300 omg was it supposed to be funny?

[AsModEe]

yeh, what a bunch of sheeps!

I only heard good comments about it, and I'm gonna watch it this week. Stay tuned for more info.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Just got back from the midnight showing, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time...my question ...was it intended to be funny? if it was it was brilliant ...if it wasn't it sucked... discuss

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well, I just saw it last night half-drunk with a bunch of other people who study Greek and Roman antiquities, and we were laughing our asses off.

It was fucking brilliant.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

well technically it is historic garment, somehow, but usually they have been depicted with at least greaves or something

The dress wasn't far off historically correct. In Plutarch's life of Lysander you can read how they become hard-ass mother fucking bastards.

well, they would have at least probably worn a cuirass. Even if just one of leather. The whole thing about the half naked spartans was hilarious.

also, Ephialtes. hahahahaha. man oh man. seriously.

 

[Liverslapper]

my girlfriend went to see it last night, told me it was a beautiful movie, so i am definatly going to see it, and like i said, i always liked Miller's work and how he sticks with his original work when making the movie, just like Sin City.

 

[Necromunchkin]

Don't expect it to be anywhere near as close to the graphic novel as Sin City. It obviously draws heavily from the text, but there are a lot of stark departures as well.

 

[Lord Foul]

I liked it. Nothing spectacular, but entertaining. I didn't really find any of the scenes unintentionally hilarious; the whole thing was supposed to be over the top anyway.

Oracle girl was hot.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

haha the more and more I think about this afterward, I realize how horribly awful this movie was, and yet at the same time so horribly awesome.

 

[derek]

It's a weird one. For me it fits quite nicely into the Herodotean framework/character of over-the-top-easily-excited madness (Herodotus is, after all, a fine story teller).

I think the Epic nature of it, and how it walks a pretty thin line of serious/hilarious works not too badly. (I've seen it three time now). I think anyone with a remotely Geeky sensibility will enjoy the movie.

Matt, did you e-mail Dr West?

 

[MajestikMøøse]

yeah, that's pretty much the case. I might go see it again another time when I hadn't drank so heavily beforehand.

I didn't email Dr. West yet. I was just going to run to the library today and see how much the Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis is pared down from his larger Iambi et Elegi Graeci Ante Alexandrum Canatati work. Also, I think that there is an introduction in English in the Ante Alexandum edition, as opposed to the all Latin, all Greek of the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis editions. I looked at them both in passing, but I'll give them a more critical look before I go bother a 70 year old scholar who probably hates email.

 

[derek]

Good idea. I do hope you can find something usable, it's an interesting field, and as you can see pretty under-researched. I'd bet any dissertation or thesis in the field would be quite well received.

 

[Anvil]

I planned on seein' it on the weekend, but we've decided to go to the Imax to see it on thursday.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Good idea. I do hope you can find something usable, it's an interesting field, and as you can see pretty under-researched. I'd bet any dissertation or thesis in the field would be quite well received.

yeah, so I give a quick look at the both of them, comparing both books with my Loeb of Iambics.

The more complete Ante Alexandrum Cantati ones have full commentary, all known fragments readable or unreadable, and the context of where they were cited or found (like the Loeb). Although, the commentary is still in Latin (no big deal, all truly critical editions of Classical Texts published by Oxford do this).

so yeah, I'm going to definately track down those ones instead. Lets just see if OUP gets back to me.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Oh, in the meantime, I'm photocopying myself a copy of his out of print "Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus" (1974). I'm a dirty copyright violating bastard.

 

[Liverslapper]

gonna go see the movie tomorrow cause i have a day off, its gonna be sick.

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

Great movie, I loved it.
Pwnt on Imax.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

i saw it in the imax theater, which was cool. good movie...worth seeing on the big screen thats for sure.