Thinking of going to see it tonight. Anyone have yet, was it good. The previews looked good.
Thinking of going to see it tonight. Anyone have yet, was it good. The previews looked good.
It looks good. I won't be able to get in free until next week, so I'm seeing it then.
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I hear it's a great film - but libs won't be able to relate to it because it's a (true) story about 300 people who rose to the occasion to fight for their freedoms against an army of 1 million....
Libs can't relate cause they just want to surrender like the French...
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
That's crazy. It's not even trying to be historically accurate at all. They're fighting monsters, for God's sake.
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Also, I've ben reading some not-so-good reviews for this thing. Apparently, the CGI is so far over-the-top, it's hard to take any of the plot seriously at all.
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
It was okay, not the best movie I ever saw. Good graphics but after the 500th fight scenes it kinda got boring. But if loud blood and guts killing with some grotesque monsters thrown in is your cup of tea I'd recommend it.
I normally only like and watch horrors myself. Hannibal rising was an exception and pretty good. Saw that two weeks ago. I'd highly recommend it.
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~Albert Camus
From the previews I've seen its another slap in the face for history. Since when did the persians have trolls, ogres and orcs fighting for them? Very disappointing, but what can I expect from hollywierd.
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You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word.
The movie looks really cool. I think the monsters and stuff spawned from the myth's generated from this battle.
The significance of the this battle was enormous. This battle might have allowed the "West" to become the west as we know it today. Had Persia come in and destroyed Greece, many of the Greek cultural philosophies would not have been passed down through generations to Romans, Europeans and ultimately Americans. This battle weakened Persia's will to fight and thus saved Greece from annhilation. Definitely one of those Pivotal moments in history kind of battles.
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Xerxes planned on taking the rest of Europe if he won at Thermopylae. If that had happened, the Roman Empire probably would never have begun and the world would be a very different place today.
Herodotus claims that the weather, as well as the Spartans, had a hand in defeating the Persians.
It is interesting, though, within a couple of centuries of Thermopylae, the Persians were conquered by Alexander of Macedon (aka Alexander the Great).
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I read that the movie is supposed to be from the point of view of the Athenians, who at the time, thought that they were literally going to be battling monsters. However, I would have liked to have seen a realistic depiction of this battle, not everything needs to be The Matrix, y'know?
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