300

Ugh, yes. The whole face-licking thing was just too much. I can't stand being beaten over the head with a concept when subtlety could have worked just as effectively.
 
thinking back now, i think 300 can best be compared to a 'classy' porn movie.

you get a predictable and cliché story that isn't really relevant and where talk is just filler. no real effort to polish the story or make it actually meaningful. all focus on the action instead, which turns out to be repetitive, unimaginative and milked dry for all it's worth. a feeling only amplified by use of cheesy or arty farty camera work.
 
Bradylama said:
In theory the story (the Battle of Thermopylae) is strong enough to stand on its own, and it sure as Hell worked for the comic book. What I'm wondering is why they felt the need to give the queen a starring role.
To please feminists?
 
Just watched the movie. The RL story is awesome, and these effect kick ass totally. Tho' the sign in the movie is more on the action, not on the story itself. But still... it's good :D
 
Pretty shallow and predictable movie, full of clichés and one-liners. Battle scenes would´ve been cooler if the spartans had worn armor instead of just thongs.
 
Why do people hate HATE innovation? You saw a hundred movies like that, with armor and battle formations and realistic violence, why not see something else?

Slow motion, capes instead of armor, comic based story, virtually created enviroment...

It's not fucking Bethesda, so stop the hating...it's just another type of movie, it didn't kill a pre existing one. (the `62 one was pretty much non-existant)

I will make a 40k movie one day, with lines upon lines of Imperial Guardsmen fighting hordes of cultists and impaling them on bayonets and drop pods falling the the center of combat spewing forth bloodthirsty Terminators, mowing down everyting from within...ahhh....
 
If you produce my movie, I'll put some orks in. But I warn you if you put orks in 40k material = Lord of the Rings in space

If you put eldar(elves) = Lord of the Rings in space

If you put necrons = Terminator 4

If you put JUST Space Marines = 300

if you put Guardsmen, Space Marines and Chaos, it might work...maybe even a little Tau.

I will do the movie, trust me. I will put in the ending credits:

Bradylama for suggesting orks
 
But I warn you if you put orks in 40k material = Lord of the Rings in space

Those are not the "orcs" you're looking for.

If you put eldar(elves) = Lord of the Rings in space

Strike two. One more and you're banned...err...dunce(d).

If you put necrons = Terminator 4

You are duncinated.

If you put JUST Space Marines = 300

Ever wonder why well-named franchises are ruined when they're sold out to the Hollywood grinder?

if you put Guardsmen, Space Marines and Chaos, it might work...maybe even a little Tau.

So by your logic, making a movie with something already done, such as war, religion, love, etc... is doomed to be bland?

I will do the movie, trust me.

Thank the Emperor you're too poor and uncultured to be entrusted with our beloved franchise.

...no offense.

Seriously, though, While your devotion to ensure the mindless masses are well indoctrinated with the Will of the Emperor is admirable, you lack the proper savviness and aptitude required for the task at hand. Also, you reek of Bethesda. Just make your own fantasy world, cruel minion, instead of pillaging one already established to the Abyss and back.
 
Paladin Solo said:
Seriously, though, While your devotion to ensure the mindless masses are well indoctrinated with the Will of the Emperor is admirable, you lack the proper savviness and aptitude required for the task at hand.

There is simply too much 40K for a single movie. And for people who are unfamiliar with whats going on, its probably a much safer bet to pick some of the more "familiar" conflicts to tell the story. It wouldn't be too hard to grab one of the Gaunt's Ghosts or Horus Heresy books for the story. Those are nice little slices of the universe without being overwhelming.



Bradylama said:
I'm sorry, 40K movie cannot work without Orks. This is science.

Interestingly enough, my life philosophy is more closely aligned with Orks then the Guard.

'Ere We Go! 'Ere We Go! 'Ere We Go!

uh, the Emperor Protects!


P.S.

Gorkers > Morkers
 
The Commissar said:
It wouldn't be too hard to grab one of the Gaunt's Ghosts or Horus Heresy books for the story.[/size]
Yeah, I'd love to see a Gaunt's-Ghosts-movie!

As for 300: in my opinion the worst and most boring film ever. The final credits animation was actually better than the whole movie.
 
I don't understand why you strike off my comments as wrong. Nor have I suggested I know everything of 40k.

But, this I know, if there is someone to make this movie, it's going to be me. You'll die an old man before you can agree "lightning" with the staff if you were the director.

I fuckin hate Bethesda, do a search on me before you call me a fanboi.
 
Smoke_Jaguar said:
I don't understand why you strike off my comments as wrong. Nor have I suggested I know everything of 40k.

But, this I know, if there is someone to make this movie, it's going to be me. You'll die an old man before you can agree "lightning" with the staff if you were the director.

I fuckin hate Bethesda, do a search on me before you call me a fanboi.

Don't be so hasty to defend yourself - any reasons why you hate Bethesda? :P
 
I don't understand why you strike off my comments as wrong. Nor have I suggested I know everything of 40k.

You speak for the franchise as though you know what will be good for it. That is where you're wrong. Just because someone adapted LOTR for the big screen first, doesn't mean "orcs" (which, by your logic, are the same as "orks") or elves (which, by your logic, are the same as "eldar") are an exclusive right to them. Don't even get me started on Terminator.

But, this I know, if there is someone to make this movie, it's going to be me.

"If"

You'll die an old man before you can agree "lightning" with the staff if you were the director.

Uh...what? Was that some way of basically saying "my dad can beat up your dad" or were you actually trying to form a comprehensible statement?

I fuckin hate Bethesda, do a search on me before you call me a fanboi.

Smelling like shit, and worshipping shit are two very different things. I suggest you do some research of your own, and you'll note that nowhere did I say you were a "fanboi".
 
Paladin Solo said:
Smelling like shit, and worshipping shit are two very different things.
I'd sig this if the space wasn't occupied with promoting myself.
 
Paladin Solo said:
You speak for the franchise as though you know what will be good for it. That is where you're wrong. Just because someone adapted LOTR for the big screen first, doesn't mean "orcs" (which, by your logic, are the same as "orks") or elves (which, by your logic, are the same as "eldar") are an exclusive right to them. Don't even get me started on Terminator.



I wasn't speaking for myself, Solo, I was speaking about what would be the masses reaction to seeing either those races in the movie.Nobody but a man with a huge complex of superiority would argue someone like that is stupid, when the roles are quite opposite.

The uneducated masses in 40k will react to what they know when seeing, let's say, orks, to translate to "orcs". They would call it another "orc movie" in space.

Reference to Starcraft, when Tassadar says "This is not Warcraft in space" is the same fear that Blizzard run into when making the game, even if it has none of the previous "orcs". But, as you already know, Warhammer 40k is the reincarnation of Warhammer, where every major race has it's reincarnation also. Though Warhammer is unique, 40k is not, the only real original race is the Tau (and tyranids if you want to). Elves, Dark elves, Eldar, Dark Eldar, slender features, pointy ears, bla bla, you want me to continue? Tomb Kings....boy aren't they Necrons? Read the designer notes from the creators of the Tau, idiot. You smell like shit too, but 40 degrees more.

I said orks in the first post, I still don't understand your said confusion with the terms, for none of us has made that.

If you can't understand that, stop trying to sound intelligent, because it comes off as stupidity to me to argue you're something you're not. You're just an arogant bastard that argues anything somebody else says on said subject, is wrong just because he doesn't know jack shit about interpretation.
 
After reading a good portion of this thread... I feel like slitting my wrists with a butter knife and putting my genitals through a cheese grader... God the pain! lol
 
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