So who saw 300?
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General Zod
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Reign in Acai
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Holy fuck! 6 Chapters in to Gates of Fire and I'm hooked like a lice on a Susperian split end. This book is my Lord and Shepherd!!! 
Ken, you're a great man. I shall salute you in a toast one day.
Ken, you're a great man. I shall salute you in a toast one day.
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Holy fuck! 6 Chapters in to Gates of Fire and I'm hooked like a lice on a Susperian split end. This book is my Lord and Shepherd!!!
Ken, you're a great man. I shall salute you in a toast one day.
Fuckin 'A bro. That book is amazing and Pressfield really did his homework too. The character development is enthralling and the war scenes are unlike anything I have ever read before.
Zod, no it's a regular novel, but produces amazing graphics in your mind.
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I'm sure that I'll regret my initial enthusiasm of this movie when I'll have to explain to people for years to come later that the Persians weren't actually black, and they didn't actually have war rhinoceroses, and they probably didn't have all those nose piercings, and also there was an entire contingent of Thebans that the Lacedaemonians dragged into the battle as well because they were suspected of being Persian sympathizers, which they used as shock troops and that's why they managed to survive for a whole three days before the Persians figured out that rear ambush from Ephialtes (who really wasn't a grotesque cripple).
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Movie sucked.
Why? (courtesy spoiler warning as if it matters)
* Slow-mo fighting maneuvers. Enough with this video game shit. As soon as a movie does this, any movie, I immediately am disconnected from what's happening. At least in the Matrix IT WAS a video game basically within the narrative of the movie.
* Computer special effects blood splatter. It looks like shit every single time. Every. Single. Time. Just hook up a hose or explode a blood packet. Kill Bill had awesome blood effects, dammit.
* Very little blood at all when body parts are hacked off. The movie is all about the violence but the only real bloodshed can be from puncture wounds? whadufuck?
* Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The only real liquid discharge is when mostly naked men with impossibly chiseled physiques (that can be seen at a distance in dim lighting) achieve deep penetration into other men with their thrusting weapons? uhh... "Do you like gladiator movies?" Figures the money shot of the movie was IN THE FACE.
These next two were brought to my attention after the fact:
* Spartan battle formations which are used for... what, the first fight? And then against all the really bad ass opponents, everyone is just fighting willy nilly. No wonder the hunchback betrayed them. "Sorry, can't use you. Battle formations. Really. Sorry."
* Babykilling racial purist are the good guys against the multicultural, tolerant society which even gives equal opportunities to the handicapped... who are of course evil.
* That goddamn oracle. That exact look was my idea for a future cover of LotFP and now I can't use it. Fuckers. Fuckers!
Why? (courtesy spoiler warning as if it matters)
* Slow-mo fighting maneuvers. Enough with this video game shit. As soon as a movie does this, any movie, I immediately am disconnected from what's happening. At least in the Matrix IT WAS a video game basically within the narrative of the movie.
* Computer special effects blood splatter. It looks like shit every single time. Every. Single. Time. Just hook up a hose or explode a blood packet. Kill Bill had awesome blood effects, dammit.
* Very little blood at all when body parts are hacked off. The movie is all about the violence but the only real bloodshed can be from puncture wounds? whadufuck?
* Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The only real liquid discharge is when mostly naked men with impossibly chiseled physiques (that can be seen at a distance in dim lighting) achieve deep penetration into other men with their thrusting weapons? uhh... "Do you like gladiator movies?" Figures the money shot of the movie was IN THE FACE.
These next two were brought to my attention after the fact:
* Spartan battle formations which are used for... what, the first fight? And then against all the really bad ass opponents, everyone is just fighting willy nilly. No wonder the hunchback betrayed them. "Sorry, can't use you. Battle formations. Really. Sorry."
* Babykilling racial purist are the good guys against the multicultural, tolerant society which even gives equal opportunities to the handicapped... who are of course evil.
* That goddamn oracle. That exact look was my idea for a future cover of LotFP and now I can't use it. Fuckers. Fuckers!
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Movie was bloody awesome. Very few films have you leaving the theater wanting to kick someones face in.
But yea Ken was right.
Gates of Fire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. 300
But yea Ken was right.
Gates of Fire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. 300
