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300 was def a product of its time. I saw it twice probably within the first year it came out, I enjoyed it but I've forgotten many of the details since. Not sure it would hold up well in the modern age.
Sin City is a movie in the same vein which I found entertaining but some of the graphics were too out there. Never saw the sequel but those I know who did said it was boring and just missing what the OG brought.
Has anyone seen The Spirit? Seems like this one flopped hard but I still kind of want to watch.
Sin City is a movie in the same vein which I found entertaining but some of the graphics were too out there. Never saw the sequel but those I know who did said it was boring and just missing what the OG brought.
Has anyone seen The Spirit? Seems like this one flopped hard but I still kind of want to watch.
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The series advances and remixes stuff. In a pretty cool way
The
I just realized I was confusing the Day the Earth Stood Still remake with Keanu as a Man Who Fell To Earth adoption.
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My words on 300 to this chick I'm talking to, who LOVES the movie:
Oh boy.
For one, the fight scenes were too inexcusably comical for me. They just took all sense of reality and tossed that right out the effing window.Which sucks because of the historical relevance contained in the movie.
Vintage Zack Snyder film, though.Xerxes gets his cheek cut and Zack Snyder decides that calls for BLOOD SPLATTER!
For some reason all these years I've always had the impression that it was very close to historically accurate with a little bit of embellishment and a little bit of a Hollywood flair to the fights.
Yeahno. It was the inverse of that.
Action movies typically leave me with that opinion, though.
Enh, now I've seen it.
-foe
This is the first time I've come across somebody thinking 300 was suppose to be historically accurate or was suppose to be like what actually happened and not based off the comic.Never even came to mind for there to be an actual serious adaptation of the event.
The idea somebody would tap Zack Snyder for that though
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Sin City 2 was still a good watch. different timeline but I guess after watching Sin City 1, the expectations were set higher.
I've only seen bits of The Spirit but it failed to pique my interest. maybe I'll watch it if I run out of good movies to rewatch.
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I haven't seen a more serious adaptation of 300 other than the visual spectacle more than a decade ago. it's not about it being historically accurate but rather put in a setting that is atleast conventional or typical movie. some fantasy lore or fictional films have undergone such treatment, especially from the Iliad, Troy, Hercules, Clash of the Titans for example had that kind of a typical movie. Zack could have incorporated both visual masterpiece with great storyline rather than showing of how cool the Spartans were battling Wizards, Elephants, Mercs, foot soldiers and Leonidas hitting the homo Xerxes' facial rings in slow motion.
Never even came to mind for there to be an actual serious adaptation of the event.
The idea somebody would tap Zack Snyder for that though
as far as historical references go, there might be some to truth to it or a loose adaptation of events. I have watched a few documentaries about it.
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Nah.
Zack Snyder adapted a comic book. He didn't want to do something like Troy. He copied the comic panels as best he could to match his visual style. As well as the story which allowed him to just add in his weird ****.
The person I quoted straight up said his vague recollections about the movie was that it was a more historically accurate movie without ever seeing it so it set a specific expectation upon seeing it. That's what I found funny. Specifically since Zack Snyder is not capable of that.
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300 came out when I was in high school so we were all about it
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got it. no, it wasn't historically accurate. although some scenes and situations were. the homo Xerxes is definitely mind-boggling.
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Its sort of like if you had certain assumptions about an Abraham Lincoln movie and instead of watching Lincoln you watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
And I sort of see how
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could make that mistake cuz this is funny about Snyder only in hindsight (knowing what type of director he is now) and I just happened to read the 300 comic way before the movie.
At the time 300 came out that was my first Snyder movie I saw and I thought he was pretty good since he simply adapted the comic page for page. When I'm use to most directors always changing things with comic movie adoptions.
And I sort of see how
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could make that mistake cuz this is funny about Snyder only in hindsight (knowing what type of director he is now) and I just happened to read the 300 comic way before the movie.At the time 300 came out that was my first Snyder movie I saw and I thought he was pretty good since he simply adapted the comic page for page. When I'm use to most directors always changing things with comic movie adoptions.
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PERFECT comparison.Its sort of like if you had certain assumptions about an Abraham Lincoln movie and instead of watching Lincoln you watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
And I sort of see how
I never knew it was based on something written or that there was a comic, or if I did know that in the past I had forgotten it by the time I watched it last night. 
-foe
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LOVED Sin City and never knew there was a sequel. Watching it now on Starz. LOVING it so far, 20 minutes in.
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yeah. you can include Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.Its sort of like if you had certain assumptions about an Abraham Lincoln movie and instead of watching Lincoln you watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
And I sort of see how
At the time 300 came out that was my first Snyder movie I saw and I thought he was pretty good since he simply adapted the comic page for page. When I'm use to most directors always changing things with comic movie adoptions.
as far as fairy tales go, I'm all-in for some more Brothers Grimm movie adaptation. seen some and I like them. such as Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Gretel and Hansel.
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Day Shift looks like stupid vampire killing fun.
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reminds me of Vampires.
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@ Snoop Dogg in that. Will watch.
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Frances McDormand is so perfect in Almost Famous.
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ending fell short. consider it one of his misses.
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Wow Jack Reacher
Anyway I'm ready to defend The Mummy and Oblivion. Joints were dope to me.
the mummy was good. never understood the hate it got. oblivion was great though.
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Michael Mann on Tom Cruise in Collateral vs. Keanu Reeves in John Wick:
