What's up Jimboogie? Hope you don't think I just go to shit like Wilkipeadia to pretend that i know something about anything?Originally Posted by Jimboogie
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What's up Jimboogie? Hope you don't think I just go to shit like Wilkipeadia to pretend that i know something about anything?Originally Posted by Jimboogie
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If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
Yeah, almost qualified to work in gyms doing general training, want to do general training and work with athletes ultimatly.Originally Posted by amat
The cinema is pretty cool... get on well with most of the people there... not just work freinds, if I'd met them outside of work I'd be mates with them too... get some late finishes 10/12:30/2am... fucking my sleep pattern up a bit and it's hard to get into the gym at the moment but things are going good![]()
It's just a comic book interpretation of the battle. Not really Hollywood so much as Frank Miller. It's going to be more like Sin City meets Gladiator then it is anything else. And Sin City kicked ass.Originally Posted by X
You're probably right - I need to get off my high horse. The ol' Prozac hasn't kicked in yet.
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
x I myself would have rather liked to see a historically accurate version of this battle but lets face it how many times does that happen in hollywood? Also I think that its got monsters and shit in there cause it's based on a comic book, not the actual battle of theramopyle, and I butchered the spelling there. Still gonna watch this and hopefully enjoy it.
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I love Wiki but that day i just wasn't in the mood. I just didn't have that funny absorbant feeling i get sometimes
Usually if im on Wiki i end up on something history related (probably becuase it takes me a hole day to read the original page i search for as im forever clicking through to other stuff i dont understand on the way and i end up going back back back).
Hope this hels.
P.S i know about my own history![]()
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Its a really horrible horrible movie.
I'm using the search function for something else that I can't seem to find, if anyone wonders where I'm finding these threads.
It is an ok action movie:
Plus: + color contrasts are put very nicely
+ They put on nicely the Spartan mentality
+ They did introduce a few tasty and apparently historically true quotes (tonight we dines in hell and referring to the deluge of arrows "then we'll fight in the shadows)
+ action scenes are quite good
Minus: + historically many many flaws
+ Xerces looks like a S&M dude instead of a King
+ If you see the movie in hD, you can see the flaws in the special effects
+ they shouldn't have put some stupid shit like the mutant giant on the Persian side that have nothing to do with the battle.
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final note: 6.7/10
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I thought this film was more homoerotic than Brokeback Mountain. Plus it's historical accuracy was hideous. The Spartans were one of the most disgusting societies in history.
Although I guess 300 paedophiles standing up to the progressive empire built upon foundations of truth & justice wouldn't have made the best film adaptation![]()
Actually, Athenians sexuality toward kids was much worst than in Sparta where virility was to be reckon; The spartans were in fact a bit monstrous with their kids but not that much sexually but for things like the "cripsy rite" (not sure how to write it in english) where children were more or less left alone having to steal to survive and being hardly punished if they were caught doing so. Also, in te movie they don't put out the fact that Sparta didn't had one but 2 kings as one was to go to war and the other one to stay in case the other king might die at war.
The only good thing actually about the historic facts is that effectively, spartans loved and spent their life for fighting for the glory of the city and were quite emotionless as if they would perish or not (dying for the glory of the city was one of the best thing that could potentially happen to a spartan citizen) so I enjoyed despite the mediocre historic approach how they depicted their state of mind through battle and its approach but that is all.
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I found it all ridiculous. Oh & they did practice paedophilia quite widely, it was in fact part of the 'training' you see a bit of in the film. A young boy would have a 'mentor' who would teach him to fight & also some things that might have made Gary Glitter a fan of Sparta. Sick place.
Theorically, not really, such practices were not seen as well (or accepted) as in the Athenian society, in the movie Leonidas even throw a dart to the athenians making some remarks about how they were queery or something. Sure, it must have happened at some point like in any other society but historical facts are a bit far off away from the image we have of it today, especially as we have more the athenian society image society in mind. On the other side, they were beating their kids like bad to teach them how to fight, which isn't a lot better; Sure, they produced perhaps collectively the best warriors earth ever saw but this was a very very sick and violent
society nowaday.
If you want to read what is perhaps the best book ever written on Sparta, look for a guy called Jean Levy and his book "Spartes", it is a real classics historically talking.
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well i enjoyed the film until i read all this gay shit they did![]()
It was a good watch
The queen was hot![]()
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