is anybody else lucky enough to get advance screenings of this epic film on monday?? I CANT WAIT it looks amazin

I will be seeing it Monday Morning (gotta check the print is okay for the screening in the evening - it's a hard life being me) and, if it is as good as I hope, will be hoping for a spare seat at the 6.30 screening that evening to see it again.

See you there

QUALITY FILM highly recomended!!!

9/10

Indeed....a film that wears the comic book origins proudly on its sleeve. The framing was beautiful, and the 'king wading through persians' tracking shot was one of the finest sequences on film since 'bullet time' in Matrix.

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watched it last night.What a film bloody bloody fantastic.

I didnt enjoy the film as much as I thought I might, the one liners are great and the action scenes are amazing, but left feeling like the film didnt live up to my high expectation. Despite this I would still recommend the film. 6/10

I thought the film was brilliant.

although i read a review this morning in the metro that said the film was racist!!!

of course the bad guys are all dark skinned... it was the persians they were fighting!

Film was absolutely excellent. Went to see it friday night.

Great book, and it looks like a decent film version. Shame they had to add a load of fictional monsters though - the graphic novel is more realistically based in historical events.

Fantastic film.

Goodness me, fabulous

Absolutley loved it, from the moment is started right up until the comic book credits went up at the end i was hooked!!! The battle scenes were brilliant and the Spartans looked so damm cool.......where did David Wenham get his body from, last thing i saw him in was Van Helsing i think, looked very different in this. Came out and wanted to go straight back in and see it again, will have to go back in the week with my mate who wants to see it.

It said in the paper that their bodies were digitally enhanced ... meh!

The male equivalent of airbrushing I suppose ... :hihi:

It said in the paper that their bodies were digitally enhanced ... meh!

The male equivalent of airbrushing I suppose ... :hihi:


Thanks Ruby....that explains everything!!

Saw it tonight, LOVED it. The walking slow motion spear walk was probably the coolest thing I've seen on screen all year.

Great book, and it looks like a decent film version. Shame they had to add a load of fictional monsters though - the graphic novel is more realistically based in historical events.

I beg to differ on that! The film is a very very accurate remake of the Graphic Novel with the Theron storyline added but like the Graphic Novel it's far from accurate. Frank Miller basically wrote this story based on one of his favorite films from childhood, The 300 Spartans, which was on BBC2 on Sat afternoon. One major change both of these have is the end.

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Historically the Spartans didn't die in a hail of arrows they carried on fighting til the bitter end. Even when they had no weapons due to them being broke over the days of fighting they fought hand to hand to the very end.

Also Xerxes wasn't an 8ft Nubian Godking and never set foot on the battlefield like most generals commanding an army!! Ephialtes wasn't some hideously deformed Spartan who just got rejected coz he couldn't raise his shield. The Persians didn't dispatch Elephants (which was pointed out).

Don't get me wrong as a Graphic Novel (I refuse to call it a comic coz people still think they are for kids!) to film adaptation it is absolutely spot on. Even down to copying frames from the book like the push over the cliff, fighting the wolf in the wild, the oracle etc etc and the point of the film was to make it a spectacle more than anything historically accurate, which I think they succeeded in doing. But if it inspires people to read up on the Battle of Thermopylae then i'm all for that as I think it's one of the greatest stories ever told.

Yeah but Hollywood added a load of trolls or something - in Miller's book there are no 'monsters'.

It's the LoTR syndrome.

Yeah but Hollywood added a load of trolls or something - in Miller's book there are no 'monsters'.

It's the LoTR syndrome.

They were pointless in the film anyway. Those Elephants all fell over a cliff and that Rhino got killed by 1 spear. They must have been on screen for a total of a minute between them! Not worth the effort in putting them in.

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My favourite bit of the film was the first launch of arrows by the Persians. The cgi was absolute perfection - I was completely in awe of that one bit.