300 movie

[Burdock]

Saw this last night, and really enjoyed it in a 'beating chest, heads flying' type way...

Why didn't the 200,000 Persians all pile into the Spartans in one big mash?

Why were those mega-elephants so ineffective? They just did a bit of trumpeting then fell off the cliff?

Xerxes? What a faggot.

Still, enjoyable 2 hours

[realityhack]

It's ok - not exactly the greatest film, but very close to Frank Miller's drawings, like Sin City. Especially the 'freeze frame' scenes during the fights, and the bit where the Spartans push the persians off the cliff.

[Captain Dispensable]

Why didn't the 200,000 Persians all pile into the Spartans in one big mash?

Golden rule of movie-making: When attacked by multiple assailants, don't worry they'll just attack you individually whilst the rest do a silly 80's dance.

[where did my id go?]

wasnt it to do with the local geography? The spartans had a damned good position. Didnt some of the persians get drowned trying to get round ?

Where are all the public school bods who can quote from the sources ? Dunno what this board is coming to these days.

[PRC1964]

Xerxes? What a faggot.

All is forgivable for someone with such a great name.

[PRC1964]

wasnt it to do with the local geography? The spartans had a damned good position. Didnt some of the persians get drowned trying to get round ?

Where are all the public school bods who can quote from the sources ? Dunno what this board is coming to these days.

Give it 10 minutes so that Threaded can do some Googling and he'll be in here claiming to have offered the Spartans advice but they were too tight to pay for it.

[threaded]

Well at the end there really were 300 Spartans, but also about 1000 Helots and a maybe similar but smaller number of Thespians.

You must remember that the Spartans in formation were the WMD of their day. IIRC the first Persian attack was 10,000 men who all died in exchange for only 2 Spartan dead.

[Burdock]

and the massive elephants?!?!

[threaded]

and the massive elephants?!?!

Of no use in such a battle.

[Sysman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae