Free Cinema Tickets - Discussion only thread

penguin_queen

Got 2 tickets for I want Candy too ! Thanks to Jilsa.
Ta Love !

Oscar

For anyone who tried to get tickets for Amazing Grace on the Tiscali offer and failed. Try again as I just managed to get some.

yeslek

whoop
got 2 tickets for i want candy on wed!! whoop

jillsa

300 - was it just me?

I really didn't get it. i must be getting old as it was so violent and so noisy and so historically inaccurate!

I also think some of the actors 6 packs were the main talent!

oh dear, perhaps just not my cup of tea!!!

I hope everyone else enjoyed it?!!

Miró

jillsa wrote: »

300 - was it just me?

I really didn't get it. i must be getting old as it was so violent and so noisy and so historically inaccurate!

I also think some of the actors 6 packs were the main talent!

oh dear, perhaps just not my cup of tea!!!

I hope everyone else enjoyed it?!!

Have to agree with you...especially re the 6 packs :drool: oh..and the skimpy costumes.....:rolleyes:

Tetsuko

jillsa wrote: »

300 - was it just me?

I really didn't get it. i must be getting old as it was so violent and so noisy and so historically inaccurate!

I also think some of the actors 6 packs were the main talent!

oh dear, perhaps just not my cup of tea!!!

I hope everyone else enjoyed it?!!

Don't panic, it's not your age. It wasn't meant to be historically accurate. It's based on a comic book or....um...graphical novel...to those of us too embarressed to admit to still be reading comics

I can't wait to go see it. I've been waiting for aaaaaaages *excited*

FizzieLizzie

jillsa wrote: »

300 - was it just me?

I really didn't get it. i must be getting old as it was so violent and so noisy and so historically inaccurate!

I also think some of the actors 6 packs were the main talent!

oh dear, perhaps just not my cup of tea!!!

I hope everyone else enjoyed it?!!

I went to see it 2night with my OH and i didnt think i was going to enjoy it, but i loved it, def moive id go nd see again :j :T

kirill

Wikipedia

Historical accuracy

The film's director Zack Snyder states that "The events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy.... I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is." He continues that the film is "an opera, not a documentary".[71]

However, Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto, states that 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society in a "problematic and disturbing" fashion, as well as portraying the Persians as monsters and non-Spartan Greeks as weak. He suggests that the film's moral universe would have seemed as "bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians."[72]

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson, who wrote the foreword to a 2007 re-issue of the graphic novel, states that the film demonstrates a specific affinity with the original material of Herodotus in that it captures the martial ethos of ancient Sparta and represents Thermopylae as a "clash of civilizations". He remarks that Simonides, Aeschylus and Herodotus viewed Thermopylae as a battle against "Eastern centralism and collective serfdom" which opposed "the idea of the free citizen of an autonomous polis".[73]

However, Touraj Daryaee, associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton, criticizes the central theme of the movie, that of "free" and "democracy loving" Spartans against "slave" Persians. Daryaee states that the Achaemenid (Persian) empire hired and paid people regardless of their sex or ethnicity, whereas in fifth-century Greece "less than 14%" of the population participated in democratic government, and "nearly 37%" of the population were slaves. He further states that Sparta "was a military monarchy, not a democracy," and collectively owned slaves (the Helots).[74]

I thought the film was amazing, thanks to original poster!

dog1

I enjoyed 300 and found it entertaining.

It did appear to be a remake of BRAVEHEART with GREEKS however. :rolleyes:

mils1234

I have the following:

You have won 2 tickets to see the following preview screening of AMAZING GRACE

Vue, Bristol Longwell
Date: 20/03/07
Time: 06:30pm

Unfortunately hubby is ill so we cannot make it.

PM me and I will forward the email for anyone else who can use it.

Sou
(Mrs Slim)

Edited to add - I see the OP advises not to swap tickets but as it is late notice it may be too late for momentum to get anyone else so it seems a shame to waste them. All I'm after is an email address no other personal details