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Subject: BS: 300 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Mar 07 - 07:28 PM I know it has been out in the 'states a couple of weeks but we have just got it here in the UK. Just seen it and thought it was great. Heroic fantasy at it's best - and with a bit of real history in it to boot! Why the big controvery with though? Are people really stupid enough to think that it should be taken seriously? Even if they do how can showing the Spartan defense of Thermopylae 500 years before Christ and 1000 years before Mohamed be an insult to anyone in modern day Iran? Probably me being just my insensitive little self but has the world realy gone that mad? Anyhow, back to the film. Well acted, I thought. Exceptional fight scenes. Very violent with a bit of sex thrown in every now and again. A generaly good film for us blokes:-) Oh - and lots of big strapping lads wearing next to nowt for the lasses as well! Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: folk1e Date: 23 Mar 07 - 07:53 PM Bit sexist there Dave! What about the big strapping lads wearing next to nowt for the guys who like that sort of thing...... not ME you undrestand ..... erm ..... (stops digging and saunters off whistling in a deep voice) BTW who is on next friday at the internationally renowned Swinton? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:07 PM Must be the big strapping lads that reminded you, Folkie. It's Staff Folk and Pete Ryder. I'll let you figure out which is big, strapping and a lad... Don't think we'd fit 300 in though. :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Leadfingers Date: 23 Mar 07 - 08:35 PM Dave - The people who are compaining are the same ones who cause ALL the trouble these days - The over Politically Correct Extremists who have NO sense of ANYThing except their own exagerrated idea of their own importance ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Mar 07 - 09:18 PM Only the 300 Spartans are mentioned, huh? What about the thousand or so others who stood with them? About 10,000 had retired, but there were actually about 1,500 left. Also, there's a LOT of computer work in that film. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: folk1e Date: 23 Mar 07 - 09:35 PM Lead I hate to point it out but there is a spelling mistake in your last word..... you added an "R" ..... (grins & runs off) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Sorcha Date: 24 Mar 07 - 12:09 AM Can we have big strapping lassies for us what like them too??? Please??? (I haven't seen the film.) I also want big strapping lads!!! I'm not particular! LOL! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: fat B****rd Date: 24 Mar 07 - 05:27 AM Remember the Scottish Fish'n'chip shop ?. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Mar 07 - 05:51 AM Plenty of strapping lads and lassies on the 300 web page. Naughty Sorcha! Am I right in thinking there is a Spartan link somewhere with a Scottish F&C shop FB? Leonidas is played by Gerald Butler who is Scottish and sounds remarkably like Sean Connery on the odd occasion! Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Mar 07 - 05:57 AM BTW - Not even 300 Spartans are mentioned Rap! It would have to be a prety bloody boring film to mention them ALL! About half a dozen are actualy mentioned. The remaining 294 are in the fight scenes and/or generated by a very clever battle program. The Greeks and various other races are well represented! :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:51 AM how come no one mentions the famous sprout diet, which gave rise to the:- fart'n Spartan geddit...? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 07 - 10:57 AM Besides, what's the big deal? A few mines to show 'em down, an airstrike or three, some artillery on the Persian camp...why, a few guys with machine guns could've bottled up that Pass while the navy played hell on the Persians with naval gunfire, and the Marines go in to mop up. Big deal.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Ron Davies Date: 24 Mar 07 - 11:19 AM Who's claiming that present-day Iranians are offended? I must have missed that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Mar 07 - 12:30 PM Just one hit of many if you google for Iran and 300 Ron. Quite easy when you know how;-) It's not just the Iranians though. Lots of twerps are slating it as being too much in favour of 'the West' and anti 'East'. Read one review where some pillock was musing why the Spartans were paler coloured than the Persians and why they were portrayed as better warriors! It was where they came from and their way of life for heavens sake! The worst I saw was one that seemed to doubt the existence of the Spartans and wondered why they were all dressed and equiped so, well, Spartanly... Head in hands shaking slowly time:-( Rap - don't mention Marines and Iran at the moment! Have you not seen the news? :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: fat B****rd Date: 24 Mar 07 - 12:45 PM Hi ! Dave Polshaw. 300 Spartans -- Battered In Greece. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 07 - 03:34 PM 'Sokay, I mean US Marines. 8-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Ron Davies Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:29 PM OK Dave, I'll take your word for it--and I'd also like an order of 300 Spartans battered in Greece. May I have them battered by Athenians, please. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:32 PM Fartin' Spartans the reason. G |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:52 PM I Went with my kids to see it, and I loved it. I would have thought that the costuming, etc. for the Persians was, to say the least odd (it looked like it was all from a subsaharan African gift shop.) But keeping in mind that this was based on a graphic novel, not a history text, I could get over myself and stop being picky for once. As my daughter pointed out, this is an ultimate chick flick. Three hundredbuff guys with banana hammocks and more sixpacks than a frat party. We both agreed that the fighting scenes were excellent as well (we're both a wee bit bloodthirsty) All this, plus tipping elephants over a cliff. What more could a girl want? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Mar 07 - 08:38 PM "tipping elephants over a cliff. " That does it. Definitely one to miss. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:11 PM so basically - they wear diapers. what is it about the movies and willies? why do we neeed protecting from the sight of a penis. I can't help feeling it would have been a much jollier affair with 300 of them waving about in a tasteful manner. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:20 PM With about 20 posts, this can no longer be considered a spartan thread... |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:21 PM Did they wear plaid? Can I get a spartan tartan? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:29 PM Rapaire Enough with the 'plaid-i-tudes'... |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Mar 07 - 09:31 PM ... and stop tartan up this thread! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Mar 07 - 05:12 AM A tartan bed might be nice ! G |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 25 Mar 07 - 05:54 AM They say the late Kenneth Williams used to enjoy the odd 'knickers off' party. What a pity he didn't direct - Carry On up the Thermopylae. I do miss that man. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: GUEST,Bardan Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:06 AM In a way, I would have thought americans would object more than iranians. The film is about a small group who see themselves as superior to everyone else taking on an imperialist alegedly decadent super power. Think of anyone in modern times that mirrors that tendency? (Admittedly the spartans only did in other soldiers, so it falls apart there.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Mar 07 - 06:13 AM or alternatively - it might be said to be about a bunch of guys who hang round in mini skirts, and yet fiercely object to attempts to enter by the back passage. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 300 From: Den Date: 26 Mar 07 - 09:11 AM I saw it at IMAX last night. Six story screen. The audio was incredible, 15,000 watts. A bit like a heavy metal concert. The battle scenes were good, the screen play not so much. |
