300, the game! Spartans vs Persians, old-skool!
16 Mar 2007 133 Comments
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So the movie 300 is a jingoistic, bombastic, cartoonish, homoerotic two-hour military recruiting video. I mean, they say that as if it’s bad!
Some demented and nostalgic genius has taken this simpleminded movie and given it perhaps the ultimate Generation X accolade; he’s made a Nintendo Entertainment System game out of it.
The reviewers should have just watched this instead of wasting ten bucks and two hours of their time. As for me, I could watch and watch…pot, Pearl Jam, and Doritos optional.
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Mar 16, 2007 @ 02:55:23
Was it the Spartans at Crete, or the Cretins and Sparta?
Mar 16, 2007 @ 14:45:45
And I cannot wait!
300!
ROAR!
Mar 16, 2007 @ 21:42:50
However, no matter which version you’re into, a total lack of chest hair and women is mandateory.
Mar 16, 2007 @ 23:55:59
Don’t be silly Metro: they did their marital duty, or else they would have run out of Spartans pretty quickly. They just also did other things as well.
Mar 17, 2007 @ 18:08:06
You mis-spelt that. It’s “martial” duty. Which did indeed keep them from running out of Spartans.
Apr 03, 2007 @ 23:05:52
As I understand it, the Spartans got up to all kinds of things.
Apr 07, 2007 @ 15:27:02
after i saw that movie i wanted to go home and make a speer and i keept saying we are SPARTAINS !!!!!!!!
Apr 07, 2007 @ 20:16:09
That must be extremely annoying to your mother. No wonder they took Spartan boys away from civilization at seven.
Apr 11, 2007 @ 05:04:21
the movie was great and i cant wait 4 d game…..
we r SPARTANS………the great warriors of sparta….
Apr 11, 2007 @ 05:36:41
Well, until it comes out you can always play this one.
Apr 12, 2007 @ 22:43:29
I want the game but the graphics suck and FiQ 3vil it’s “THIS IS SPARTA” AND THATS WHEN HE KICK THE DUDE, DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apr 12, 2007 @ 22:45:21
YO tatter YOU SPELLED SPARTANS WRONG DUH, homeboy.
Apr 14, 2007 @ 14:06:40
this IS an awesome video!!!
Apr 14, 2007 @ 14:11:53
this movie is one of the best movies i have ever seen SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!
the game should be sweeeet so you should make another one with the thousands of soldiers.
SWEEEEEEEt!!!
Apr 14, 2007 @ 14:24:10
You mean one for the Battle of Salamis? I don’t think you get a game unless you’ve been made into a movie first.
Apr 14, 2007 @ 15:45:28
Battle of Salamis? Also known as 300 II?
Apr 14, 2007 @ 15:55:19
Exactly. “The thousands of soldiers” is what made me think he was talking about that one.
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:16:32
people, people the concept of watching that film is to entice the viewer to go out and create evil as much as i liked watching that film i strongly think that its a bad role model for younger kids in this generation especially with the killing now day. I think its mainly promoting violence.
Apr 19, 2007 @ 11:53:20
No, the concept of watching that film was twofold: to turn on the people who like to look at hot men and to propagandize for the war in Iraq and possible future actions in Iran and across the region. And it was so patently obvious that it turned out to be much less useful as a form of propaganda than the producers had anticipated. Public opinion is even stronger against a confrontation with Iran now than it was before.
Apr 20, 2007 @ 08:23:07
I think that you cant link the war in iraq at all with 300. it is purley for a addrenilin rush because i no i was hyped up after watching that groosom film. if u ask me potentially further killing can in a sense get linked with that film. At the end of the day wat was the producer thinking and did he have a moral.
Apr 20, 2007 @ 15:09:21
He had an agenda. It’s clear from the whole “Leonidas asking the oracle’s permission” scene that it is meant to parallel Bush’s subversion of the very structure of government, bypassing Congress to invade Iraq. It is absolutely clear that this is what was intended: to ennoble that illegal and un-American action. And it’s pretty clear to me that it failed.
Sure was purty to watch, though.
Apr 23, 2007 @ 08:17:23
You are trying to make ”Bush” look like a god, by trying to match him with the oracle. Also the Spartans didnt ask for permission to fight, they was forced into the decision. But i can link a bit of the war in iraq with 300 as they started the war and the spartans enemies was hatefull and was looking for a fight.
300 was based on past events which happened hundreds maybe thousands of years ago.
Apr 23, 2007 @ 08:38:40
Producers were trying to re-create the scene to give us an insight on what happened.
Apr 23, 2007 @ 18:23:50
d00d, you need to do your research. Or at least watch the movie again.
The Battle of Thermopylae is well-known and pinpointed in time. They know exactly the three days over which it happened. I’m not comparing Bush to a god: I’m saying the producers are comparing him to Leonidas, held back by those who are traitors to their country, touting a slavish adherence to law. In reality, Bush is a halfwit preppy playing cowboy: all hat, no cattle.
Apr 24, 2007 @ 13:36:53
geeza, so ur trying to link leonidas with bush who has no part in war at this current moment. he a scared little boy that tries to live up to his expectation of being a warrior which i am afraid to tell you he aint.
p.s how old are you
Apr 24, 2007 @ 16:40:56
@Primal Rage UK:
Raincoaster giving Bushco props? You haven’t read much on this blog, eh?
As far as propagandizing for the Iraq war (or the Persian Excursion II if you’re of an historical turn of mind) may I direct you to the insightful and restrained analysis of Mr. Dan Savage?
With nothing but time on my hands this week, I slipped out of the office and went to the movies. Have you seen 300 yet? It’s about a handful of lightly armed ancient Greeks–the Spartans–who take on the mighty, massive Persian army.
Some feel the film is homophobic; some feel it’s a conservative, pro-war piece of agitprop.
Homophobic? It’s Ann Coulter on a meth binge.
The Persian army is an armed gay-pride parade, a threat to all things decent and, er, Greek. The king of the Spartans–among the most notorious boy-fuckers in all of ancient history–dismisses Athenian Greeks as weak-willed “philosophers and boy lovers.” The Persian emperor? An eight-foot-tall black drag queen–mascara, painted-on eyebrows, pink lip gloss. Emperor RuPaul is positively obsessed with men kneeling in front of him. Why gay up the Persians? So that straight boys in the theater can identify with the Spartan king and his 300 soldiers–all of whom appear to have been recruited from and outfitted by the International Male catalog.
What isn’t up for debate is the film’s politics. The only times the Persian army doesn’t look like a gay-pride parade in hell, it looks like a crowd of madly chanting Islamic militants. And if the Spartan king has to break Spartan law to defend Spartan freedoms? Well, sometimes a king’s gotta do what a king’s gotta do. Because, as the queen of Sparta points out, freedom isn’t free. And, yes, she uses exactly those words. George Bush is going to blow a load in his pants when he sees this movie.
Stolen wholesale off of Savage Love
Apr 24, 2007 @ 22:49:32
Primal Rage, I’m probably a lot older than you and evidently a great deal brighter than you. I have no doubt that elements in the US government were “advising” on this film and had it turn out the way it did; where it tries to make a parallel between Bush and Leonidas is where it departs from the historic record. Savage is an innocent if he thinks any of this came as a surprise to the White House; it’s a straight-up PR move. If you didn’t understand that, great, that just proves my point that it wasn’t a very EFFECTIVE PR move.
Apr 24, 2007 @ 23:02:06
Sorry, RC. I’ll go with the idea that the director and/or producer were shameless Bush suckers, and not in a good way. But you’re going to have to produce evidence if you’re going to call this out-and-out (but not “out”, if you understand what I mean) propaganda.
The Path to 9/11 was written by a fawning sychophant and promulgated by ABC/Diznai .
Come on and connect me some dots on 300, please.
Apr 24, 2007 @ 23:24:59
Top Gun was rewritten at the request of their Navy advisors; this is nothing new, nothing whatsoever. Why would the producer tie his cart to a lame duck unless there was something in it for him (other than being an apologist for a loser)?
Oh, fine. I was going to read Defamer anyway…
Apr 24, 2007 @ 23:56:48
You know what’s weird? Every time I try to open a page giving me more information about Craig J. Flores, one of the executive producers, the page freezes and will not open. It won’t display a thing; I’ve tried French sites, British sites, IMDB, you name it.
Apr 25, 2007 @ 00:16:13
The game’s afoot!
Apr 25, 2007 @ 01:14:17
Apparently. I’ll give it another shot later tonight. Strange that you’d get executive producer credit on a hugely expensive movie when you have, apparently, nothing else to your name. They have no military consultants listed as such in the crew credits, so that’s why I’m checking out the producers.
Of course, each branch of the military has its own Hollywood liason office. Maybe I should just drop them an email.
Apr 25, 2007 @ 19:35:32
“Military consultants?” On a sword-and-bejewelled-thong epic?
“What do you think, General Petraeus?” (Doesn’t he have the loveliest name for a closet leatherman working on a flashy, Greek, film?)
“Wal, first get them boys some damn body armour!”
“Sorry sir, the budget is being overseen by the Bush Administration. They’ll just have to make their own.”
Apr 25, 2007 @ 20:51:44
There were military consultants on each of the previous two films about this incident.
Apr 25, 2007 @ 21:14:00
Yeah, but I bet they spent a lot more money on wardrobe in the previous incidents.
Curious parallels, aren’t they?
Come to think of it, didn’t Ronald Reagan once refer to military uniforms as “costumes”?
Interesting how this sort of stuff happens when the guys in charge have both manliness issues and dubious records of service.
Apr 25, 2007 @ 21:38:10
As long as it’s so over the top that it’s ineffective as propaganda, I’m fine with it. As you know, we’re highly in favour of half-nekkid, highly decorative men.
May 04, 2007 @ 04:12:42
hey3……raincoaster…u rite the men r hot lyke tat…haha…but 2 bad 4 tem…
but is great 2….
half-naked is no problem…ryte every1……..
May 04, 2007 @ 04:15:54
d warfare in sparta last tyme is no greater than now…..
N bush is no god 2 mi…he suffer veri one who goes 2 iraq…
im sad 4 tem….
2day war is not lyke tose ancient greece type…a phalanx of tem against others..
wow
May 12, 2007 @ 22:48:36
this movie is the worst i have ever seen maybe you should make persians look cool and have waked on there muscells
May 12, 2007 @ 22:49:21
tyu;tuj;mkjgikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk your move i sucks id like to see the spartans beg for mercy
May 12, 2007 @ 22:50:03
i think the spartans should lose thare hole army to the coool persians
May 12, 2007 @ 22:56:31
this is an enfluence on iran fight against usa now the spartans should lose and persiand should ruel.the queen should die with leonidase and tthe spartans are wone of the barabaric people in the worl i mean look at there sword the look liuke pirates swords lol. this is a bad movie
May 12, 2007 @ 22:58:24
Sorry, RC. I’ll go with the idea that the director and/or producer were shameless Bush suckers, and not in a good way. But you’re going to have to produce evidence if you’re going to call this out-and-out (but not “out”, if you understand what I mean) propaganda.
The Path to 9/11 was written by a fawning sychophant and promulgated by ABC/Diznai .
Come on and connect me some dots on 300, please.
raincoaster said,
April 24, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Top Gun was rewritten at the request of their Navy advisors; this is nothing new, nothing whatsoever. Why would the producer tie his cart to a lame duck unless there was something in it for him (other than being an apologist for a loser)?
Oh, fine. I was going to read Defamer anyway…
raincoaster said,
April 24, 2007 at 11:56 pm
You know what’s weird? Every time I try to open a page giving me more information about Craig J. Flores, one of the executive producers, the page freezes and will not open. It won’t display a thing; I’ve tried French sites, British sites, IMDB, you name it.
Metro said,
April 25, 2007 at 12:16 am
The game’s afoot!
raincoaster said,
April 25, 2007 at 1:14 am
Apparently. I’ll give it another shot later tonight. Strange that you’d get executive producer credit on a hugely expensive movie when you have, apparently, nothing else to your name. They have no military consultants listed as such in the crew credits, so that’s why I’m checking out the producers.
Of course, each branch of the military has its own Hollywood liason office. Maybe I should just drop them an email.
Metro said,
April 25, 2007 at 7:35 pm
“Military consultants?” On a sword-and-bejewelled-thong epic?
“What do you think, General Petraeus?” (Doesn’t he have the loveliest name for a closet leatherman working on a flashy, Greek, film?)
“Wal, first get them boys some damn body armour!”
“Sorry sir, the budget is being overseen by the Bush Administration. They’ll just have to make their own.”
raincoaster said,
April 25, 2007 at 8:51 pm
There were military consultants on each of the previous two films about this incident.
Metro said,
April 25, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Yeah, but I bet they spent a lot more money on wardrobe in the previous incidents.
Curious parallels, aren’t they?
Come to think of it, didn’t Ronald Reagan once refer to military uniforms as “costumes”?
Interesting how this sort of stuff happens when the guys in charge have both manliness issues and dubious records of service.
raincoaster said,
April 25, 2007 at 9:38 pm
As long as it’s so over the top that it’s ineffective as propaganda, I’m fine with it. As you know, we’re highly in favour of half-nekkid, highly decorative men.
FiQ 3ViL said,
May 4, 2007 at 4:12 am
hey3……raincoaster…u rite the men r hot lyke tat…haha…but 2 bad 4 tem…
but is great 2….
half-naked is no problem…ryte every1……..
FiQ 3ViL said,
May 4, 2007 at 4:15 am
d warfare in sparta last tyme is no greater than now…..
N bush is no god 2 mi…he suffer veri one who goes 2 iraq…
im sad 4 tem….
2day war is not lyke tose ancient greece type…a phalanx of tem against others..
wow
arvand said,
May 12, 2007 at 10:48 pm
this movie is the worst i have ever seen maybe you should make persians look cool and have waked on there muscells
arvand said,
May 12, 2007 at 10:49 pm
tyu;tuj;mkjgikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk your move i sucks id like to see the spartans beg for mercy
arvand said,
May 12, 2007 at 10:50 pm
i think the spartans should lose thare hole army to the coool persians
arvand said,
May 12, 2007 at 10:56 pm
this is an enfluence on iran fight against usa now the spartans should lose and persiand should ruel.the queen should die with leonidase and tthe spartans are wone of the barabaric people in the worl i mean look at there sword the look liuke pirates swords lol. this is a bad movie
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May 13, 2007 @ 00:40:40
Wow, somebody needs to get out of the house more.
The Spartans, for what it’s worth, were probably a great deal more literate than you.
May 14, 2007 @ 16:43:42
this movies was ace. the fact that the spartans were overwhelmed and they fort till the very end is amazin this film is ace. and i cant wait for the squel were i think the 10,000 spartans go to war with the persians
May 15, 2007 @ 01:06:22
No; if you recall, all 300 Spartans died. The main Spartan army served months later under Athenian command. I think the force was 15,000, but it was mostly a naval battle if I’m remembering right. My Thucydides is not what it once was.
Jun 17, 2007 @ 15:48:26
well 1st of all you all need to get your facts straight… i mean come on the sequel where 10,000 spartans fight the persian army,.. not very likely… 1st of all people tend to forget the other 7000 greeks that faught alongside leonidus and his spartan warriors until he ordered them to retreat when they found out that the pass had been deserted by their allies and they were about to be flanked by the persian armies… then people also forget about the other commander in the war (i forget his name) but he held of the persian navy to aloow the spartans not to be flanked by the ships… now back to this “sequel”, the persian goal was to burn down athens as payback for their embarrassment in Marathon… the naval commander ordered an evacuation and the persians burnt athens to the ground… after the catastrophe a double agent for the athenian army gave false information to the persian army which set the persian forces into a trap where the athenians destroyed the persian ships which left Xerxes (the persian emperor) no way to transport himself and his troops back to persia which some believe was the begining of the end of the persian empire…. lol so a great battle between the remaining spartans and persia wold be highly unlikley
Jun 17, 2007 @ 21:36:40
Yes, the Athenians destroyed the Persian army…with the help of the remaining Spartans. So we’re both right.
But I do get a snicker out of those who think of this just as a movie and graphic novel, like they could just bring them all back “oh, it was just a bad dream” or whatever.
Jul 08, 2007 @ 13:58:12
this movie fuckin rock no matter what ya’ll say
Jul 08, 2007 @ 13:58:56
rocked for the comment up from me
Jul 08, 2007 @ 22:03:02
Uh, d00d, I liked the movie. But I can certainly understand, from your comprehension level, why it’s unrealistic to expect you to read the book. Even if it WAS a comic book.
Jul 08, 2007 @ 23:58:26
LMAO
Jul 09, 2007 @ 00:05:56
I really don;t know what it is about this movie and the fairy that brings them out, but out they come, guns a-blazing!
Jul 09, 2007 @ 03:29:47
I think..it’s the fairy.
Jul 13, 2007 @ 21:32:21
the spartans are bigger than all your souls togethher so dont say nothing about them becouse they die against a tirany like hitler so AHU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 14, 2007 @ 03:24:47
“Ahu” eh? “Tyranny” is a Greek word, you know.
Aug 08, 2007 @ 23:42:26
YA THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I HOPE THE GAME IS FOR PS3 NOT JUST PSP
Aug 09, 2007 @ 02:36:58
Ummmmmm, the game is in the link in the post above. Click on it.
Aug 20, 2007 @ 06:00:49
Look i have read all this shit.
1. this movie was based on a GRAPHIC NOVEL written in 1962, it had no storyboards they used the book thus there is no Bush Iraq conspiracy get a life and a job then move out of your mothers basement.
2. who said Spartans were Boy lovers? there is no proof to this day that spartan boys had any sort of man love.
3. “bring them all back like some kind of bad dream”? the Novel was full of dramatizations, inaccuracy’s, and false facts the writers admit this!
4. as for Mr. Savage, someone needs to look into his history a little bit better, it was very VERY common for men in the Persian empire to wear face paint that would resemble mascara today it was to strike fear into the enemy giving the wearer a look of sunken eyes.
5. ok i have killed all your little theory’s so now you can go back to playing your computer games and wasting your lives and raincoaster, take the helmet off, No Russian spy planes are watching you.
Aug 20, 2007 @ 06:28:23
2: you don’t read Greek, do you?
Aug 22, 2007 @ 07:16:48
Whats with you people… this is no propaganda film. Go read the freekin comic. It’s been out for ages and the movie follows ALL of the comic almost to each individual scene.
This was just another smart move by the people that have been grabbing quality comic books (frank miller btw *the author*) and turning them into a new source of income.
Stop reading stuff into something that was in the works well before all this BS happened over seas with Bush involved. Miller never kept to the original story of the 300 besides they go they fight etc… but he made a good comic book and it turned into a good action movie. That’s it… The people look how they look for dramatic effect, and adaptation from the comic book as best could be done… That was the illustrators job… not some political nazi.
It was just a comic book turned into a movie and even maintained 99% of the comic book. Nothing more, nothing less.
Aug 22, 2007 @ 08:23:42
Film. We were talking about the film. We were talking about parallels between the film and the propaganda of the US, and the timing of the release of the film, which the producers admit was manipulated at the request of the government.
Nobody is talking about the graphic novel except you graphic novel nerds.
Sep 22, 2007 @ 20:53:27
what’s up with not making 300 for the Ps2. man that’s so messed up
Sep 22, 2007 @ 23:31:45
Don’t look at me. I’m all about the NES.
Sep 30, 2007 @ 08:43:25
mn dobra e igrickata original
Sep 30, 2007 @ 08:43:58
gft myfgmguy,uhuhuyfdhymn yedhnrrtmksr
Sep 30, 2007 @ 08:45:01
Aaaaaaand in English that would be????
Oct 13, 2007 @ 20:28:21
it was nice movie
Oct 13, 2007 @ 20:31:24
but to much wiealence but afcors the wiealance was<abit funny and afcors this movie was historic
Oct 14, 2007 @ 20:30:53
the film was the best film ive ever seen when i seen it all i did was go out and buy all ps2 games like that but no romans or anything like that i just brought SPARTAN game!!!! i agree with ben ive got the game on psp but i wont it on ps2 so that was just so stupid im out cya
Oct 16, 2007 @ 17:46:49
When I saw this move I started to think, Ya I think I could live through it. From a child plunged in to violance “shit man thats easy stuff. It was wimpy having kids fight kids to make them stronger but living in the wild alone to fight weather and nature “NOW THATS A CHALLENGE FOR ME” I would accept.
Oct 16, 2007 @ 19:52:48
Man it would have been better if remedy or ubisoft made that game instead of nitendo……..graphics suck.
Oct 28, 2007 @ 23:27:41
I can’t believe some of these shallow comments regarding the movie 300, I saw the movie and liked it very much. The movie has no link to the war in iraq nor does it promote violence. The movie is based on actual historic events in which King Leonidas and 300 spartans fought to the death against King Xeres and his massive persian army. The spartan code was to live only to serve Sparta, to die in battle for the service of Sparta was considered to be a “Glorious death”. People who believe that the movie is linked to the war should research spartan history. People who beleive the movie promotes violence in children should consider helping their children distinquish real life violence from movie or TV volence.
Oct 28, 2007 @ 23:30:49
Yes, yes, I studied Spartan history and Greek literature and read the historic accounts, thank you very much. But the producers have admitted they played up elements to resonate with people thinking about the war in Iraq, so if you disagree, take it up with the producers of the film.
Nov 02, 2007 @ 21:24:23
@Alfred B.
Ah, then you’ll love this.
Nov 06, 2007 @ 23:35:16
this is jovan !
i´m an spartan (Y)
Nov 06, 2007 @ 23:50:40
Howdy, Jovan! How did you like the movie?
Nov 25, 2007 @ 06:47:05
lol the game is retorted……. no
offense meant to the maker
Nov 26, 2007 @ 00:50:26
“Retorted,” eh, sweetie?
Dec 08, 2007 @ 16:12:36
WHY CAn’t YOU MAKE THIS GAME ON PS2 OR PS3?!?! IT WOULD BE SOOOOO MUCH BETTAH BUT I LOVE DA FILM IT WAS SSOOOOO GOOD
Dec 08, 2007 @ 17:52:25
But… this game is the NINTENDO NES version. You read the blog post, of course.
Right? Right?
Dec 17, 2007 @ 02:55:40
You can play similar mods of Medieval Total War 1 & 2 as well as Rome Total War.
There was actually a Hellenistic mod made for the original medieval that was freakin’ wicked awesome. One of the scenario battles you could fight was Thermopylae, with the Persians eventually outflanking your Spartan and assorted allied hoplites (don’t even get me started on the historical inaccuracy of the film) from the rear and causing near total routs.
Coincidentally, I’m mildly obsessed with the Brittania expansion for MTW2. The Norweigans are mighty fun when going on Viking excursions.
Dec 17, 2007 @ 03:20:36
From what I heard, the Spartans were the ones who preferred to be in the rear most of the time.
Dec 17, 2007 @ 03:24:33
Indeed. Sparta, where the men are brave and the sheep are scared.
Dec 17, 2007 @ 04:29:43
That’s why they call it “Greek” you know.
Feb 07, 2008 @ 00:43:42
hi
Feb 07, 2008 @ 00:49:12
gay friuts is this what u do in your spare time f#$* u dicks
Feb 07, 2008 @ 01:47:48
Sweetie, you do need to at least TRY to read for comprehension. But thanks for the two links to raincoaster! Technorati will love you!
Feb 10, 2008 @ 02:36:41
that movie was KOOL.
Feb 10, 2008 @ 04:39:16
Indeed it was. Nothing like watching buff, half-naked men being macho for a couple of hours.
Mar 19, 2008 @ 15:28:00
This game rocks
Mar 22, 2008 @ 19:52:03
all right one thing you all have wrong is 1 spartain still survived the on whom lost his eye and gave leonides wive his necklace. DUH
May 06, 2008 @ 19:32:44
LMAO at the recent “trackback” :)
May 06, 2008 @ 19:58:14
Is kilt.
May 15, 2008 @ 16:15:18
Some of you have it parly right, not all are correct though.
The king used the allied greeks’ phalanx when the first wave of troops hit, to tire out the persian troops, then he ordered back the greeks and sent in the spartans to wreak havok on the persians, at the time the “Spartiates” as they were called. The elite full citizen’s of the spartan army were the best of the best, they were uncontested. The persians short weapons and weak armor was no match for the spartans, apparently the first wave of persians was cut to shreads with only three spartan deaths. The persians wepons were so useless that the persians started trying to take the spartan spears off them in battle, so the spartan’s switched to short swords, which they were leathal with.
Then xerxies sent his best, the “immortals” who were also cut to shreads.
Even after sending the allied greeks home the spartans held their own, king leonidas died and the spartans surrounded his body and defended it with such ferosity(sp?) that the persians fell back and killed all the spartans with bows.
The persians could not break the spartan phalanx, there was only one time in recorded history where a spartan phalanx was broken which was very close to the time of sparta’s downfall.
And whoever said spartans only helped in the battle of Plataea, is wrong.
The other greek states asked sparta three times, practicly begged for sparta’s help for the battle, sparta was the major power in greece at the time, and had the best warriors.
They did not simply “help”. The spartans sent 45,000 men, 5000 “spartans”(not all warriors in sparta were Spartiates, they were the elite)
This is a large sum of men considdering at it’s height sparta had 8000 Spartiates, maximum. The spartan force was the majority of the men at that battle.
May 15, 2008 @ 16:21:31
Oh and i forgot to add, the naval battle did not help leonidas, it was leonidas who held back the persians for long enough for the greeks to plan the naval battle and win.
It is widely thought that if leonidas had not stood his ground for those three days, greece would have been overwhelmed, then europe, the reason who persia invaded greece was because it was his gateway to europe. This would have made a great impact on the worlds history.
Some could even say, he changed the world, or infact stopped it from changing dramaticly.
The numbers were still amazing for the battle in itself, at the time it was the largest army ever assembled. He had roughly 260,000 men, to leonidas’ 7,500(ish).
Many, Many more persians died to that of the greeks.
May 29, 2008 @ 21:00:01
The movie 300 is hard and it rocks rock on
Jul 28, 2008 @ 20:00:03
the movie is unlike any thing i have seen.
The naraitor tells the story perfect.
lianaiders the only real sparten i have ever seen.THIS IS SPATA!
Aug 22, 2008 @ 07:40:51
the movie ROX
Oct 29, 2008 @ 01:51:46
I like games
Nov 02, 2008 @ 16:33:06
nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 03, 2008 @ 11:00:07
How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!
Dec 13, 2008 @ 21:27:12
kstafford is such a piece of s***
Dec 13, 2008 @ 21:33:56
oh i forgott to add antone who comments on this site(apart
from me) is a stupid twat with nothing better to do with their time
Dec 14, 2008 @ 01:47:47
Look at the little troll, just getting his sea-legs. Isn’t he sweet? It’s probably the first time he’s been off Club Penguin and out in the real world. Awwww.
Dec 27, 2008 @ 10:05:52
when i saw the movi a had no coment i wish that i em spartans sparta is my mother i realy like that scen when leonidas go in war but dont cry “no place for weknes not in sparta only hard can make themselvs cals spartans only the hard only the brave” “spartans ready your breakfest and eat harty for tonight we dine in hell”
Dec 27, 2008 @ 10:07:14
when i saw the movi a had no coment i wish that i em spartans sparta is my mother i realy like that scen when leonidas go in war but dont cry “no place for weknes not in sparta only hard can make themselvs cals spartans only the hard only the strong” “spartans ready your breakfest and eat harty for tonight we dine in hell”
Dec 27, 2008 @ 10:07:47
simpli best film ewer
Dec 27, 2008 @ 10:08:26
THIS IS SPARTA
Jan 09, 2009 @ 00:09:52
Do u know were i could play the game online
Mar 15, 2009 @ 09:45:52
no one can defet me
Mar 15, 2009 @ 10:45:36
That is undoubtedly true, because there’s no such thing as “defet.”
Mar 15, 2009 @ 12:17:23
Make that 113. :-)
Mar 16, 2009 @ 14:27:59
Onward and upward!
Mar 19, 2009 @ 20:15:44
pooooooooop
Mar 19, 2009 @ 20:41:36
Scatalogical messages from the dead! Kewl!
Mar 26, 2009 @ 08:40:36
i love your movie 300.
its so cool
Mar 26, 2009 @ 21:48:22
Your Grace
I dinnae ken how I can better that Sage who opined in circumstances alike about similarly mal-adjusted Chelsea Football Supporters or their Ilk:
Arma virumque cano et
Your obedient servant etc
G E
Mar 27, 2009 @ 00:39:15
Virgil was a lousy screenwriter.
Apr 18, 2009 @ 13:38:13
the cretins were at crete but the fled to protect there homeland leaving the spartians to fight alone
Apr 18, 2009 @ 21:55:30
The cretins were also in the comment section.
Jul 20, 2009 @ 14:58:53
it is good
Jul 21, 2009 @ 00:20:55
Succinct. Positive. I like it. More reviewers should take their inspiration from you.
Nov 27, 2009 @ 08:04:35
this website sucks
Nov 27, 2009 @ 19:06:39
No it doesn’t. What sucks is when someone posts your email where spammers can grab it john_J@hotmail.com
Dec 06, 2009 @ 22:03:29
My friend’s daughter played Leonidas’ daughter in the film. Sadly, she didn;t get to meet Gerard Butler. She did her short scene in front of a green screen on a sound stage in Montreal.
Dec 06, 2009 @ 22:24:18
He had a daughter? It was so macho all I remember was the son.
And all the makeup-enhanced abs.
http://ayyyy.com/2009/11/17/a-glimpse-of-stocking/
Dec 28, 2009 @ 14:50:47
sarah clunes is a bitch
Dec 28, 2009 @ 14:52:46
ben is leonitis
Dec 28, 2009 @ 20:02:03
Do you mean Leonides?
Jan 12, 2010 @ 15:09:03
SPARTANS PREPARE FOR GLORY CAUSE TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL.
Jan 13, 2010 @ 13:41:59
Leonidas would NEVER say “CAUSE” at any volume.