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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 17, 2011 10:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by katsuro on Dec 17, 2011 12:24:59 GMT -5
I liked 300, but did it really need a prequel or a sequel? Oh well.
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Post by Sleepy on Dec 17, 2011 13:03:33 GMT -5
A 300 prequel? Dear god, fail.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Dec 17, 2011 14:53:34 GMT -5
I thought it'd be a sequel that was getting made. *shrugs* However, I agree that this woman is quite a nice choice. I just hope she can act as good as she looks.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Dec 17, 2011 16:46:30 GMT -5
The only sequel you could do to 300 would start with Themistocles standing on his boats, watching the Spartans getting slaughtered, and silently shaking his head because of their failure. Then, he'd go on to win the whole shebang with *gasp* citizen soldiers from that boy-loving city of Athens, sending Xerxes packing just like his father Darius, and protecting real democracy.
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Post by lexikon on Dec 17, 2011 23:35:54 GMT -5
Or they could just make a historically accurate version of Battle of Thermopylae.
But even with sloppy efforts it would probably be more accurate than this version.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 18, 2011 4:55:08 GMT -5
Is it weird that I read the title as "The entire cast of 300 is a female lead"
As in, there's only a single actress and she plays everyone.
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Post by The_L on Dec 18, 2011 9:02:02 GMT -5
Is it weird that I read the title as "The entire cast of 300 is a female lead" As in, there's only a single actress and she plays everyone. That would be interesting in an Eddie Murphy kind of way. |
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 18, 2011 9:09:05 GMT -5
I thought it'd be a sequel that was getting made. *shrugs* However, I agree that this woman is quite a nice choice. I just hope she can act as good as she looks. She's also a Bond Girl and won a bunch of awards for it. |
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Post by Yla on Dec 18, 2011 14:39:40 GMT -5
Is it weird that I read the title as "The entire cast of 300 is a female lead" As in, there's only a single actress and she plays everyone. Me too. Well, hope that it won't be fascist propaganda again. |
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Post by Mantorok on Dec 18, 2011 18:41:52 GMT -5
Well, hope that it won't be fascist propaganda again. That was part of the plot though. The narrator was telling the story to soldiers who were going to fight the Persians. He's not exactly going to rally the troops by saying "Leonidas and his Spartans were a bunch of bastards who got what they deserved". |
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Post by Yla on Dec 19, 2011 5:59:17 GMT -5
You have 90 minutes of message pounding and then one minute of (not even stated, just implied, if the moviegoer thinks about it) "Yeah, that might not all have been true". Sure.
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Post by Mantorok on Dec 19, 2011 6:49:56 GMT -5
I never said it was well done. This is something written by Frank Miller we're talking about. I just find it weird that people harp on about the historical accuracy when the marketing for the movie never framed the movie as historically accurate, it was all about being a faithful adaptation of the graphic novel. It succeeded at being faithful, it just can't fix the source material.
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Post by Yla on Dec 19, 2011 8:19:33 GMT -5
Indeed.
Shit wrapped in nice gift paper is still shit.
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