Zack Snyder working on new standalone Star Wars Movie. (Turns out its probably false so this thread is now " Why 300 is awesome regardless of what you think")

[codeorama]

http://m.io9.com/5975854/holy--zack-...-samurai-movie

Read the link.

I'm way more excited for this than EP 7

300 is one of my favorite movies

[Sticksboi05]

Really I thought 300 was mediocre. Very mediocre.

[codeorama]

As a history teacher, I use 300 in class. It really gets the students interested in Ancient Greece/The Spartans/The Persian Wars. You'd never believe how much this movie gets HS kids talking about history. It's priceless to me.

[mboyd784]

As a history teacher, I use 300 in class. It really gets the students interested in Ancient Greece/The Spartans/The Persian Wars. You'd never believe how much this movie gets HS kids talking about history. It's priceless to me.

God help us all.

Homoerotic garbage movie is garbage.

[Bang]

I liked 300. i like how it's shot.

I could get behind this idea.. let filmmakers have their crack at the characters, backstories, side stories.
(ie: Get George Lucas out of the way)

~BAng

[GibbsFactor]

Update: The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision reports a Snyder spokesman told them these are horrible lies, like Santa Claus or that Han shot first: "Snyder's spokesperson says: 'While he is super flattered because he is a huge fan, Zack is not involved in any way with the new Star Wars. He is currently in post on his two films, Man of Steel and 300: Battle of Artemisia." That means no Episode VII, VIII or IX, and no offshoot movies, the rep confirms." Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

[Henry]

Its a false rumor?

Thank the maker.

[Riggo-toni]

As a history teacher, I use 300 in class. It really gets the students interested in Ancient Greece/The Spartans/The Persian Wars. You'd never believe how much this movie gets HS kids talking about history. It's priceless to me.

Please let them know that Persians are not black Africans as portrayed in the movie...

[codeorama]

Please let them know that Persians are not black Africans as portrayed in the movie...

We get into all of that. The great thing about the movie is that they end up asking all the questions.

Also, they were not portrayed as all black in the movie. Most of the "Persians" were portrayed as milled eastern, the immortals were not black, they were portrayed as monsters which seems over the top, but Herodotus called them monsters in his writings. The soldiers that were fighting for the Persians were multicultural including Greeks. More Greeks fought with the Persians rather than against them.

Anyway, my tase in movies is not the same as a lot of people's I'm sure. I loved 300. One of my top 10 faves. It entertains me, gets my students interested and asking questions which makes teaching history easier since they are interested.

[Prosperity]

300 was a turd mountain

If my high school history class showed that movie I'd be pissed

[jpillian]

300 was a turd mountain

If my high school history class showed that movie I'd be pissed

Not very nice, Liberty -- but this made me guffaw. I second your opinion of 300, but am supportive of code's attempt to "keep it real". Plus his taste in signature images is unassailable.

[Koolblue13]

We get into all of that. The great thing about the movie is that they end up asking all the questions. .

Have you ever showed them History of the World part I?

[mboyd784]

Have you ever showed them History of the World part I?

Best movie ever.

[Riggo-toni]

300 was a turd mountain

If my high school history class showed that movie I'd be pissed

I would feel deeply offended were I of Persian descent. I thought the movie was awful, but I'm old.
Funny how Greco-Roman culture is always portrayed as so superior to its oriental counterparts...except of course when it comes to acceptance of the Biblical narrative in which the Mycenean Greeks (Philistines) become synonymous with barbarism despite having a culture that is technologically and culturally far more advanced than the Israelites.

Code - You should look into getting DVDs of history by Terry Jones, former member of Monty Python. His stuff is funny, entertaining, and blows the lid off of commonly accepted myths of history. I just finished watching a 2 DVD set on the Crusades. His stuff on "Barbarians" is great too.

[Koolblue13]

I just went from watching Mel Brooks clips to Monty Python interviews about Brian.