"Sin City" fans, "300" looks bad to the bone. nt.

[k_jerome]

[xmas74]

1. I wish babysitters weren't so expensive.

I'd plan on going if I could.

[Bassic]

19. Ditto.

I'm saving up to go see the Transformers movie :D

[xmas74]

20. That's gonna be awesome.

I heard the guy that plays Hiro on Heroes talking about it. I guess he did some work on the movie w/ the CGI bits or something.

[Bassic]

21. The trailer, though very short

Is friggin' great. That's SO going to fucking rock!

[xmas74]

22. My brother, geek extraordinaire,

(and yes, he knows I call him that) phoned me the other day and sang the old Transformers theme song to me over the phone. He hung up immediately after finishing the song.

Yes, we are a family of geeks.

[Bassic]

24. That sounds like something I might do.

I am also, evidently, a total geek.

[xmas74]

25. It's ok-I am too.

I called my brother a few weeks back when the casting for Linderman on Heroes was leaked.

I called him months ago in a frenzy when Abrams said he'd do a new Star Trek.

I can go much further but we don't need to. I've signed petitions expressing my hatred of changes done to Star Wars.

I'm a geek and the only reason why I'm not married yet is because I want to marry a geek.

[Bassic]

26. Speaking of Star Trek XI,

I can't wait till we get a bit more than the teaser poster :D

[xmas74]

27. Neither can I.

I'm shaky-excited.

(That's how sad my geekiness truly is. And what's worse-I'm raising my kid to be just as bad. Proof that she's nothing like her father since he hated everything like that.

[Bassic]

32. It is yet to be determined if

my son will be a geek like me or a non-geek like his mother :D

Needless to say I'll be doing my best to perpetuate the geekness :D

[xmas74]

33. Geeks unite!

She's well on her way now. She's six and she's been watching the new Doctor Who, stating that it's her favorite show. That has lead into watching the older ones, which she also enjoys.

[Bassic]

39. I used to watch the older ones when I was a kid.

I couldn't understand a damn thing because I did not speak English back then, but I thought the Tardis and the robot dog kicked ass :D

[xmas74]

40. K9!

My daughter loves him but my daughter is also a Sarah Jane fan.

Personally, I'm a big Leela fan.

[Kutjara]

37. I was aquiver with excitement about STXI, until...

...I heard they were considering Matt Damon for the young James Kirk and Ben Afflek for the young Spock. That just sounds so incredibly wrong to me.

Luckily, it's just a rumor.

[Bassic]

44. Just a rumour indeed.

The problem is that any recast of those characters is going to be decried by a large portion of Trekkies, whoever it is.

[Phillycat]

2. I cannot FUCKING WAIT.

I'll be there Friday night.

[sasquatch]

3. Isn't this just a remake of 300 spartans

The battle of Thermopylae is what it's based on BTW. Perhaps they remade it to inspire people to resist the Bush Administration.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. It's an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_%28comic_book%29

Which was inspired by The 300 Spartans.

[sasquatch]

6. Well I'm half right then

I'm really looking forward to it then.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Check out the trailer. Looks pretty kick ass to me.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/

[sasquatch]

9. Already seen the trailer

I was going to watch the movie anyway, it's just the fact that I get peeved at remakes. Unless it's a bad or forgotten movie that they remake.

[NewJeffCT]

45. why get peeved?

I'm always interested in a remake of a good movie - sort of like a cover of a good song.

My concern is that they're taking an actual historical event and making some of the characters seem superhuman - the preview I saw had some sort of ogre-looking guy flash on the screen, and also what appeared to be a charging rhinoceros. Were charging rhinos actually used in combat?

And, I thought one of the reasons the spartans did so well was that their armor was too tough for the Persian weapons. The previews make them all out to be bare-chested guys with helmets.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. I'm looking forward to it

I love Greek history *and* stylish action films.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Here's a user review of it from IMDB that cracked me up

Stunning in almost every way., 17 February 2007
Author: Jeff from Maryland


I just saw a movie that'll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It's called 300. I don't know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could have called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it'd still rule. It's about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated sh-- out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper. The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it's sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, "I need some extra sauce packets" guess what? You're getting twenty sauce packets because the look on your face will punch him in the brain. I can't spoil the plot because THERE ISN'T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that's hitting someone's balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN'T LIKE: COOL THING ONE: HEAVY METAL MUSIC DURING BATTLE SCENES: Who gives a sh-- if the music isn't historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could have used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Starbucks is telling you that you'll have to stay late for clean-up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO: FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS: Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There's wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he's got Rosie O'Donnell on his back. Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING: DUDE NUDITY ("DUDE-ITY"): These were Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they're serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties. Any directors reading this - IT'S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES. Can't someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it "PAUSE BUTTON"?

[Blue-Jay]

10. Hilarious!

"DUDE-ITY" :rofl:

[sasquatch]

12. LOL

"but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns"
:rofl:
This guy needs to learn to make better analagies.

[MonkeyFunk]

13. No he doesn't....

his are great as they are.

[Broken_Hero]

14. "Lord of the Rings could've used some Journey"

I think I just found a new sig line...:)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

15. Lol! Absolutely beautiful review!

" This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Starbucks is telling you that you'll have to stay late for clean-up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand."

Abso-fucking-lutly beautiful! :rofl:

[seemunkee]

16. Best damn movie review ever.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fujiyama]

17. OMG!

That is the funniest thing I've read in a while!

[chknltl]

18. Gene Siskel is rolling in his grave...

best movie review ever. Pure genius. Bravo!

[xmas74]

23. I just forwarded this to my brother.

He writes the occasional movie review and this will have him shitting his pants in laughter.

You should give that a "Hershey squirt alert" or something of that nature.

[reprehensor]

28. I cry for this.

Tears of joy!

EL-THE-FOCKIN'-O-EL

[Forkboy]

30. "....who must have a dick made of three machine guns"

LMFAO

[Richardo]

34. .

:rofl:

[jobycom]

35. Damn, that's good! nt

[Phillycat]

42. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

I just emailed that to everyone on earth.

[Broken_Hero]

11. it looks fantastic to me, :)

I'm putting off seeing Ghost Rider, so I can watch 300....:)

[EOTE]

41. You aren't missing much : ).

Ghost Rider was a bit better than I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting much. Just a decent pop-corn flick with terrible dialog and acting.

[Phillycat]

43. Exactly right.

Cool special effects, too.

[LostInAnomie]

29. Agreed

I thought Sin City was bad ass, but it couldn't even lick the balls of 300's trailer.

300 is going to RULE!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. I'll wait for the DVD.

[BreweryYardRat]

36. Pass.

Too blatantly ahistorical for my tastes. The story of the Spartans at Thermopylae doesn't need mutants or battle rhinos.

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Dude, EVERYTHING needs mutants and battle rhinos.