Thread: 300: Rise of an Empire

Originally Posted by hellman

You fight much harder than you fuck" and telling xerxes to fuck off

typical cheap/vulgar/current lingo, no effort made in either making it somewhat better/elevated or even era/age-adequate

Originally Posted by yoco

I was hopping this movie would be at least as good as first one was.

at least? you're forgetting a few things like:
- its 2014, movies aren't that good anymore, sequels/prequels/reboots/... even less so
- 300 set the bar pretty high, it would be very hard to come close to that, regardless of the (filmmaking) era

thus, say: 'hoping it would be at least half as good' would imo be a more realistic expectation

Rodrigo Santoro (Xerxes) is a great actor, but the movie it self is not great.

Ok, gentlemen, we already have the first BluRay releases...The question is, to wait or not to wait for the 3d?

talk about a disastrous sequel, it was so bad that maybe, just maybe it could be worth watching
anyways, a quick (you wish ) list of some of the things what went wrong:

- extra lame cgi blood splattering around (oh, the fakeness) and in slo-mo (admire the fakeness a little longer) and, well, cgi in general too (ugh)
- extra lame and numerous p(r)ep talks/speeches for farmers-turned-soldiers (damn, those ancient farmers work out their sixpacks lol), 'gotta sacrifice yourself and die for the cause' ad nauseam
- extra lame sex scenes (rough animalistic cliche)
- extra nonsensical naval/hand-to-hand battles/combat (tarded tactics, arrows flying farther than what could be done by bullets...and hitting the target ofc, somehow arrows don't cause much bleeding or their impact doesn't exert much force onto the target, warriors falling/jumping from high above don't get hurt, don't even bow down a bit when hitting the ground, a huge armada suddenly isn't so huge anymore, elite warriors are skilled only when needed in the movie,...)
- extra hilarious video-game-like sequences (riding a horse through a flame-consumed ship & jumping across ships,...)
- extra ugly 'eva green on drugs' look, extra silly 'every hard-core feminist's wet dream' female warriors (equal or higher blood thirst compared to the males)
- extra pointless hunchback scenes
- extra noticeable lack of actors/stunts
- extra eye-rolling relationships (son can't sit at his father's table, hasn't earned it yet, generals killing own kings) and training scenes (a recipe for getting ali's parkinsons)
- extra shamelessly propagandist (we get suicide b*mbers of the past, hint: old persians~iranian ancestors)
- extra shamelessly historically inaccurate (spartans practiced hard-core slavery, persians were actually more advanced/tolerant in that sense, seems there is much disinformation regarding the 300 and the surrounding events, unsurprisingly, civilizations often have difficulty admitting the truth about their ancestors, as opposed to blindly celebrating/idolizing that which may actually be unworthy of such honor)
- extra shameless hollywood accounting (an obviously cheaply made movie in every regard, yet with double the original's budget, so where did the money go? certainly not into this movie - did you notice the same thing happening with a lot of recent blockbusters? not only money grab, but obvious fraud too?)
...

noes!
(internal:) prepare defense! go to ssj3 at once!

@hellman: it was the makeup! it was themmm, they are to blame!

Originally Posted by Sazzy

I quite like Eva Green as well. But not because she's super beautiful, mostly because she has a unique face that just has something special about it.

agreed

Originally Posted by Sazzy

(Kinda like a young Uma Thurman...)

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http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4101080064/tt0096764?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_1

good movie btw