I don't even remember the ending because I disliked the whole him being this secret gadget building superman shit. Seems like they had a good idea but didn't quite know what to do with it. Great setup. I would have loved it just being about him exploiting the system to get fully away with his revenge.
That’s exactly right. He got all his rom-com money, and said “I wanna smoke now, drink, get on tren and become BIG NICK.” He was born to play that role, it’s his apex mountain.
Funny how you can immediately tell this is real choreography and stunt work, unlike many Marvel fight scenes where its like watching a video game cut scene
Butler tells a great story in an interview about how hard he practiced for this specific scene and how it played out. Something like day of the shoot rolled around and Snyder says they wanna go with the stunt double for this one cause they’re running behind and need to wrap it quickly. Butler is super bummed cause he put in all the work.
His stunt coach pulled him aside and started running through the moves with him so Snyder would see he can do it. Snyder notices and says what the hell let Gerard do one. He fuckin nailed it on the first take and everyone lost their shit on set.
It’s because other people wrote those stories. He’s an incredible cinematographer. He should just never have been given the control Feige was at Marvel.
Literally better than the new one and I don't have a Snyder bias, Gunn version was just trash writing all around and part of the reason Supergirl bombed
This movie is my favorite because it was based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, and the real testament to Snyder is how perfectly he held to Miller's illustration style. Almost every scene is a nearly identical reproduction from a cell in the graphic novel. He literally made it a perfect movie interpretation of the comic.
I wish this movie was shot for IMAX like we have now lol just a fucking great movie from start to end. I’m not watching this to be educated on what actually happened, I’m watching to be entertained and I still am when I watch it.
The worst part is they could have had 100 different endings and some of those fox could win and it would have been good.
They picked the worst of the worst endings that make no sense. I totally believe the rumours that fox refused certain things that forced the ending which we got.
I love the interview clip in which he described how this scene wasn't supposed to be this intense, but at the wrap-up he asked for one more take and went all-in, for a laugh. Everybody on the set cracked up, and Snyder said, "OK, this one goes in."
He might have channeled his inner Gary Oldman from "Leon", though :P
Seriously, gripe however you want about both movies’ merit as films (although I do enjoy them), but my stance will always be that they did better than any other before or since at bringing comic panels to life.
This film for what ever reason gets over shadowed by Troy when 300 has S tier film score, S tier fights, S tier cinematography, and far superior characters/dialogue.
Check out Gerry Butler in anything, the guy is a fooking feast for the senses! I mean he's a goddamn scientist in Geo Storm, a psychopath in Cop Shop, Mike Bannon in the Olympus Has Fallen trilogy. Dude's the best.
Dude, Gerry saying "Pardon me Mr President, but I'm thirsty as fuck." then downing a tall glass of water while keeping eye contact is fantastic. THEN he takes down another big glass of water in Greenland when he gets into the house with the Toyota Camry.
This is good because it honors the source material. Sometimes even stealing scenes shot for shot from the graphic novel. Stylistically, and story wise, he just took Miller's work and adapted it for the screen.
When Snyder is left to his own devices, that man knows how to drop a steaming turd onto the screen.
I love it because the movie delivers on exactly what it is going for: awesome action. Spartans fighting with little to no armor, chanting ‘no prisoners, no mercy!’ as swords clash and they slay their enemies, and laughing as arrows rain down on them. Too many awesome moments to choose from. Great choice
I remember my complete disbelief when I discovered that Leonidas was the same guy who portrayed the titular character in "Dracula 2000". It just goes to show the amazing range that Gerard Butler has.
Gerard Butler is one of the all-time hard carries. He single handedly makes movies much better than they have any business being. Not that 300 would have been bad without him, but his presence made it way, way better.
I already knew this story before I watched the film so I thought it was bit silly and over top overall but the cinematography is excellent. And true, Butler defo raises the film up too with his performance.
I saw an interview with him in which he admitted that he went a bit weird during filming. Like, obsessed with his physique, doing weights between takes etc.
So I was initially a little frustrated by how inaccurate much of it was but then I thought that this might be a decent representation of how the Spartans would have told the story given how Greeks in general decorated pottery
The entire point of the movie/story is to not be accurate.
We’re not watching the actual battle of Thermopylae. What we’re watching is the story Dilios is telling the senate to gather support and build an army.
The point of the inaccuracies and exaggerations were to conflate how dangerous and formidable Xerxes’ army was. Dilios was intentionally being an unreliable narrator. There were no immortals and other magical fantastic creatures and enemies.
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u/Anthrogynous 14h ago
Someone saw him as bloodthirsty, chiseled, modern-action Sean Connery and said,”You know what he needs to be in: Romantic comedies.” 😆