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on: June 13, 2013, 04:02:17 PM

WTF? I honestly thought it was a parody until Eva Green and Circea showed up in it.

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Reply #1 on: June 13, 2013, 04:03:36 PM

insert 300 puns about the battle of salamis

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Reply #2 on: June 13, 2013, 04:05:21 PM

Why in the hell is this movie NOT titled 301: The Battle of Salamis (totally not gay).
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Reply #3 on: June 13, 2013, 04:10:08 PM

I went to see the original with a gay man who remarked "that was a bit much even for me"

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Reply #4 on: June 13, 2013, 08:58:33 PM

I loved the first one, but don't see the point of a sequel.

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Reply #5 on: June 13, 2013, 09:54:14 PM

I feel like there's a good reason that there have been so many books/movies/etc made about Thermopylae specifically rather than the rest of that war.  It's that 300 Spartans facing down an entire army by themselves is so fucking badass that the rest of the war was probably boring by comparison.

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Reply #6 on: June 13, 2013, 11:05:41 PM

insert 300 puns about the battle of salamis

Oh shit, I just got that. 300 salamis indeed.

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Reply #7 on: June 14, 2013, 03:20:59 AM

Salamis is pretty dramatic too, but:

a) the Greeks win the battle, which is relatively complicated compared to Thermopylae
b) it's a naval battle
c) the war goes on for a while after that
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Reply #8 on: June 17, 2013, 02:28:40 PM

I'm sure I'll watch and enjoy this, but...

REALLY waiting for someone to do the Iliad correctly - Brad Pitt's Troy was a god damn abomination of a perfectly good story.

Especially now, what with stuff like LotR being popular and done "correctly," there's no reason the full Iliad could not be done as well.



Sorry, pet peeve of mine - Troy cut out the drama among the gods, which was at least half the story.
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Reply #9 on: June 17, 2013, 02:55:20 PM

I'm sure I'll watch and enjoy this, but...

REALLY waiting for someone to do the Iliad correctly

I don't know if you could do it correctly because the audience would be left wondering why there was no Trojan Horse, why Achilles didn't get an arrow in his heel and why the story finished before the end of the war.

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Reply #10 on: June 17, 2013, 07:14:30 PM

To make the Iliad correctly, you'd have to make a lot of the characters really unrelatable, alien dicks in modern terms.

Trojan Horse *is* mentioned briefly in the Odyssey in a way that makes it clear that listeners to the oral epic probably knew the more detailed legend, but yeah, the really detailed version is the Aeneid.
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