There are a few movies that I am sorta looking forward to this year, but there is only ONE that I can't miss and that I have to see opening night... The film version of Frank Miller's graphic novel, The 300, which is his artistic interpretation of the famous final stand of the Spartans against the Persian hordes.
Watch both of the previews at this link... All I can say is HOLY SHIT!
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Wow! I don't know what they are doing to make it look that cool. Makes it look like a cross between a live action movie and animation (not in that weird Ralph Bakshi/LOTR way...).
Maybe The Hulk wouldn't have looked so lame with something like that going on.
FWIW (and weeks after the fact), thanks to a partnership between MySpace and The 300, MySpace users can now post up to 300 pictures on their profiles (up from 12-16). Album utilities are in the making.
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As for the training, Keith, I think it was that training clip that caused some uproar at Crossfit with them accusing that guy of "stealing" their training.
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You can see that trainers website here: http://www.gymjones.com/
Pretty simple website but I find it interesting. More muscular endurance than anything else though.
I've been stoked about this movie for over a year now. I think a lot of the reason it looks like a moving comic book look to it is because it has the same creator as Sin City. The only version I've been waiting for more is the one based on Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire novel. I just hope they still finish that one.
You can see that trainers website here: http://www.gymjones.com/
Pretty simple website but I find it interesting. More muscular endurance than anything else though.
I've been stoked about this movie for over a year now. I think a lot of the reason it looks like a moving comic book look to it is because it has the same creator as Sin City. The only version I've been waiting for more is the one based on Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire novel. I just hope they still finish that one.
George Clooney has the rights to Gates of Fire -he can't get a backer for the budget he wants...hopefully that'll change after 300 performs at the box office.
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George Clooney has the rights to Gates of Fire -he can't get a backer for the budget he wants...hopefully that'll change after 300 performs at the box office.
Ya, that's been the situation last I heard too. The only downside I can see to the 300 coming out first is if people look at it kinda like Wyatt Earp coming out after Tombstone back in the 90's. I hope that's not the case though. I'm willing to bet Clooney could help make that great book into a great movie. I hope you're right.
Just for anyone that doesn't know, the movie is called the 300 but really there were 1,000. 700 Thespians stayed with the 300 Spartans to fight at Thermopylae. I figure they deserve as much recognition as the Spartans.
Once they were about to be surrounded, Leonidas sent everybody else home. Only the surviving Spartans and their Helot squires mounted the last stand on the final day.
I wonder about this...the Helots were slaves....could the Spartans really have held them there against their will with the Persians advancing and the rest of the Greeks gone?
Maybe Pressfield has the right of it with his depiction of their relationship?
Ps I'm suprised Edchap hasn't weighed in here? Isn't he studying this at the mo?
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Once they were about to be surrounded, Leonidas sent everybody else home. Only the surviving Spartans and their Helot squires mounted the last stand on the final day.
I wonder about this...the Helots were slaves....could the Spartans really have held them there against their will with the Persians advancing and the rest of the Greeks gone?
Maybe Pressfield has the right of it with his depiction of their relationship?
Ps I'm suprised Edchap hasn't weighed in here? Isn't he studying this at the mo?
"Leonidas, silencing the uproar, announced that it was the intention of his bodyguard to hold the breach against the enemy, no matter what was thrown at them. Then he not merely permitted but positively ordered the main body of the army to leave, and as fast as possible, to give itself every chance of surviving to fight another day. The Thespians, famously cussed, refused to abandon their posts; so too - for with their city now doomed to medise, they had nothing to return to, save the prospect of being purged - did the loyalist Thebans. Leonidas ordered the Helots to remain at the Hot Gates as well, to help the Spartans prepare for battle, to serve as light infantry and to die in the cause of their masters' freedom. Some 1500 men in all, then, fingering their notched and battered weapons with clammy fingers, feeling th sun's first rays against their faces, trying not to let their expressions betray their emotions, whether of scorn, resignation orenvy, watched their comrades pack up their armour, leave the camp and head south." Persian Fire - Tom Holland
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