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- algorithm0
nice choice of tunes for the trailer score.
- TheBlueOne0
Longer trailer here:
- GreedoLives0
Don't worry, in 300 years they'll make movies about how cool the Taliban was, too. Or does Rambo 3 count?
- sherman0
that soundtrack for the trailer is a bit much.
- CALLES0
rsmbo will always count
- GreedoLives0
i like how "Troy" set the tone for goofball moves that no self-respecting greek would ever perform.
- algorithm0
NIN is never too much, if you were a infant in their day,,,, you would have been discarded and thrown off a cliff for your weakness.
- harlequino0
Don't worry, in 300 years they'll make movies about how cool the Taliban was, too. Or does Rambo 3 count?
GreedoLives
(Oct 5 06, 14:00)And there will be butt fucking in those too I'm sure.
- garett_west0
Don't worry, in 300 years they'll make movies about how cool the Taliban was, too. Or does Rambo 3 count?
GreedoLives
(Oct 5 06, 14:00)Good call! Except Rambo III focused on the Afghan Mujahideen pre the Afghan Civil War. Following the Soviet retreat, many of the larger mujahideen groups began to fight each other. After several years of this fighting, a village mullah organized religious students into an armed movement, with the backing of Pakistan, who was being funded by the United States, which found the existing government to be too Russian-influenced, even following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This movement became known as the Taliban, meaning "students", and referring to the Saudi-backed religious schools which produced Islamic fundamentalism along the pacific coast of Asia. With each success the Taliban had, their popularity and numbers grew.
By 2001, the Taliban, with backing from the Pakistani ISI, had defeated most of the militias and controlled most of Afghanistan. The remaining militias were in the north-east of the country. The opposition allied themselves together and became known as the National Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan — the United Front, or Northern Alliance. Basically, Rambo III was about the Northern Alliance pre the split. But whaverer you want to believe. Good call on Rambo III though. It holds a Guiness world record you know for the most acts of violence in 101 minutes. Too bad Guiness can't record the Taliban's shit or Rambo would get smoked.
- ********0
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- blackspade0
yea looks, wicked.
- GreedoLives0
The point is, nobody liked the Spartans because they were a bunch of anti-democratic zealots, much like the Taliban, which isn't on too many people's christmas card lists either.
But with enough time between event and movie and some super awesome computer graphics adding a new sheen, selling war as ballet with some fancy marketing somehow becomes honorable.
- kelpie0
hahaha, what a surprise - a movie comes out about the toughest ever thing ever in the history of the world ever, a film that's been itching to be made for ever, and NT turns it into an arguement about the Taliban. Lol.
I can't wait to see this, I don't really care whether the Spartans were 'mad homos' or big bullies, or whether war is baaad, m'kay? this film should be wicked.
Good Glaswegian lad in teh main role too, more power to it.
- TheBlueOne0
The Spartans were ass kickers. Crazy mofo asskickers, but ass kickers none the less. To comparer them to the Taliban is insane. The Spartans were like the most gender equal of all the ancient Greeks. I mean their women excercised as well, and in the nude.
I mean that alone would of had the Taliban yied up in knots. And pound for pound a phalanx of Spartans woulda wiped trhe floor with the Taliban...
And when you think about it, you got ta chuckle at the historical ironies...I mean what else is this whole modern Middle East adventure but just a variation of the same shit that was started way back then. Nothing new under the sun.
- tank0
taleban!
- ********0
Blue one
>The Spartans were like the most gender equal of all the ancient Greeks.<Any society that depends on slave labor renders equality an unmoot question whether the women excercised or not.
blueone
>I mean that alone would of had the Taliban yied up in knots. And pound for pound a phalanx of Spartans woulda wiped trhe floor with the Taliban...<Were the phalanx a Spartan tactic, but its not.
Do you think there's a reason why this film is being made now? Why is it so compelling?
Because in the historical analogy we are the Persian Empire- the greatest ever on the face of the earth facing a bunch of determined warriors indifferent to death but not each other. That can't be right so let's make it a cartoon and glorify the violence and render combat mano-a-mano the hero of the story. ( IEDs are so cowardly) We can deal death and do like nobody's business. That is something we can believe in because don't look too closely why the spartans were there, or about how they organized their death camp farms, all that is not important!
"According to Mr. Suskind, "The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' " The aide told Mr. Suskind, "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."
You can do the same for $1o at the theatre.
- the-saint0
I think it looks Shit...
- kelpie0
I think you're reading far too much into it xenicon
- chossy0
This film looks awesome :D
I love the grade aswell, I think perhaps they are trying to give it a golden feel, it's wonderful such a great colorist.
The shot of people all falling off to the left over some cliff top is pretty special.
- ********0
Kelpie surely right about that- I got started and followed the bread crumbs. Wll return to art and design pronto.