MOVIE TRAILERS

"They will fight in the shadow..." Hello from Greece...I'm dying to see this movie...The trailer is awesome...Hope this will be the case for the whole film... Sparta lives and rules!!!!

Finally a film about the most important moment in western civilization's history: Without the courage and brains of the spartans - and later the athenians in the battle of salamis - we would all be talking persian now and democracy would never have been born... Scary thought...

This looks incredible, I literally got tingles watching that. "Madness?... this is SPARTA!" "Our arrows.. will blot out the sun!" "Then we will fight in the shade." Such amazing quotes.

MaN Ohhh MaN.. the preview looks so awsome i can't wait for it to come out.. it better not turn out to be a load of crap like Troy; that was a disgrace...

This is going to be absolutely incredible. Just wait and see. The graphic novel is an amazing experience and this film is gonna emulate the shit out of it. I can hardly contain myself.

im just glad to se the remake.wish they made more movies on these time

for a greek person from sparta i hope they stick to the story of how it went down back then.i dont know if i will like those imaginary animals that we saw in the preview.i live in vancouver and there are a lot of iranians,meaning persians here.hope they dont find out im greek in the theatre.maybe ill wear a greece t-shirt or something to tease them.losing a battle to 300 humans,when they outnumbered them by who knows how much,pretty humiliating.

"Madness?, this is SPARTA!" that is so fuckin stupid

just to clarify, the Spartans ended up losing the battle thanks to a traitor who showed the Persians a trail that led them right behind the Spartans effectively surrounding them. However, the Spartan stand bought the rest of Greece time to prepare for the Persian invasion and it so disheartened the Persians that just 300 Greeks could put up such a fight that they were easily defeated thereafter. The Spartans pretty much owned the Persians even though they were outmanned by something like 4000 to 1. This is proof that Greeks have bigger dicks than Persians.

This movie looks horrible...over the top (not in a good way as it's trying to be serious -cheesy dialogue and animals from fantasy land)...comic book based or whatever the effects make it look like a really cool computer game...too bad it's suppose to be a movie.....also, re some earlier comments, I don't think any modern day Greeks from Laconia or Iranians should get too worked up about it.....apples and oranges folks it as long, long, long time ago......cultures and peoples I'm sure have changed a bit....

Who cares what the real history is!? This trailer raised goosepimples and sent a shiver down my back - It will be excellent for the epic entertainment it is. PS Aren't rhino's real?

PEOPLE! Frank Miller style, is Frank Millers' style. You dont like it?, ok dont see the movie,dont read the comic books! Its your loss! The ''300'' is a depiction of a historical event, given from his point of view, so don't over-react, complain, or hate modern iranians!! The Persian civilization was highly sofisticated, as was the Ancient Greek. For anyone who wishes to seek the truth, I think that this is a great chance for you to search for info about the war at thermopylae and the greek-persian wars. I did. It is fantastic. Quotes such as the answer of king Leonidas, when informed about the thousands of persian archers and their arrows,is concidered to be true. Some facts about the society of ancient Sparta are really amazing(and dreadfull with todays' standards): -Babies with weaknesses and dissabilities where thrown on birth,from a cliff called ''Keadas'', since they would be a burden on the society and never become good soldiers. -Before the army sets out for the battlefield, the mother would say to her son or husband uppon fairwell, a frase, meaning: Either return with your shield, or dead, on it. -When a soldier was found dead on the battlefield, with the fatal wound on his back, it was an irrevocable disgrase for the whole family, since this was evidence that he fled from battle. ++also !!!!!READ THE OUTSTANDING NOVEL "GATES OF FIRE" by STEVEN PRESSFIELD!!!!!! I'm sure you'll be thanking me afterwards..

There are some serious racial undertones on this thread. In any case, while Greece is obviously one of the most important civilizations to influence the modern west -and therefore the modern world-, to say that democracy would not have existed and we'd all be speaking Persian makes no sense. Sparta DID NOT practice democracy, and while Athens did, it isn't as if after Greeks got swallowed up by Alexander Europe didn't go through about 2,000 years of monarchy. As for Billy up there who seems to be all about WHITE vs EVERYONE ELSE, I think maybe you should take off your klan hood and get with the real world.

Props to Moebius and EL PIT for injecting some much needed common sense into the discussion. A few people on this board were beginning to take things just a little too seriously. History is history. It's a highly stylized vision of one man's imaginative take on a historical account. No need to get Klan-like and stupid about it or overly PC. That said this movie looks awesome!

owww. such an awesome clip. Got goosebumps hearing those loud words " This is Sparta" looking eagerly to watch the movie

Kerr to u : Yo, Iranian dude: 1: Battle of Thermopolyae happened. Historical event. (of course there were 400 Thebans and 700 Thespians there ( not actors, but citizens of Thespiae ) the Thebans chickened out and surrendered, but the Thespians stood with the Spartans. 2. Some Greeks were blond/blue eyed. Ever hear of a Macedonian dude named Alexander? He had some troops that sort of wandered around Persia and Central Asia. He set up a few towns and his troops intermingled with the locals. This was as far as Afghanistan. Ever see the picture of the girl on the cover of National Geographic? Blue eyes and Greek heritage rigt there in Central Asia. 3. Propaganda? Jews? Who the heck interjected racism into this? The Persians attacked Greece. The Greeks fought back. Much like the Iranians would do should some nation attack them. If you think a movie like this will affect international diplomacy, you need to get back on the special bus and go for some help. The fact that the movie uses Africans as ambassadors ( and Persian ambassadors did actually get kicked into a well) and guys with Japanese swords on their backs and outlandish costumes kind of neutralizes any one "racial" type. 4. It's a MOVIE. It is not historically accurate. It is based on a COMIC BOOK. Instead of authentic Greek music from 480BC it has rock music in the soundtrack. Detractors, yes it has a lot of CGI. But without CGI, movies like this are really expensive. It is also an action movie. Action. Not dialogue. Action movies are often overplayed. (Come on, you know you have watched Arnold S. and Sylvester S. in a few of their movies.) If you want to think, skip this movie. If you want historical accuracy, go the the university library of your choice. (Or do some real internet research, heaven forbid.) If you think this is simply racist inspired propaganda instigated by the Jews to foment violence against Iran, get a life. Sincerely, Demophhilus of Thespiae (I'm not Greek, but I played one on tv.)

Oooh, My dear Kerr to U, Touched a nerve? You are defending your views to say this movie is racist, Jewish propaganda. Yes, there were lots of Persian scientists and mathematicians. Yes, I know AL-Farisi, Al-Shirazi, Rhazes and many more. There were really nice libraries in Isfahan, Gundishapur and other places. Feel better now? But, we sometimes fondly remember the Achaemenid Empire there as the foe of Classical Greece. Good times. Just a shame that the first library was Greek. Also a shame that the wonderful Persian scientists were building upon what the Greeks wrought and collected. Not knocking them, though. The Greek stuff came in with Alexander and hung around with the Library at Alexandria. The Persians came up with good stuff on their own in the period of 500-900 AD when us blond haired-blue eyed folks were having a good time whacking away at each other. The movies costumes are taken straight from the graphic novel. If you have a problem with the artist, or the movie, don't watch it. Or, draw your own graphic novel and make your own film. Artists and educated Texans know what a big draw Iran is for artists, free thinkers and filmakers is. There is such a nice free press there and the state religion never tells you what you can and can not do. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression. Wonderful place. The golden age of Persia is in the past. I, for one , would love to see it flower again. That is my view. If you don't think I have a right to defend that, you are worse than blind. Before blaming your problems on some other race, take a look in the mirror my friend. If one man can not stand up for the glorious history of the past, to make the world a better place for all, that is a sad thing.

kerr to u, l suppose you had a problem with Lord of the Rings too? The West defending itself from invasion from the East? Sauron, Saruman ... not Western names.

I think, growing fundamentalism Islamic is (and possibly will continue being) the cancer of civilization. Egypt was a civilization focus along 3500-4000 years (not only under the egyptian pharaoh's power, too under Greek & Roman empires). But when Islam imposes sharia the blossoming cultural always dies... Is a constant. Moderated Islam maintained the respect the wisdom, science & knowledge in a little places (for example Ommiades in Spain coexisted peacefully & interchanged cultural values with jewish & christian populations). But when it changed in fundamentalism islamic (almohads & almoravids) cultural splendor agonized and began the end of Al-Andalus. Turk Empire is the paradigm of this behavior, first trying to expand in all mediterranean area (Christian coallition in Lepanto was the safeguard of western civilization) and later, trying to bury influential greek culture in Eastern Europa (don't forget Armenian Genocide). I hope Western-civilization begin to defend his values against anti-western & anti-democratic poison that modern Islam means. This cancer for culture and civilization is a growing danger . Talibanism tries today to expand this cancer to Western civilization. Stop Islamism

I think that many people on both sides are taking this film way too seriously. First of all, to the comment by Nancy way above, about this movie being representative of the most important event in Western history, and how without it we would all be speaking Persian without democracy....that is more ignorant of a statement than I have ever read in my life. I am Iranian, but I do not take offense to this movie at all. People are taking things way too seriously. For people that want to imply this movie is anti-Islamic, or anti-Iranian, get a grip...this is about the PERSIAN CIVILIZATION, an ANCIENT empire that spanned all over Asia Minor and into India and Egypt. Today Iran is an entire different story, back then the Persians were not even Muslim, so that is blowing things way out of proportion. A conglomerate of informed military historians, historical economists, geographers, topographists, etc. have come toghether to study the Battle of Thermopylae. Anybody who has done some informed reading knows that there was no way 300 Spartans faced anywhere near a million Persians, and there are myriad inconsistencies in Herodotus' historical accounts, they are more like mythical representations of history. But what Thermopylae is significant for is a lesson in great military planning. The Spartans focused on intensive and elite military conditioning as opposed to massive recruitment, and they used all elements of military strategy (terrain, advanced hand to hand combat, troop formation patterns, timing, etc.) to their advantage to inflict massive casualties on the Persians, before being over-run. That's right folks, for anyone under the myth that 300 people stood and killed a million, far from it. ALthough the figures differ, it was most likely something like 8000 Greeks against a Persian force anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000. They inflicted massive casualties on the Persian's front (and stronger lines) but were overrun and massacred eventually. The point is that the Persian army was demoralized and delayed, and this attack and battle gave the Athenians time to assemble and prepare for combat. This all said, the point here is that this is A MOVIE about a bloody COMIC BOOK. Its probably going to be VERY entertaining, and I know I'm going to see it. But Greeks and Iranians making a big deal of this, either way? I mean cmon guys its ancient civilizations, it has nothing to do with you or your families, get over it! Go achieve something yourself. Nobody is going to infer messages or insights about global affairs from a hollywood blockbuster based on a comic book by the creator of Sin City.

IT IS PROPAGANDA. I was seduced by it, but heck it is PROPAGANDA. Why? "It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda," said Miller at a US comic book convention. I rest of case

I saw move 300 last night. I think this film is political in fact and interested with big mistake about old history. Cinema must be artistry and mustn't become political.

Full disclosure: I'm of northern-european descent, but I'm not strictly American ethnicly(ie grew up in europe and the US). This movie IS racist: holy crap, this would make Edward Said turn in his grave! What a monstrous misrepresentation of the Persian empire! Imagine if we made Robert E. Lee a half-naked barbarian wearing paint on his face and flourishing a serrated battle-ax with a tassle of skulls dangling from the end of the handle: people in the US would be outraged! As if General Patton was a nice guy? The man loved slaughter; he reveled in it! This is consummate orientalism!!! The people who made this are talentless hacks, and this movie is so bad that when I have enough money, I will make my own version of this story, and this will rightly be relegated to the Thursday night USA special. People who appreciate this movie have NO TASTE and should NOT BREED. I have friends who like this, and they have NO TASTE, too.

i think this movie can teach a lesson that all people have a God given right to live free.We should as human beings stand up and protect these right regaurdless of the consequences 300 vs millions alot of people believe we should not live free read the declaration of indepedence.

I would like to say the movie was excellent. As for the cries of racism and any connection to modern conflict, let's step back and look at the facts. Yes there were plenty of ancient greek's who looked caucasian like the actors portraying them. We've already discussed macedonians, thracians, acadians, etc. Did you notice the red haired oracle? In that time period, red headed greeks were apprx. the same portion of the population than as they are today. Uncommon but not unheard of. They were associated with higher than average rates of epilepsy and so were looked at with caution. We have heard of alexander and his appearance, did we also know that the ancient turks held red hair in high regards and women from Anatolia were esp. prized for it. 2nd bit, the persians DID in fact use nubians as emissaries and could have used them to speak with Leonidas. 3rd bit, the actor playing xerxes is a white man of spanish descent. 4th bit, there are as many monster's shown of greek descent as of persian. Notice the monstrous inbreds running the oracle? Notice the spartan traitor? Quite a few of the persian monsters are light anyway, and there are ethnicity is indeterminate. Now let's do a little myth busting for those who want to explain it. ---NO the spartans DID not practice pederasty. It was expressly forbidden. In fact spartan boys were married off rather early in life, but they had little contact with their wives until they've served between 15-20 years of military service. This rule could be bent for certain circumstances. YES the spartans did practice a form of democracy. As shown in the movie, the king answered to a council of 5 elders and there was a less powerful assembly as well. IN fact, the spartans were unique in that they had 2 kings at a time to avoid a tyranny ( Leonidas like the movie shows, was more of a general just like all spartan kings). Now as for spartans and slavery. They practiced slavery like just about every culture in the world. But they had little contact with their slaves and they lived rather independant lives because the SPARTANS (i.e. the top 20 percent of the society and the freedmen) were busy away from home fighting and would not use them as soldiers. Spartan women enjoyed a level of freedom unheard of for that time period. Queen Gorgo was a woman you could build a movie around ( I did a paper on her while in the Marine Corps) and helped lead Laconian society in her husband's name. No the Spartans did not have 8k men at the battle----read 39 for the generally accepted numbers. I think it's a little sad that Persian in Canada has to pull some bullshit to defend people who lived thousands of years ago but w/e. Yes the Persian Immortals---a real military unit---did in fact file their teeth for a period of time. Lastly and I'm surprised NO ONE has mentioned this. The movie is being narrated by the only man to survive the battle. He's been told to relate a story as to what happened there to rally the cause of protecting the greeks. He himself says that the persian beasts are like nothing he's seen before. Notice how the elephants are much larger than normal, while the rhino is not? Notice how the traitorous spartan is deformed to an extent not explainable by "racism"? It's a storyteller relating a story. The strange and fantastic enemy and his beasts are going to be exagerated.