johnnyknox Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Yeah i tried watching this in maidenhead, but a fight broke out in the cinema half way through. sh*t hole Did anyone get kicked in the chest and fall backwards down the cinema aisle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Saw last night. Great film. Spartons really are elitist b@stards though aren't they? Greek Mythology which Frank adapted. It is not mythology my friend, battle of Thermopylae is historical fact Movie tho is based on comic book. And yea, Spartans was elite kickass soldiers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragaz Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Was that other god bloke (persian king) the child from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dome, the one that has the voodoo doll? No, not him, but he was in Love actually and Lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibbleyuk Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I watched this the other night was a wicked film absolutly loved it!! action packed all the way through! dvd screener avaliable on most torrent sites now! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Spartons really are elitist b@stards though aren't they? I'm sure you'd be the same if some crazy bloke turned up trying to sell you rugs and genie outfits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It is not mythology my friend, battle of Thermopylae is historical fact Movie tho is based on comic book. And yea, Spartans was elite kickass soldiers Ok, so there was definitely a battle, but I think the story has probably been slightly embellished hence the mythology part? A bit like the bible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I'm sure you'd be the same if some crazy bloke turned up trying to sell you rugs and genie outfits. I meant the culling of their young with defects and out cast of the hunch back. He only wanted to help! I'd have told him he was a Spartan representative to fight with the other guys that were on their side and stuck him with that lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I meant the culling of their young with defects and out cast of the hunch back. He only wanted to help! He was too weak. He'd have slowed them down. By the looks of things he was only after a bit of lady love anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 imagine that movie but with all the spartan women Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 imagine that movie but with all the spartan women Don't be jealous of the 300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 He was too weak. He'd have slowed them down. By the looks of things he was only after a bit of lady love anyway. He wasn't weak, just badly protected and not capable of holding a line so wouldn't have slowed the other guys army down if he'd been put them with them like I said as they just rushed in like loonies. Elitist snobs the lot of 'em. Glad they all got killed. Can't believe he missed with the spear at the end - what's that all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-No-Knee Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 The Spartans were the premier Greek military power but as they were only a small city population wise they never managed to conqour and rule all of Greece. That was done by Alexander the Great about 200 or 300 years later. The 'real' story of the battle of Thermopalie (spellink) is that the Persian King, Xersis, wanted to get revenge for the defeat of his father Dionis at the battle of Marathon, (where we get the Marathon run from to day, the battle field was 26.(?) miles from Athens and when it was won a Greek soldier (cant remember his name) ran all the way to the city to give the news, in full armour (about 60lbs) and dropped down dead. They used to do it to celibrate the victory as part of thier Olymipic Games, which they did naked)to gain total control of that part of the world, he had influence there by pitting one city against another but wanted to add it to his empire. The Greek city states were sending an Army to defend the entry to Greece and needed the Spatans to join them and to give them time to assemble but due to some political back stabbing and bribes paid by the Persians the Spartan priests declared that any army going out of the city during the festival of (insert the god's name, I cant remember it) would meet with defeat. So only the battle King Leonidas (they had 2 kings at any 1 time, one was the battle king the other ran the city in his absence) was allowed to leave with his personal body guard of 300 men. They held the pass for 3 days(?) and were only defeated when they were betrayed by members of other Greek cities who showed the Persians a way around the pass so they could be surounded and finished off. The Persian soldiers by now were so frighted of getting in close to the Spartans that they killed them off by arrows and javalins and not in sword combat. The Persian Army then entered Greece and met the allied forces of the rest of the Greek cities in the Polypons(spellink) and when the Persians saw they had 5000 Spartans against them they revolted and killed Xersis and left Greece. The Greeks then followed and invaded Persia but disageeing factions in thier leadership and allies and bribary by the Persians ment they soon had to leave and return to Greece. And if mem serves they fought naked. In the film, to look better, they did not fight the way the Spartans really did, which was in a shild wall, with the short stabbing swords stabbing out through small gaps and overwhelming the enemy. This was basically the same way the Romans used to conqour the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Can't believe he missed with the spear at the end - what's that all about? It was a long way off and he'd been slaying things for a good few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 And if mem serves they fought naked. That'd be enough to have me running the other way. It was a long way off and he'd been slaying things for a good few days. excuses excuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 In the film, to look better, they did not fight the way the Spartans really did, which was in a shild wall, with the short stabbing swords stabbing out through small gaps and overwhelming the enemy. This was basically the same way the Romans used to conqour the world. They did do that in the film. Or at least bits of it. And if mem serves they fought naked. Damn! Why didn't they do it how the book said?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 excuses excuses. LOL. Okkkk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Black Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Saw this last weekend, i really liked it 9/10 another in the ilk of Troy & Gladiator, I think i slightly preferred this to Gladiator due to Cinematography, although the storyline is weaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safely Insured Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There is a novel called Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield which is more historically correct and is really well written. There were more like 7000 Greeks in total including Spartan Squires and men from other Greek cities. It was only once the Greeks discovered they had been betrayed that the king invited the non spartans to leave. It is against Spartan law to retreat from battle or surrender, so they remained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It was a long way off and he'd been slaying things for a good few days. plus leonardis (or whatever) said sometime in the film he wanted to "see if a god king could bleed" so he kind of did what he set out to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 plus leonardis (or whatever) said sometime in the film he wanted to "see if a god king could bleed" so he kind of did what he set out to do Good point /vbb/images/smilies/bbcode_grin.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 plus leonardis (or whatever) said sometime in the film he wanted to "see if a god king could bleed" so he kind of did what he set out to do Ah yes! That makes much more sense than Charlottes feeble attempt at an explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Ah yes! That makes much more sense than Charlottes feeble attempt at an explanation. Sorry I wasn't concentrating much on the dialogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3DG3CKO ROB Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Awesome film, really can't recommend it enough Plenty of blood and guts to get the testosterone flowing and hundreds of muscular sweaty Spartans for the girlies to drool over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-No-Knee Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There is a novel called Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield which is more historically correct and is really well written. There were more like 7000 Greeks in total including Spartan Squires and men from other Greek cities. It was only once the Greeks discovered they had been betrayed that the king invited the non spartans to leave. It is against Spartan law to retreat from battle or surrender, so they remained. That is a very good book, I have it too. It also quotes the saying written shortly after the battle that has been quoted in a few films.... "Go tell the Spartans, Stranger passing by, That acording to thier laws, Here we lie." The rules were to return with thier shield or apon it, with all thier injuries on thier front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyknox Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Just watched this....tis rather good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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