this looks amazing. even if just for the visuals alone i will check this out

http://movies.go.com/trailer?cid=854153&vid=866040

Here is a link to a newer trailer with more stuff.

By the way, I am unable to get Audio with Quicktime. Any ideas?

Some historical background from Wikipedia

03.09.07 is that March or September? I hate when they put the date that way!

Release Date March 9, 2007

Looks good. Lots of mindless violence, but one thing bothered me, why has every man in this film have to be half-naked?

This looks awesome, I love the look of movies based on graphic novels/comics when the director tries to retain the feel of the drawn image.

There's a cool work of historical fiction also about this moment in history, called The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. Worth reading if you're into that sort of thing.

[ 01-10-2007, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: Kazilan ]

Meh. I can't say I'm impressed. The dialogue is cheesy, the visuals are... lacking and its romanticised. Sparta was never "good". Why does every film nowadays have to go on about "freedom"?

I think I'll be giving this one a miss.

its latin, how come you ask it here?
(this is genuine intrest not an attempt to blame you of being offtopic)

Saw this a while back, and it looks awesome. I can't wait to see it.

Didn't they fight completely naked, historically? Or am I thinking of something else? I recall a friend of mine mentioning that it wasn't true to history because they had *some* clothing on. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The graphic novel was like that as well, I seem to recall, and it was a good read. And no, Spartans aren't "good" per se - they are, however, the heroes of this story. The story isn't exactly about Spartan society, it's about 300 men fighting a massive enemy to save their people and way of life. It kinda makes sense. This also isn't a documentary - of course it's romanticized. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 01-18-2007, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: Encard ]