300 (2006) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2022-11-18 18:45:16 +0000 UTC
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Also the movie starts with “Glorifying” the Spartan eugenics slash “full term abortion” project. If one still thinks those mofos are actually enlightened just because they verbally bleat about freedom, it’s on them.
David W.
2023-06-07 16:28:34 +0000 UTCWhile we’re at it: full cut Batman v Superman and Zack Snyder’s Justice League (unless the hosts also didn’t watch Man Of Steel either.)
David W.
2023-06-07 16:27:10 +0000 UTCSparta was already miles behind on Freedom and Democracy away from the likes of Athens. They are far behind in Greece let alone other places in other time periods. If people come away from this movie going “F*** yeah Spartan Democracy just like the gold standard USA democracy!!!” for real, it’s on them. Their parents, their church communities, their schools already failed them. 🤷🏻♂️
David W.
2023-06-07 16:26:28 +0000 UTCIt wasn't just "boylovers" he said philosophers. I saw that comment as more of a joke/insult than a statement of historical fact, though I do remember learning that homosexuality was prevalent in Athens. Anyone who was as hypermasculine as the Spartans are in this movie would see philosophers as weak and worthy of mocking. What struck me as odd was the over the top supernatural stuff. I remember people talking about this movie and the Spartans but the whole thing about this huge wolf that's more like the size of a bear and these huge rhinos and elephants. I'm pretty sure that no rhinos are that big. But I suppose maybe it's supposed to be symbolic of one exaggerating ones accomplishments. I didn't take issue with it, it was just a bit shocking. I didn't expect it to have such supernatural type elements.
Alex
2023-06-05 06:13:56 +0000 UTCI'm especially impressed by the training workout these actors put themselves through. Is like the old movie adage: "Pain is temporary, film is forever". https://youtu.be/rM8GLp1baUc
Guston Zimasheen
2022-11-26 03:39:25 +0000 UTCJessica told me to tell you, Sam, that she especially recommends SuckerPunch for you.
Nick of Time
2022-11-20 19:42:48 +0000 UTCAdded to the list! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:41:13 +0000 UTCYou do not have to apologize for a difference of opinion on a film! Thank you for sharing your thoughts -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:40:59 +0000 UTCI would love to take a look at that! This is definitely a movie that a "making of" is something I'm really interested in! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:39:13 +0000 UTCThank you, Logan! It was nice, pleasant surprise to have enjoyed it as much as I did! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:38:33 +0000 UTCI can definitely see that -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:37:49 +0000 UTCOh wow! Thanks for sharing, Reed! I know almost nothing about the history so this was really cool to read -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 19:37:10 +0000 UTC😁😊🙌 woohoo! - Justin 😂
dieselbeast
2022-11-20 19:33:58 +0000 UTCThank you, Will! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:51:11 +0000 UTCDefinitely on our list! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:49:45 +0000 UTCThank you so much! Hope you enjoy Stand by Me! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:49:33 +0000 UTCI'm sure! I can't imagine how awesome this would have been on the big screen! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:49:16 +0000 UTCLOL I was so excited -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:48:56 +0000 UTCWe do want to check out the Sin City films! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:48:40 +0000 UTCHaha I like that tie in! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:48:27 +0000 UTCYes! Daniel's working on it :) -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:48:16 +0000 UTCDefinitely on our list! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:48:03 +0000 UTCHaha just a tad! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-20 18:47:49 +0000 UTCThere is some dispute about Sparta's "boy loving" (I only avoid more accurate terms because I don't know what kind of filters Patreon has). I am certain that it is only a matter of degree. Any claim that "boy loving" didn't happen or was rare in a society where children were taken away from their parents and systematically abused is absurd on its face. The men have complete power over the boys. The boys are separated from those who would most want to protect them. The boys are indoctrinated to obey those in power. It's a child abuser's fantasy come true.
Jeffrey Miller
2022-11-20 17:47:50 +0000 UTCFurther recommendations based on this movie: Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For SuckerPunch Watchmen
Nick of Time
2022-11-20 03:37:50 +0000 UTCI may be wrong, but if my memory serves I think the Spartan men were more likely to bed each other as a form of bond, whereas the Athenian men would take young boys as apprentices and bugger them.
Nick of Time
2022-11-20 03:36:04 +0000 UTCI'm with you and I'm glad I'm not alone in finding the way the Spartans are portrayed as a bit dubious. If someone wants to omit some of the negative aspects of a historical figure/society/etc. I get that. I don't think it's the greatest thing to do, but I can see it being done in certain instances. But when you insert into the dialogue Leonidas taking shots at the Athenians for being "boy lovers" and ridiculing Xerxes for having slaves, things which Sparta very much did as well, you are perpetuating a falsehood because you're strongly insinuating that Sparta did not do those things.
Jeffrey Miller
2022-11-20 01:48:01 +0000 UTCOh I know the Spartans are supposed to be the "good guys". I just find them incredibly unappealing as protagonists and honestly don't know why Xerxes is supposed to be much worse. When Leonidas called the Athenians "boy lovers" I rolled my eyes because Spartan were also "boy lovers". Also, Leonidas criticizes Xerxes for having slaves when the Spartans had TONS of slaves, called Helots. The Helots so outnumbered the Spartans that they had to be kept in line with fear a brutality including the murder of Helots for basically any reason. So yeah, I was team Xerxes all the way.
Jeffrey Miller
2022-11-19 19:35:18 +0000 UTCI have to admit, I have mixed feelings about this movie, like Gladiator. I wouldn’t mind these movies so much, if people were more aware of history. Spartans were not squeaky clean and Persian society was not this backward society like this movie suggests, and one of their best generals during this particular war, was a woman. As a history buff, it saddens me that people admire the accomplishments of ancient societies based on fictions and where those societies were “located”. Sparta, Greece, and Rome created amazing things that don’t need alteration to make them interesting, but so did Persia, Egypt, Nubia, China, India, and so many others. Poetic license is one thing, but outright fantasies can lead to some dangerous beliefs about the world, which I have encountered nearly every day. Sorry if this is a different opinion to most, but it’s one I felt I had to share. Still enjoyed the watch along, though. You guys do make these films enjoyable.
Nicole Johnson
2022-11-19 19:15:26 +0000 UTCHell yea!!! Def agree
Demos Samolis
2022-11-19 13:00:40 +0000 UTCI recommend watching the "making of" featurettes for the movie, especially the one(s) showing the scenes they pulled from the graphic novel, it's amazing how well they matched it! Like the scene of the Persian messenger rearing his horse, holding the slain king's skulls, that's an image in the GN. I also remember them talking about creating all the stylized blood spatter with CGI.
Nicotti
2022-11-19 11:05:42 +0000 UTCThat show is bad ass!! I will vote for it.
Logan Kerlee
2022-11-19 09:23:30 +0000 UTClmao, yup. Did you honestly expect Xerxes and the Persians to be the good guys?
Logan Kerlee
2022-11-19 09:22:46 +0000 UTCWow! I'm so happy that you both can agree this movie is excellent! I knew that you wouldn't hate the movie but I'm yeah, I'm surprised by how much you liked it. This movie was made so well, it was well liked by most who watched it. My ex wife wasn't into it as well! hahaha, I remember watching this with her and she was hyped like you were at the end. xD Made me happy to see that sort of reaction again! :) I've watched this movie well over 25 times and I'm still really enjoying each watch. Very happy that I got to watch this again with you both!
Logan Kerlee
2022-11-19 09:20:41 +0000 UTCSpartans believed that they were descended from Hercules.
Jason Mangen
2022-11-19 05:17:14 +0000 UTC"Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by That here, obedient to their laws, we lie." Epitaph written by Simonides of Ceos (556-469 BC) about the 300
Reed James
2022-11-19 03:39:33 +0000 UTCSomething to remember about this movie. It's all told by a man to a Spartan army on the eve of battle to hype them up and make them angry. Explains the over-the top stuff. In reality, it was the Olympic Games going on that kept Sparta from fully mobilizing. But this battle did happen. 300 Spartan and 700 Thebans. The archaelogy at the battle sight does show that a lot of arrows were fired there. The persian numbers are guessed at, but the Persian Empire spent years preparing for this invasion. They even built floating bridges to save themselves a year of marching. Twenty years before, they tried an amphibious invasion and landed at Marathon. The Atheninans drove them into the sea. A messenger ran back from Marathon to Athens to tell them the news and every year after that, the Athenians ran the Marathon to honor it and we run it to this day, the same distance, all across the world. 2500 years.
Reed James
2022-11-19 01:59:20 +0000 UTCLove it
Will Zamora
2022-11-19 01:39:34 +0000 UTCWait, the Spartans are supposed to be the good guys?
Jeffrey Miller
2022-11-19 01:08:38 +0000 UTCIf you guys have not seen it yet then definitely try the movie TROY!! Its with Brad Pitt and Eric Bana!! Really good, If you do another tv series down the road if everyone agrees then you should definitely look into to the Starz tv series "Spartacus". Its only 4 seasons and like 10 episodes a season!!
Demos Samolis
2022-11-19 00:44:23 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this one all week! As usual did not disappoint, banger of a reaction. Let's GOOO!!! Stand by me next!!!
flynhwn
2022-11-19 00:14:42 +0000 UTCWhen I left the theater after seeing this I wanted to go to war immediately. Such a memorable movie experience in the theater. So awesome.
Jack Burton
2022-11-18 22:43:12 +0000 UTCSam with the most emphatic "Yes!" in the history of YouTube reactions 😁😆
Nismo
2022-11-18 22:27:53 +0000 UTCWooo!!! That was a blast! I’m curious if you’ll check out any of the other adaptations of Frank Miller’s comics like the Sin City Movies! (Which Frank co-directed with Robert Rodriguez)
Brent
2022-11-18 21:37:37 +0000 UTCAhhhhh Sparta. The original roots of Cobra Kai. NO MERCY!!!! Lol
Webwyrm
2022-11-18 20:58:59 +0000 UTCPatiently waiting for the YT cut... I believe this will be epic 💯👍
Jens Pfennig
2022-11-18 19:12:02 +0000 UTCThe next time you do a movie ancient war related like the gladiator and now 300 the next one you guys have to watch is Troy from 2004 with Brad Pitt Eric bana and Orlando Bloom such an epic masterpiece of a movie, Brad Pitt was born to play that role, assuming you guys haven't watched it already lol
dieselbeast
2022-11-18 18:51:33 +0000 UTCYou guys are fast! Hahaha also, if you think I had blood lust before... -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-11-18 18:48:35 +0000 UTCYes ! Was waiting for this one :) beautifully adhering to the comic it is based on, but a tad , well , violent :)
Matthias Goetzke
2022-11-18 18:46:18 +0000 UTCOk then
Will Zamora
2022-11-18 18:45:54 +0000 UTC
