Frank Miller's 300, new trailer

[DT]

Frank Miller's 300, new trailer - it's so goddam good it makes me cry.

(This is a longer, better version than currently on the official website/apple trailer site).

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...tw=480&qth=300

FYI, this is being directed by Zach Snyder who did the outstanding remake of Dawn of the Dead ("These are the people who died! Died!") and will be be (co) writing/directing The Watchmen (written by Allan Moore) which is a significant piece of modern lit (regardless of the medium)

~DT

[ZapBulletRider]

dudes need to put some pants on

[dlux]

looks fracking epic. I think it will own Troy. which actually wasn't that great of a movie, but well done.

[DT]

dudes need to put some pants on

Hahahaha!

"And Spartans - before going off to war - remember to cover up your scrotes"

[ZapBulletRider]

Frank miller was the one who wrote the shit Sin City was based off of, right? I loved the visual aspect of sin city but some of the content had me disgusted that I paid to watch that shit. This one looks pretty cool though.

[DT]

Yeah, Miller does some pretty epic stuff!

Sin City (currently #2 being developed), 300, Ronin, Elektra, several stints on more mainstream comics like Wolverine and Daredevil, plus the single most epic piece of comic literature ever, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. I also dig on his artwork - it's this strange sort of minimalist, organic style mixed with surreal over-exaggeration, which always seems to work perfect with his written material.

The next batch of Sin City material is from additional existing work and should include 'A Dame to Kill For' which is f'in incredible (it's the "prequel" story for the Clive Owen character).

FWIW, I saw Books-a-Jillion had graphic novels, buy 2 get one free if you're into this sort of thing.

Later ~

DT

[DaRob]

wow...good post dude

that was sickckckck

[del-a-where?]

anyone know that very first song or one like it? i've been looking for one like it forever and cant figure it out

[omi one]

I just saw the whole thing.

[ZapBulletRider]

hows?

[DT]

anyone know that very first song or one like it? i've been looking for one like it forever and cant figure it out

Yeah, several selections from Orff's Carmina Burana (you've likely heard some of these, they're widely used in movies).

Or for something more contemporary, but with the same style, check out anything from Dead Can Dance (esp., Spleen and Ideal) or This Mortal Coil.

FYI, the industrial center piece is NIN "Just Like You Imagined"

~DT

[DT]

I just saw the whole thing.

Did you score tickets to a screener? Was it 100% complete?

[Skeezin']

soo insanely awesome.

[omi one]

No, the trailer showed me the whole movie. I don't have to go see it now.

[del-a-where?]

Yeah, several selections from Orff's Carmina Burana (you've likely heard some of these, they're widely used in movies).

Or for something more contemporary, but with the same style, check out anything from Dead Can Dance (esp., Spleen and Ideal) or This Mortal Coil.

FYI, the industrial center piece is NIN "Just Like You Imagined"

~DT

thanks

[Walruz996]

Good god that looks sick.

[unorthadox]

illlll movie.
jabba the hut was part of persia though?

[DT]

illlll movie.
jabba the hut was part of persia though?

Dude, any laugh out loud moment is an "auto-rep"

Yeah, Miller take some broad and bizarre liberties - he almost always sort of re-creates the universe and throws in strange visual elements (Yellow Bastard from Sin City).

~DT

[DT]

No, the trailer showed me the whole movie. I don't have to go see it now.

Grasshopper - it's the journey not the destination

[DT]

...and we haven't even turned on the drinking light yet...

[Dzan]

Looks good, but not nearly historically accurate.

[Corey Hanks]

looks pretty neat

[ZapBulletRider]

Looks good, but not nearly historically accurate.

see: jabba the hut

[Dzan]

Thermopylae is one of my historical passions so I don't know if I could enjoy watching the movie, even though it looks so good cinematically. Stuff like that really bothers me: the true story of Thermopylae is good amazing and inspiring that there is no need to fictionalize it, so when people do its very frustrating.

[Utah]

That looks frackin dope...

[veniceskim4]

Our teacher showed us the shorter version of the trailer about a month and a half ago. It looks insanely sick.

[DT]

Thermopylae is one of my historical passions so I don't know if I could enjoy watching the movie, even though it looks so good cinematically. Stuff like that really bothers me: the true story of Thermopylae is good amazing and inspiring that there is no need to fictionalize it, so when people do its very frustrating.

Yeah, he's done the same thing with Feudal Japan (taken liberties with historical accuracy) - I believe that's one reason why he re-creates the world with those fantastic visuals, it's sort of an "alternate universe" approach, call it "inspired by".

I once read something in regard to Allan Moore's, 'From Hell' (made into a pretty decent movie with JD) that's pretty applicable to Frank Miller's work:

'From Hell' is a post-mortem of a historical occurrence, using fiction as a scalpel.

~DT

[RexSkimmer]

epic.

[Icej]

Looks good, but not nearly historically accurate.

It is from Frank Miller's comic, so it not being historically accurate is fine.

[skimcowboy]

Badass. You dont need to be historically accurate in film. Just as long as it's somthing different. If it was historically accurate... Well I dont wanna see 300 spartans giving eachother handjobs before slaying some Persians now do you?

[Derek Makekau]

that wasn't dzan's point...he was just saying that he personally really likes the actual history surrounding the events, and thinks that it plays well enough to be a movie on it's own without fictional elements.

[Icej]

that wasn't dzan's point...he was just saying that he personally really likes the actual history surrounding the events, and thinks that it plays well enough to be a movie on it's own without fictional elements.

Someone should make that movie then.

[DT]

Someone should make that movie then.

They did and are

300 Spartans, 1962 - also a TV movie 300: The Battle of Thermopylae scheduled for a 2007 release.

You can't really fault 300 (the movie) so much as its source material (the FM graphic novel). Same thing was said about the aforementioned From Hell (historical inaccuracies), but it was a movie adaptation of a graphic novel, not a ground up development.

I'm sure the success of Sin City made Miller's other works hot properties, so I suspect the movie came about as a "let's make another movie based on Miller's work" vs. "let's make a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae", the former being what we're discussing, the latter probably would've been something more historically accurate (which I assume is the case with the two movies mentioned above).

~DT

[DT]

Side note: Colts 10, Jags 37

[sealice aka lone ranger]

Thermopylae is one of my historical passions so I don't know if I could enjoy watching the movie, even though it looks so good cinematically. Stuff like that really bothers me: the true story of Thermopylae is good amazing and inspiring that there is no need to fictionalize it, so when people do its very frustrating.

I agree, but i will probobly end up watching it anyways. It looks amazing.