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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Megaroad 2012 said:
Mike and Rich were in Never Been Kissed.
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Mike recounting their experience on set was easily my favorite part of this BoTW. Makes up for the appearance of the wizard. Also, the wiki page for Never Been Kissed has already been edited to include it's greatest stars

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Sped Xing said:
Read Herodotus, then watch 300. It's Dreck.

I remember saying that at the time, and someone told me "oh but this is how the Greeks would have seen it!"

If the Greeks had been so simple as to see the Persian Wars as "based good guy Spartans defeat wicked evil Persians," there would have been nothing lost had the Athenians not won the decisive battle at Salamis.

Fortunately, the Greeks were much more self-critical than Americans. Athens and even Sparta were worth fighting for. I dunno about Los Angeles.
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It's just a decent action flick with really cool comic visuals, dude. No one thinks Xerxes was a seven foot tall effeminate dude who used demons in battle or that Spartans wore nothing but underwear, capes and Corinthian helmets.
 
HeyYou said:
It's just a decent action flick with really cool comic visuals, dude. No one thinks Xerxes was a seven foot tall effeminate dude who used demons in battle or that Spartans wore nothing but underwear, capes and Corinthian helmets.
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It's a mind-numbingly simplistic story, is the problem. I'm not concerned about its historical inaccuracy; I said "read Herodotus."
 
HeyYou said:
It's just a decent action flick with really cool comic visuals, dude. No one thinks Xerxes was a seven foot tall effeminate dude who used demons in battle or that Spartans wore nothing but underwear, capes and Corinthian helmets.
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Its a fantastically Homeric film. They played up things so it seemed like a real epic. Obvioisly not realistic, just telling a cool last stand story playing up the male power fantasy. Whats not to enjoy?
 
Sped Xing said:
It's a mind-numbingly simplistic story, is the problem. I'm not concerned about its historical inaccuracy; I said "read Herodotus."
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Sometimes mind-numbingly simplistic stories are fun, especially one based on a mind-numbingly simplistic and over the top comic (by Frank fucking Miller). Would I enjoy a movie or show all about the complexities of Ancient Greece's city-state system, the shitty and admirable things both the Greeks and Persians did, and how each part of Greece contributed to the war effort? Yes. Would the average moviegoer? Hell no. That's exactly how the Alexander movie flopped.
 
If you want to know what the average moviegoer likes, look at how much money movies made.

If "what the average moviegoer likes" is your metric of quality, I don't know what to say except "that's dumb."
 
No, my metric of quality is "did I enjoy watching it?" and 300 ticks that box. Pretty simple, and the same reason I like Gladiator.
 
It's OK to like stupid things. Have fun with that.

Bear in mind this whole line of discussion started with the guy who was assmad about anyone criticizing "great man of film" Zach Snyder.
 
I'm just saying. If I want to watch war wank with shallow characters and a predictable plot, I'll watch Star Wars.

I don't know why people are angrily agreeing with me several days later.
 

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