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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:03 AM
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Just saw "300"....
man, were those Spartans good at air-brushing on abs.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:05 AM
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1. ....
:rofl:
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:35 AM
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2. Did you read the reviews in the NYT and the Washington Post...
OMG, they were having so much fun poking the movie...

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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:00 AM
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3. LOL...
just checked 'em out now.

Yeah, theyr'e right, and yet they're wrong. The movie IS dumb - but I thought it was visually fascinating, and a perfectly fine way to eat some popcorn and enjoy some spectacle.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:04 AM
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4. I posted this once before...
but the best review of the movie is one I found on IMDB:


Stunning in almost every way., 17 February 2007
Author: Jeff from Maryland


I just saw a movie that'll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It's called 300. I don't know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could have called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it'd still rule. It's about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh-- out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper. The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it's sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, "I need some extra sauce packets" guess what? You're getting twenty sauce packets because the look on your face will punch him in the brain. I can't spoil the plot because THERE ISN'T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that's hitting someone's balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN'T LIKE: COOL THING ONE: HEAVY METAL MUSIC DURING BATTLE SCENES: Who gives a sh-- if the music isn't historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could have used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Starbucks is telling you that you'll have to stay late for clean-up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO: FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS: Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There's wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he's got Rosie O'Donnell on his back. Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING: DUDE NUDITY ("DUDE-ITY"): These were Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they're serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties. Any directors reading this - IT'S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES. Can't someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it "PAUSE BUTTON"?
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:05 AM
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5. Hey, that guy stole my sigline! nt
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:01 PM
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11. Same.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:10 AM
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6. "Dude-ity"
:spray:

Good! It gives the guys body-image insecurity for a change. ;)
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:24 AM
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7. Alas
there's very little dude-ity in the flick.


A side shot of Leonidas' butt, but that's it. Not a single Spartacock.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 07:54 PM
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14. ....
:rofl:

:spank:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:40 AM
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8. That's Insanely Funny
You couldn't pay me enough money to watch this movie, but this review is funny as fucking hell. I'm going to have to see if he's reviewed anything else.
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Cobalt-60 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 03:33 AM
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9. An amazon film in the same style
An excellent idea. I might even violate my no theaters policy.
300 sounds great, but financial forces compel me to wait for the DVD.
(Besides, i know how it ends)
This is one of the greatest true stories of heroism western culture has
to offer. I am well pleased that it's getting some attention.

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:57 PM
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13. LMAO!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That totally obliterated the bad 70s radio I'm listening to. Thanks! :D
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 07:56 PM
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15. Oh Boy
Does this mean they won't show it in 10th grade Social Studies?
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 11:15 AM
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10. I've seen some stills. Those Spartans spent some serious time in the gym.
Wow-wee.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 02:50 PM
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12. no
not really. Well, they had some nice arms and shoulders, but the abs were totally painted on.

What I want to know is how the Spartans managed to get to the Castro to buy all those black leather jockstraps.
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