Went yesterday to see it and its sold out for the next couple days, they're slowly killing me.:damn:

Saw the movie yesterday in IMAX format. Awesome movie. Not an Oscar winner by any means just pure entertainment. It was like watching a live action comic book.

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Finally got to see it today, first movie I've seen in a couple years where I wasn't concentrating on how uncomfortable my seat is, even if it isn't accurate still a damn good movie. Entertaining which is what it is supposed to be.

Movies where you can just go, be entertained are good things:up: Probably will see this as well.

Seen it last night. Loved every minute of it. I really like that girl who did that body dance :o

yeah great movie, same director of SinCity which was also a great movie.

The movie is based on a comic book. I hear that the movie is very faithful to the comic book. It was never intended as a historically accurate protrayal of the events of 480 BC

If you are at all interested in what really happened, check out

Paul Cartledge "Thermopylae, the battle that changed the world" although he even recognizes that the battle really did not change the world, just a small part of it :)

Bradford also wrote a book on Thermopylae but I did not enjoy at as much as the Cartledge book.

Really cool movie, but the real story is even cooler so I dont get why they changed some parts of it.


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Like the fact that King Leonaides(?) didnt die last, but his men and the Persians fought over the body in the end. Epic.

Hollywood keeps surprising me. Whenever you think it cant get any worse, they manage to reach a new low.

The esthetics resembles Leni Riefenstahl's movies, while just being completely without a point.

Amazing, such diverging opnions you'd think you were all talking about different films.

I loved this movie. I know it isn't historically accurate but I see it as being an epic tale as told the way a greek would have told it. If you notice stories like the Odyssey are based on true events but are extensively embellished with mythylogical creatures and massive battles so that they are more inspiring and exiting.

I see this movie as being an embellishment of the story of Thermopylae in the style that you would see in ancient Greece. Anyone who's seen it can't deny that its a powerful film at moments. There was that one scene where Leonides was looking over the battlefield with a powerful look in his eyes like tears nearly. Its not about history as much as the power of story.

I loved it. But I also love my Greek History textbooks that give me the dry details.

I can enjoy both, and I don't see the need to be either a brain dead moron, or an intellectual pruist.

Or talking about the same movie from different perspectives :)

I totally agree. And I´ve enjoyed every single minute, it´s great popcorn cinema. :)

I saw it a few weeks ago and it was a waste of time. I feel it was worse than Pearl Harbour and let's be honest it can't really get worse than that. Although the comic is good and the movie was close to it the transfer to the big screen was problematic. The characters were 2D without any depth and the whole movie was really boring. Unfortunatelly what works on paper does not work on the big screen every time.