was to him)
Interesting how THE world superpower invaded a small motley country to restore order, was faced by suicide troops and eventually withdrew!!!! Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Anyway, I saw the trailer ............ this is an amazing story, great courage and brutality, history-turning in its importance and yet Hollywood choose to make the King 10 feet tall, put monsters in the Persian Army and reinvent history.
I really think that the real truth is a greater story and would have made a better fim that just being a pale remake of Gladiator meets Lord of the Rings.
Anyway, rant over.
Who are you?
Why, it depends on who you are?Quote:
Originally Posted by Memphis
Why would you call yourself after the capital of ancient Egypt?
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Wikipedia... "the battle of Thermopylae" ... :-\ ... :cwm33:... Exit applcation
I'm really looking forward to this also. I'm definately going to be seeing this in the IMAX theatre. I don't know about this week because I am going on vacation for spring break to nail all the drunk college girls I can lol... but I"m definately checking it out.