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Warner Bros. Pictures' "300" came out fighting at the boxoffice Friday and immediately staked out what's shaping up as a potentially record-breaking weekend. Director Zack Snyder's buffer-than-buff, R-rated retelling of the battle of Thermopylae took in an estimated $27.8 million for the day, according to the boxoffice tracking site, boxo

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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago

It never ceases to amaze me the kind of crap that makes tons of money in America. How fitting, though, that a film so devoted to violence should take root in a society so accepting of violence.
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  middlelib1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Have you seen the movie yet? If not, how can you comment on the content of it? I think violence against another human being is wrong, except in cases of self defense, but, um... 300 is a movie. It's about a (albeit highly fictionalized version) war thousands of years ago. Kind of hard to make a movie about war without the violence.
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angermanagement1 year, 6 months ago

I can see why you think it's about violence, but it's a violent world. I think the movie is more about people willing to lay down their lives to maintain their FREEDOM!
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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago

Because freedom in America is, apparently, the right to go out and kill whomever you want as long as you claim you're doing it "for their good."
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  blackolives1 year, 5 months ago
  
  Part of the price we pay for living in a free society is allowing the rights of cowards like you, who hate their country, to assault it. Greater men then you have died to give you that right. If you hate your country so much, try moving to some Muslim country and criticizing them. They would surely cut your tongue out. "For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the Protected will never know." "The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer" Theodore Roosevelt.
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    middlelib1 year, 5 months ago
    
    Whoa there, psycho. I didn't here Dionys saying he (she?) hated their country. I might not agree with all their posts, but cutting straight to tearing a tongue out? Geez. How many years have you served in the military, by the way?
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swoopdog1 year, 6 months ago

The day may come Dionys, when you wish to God that American troops will come save your ignorant, sorry ass, from whatever pathetic hole you have dug for yourself. Thank God we used violence against the Nazi's and Japanese during WW2, or we would all be goose stepping in the streets. Oh wait, that is probably not something you would be willing to fight for, is it? But I bet you would be willing to let somebody else do the fighting for you. Pathetic pacifist. Go join Chamberlain from Britain and all of his ilk.
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TheTruth19731 year, 6 months ago

Amazing where this conversation turned in only a few posts.
I wonder if Dionys ever saw it in the first place...
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  ind061 year, 6 months ago
  
  I agree. The movie is all about freedom and sacrificing yourself for values you consider to be greater than your own individual life, in this case freedom. the movie is NOT about "the right to go out and kill whomever you want as long as you claim you're doing it "for their good"". Actually, that's the sort of stance the invading king Xerxes takes and one the 300 Spartans lay their lives down to oppose.
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    middlelib1 year, 6 months ago
    
    True. You know, it's funny. I've talked to anti-Bush people and they say it condemns the administration and pro-Bush people that say it is all about sacrificing for freedom and in defense of the administration. What the hell, people? It's a movie about the Spartans. Just goes to prove that people will see whatever they want to in things.
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tanglang1 year, 6 months ago

This was easily the best movie that will come out this year! I have waited far to long for someone to come along and make a movie about this. Forget what that ass clown dionys says, this movie rocks!
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aldomatic1 year, 6 months ago

i have to say i have not seen it, but i will soon. Reading some of the comments makes me want to see it more, violence is at every corner now a days.
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carran1 year, 6 months ago

I will see it b/c of the cinematography and the storyline. I cannot comment on the violence but just based on the previews it's about battling so duh....
But it's no secret that violence sells just like sex. So why be mad that the directors, etc for making a movie that they know we'll eat up? Everyone else is chasing the "Almighty" dollar, why shouldn't they?!!!! Seems to be the American way, has and always will be. Sorry to say!
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mbkijb1 year, 6 months ago

lol
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gatitabonitasen1 year, 6 months ago

I saw it yesterday and I liked it Very Much , I was expecting a lot more violence since that is what everyone was talking about but the violence was justified and had merit besides we are way more barberic Now than in the movie. This People were fighting for freedom and we are fighting for oil .They Had a King willing to die for their freedom , A queen that sacrifice her own self triying to save the 300 and 300 men that give up their lives for the good of Spartans and their freedom .
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WesternCiv1 year, 5 months ago

What is it about liberals that makes them so quick to justify the reasons for another country's choice to wage war and at the same time so quick to condemn America's reasons to wage war, no matter how justifiable? This movie was fantastic and I have seen it twice already. I enjoyed it so much because the Spartan culture and Greece as a whole was the cornerstone upon which Western Civilzation was built. Freedom, individual sacrifice and defense of the nation. If you cannot recognize the striking similarities between the movie and the current struggle we are engaged in you're only fooling yourself. East vs. West, tyranny and despotism vs. freedom, logic and reason vs. mysticism. (We only differ from Sparta in that Sparta did not let itself become effeminized with weak men and traitors. take the character Theron for example....i think his name translates into Jack Murtha)
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  middlelib1 year, 5 months ago
  
  HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! That's about as much merit as I can give your post. Haven't read anything that funny in quite a while! What comedy show do you write for? If you don't write for one, please get a job doing so. You are hysterical. Effeminized with weak men and traitors. Classic! (If this was actually a serious post, take two of the blue pills for a reality check and call yourself in the morning)
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WesternCiv1 year, 5 months ago

middlelib, I think I'd lump you into the effeminate male category as well. too much giggling, ya know?
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  middlelib1 year, 5 months ago
  
  There you go thinking about effeminate men again. I'm sensing a pattern, big boy!
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WesternCiv1 year, 5 months ago

Sorry to disappoint buddy, this is one heterosexual who's happy with the team he's already on. But I will admit you fellas dress well despite being ****** at everything else.
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WesternCiv1 year, 5 months ago

sorry, i guess i got censored for that. but it was the p-word version of the female genatalia. You familiar with those midlib? besides your own that is?
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