The closest IMAX theater to me is about and hour or 2 away. :-/
Yeah, it's about a 45 minute drive for me. Add in the fact that there was about half an hour of delays and stuff that day and it was bad.
Wow, this movie was extraordinary. I'll agree with deadly in saying its easily one of the best movies that I have ever seen. I saw it with my parents which made it a little awkward, that didn't keep me from enjoying it!
I'm sure the sex scenes were very uncomfortable...
I went with a friend that hadn't seen it yet. It was still good the second time, but not as amazing. Although, I did get a chance to watch it for some more weird error things, and stuff, I enjoy that.
One thing I noticed was when Leonidus' friend's son had his head cut off by the dude on the horse, where does the horse and the rider go? (possible spoilers. What ever. Better safe than sorry, right?)
And also it gave me time to think and compair between movies. Like you were compairing it between LOTR and saying this is better. I agree, but I don't think that it's better cinematography. I mean, they greenscreened a lot of that, were as LOTR went out and found a set to film it on, and had the variables of many things. So, I think that that's got this beat in that sence. But, still better.
I imagined it would be enjoyable, but obviously not as breathtaking. I'm wondering what the experience would be like going from regular movie theater to IMAX, though.
In answer to that question, I believe that Leonidas' friend kills him. If I remember correctly, he breaks ranks and goes out there and avenges his son and then brings the body back.
Yeah. It would be hard to film something like this on location, in my opinion. Some of the scenes are very do-able, yes, but others are just impossible. Lord of the Rings was different because Tolkien had at least provided some pictures of what he thought it should look like. Other than the rather poor descriptions of the battle site, I'm not sure if the makers of 300 had much more to go on. Sure, they were following Frank Miller's graphic novel, but the movie wasn't just his comic book, per say. Also, Lord of the Rings had a MUCH larger budget than this movie did, which basically meant more set designers, more costumer designers, better graphics people (a lot of the graphics were integrated into the movie so that it took a keen eye to differentiate between graphics/real movie). Also, Lord of the Rings was a whole story that encompassed years (the actual story, not filming time or anything) so it would be easier to build off that than off of one battle that lasted a few months.
