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Alan Smithee posted:Spartacus is a goddamn good time. I can honestly say the sex and violence more often than not got in the way of the good stuff. It takes a few episodes to kick in but once the friendship between the gladiators and Batiatus' intrigues get going it's a genuinely fun show to watch. The later seasons get some better action and set pieces though you can definitely tell a lot of budget VFX tricks are stretched to the limit. The finale of God of the Arena was goddamn gorgeous.
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Spartacus is the only show I've seen that destroys the previous episode's awesomeness in every single episode. The first couple of episodes suck though.
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I've never seen 300, but a friend took me to see this one. I think I expected it to be a lot worse than it actually was, but like someone said earlier it almost feels like watching a person play a terrible computer game. The backgrounds to places and the style choices in a lot of it completely took me out of it and I didn't care what was going on for so much of the film. Even little things, like a guy who is full of arrows somehow swimming to the shore after an explosion, and then dying when he gets there. Or everyone constantly being so very dry when they're on boats that are essentially in the sea. It's like they just didn't give a poo poo about anything beyond buckets of blood - like they've watched a Tarantino film and thought "Well he has lots of blood, so that must be what makes the film good". Eva Green was fantastic though. I always feel sorry for actors when they're in a poo poo film in a bad role but doing really well, like it'll mean she'll just be in more and more terrible films instead of what she actually deserves.
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Mar 25, 2014 15:34
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Seeing how Eva Green totally nailed it in the 300 sequel, I'm really looking forward to seeing how she does in Sin City 2.
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Mar 26, 2014 04:25
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So this film literally doesn't have a director, right? It was directed by a production team from cliff notes of the first one? And "Noam Murro" got the credit because someone owed him a favour?
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Mar 26, 2014 12:59
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Xenomrph posted:Seeing how Eva Green totally nailed it in the 300 sequel, I'm really looking forward to seeing how she does in Sin City 2. Eva Green nails loving everything, she's awesome. I eagerly look forward to her turning 35 and casting directors promptly forgetting that she exists. Seriously, she's great. 9 years ago, in her mid 20s, she was a stand out in a film that also starred Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Kevin McKidd, Edward Norton, Alexander Siddig and Martin Csokas. She's firey as all get out.
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Mar 28, 2014 03:24
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Loved the first movie, love Sullivan Stapleton in Strike Back, love Eva Green in... who cares it's Eva Green. Man i couldn't sit through this movie, turned it off after the some dude jumped off a boat BORING.
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Mar 28, 2014 12:18
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Is this movie worth the time and potential to ruin my love of the first movie? I wont have to pay for it, so the only investments are time and emotional connection to 300
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Mar 28, 2014 19:17
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I liked '300' a lot and thought the sequel was a hoot. It's a lot better than I expected it to be. Especially if you're seeing it for free, it's worth it for Eva Green alone.
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Mar 28, 2014 19:47
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It was merely ok and I kinda dozed off after their first defeat. It was just more of the same but not done as competently. Eva Green is great tho (and incredibly beautiful, those eyes  ).
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Mar 28, 2014 20:10
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Xenomrph posted:I liked '300' a lot and thought the sequel was a hoot. It's a lot better than I expected it to be. Especially if you're seeing it for free, it's worth it for Eva Green alone. Thanks. I will probably watch it, with low expectations. Probably some decent action and thrills right?
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Mar 28, 2014 20:26
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thehacker0 posted:Is this movie worth the time and potential to ruin my love of the first movie? I wont have to pay for it, so the only investments are time and emotional connection to 300 How could this movie possibly ruin a different movie for you? It's a couple hours of below average 300 style action with a side of Eva Green being pretty great. It shits on the Spartans and gives a pointless back story to Xerxes while shirtless men fight in cloaks and leather briefs.
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Mar 28, 2014 21:16
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You can watch Eva Green ham it up and save a movie all at the same time.
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Mar 28, 2014 21:17
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I saw this earlier and it was mind-numbingly boring. Couldn't recommend it to anyone. Although Eva Green's sex scene was hilarious and the sole highlight of the movie.
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Mar 28, 2014 21:38
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw this earlier and it was mind-numbingly boring. Couldn't recommend it to anyone. Although Eva Green's sex scene was hilarious and the sole highlight of the movie. It's also the only moment of the movie that people seemed to talked about after it was over. The crowd at my theater also loved the shrugging persian guards who had to listen in on the sex battle.
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Mar 29, 2014 02:58
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etalian posted:It's also the only moment of the movie that people seemed to talked about after it was over.
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Mar 29, 2014 03:01
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw this earlier and it was mind-numbingly boring. Couldn't recommend it to anyone. Although Eva Green's sex scene was hilarious and the sole highlight of the movie. The end-credits sequence with "War Pigs" was pretty good. The rest of the move, what the gently caress were they thinking. On the positive side, I kept thinking "this is going to be great rifftrax." "THEY CALLED HIM THEMISTOCLES!"... Because that was his loving name. More like forgetableicles. Rosscifer fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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Yeah, this movie is entirely unmemorable besides Eva Green fighting a dude with her vagina, and even that is only memorable because you can't believe something like that is happening in an otherwise boring as hell movie.
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Mar 30, 2014 04:07
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At least the original 300 had some striking imagery.
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Trip report: I desperately missed the apocalyptic man-choir soundtrack and narration from the first one and the digi-sky looked smeary rather than stylish. CopywrightMMXI posted:If you felt that the first film demonized Arab people, you ain't seen nothing yet. Xerxes forces now include suicide bombers. There's constant reference to how Arab blood needs to be spilled as well. I had a feeling you were lying about this and it turns out you were. Liar.
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Mar 30, 2014 07:42
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Yeah, in retrospect the Arab guys with the exploding backpacks who boarded the Athenian ships with the intent to sink it were not supposed to be suicide bombers at all.
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Mar 30, 2014 13:06
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Yeah, in retrospect the Arab guys with the exploding backpacks who boarded the Athenian ships with the intent to sink it were not supposed to be suicide bombers at all. Real Arabs won't be happy that you confused them with the Persians. I don't think anybody can have a real complaint when the Persian empire in fact invaded Greece.
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Mar 30, 2014 18:26
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Yeah, in retrospect the Arab guys with the exploding backpacks who boarded the Athenian ships with the intent to sink it were not supposed to be suicide bombers at all. If you're going to do dumb political allegory via asspulling, this is quite clearly about the Oil Crisis of the 70s. The West uses it's economic and naval power to support regional enemies of Mesopotamian powers, Ionia standing in for Israel. In response an organized conglomeration of nations, the Achaemenid Empire standing in for OPEC, uses their oil as a weapon against the west. The guys with the backpacks represent the growing consumption of oil by the western nations while Themistocles identification of them and order to redirect attacks at them is representative of policies and practices implemented to reduce dependency on foreign oil.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Yeah, in retrospect the Arab guys with the exploding backpacks who boarded the Athenian ships with the intent to sink it were not supposed to be suicide bombers at all.
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I watched it yesterday and it really wasn't as good as the first 300. But I decided that it all took place in a parallel dimension which had a different history and physics to ours then I enjoyed the film more.
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Mar 31, 2014 15:06
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LEONIDAS WAS BETRAYED BY A HUNCHBACK! 
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Finally saw it. This movie felt like it was sub plot scenes that should have been in 300. They should just edit the two movies together into chronological sequence.
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SinistralRifleman posted:Finally saw it. This movie felt like it was sub plot scenes that should have been in 300. They should just edit the two movies together into chronological sequence. This would be cool. Only let's get an EE with more Eva Green.
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Immanentized posted:This may be grasping at straws, but did anyone get a ham-fisted vibe of female empowerment throughout the whole film? It's narrated by a queen trying to legitimise her right to command following the king's death. An unreliable, self-serving narrator is the key conceit of the series.
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