http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300...er1/large.html

The Battle of Thermopylae as depicted by Frank Miller (Sin City). I think words fail to describe the sheer awesomeness of this trailer. :D

bumping, cause it's worth watching. ;)

You seen it? So, it's good, I take it?

I was referring to the trailer, Bozos. [img]smile.gif[/img] I don't think the movie is out yet.

Ah. Yeah, I watched the trailer, loved it. I asked because I've no idea when movies are out until they arrive here, and they usually arrive with a week or few delay.

What's it about? It looks very good.

the 300 trojans who held off the persian army which ive heard numbered in the millions. but I think its based directly on the Frank Miller comic book

Ok, I looks a little fantasy'ish.

What does Veni, Vidi, Vici mean again, I forgot?

'I came, I saw, I conquered'.. err.. I think.

yep yep

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 ]

The trailer is definitely awesome, but these days trailers are theatrical productions in themselves (like music videos). It's entirely possible that ALL the decent scenes in a 2 1/2 hour movie be squeezed into a 45 second trailer, as long as they are a ) put in out of sequence; b ) made to flash across the screen in quasi-subliminal fashion; and c ) accompanied by suitable mood music. Case in point? The Dungeons and Dragons movie (the WORST movie I'd seen in a while).

That said, this does look half-decent, and I'll be looking forward to watching it.

I dont think so, I think this movie is really gonna surprise a lot of people who aren't expecting much.

I don't think the went onto the battle field naked, though I'm not positive. Your friend may have been thinking about wrestling in the original Olympics, which was indeed totally nude.
I know Roman custom (which took a lot of ideas from Spartan) was to wear armor of some fashion, so I would think that Spartans would be of similar ideal. Not to mention the hoplites wouldn't be very effective nude. Course, I might be totally off the mark, so it may be one of those things you want to look up.