November 11, 2023 • 36 mins
Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for today we discuss Zack Snyder's 300! This is one of -the- movies that started our friendship so we thought this would be a fitting way to mark our 300th episode!
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The super Media Bros. Podcast isa founding member of the Odd Pods Media
Networks. Did I remember when westarted talking about this movie the other day,
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you were like, so you rememberhow this movie had a choke hold
on everybody for about what five years? Yeah? I instantly was transported back
to that time in my life,and I was like, you know what,
You're right, it did like everybodywas quoting it. This is Sparta.
Everybody knows that scene. My parents'parents, you know, they didn't
know what that was, but they'veseen that clip. Right. Welcome to
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the super Media Bros. Podcast,where two best friends give comedically informative takes
on movies, music, pro wrestlingin more. I'm Richie, No,
I'm Devin. This is episode threehundred yaz her. And it's not like,
oh, let's let's do a GreatestHits episode, or let's do a
best of let's do a fucking giantclip show or our Q and A.
We are celebrating this motherfucker the onlyway we know how zoo and it is
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pretty much our version of the Festivalof Friendship. I mean, for real,
it really is. Because we're hereto talk about Zack Snyder's three hundred.
Zack Snyder is a director. Itis the director that really spearheaded our
friendship in the very first place.Yeah, dude, I was out there
working at the fucking dollar store.First of all, whenever you first walked
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in, you you were wearing asleeveless like one of those like reflective construction
worker shirts, and I was like, public school system has failed me.
I don't know how to count backchange. And I got this big burly
dude walking up to me wearing sunglassesindoors, carrying two twelve packs of soft
drinks under each arm, sleeveless tattooedup big beard. Yeah, I'm gonna
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fucking die if I fucked this up. And the manager was right behind me
and was like it's his first dayat his first job. And you just
took your sunglasses off put him onyour forehead and you were like, oh,
nice, congratulations man, And Iwas like, oh, okay.
Second time, you walked in wearinga Batman and Superman shirt, like a
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like a comic book T shirt theactual movie. At the time, the
movie had only been announced like acomic con like I don't even think Batman
hadn't even been casted, yet wedidn't know. Fuck, we just knew
that it was coming, and Iwas like, yeah, man, I'm
really excited for that movie, andyou're like, oh, dude, same
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the fact that they quoted Frank Miller'sDark Knight Returns, and I was like,
okay, hell yeah yeah, becauseafter that it was just all downhill
from there. We started talking aboutlike fucking Watchman and all the other yeah,
pretty much anything that Zack Snyder haddone up until that point, like
Man of Steel and everything. Itwas just like, all right, cool,
three hundred was fucking one of them. Oh yeah, dude, cause
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you're gonna hate this shit. ButI was like, dude, I was
like ten when this came out,So this movie is like my childhood.
You know, it's all good.I was fuck man, uh twenty one.
Yeah, So when this came out, it took the fuck off.
At least as I remember, ittook the fuck off. Dude. Everybody
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that I knew, including myself,went to see this movie in theaters multiple
fucking times. I remember how atthe time groundbreaking. The visuals were.
Yes, the camera work, whichSnyder has always had a knack for,
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framing shit exactly like a comic bookand most of his filmography comic book adaptations.
Yeah, I'm trying to think becauseit was Dawn of the Dead was
his debut, if I'm not astand and that was a fucking fantastic creame.
Dude, love that movie. Threehundred credit me if I'm wrong?
Was that his second or third?That was the second one? Yeah?
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Okay, so and it was hisfirst writing credit too. God, that's
so fucking crazy because like, yeah, there was the scene with uh Jar
Butler talking to that like emperor.Yeah, that was not in the graphic
novel. No, some of thestuff was obviously done for you know,
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the movie and everything. But Iloved it. Yeah, I did too,
man. And this is a FrankMiller written graphic novel, which again
I adore Frank Miller's work. Andagain this is more of us just waxing
poetic about having seen the movie,what it meant to us and shit,
because I I'm gonna go ahead andassume that most of our audience has watched
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this movie. I have to assume, like, if not, how like
we said, this movie had everybodyin a choke hold. I feel like
you have to go out of yourway to not see it, dude.
Okay, this and this goes allthe way back to like when YouTube was
very fucking new. Okay, becauseyou got to understand everybody out there that,
like YouTube has been around since twothousand and five. Fuck stupid videos.
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Dot Com was one of the firstlike meme presences, like if you
were going to look at videos likefor meme content, it was on websites
themselves, Like YouTube as a wholewas not the way we know it today.
I say that because this is Spartathing. It was one of the
earliest Internet memes. Dude. Yeah, dude, there was a lot of
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that going on, like because normallywith something like that, you just see
it like as a parody in moviesand TV shows, you know, like
the Simpsons might do it, orlike little things like that or Scary Movie
twelve or some bullshit. You know, like not to say that the scary
movies are bullshit, that's childhood also, but you know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, but yeah, that soundsabout right. This is Sparta is probably
like one of the earlier ones thatI can remember being like this is all
over the internet. Yeah, andI remember like techno remixes of like the
video like you know, yeah,like being done where I was like,
what the fuck's going on? Whichthat scene in general, Like we can
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get into some of the plot ofthe movie obviously, because like it's worth
talking about. We're doing a wholeepisode on it, a based on our
three hundred episode, but like whenthat scene happens, like so they they
show Leonidas, King Leonidas like beingbrought up and how they're training, Like
they basically train these fuckers from thetime their kids until they're warriors, you
know, so you get the ideathat King Leonidas and the rest of the
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Spartan Army are a bunch of hardass motherfuckers. So here comes this persian
on horseback with skulls and crowns oflike defeated sick dude. But I love
how Leonidas just looks at him.He's just like, you know, he's
come to warn Leonardis, and he'slike, oh yeah, Zersees is about
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to just come fuck everybody's ship up. He wants land and water. He
just requires it, like you kneelbefore him and like turn all your shit
over or he's gonna like turn yourchildren and your wives into fucking slaves and
all this other shit. The Spartansand Greece are this. This is a
free like people, and just Leonidisis just he's pretty much like to get
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off my wall. And at thispoint where he's like, bro, you
fucking come over with the heads andcrowns like skulls of fallen kings and you're
gonna fucking threaten me and my people. Then he beats children for fun and
has a rat tail. Don't goonto his property and say give us land
and water. Yeah, this dudehas no problems beating your ass, especially
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after you fucking insult his wife fortalking. Yes, you fucked up.
Because the one thing that I thoughtwas the most awesome shit about the way
that this is depicted is that theSpartans treat their women equally. The fact
that she just looked at that dudeand he was just like, what makes
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you think that? Like she canspeak amongst men, and she's like because
we give birth to real man,And I'm like, god, damn,
she just roasted your ass. Shewas fucking fire. I have a couple
of things about this scene that Ido want to point out. It's the
whole thing where they back them upto that giant goddamn hole in the ground
and he kicks him, you knowthrough He's like, there's a Spartan.
Fucking Spartan kicks him down into thehole. Who'd have fuck built that shit?
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I don't know, really built thepairmid but really think about how deep
that hole is, bru, that'san ocean violation waiting to fuck it happen,
I swear to god, dude,you have to think like, unless
for circumstances such as this, dothey have a netting around it like a
safety? I don't know, LikeI feel like maybe they bored it down,
or that they dug down, butthen like maybe like they dug like
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a little walk with spiral walk away, you know, back up the deal
and they were just filling it inas they go back up. But it's
like, dude, what if thatfucking gave way and you just you fell
and you're just fucked. Every timeI watched this movie, though, I
think of the fucking bar from KanyeI keep it three hundred, just like
the Roman shit. Dude, lookJesus is my favorite Kanye album. At
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that bar, I was like,bro, what the fuck did you just
say? And then to top itall off, okay. So I don't
know if you've been made aware ofthis, but there's like a an online
meme that is scarily accurate where itsays, ask your man how often he
thinks about the Roman Empire, andlike some of the answers is like,
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oh, usually once a month,or like about once a week, sometimes
every day, you know, likelike it depends on the dude, but
like most of them will say atleast once a month, okay, And
women are just like, I don'tunderstand this. So I was talking to
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one of my coworkers who's a femaleand talked about that blah blah blah,
and I brought it up to adude coworker and then he was like,
dude, you want to hear somefun facts about the Roman Empire just because?
And we both went down a fuckingrabbit hole, right, and she's
just sitting there listening to us,like the fuck. Yeah. So the
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other day I was off work andshe was like, hey, what you
doing today? And I was likewatching three hundred and I sent her just
just a picture. She goes,You're in the Roman Empire? And I
was like, God, damn it, Kanye, you fool everybody right.
So essentially, Leonid is like,no fuck that, we're gonna go.
We're gonna smash the shit out ofJerseys in his Persian army. But but
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they have to listen to the oraclewho lays down the wall, who is
like if if he goes to theepers, I think it's only bro,
I don't. I think that's theirname. But I swear to God when
he rolled upon that one guy,I was like, is this the red
skull guarding the soul stone? Likewhat the fuck? Oh dude, you
tell me that didn't look like it. It did. It's like, you
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must listen to the oracle. AndI'm like, bro, get a fucking
lozenge or some shit. That dudesounded like he smoked a cart and of
fucking menthols for a week straight on. Don't get me started on the fucking
like the hunchback and not damn out. Oh we'll get to him in a
minute, that little fucker. ButLeonidas is sitting there and he just dumps
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all this gold at their feet andhe's like, giving him this legitimately laid
out fucking bad as planning. Hewas like, we won't he like punch
his fa we will smash that fuckingfar. I'm like, dude, listen
to this muscle man. He knowswhat he's talking about. And then you
got all fucking cancer thrown up thereand be like you must listen to the
article, and I'm like, bruh, batman listens to the fucking oracle.
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Okay, fuck you. This guyhere is like you need to listen to
this naked, underwater dancy bitch whileI lick her, like gross, motherfuckers.
Dude. I swear it's so funnythat you brought up that scene,
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because like, the one thing aboutthis movie and Watchman that they have in
comment is that everybody's like, yeah, those uh, the nude of these
scenes, they were really something.Snyder kept the camera on that for a
good bit. Yes he did,He sure did. And I remember I
was in maybe sixth grade, okay, I was at the w W.
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Lewis like little deck shit, youknow that's sitting there talking to my buddy,
and I was like, dude,what's your favorite action movie? And
he's like, when you say action, do you mean like action movie or
do you mean like action. Iwas like I was like action and he's
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like probably three hundred I was like, what about the other one. He's
like, honestly, probably still threehundred. Yeah, because they shot the
nudity. You have fucking three hundredframes for a second, dude, I
rise, Hey, that shit wascrispy as fuck. It was. It
was That's where I love about thismovie. Snyder movies in general have such
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a distinct look. But I wasjust about to fucking say that, but
this one, like, because ofthe time period, it still had that
grainy like film look to it.Yeah. I guess that was like the
post production bit of it, justto lay to make it look like because
you know how the you've read thecomic guy assume like, yes, real,
like fucking it looked like that.This looks like a Frank Miller comic,
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say, with Sin City and yeah, dude, what a time to
be alive. So they're getting tothe area, which, by the way,
Leonidas leads all his guys out,and so there's some actors in this
movie I forgot, Like I forgotMichael Fasspender was in this movie and he's
so good in it. Dominic Westwho played Jigsaw and Punisher Warzone Jigsaw.
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Uh, I fucking love that movie. Uh still to me, the best
Punisher film. Goddamn. He playsthen who winds up being a corrupt politician
in this one. And he's nota comic book character, but he he
he's a trader to the entire Spartanclan because he's given xercees in all them.
Hey, no, this is what'shappening. This is blah blah blah
blah. So he's like, youknow, the gods said you shouldn't fight,
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Sparta is gonna fall, and Leoni'slike, I'm just out here.
First, I gave no such commands. I'm stretching my legs. I'm going
for a walk. And these threehundred men on them my personal bodyguards,
you know, and all those others, And I'm like, this is great.
But to make a long story short, there's a lot of action here,
I mean towards the end, likefrom here on out is basically like,
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there's good story and shit happening during. But my god, the action
sequences that happen from here on aregreat. They make you believe that these
severely outnumbered motherfuckers could just beat thepiss, strategically beat the piss out of
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an army of thousands, and theydid for a good bit. I think
that's the crazy part is like thisis loosely based on a true story,
like fucking goddamn right, And thisis one of those instances where obviously the
fiction's way like way overdone, butright. And also, I mean,
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I don't know the facts here,Like I said, I'm not gonna pretend
to know either. Yeah, LikeI'm not a history major by any stretch,
but I did see a lot oflike articles saying like, actually the
Persians should have been the good guysand all that other stuff. Yeah,
that's that's fascinating it all, andit's probably historically true. I'm not gonna
debate you on it. I don'tknow for sure, but if that's what
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you're claiming, okay, whatever.But it's more fascinating to look at the
underdog story of three hundred versus amillion, right, dude. Cinematically that
just makes more sense, right.And I think one of the funniest goddamn
scenes in this movie is like thebefore their first big like fight sequence,
they're getting prepared, right, mAnd I love like Gerard Butler's delivery is
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Leoni's is like it looks like rainand they just watch that fucking ocean swallow
and cat size, all those fuckingboats full of people just like sailing to
the shore to kick their ass,and they're just like, nope, dude,
well I'm glad you brought that up. Okay, did Leon and Idis
ever give you like almost like aWalter White Heisenberg vibe in the sense said,
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and I'm not talking like season one. I'm talking like season three,
season four, where Walter White isbasically dead at this point. It's just
Heisenberg. Okay, he was smarterthan everybody. He knew he was smarter
than everybody, but his ego wasstarting to get the better of him.
I don't think so. I thinkit's because that's how they were. They
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were all raised with how do Iput this, it's not a hive mindset
in this instance, but the Spartanswere raised to like they had integrity.
They were not going to fucking justroll over and die. It's one of
those was like, fuck, youcome and take us. If you think
you can fucking take us, thendo it. This is how we want
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to die. We want to dieof fucking warriors death, and we want
to die defending our people and standingup for whatever the fuck is right.
So I don't think it was aHeisenberg mentality. I think it was just
more or less of like, wehave no fear at this point, and
how the fuck do you fight somethingthat's got no fear? Hey, you
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was just a couple of dialogue moments, and I'm not shitting on the dialogue
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here. I love this movie.I'm really no negatives, but like the
scene where he is talking to uhZerses and he's over there one on one
or whatever, yeah, and he'slike, oh man, my legs got
it. Yeah dude, yeah,I can't kneel. I'm kind of cramping
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from killing all your men, youknow, like fucking hilarious. But in
my brain, I was like,dude, oh God, you're making me
nervous here, because fuck, it'sego so much ego. Oh fuck,
if you look at it's both ofthem too. Oh yeah. But it
just kind of gave me like shadesof Heisenberg when he was in the chemo
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therapy. And I'm paraphrasing it,but he was basically like, yeah,
I'm god, y'all say that thiscancer is gonna take me out. No,
no, no, I take itout, you know, like basically
that kind of shit, right,I get that. I think into the
other side of that, I thinkLeoninis was just like, you're no God,
I'm gonna make you bleed. Likeliterally, they're tell me you bleed.
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Yeah, you will, Like straightup, I know we're jumping through
a lot of this moviement again,we know you fuckers have seen this.
Farren winds up betraying the Spartan Army, so does the hunchback of Notre Dame,
who is like a discarded little fuckerthat like thinks he's gonna just come
and fight. But Leonid's like,nah, you can't lift your shield up
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past your fucking neck. And Imean, he wasn't wrong. I know,
he definitely wasn't wrong what I wassaying. This little motherfucker goes to
zero Seas and sells out the restof the Spartan plan and gives away their
entire like you know, corridor plan. That's the moment where Leonis knew they
were gonna die, because you thinkabout like when he found out they got
betrayed right there, he was like, Okay, well fuck it, Like
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that's why he said, like tonightwe died in hell because they knew they
were gonna die going into this fightno matter what. They just they fucking
knew they were dead. By thetime we get to that sequence where he
sends like, hey, we're gonnasend some of these people back because his
right hand guy Delios dude, David, Yeah, Delis don't have me trying
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to pronounce these It don't matter.His right hand guy de Leo's who has
been narrating the entire time the oneeyed snake plisk and looking the guy which
that that dude could have been afucking shoe to play snake plitskin. Anyway,
he keeps a handful but sends mostof the younger children like with him
because he's like, no, no, no, no, no no,
he's young guys need to like birththe next set of warriors, and you
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need a younger army to train andall this other shit. So he rolls
up the Zerses and the rest ofhis army after fighting a shit ton of
like an Asian army and like abunch of other motherfuckers that they just killed
the shit out of. Whenever Ifirst saw this, I did not understand
if he purposely didn't like if hedidn't hit as Zerzes when he launched the
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spear, because he fakes him outlike he's gonna ballot to him. He
drops his sword and drops his shield, and he drops his spear and he
kneels down. He winds up launchingthat spear and it cuts his face and
like to the point where it cutssome of the piercings out of his fucking
cheek. When I was younger,I was like, oh, fuck he
missed because I thought he was goingfor a death blow, which I think
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maybe he knew he was gonna diewhether or not he killed Zersees. So
it was more or less like,Okay, if you're gonna kill me,
I'm gonna like embarrass you, becauselike you're you're preaching that you're a fucking
god among men, but you bleedlike a goddamn mortal they put their name
to the test, cuts the dudeon the fucking cheek, and I was
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like, fuck he missed. Yearslater, I'm like, my man's was
he knew he was about to die, and he was like, fuck it.
He did it out of spite,and I fucking love it. Shit's
so fucking cold, dude. Ohand his wife winds up killing then because
like he sexually assaults her and givesher some dialogue that she gives right back
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to him in front of like thecouncil, Like when she fucking stabs him
in the stomach and turns the bladein him. I'm like, oh,
get him. I was like this, get this. Motherfucker dropped his That
motherfucker got hit and spilt his fuckingsonic rings all over the grounds. Crazy,
dude, because this is not along movie compared to a lot of
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what we see now. And alsothat's weird to say, dude, because
it's got almost a two hour runtimeand we're sitting here like, oh,
it's not that long of a movie, and it's really not comparatively speaking.
Yeah, Like I think like also, when you think of these big,
massive set pieces and epics, especiallyhistorical epics, these are usually two and
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a half three hours, you know, like we're talking like dances with wolves,
fucking like all this crazy shit.What's the other one? What's the
one with Gibson? Uh? Fuckthe Mel Gibson movie. Oh, Braveheart,
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Braveheart, Thank you. I don'tknow why I forgot, But when
you're thinking of movies like that,you know those are big, beefy fuck
fuck. Yeah, dude, BraveHeart was Brave Heart was considered like an
epic like when it had come out, because I remember very vividly that being
one of the first two vhs,like releases I saw, and this movie,
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they're so much chocked into it,and it's like still somehow seventy five
percent action set pieces and it's stillonly like two hours. You know what
I like the most about this moviethough, how well done, because you
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know, most of this was obviouslyeverybody out there knows most of this was
like CGI and shit, where likethe sets were built and it was green
screen, but they had some propsup front. But then the scene where
he's telling gorgo his wife. Whenhe's telling his wife goodbye and you see
the Spartans walking off in the distance. It's one of the first times that
I've seen this movie because I havelike a fucking like a PS five and
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it basically like bumps up the quality. I'm on a four K TV and
shit, and you can see howmuch more smoothly the actors are walking away
compared to the background. And I'mlike, oh my god, it finally
happened where you know how we lookat older movies and we're like, oh,
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that's so obvious, it's not evenfunny. I looked at this and
I was like, fuck, dude, this movie held up so goddamn long
that the technology that surrounds its viewingnow as far as the TV and then
like the PS five and everything that'sgonna bump the quality up. I was
like, fuck, now I cantell that it's digital. You couldn't tell
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this was digital for twenty something fuckingyears. It was insane, dude,
especially because, like I mean,I grew up with it on DVD,
so like it was like seven totwenty p you know. So I was
like, damn, this shit lookhard bruh. But no, I'm I'm
just blown away at like you're talkingabout how his wife kills that dude in
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front of everybody, and it's like, man, like that's the kind of
like revelation like feeling that you getafter like a movie. It's almost like
twice as long almost, you know. And it's crazy that this shit felt
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as satisfying as it did. Yeah, because I don't feel like there's a
wasted moment in this movie. No, not really no. And I again,
I remember when this had come outand I saw it, dude,
I oh my god, I watchedthis so many fucking times. I knew
people that kept and I was oneof them. For a hot minute.
I'm not even gonna lie, butthey kept this movie on repeat. Dude,
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Well, it's just it's just afucking guy movie. Like, that's
what I was gonna say, Dude. I vividly remember seeing this movie in
theaters with my friend Anny, andI'll never forget this as long as I
live. She fucking leans over andshe was just like, in the most
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positively fucking hilarious way, she goes, this is the most testosterone driven movie
I have ever seen in my fuckinglife. And I was like, God,
same, dude, Yeah, Like, this is one of those movies
where if you just want to feellike a fucking man, not only a
man, but a fat, outof shape man too. Hey, don't
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be talking shit. Hey, I'msaying it too, Bruh. It's just
funny as fuck. Five minutes Sannaand you're already like, goddamn it,
I'm breathing hard, like the fuckis a fuck you? Right, That's
what it cracked me up to.This movie made every fucking dude be like,
I want to be a spartan.I want to go like hit the
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gym. And these fuckers fought innothing, They really fought in nothing.
And I remember somebody being like,why do they do that? And I'm
like, they move quicker, there'sless holding them back if they are efficient
and they can protect and attack,like if they can block as well as
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they have offense, Dude, y'allare fucked. Oh yeah, in every
sense of the word. That iswhy that Spartan team was so good.
I'm talking about the fictionalized team.That's why they were so fucking good.
But the movie concludes with them blottingout the sun with harrows and Leonidis and
his men just fucking getting filled withthese bastards and Jerseys wins. I remember
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like being pissed that they fucking lost. I was like, you've got to
be fucking shitty me. I wasso mad. I love that though.
I love the notion of like,god fucking damn it. And every fucking
like history teacher you ever met waslike, fucking Richie, I told you
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this, I told you in gradeschool, and you're just like, no,
you didn't. You ain't taught meshit. You ain't said that was
three hundred I did because I rememberthem teaching me that ship too. I
remember the story of it, andI remember all this shit. I didn't
remember the outcome. So then whenthe movie rolled around. I was like,
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the fuck some bullshit. I wantmy money back, fucking Bobles,
my money back. I want mymoney back for the last three minutes.
You can have my money for thelast like one hour fifty seven minutes,
but give me the rest of bruh, give me my thirty five cents.
(30:47):
Fuck, give me give me mybox of raisin nets for free, like
you know what I'm saying, likemy popcorn for free. Man. Mine's
was, uh was dibbs, youremember, Oh yeah, I remember that
ship dude, Oh dude, snowcaps, DIBs, fucking god whoppers,
(31:07):
dipping dots. Yeah. But themovie concludes with Dilio's uh talking about the
rest of this story to the Spartans, and it looks like he's just because
they frame it where it looks likehe's talking like to maybe just a handful
around a campfire, and really,in reality, they are being prepared a
year later to fight the Persian army, and now there are ten thousand Spartans
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that are leading thirty thousand Greeks,and Dilios is the head of the fucking
army now, and the movie endswith them running towards this other fucking like
huge Army, and you're just like, oh, man, they are super
fucked. That not the Spartans,the people they're about to go fuck up
are super fucked dude. Yeah,dude, three god, three hundred is
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such a it. It still holdsup up. I got to say that,
it still fucking holds up, man. I mean there's a few obviously
some fucking problematic shit here and therein this movie, but it's like it's
very outweighed, you know what I'msaying, back when men were man,
God, damnity. Oh yeah,I can't believe for me and Devin to
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be sitting here, it's been likeeight years, almost going on nine.
I don't know, like that thosenumbers don't make sense to me. I
know, dude, it's fucking insane, But I don't know. I couldn't
have I couldn't have thought of abetter movie to talk about, or a
better thing to talk about on likea like a three hundredth episode, which
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to me that wrote itself. It'slike it's kind of like the obvious pick
of what we were going to talkabout, but really and trutly like it
does like encompass everything that makes uswho we are, makes our like it
bonded us in friendship, and thenlike here we are, like we talk
about a lot of shit, wrestlingmovies, whatever we like or whatever,
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and then like it comes to thisand like this director and his particular body
of work. Everybody shits on ZackSnyder for no good fucking reason. In
my opinion, I really like theGuys movies and shit, yeah, like
that's the thing, is a lotof the gripes about his movies. I
will look at it and be likeI hear you, you know, like
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there's some stuff, dude, Iwill die on the hill of Batman Verus
Superman to particularly the Ultimate Edition.But anytime somebody like complains about certain like
logic or something like that, I'mlike, no, I hear you,
I get it. Blah blah blah, you know, like I can't debate
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it. But at the same point, I'll take that over, like I'd
say, what seventy percent of themovies that I've seen in my life,
like it's one of my favorites,you know, Like I love that movie.
Right, And this, for anybodyout there listening, should tell you
everything you need to know about ZackSnyder and his filmography and his inspiration and
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shit. His five favorite movies Excalibur, Bad Max two, a Clockwork,
Orange Blue Velvet, and RoboCop.Yeah that makes sense that all checks out,
Yeah, because they all contain shitthat this man has put into his
films. Yeah. Yeah, Uh. Three hundred is still a fantastic action
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film. It is very greatly stylized. It is a fun watch, It
is culturally significant in many fucking ways. It's one of my favorite action films,
oh for sure. Like it's fuckingup there. Yep. We're gonna
get back into some wrestling next week. We are jumping back into our WWF
(34:59):
thirty years two High Machine series forSurvivor Series nineteen ninety three. We last
left off with SummerSlam nineteen ninety three, and then after that we will be
talking about aw full gear. Butuntil we do that, visit super media
prospodcast dot com for past president futureepisodes. Check out all the other shows
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on the odd Pods Media network byvisiting Oddpodsmedia dot com. Subscribe to us
on YouTube, follow us on socialmedia. Happy three hundred dude, Goddamn,
it's been a fucking ride, fuckingon trick. I know that's a
long time to be doing a fuckingshow. Jesus, fuck shit. Well,
on to three hundred more is hertwo Sweet meet Brow Sweet, Thank
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you very much for hanging out withus. This has been episode three hundred
on Zack Snyder's three hundred. Untilnext time, I'm Richievin shade'es on. We're all
The super Media Bros. Podcast isa founding member of the Odd Pods Media
Networks. Did I remember when westarted talking about this movie the other day,
(00:31):
you were like, so you rememberhow this movie had a choke hold
on everybody for about what five years? Yeah? I instantly was transported back
to that time in my life,and I was like, you know what,
You're right, it did like everybodywas quoting it. This is Sparta.
Everybody knows that scene. My parents'parents, you know, they didn't
know what that was, but they'veseen that clip. Right. Welcome to
(00:55):
the super Media Bros. Podcast,where two best friends give comedically informative takes
on movies, music, pro wrestlingin more. I'm Richie, No,
I'm Devin. This is episode threehundred yaz her. And it's not like,
oh, let's let's do a GreatestHits episode, or let's do a
best of let's do a fucking giantclip show or our Q and A.
We are celebrating this motherfucker the onlyway we know how zoo and it is
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pretty much our version of the Festivalof Friendship. I mean, for real,
it really is. Because we're hereto talk about Zack Snyder's three hundred.
Zack Snyder is a director. Itis the director that really spearheaded our
friendship in the very first place.Yeah, dude, I was out there
working at the fucking dollar store.First of all, whenever you first walked
(01:40):
in, you you were wearing asleeveless like one of those like reflective construction
worker shirts, and I was like, public school system has failed me.
I don't know how to count backchange. And I got this big burly
dude walking up to me wearing sunglassesindoors, carrying two twelve packs of soft
drinks under each arm, sleeveless tattooedup big beard. Yeah, I'm gonna
(02:07):
fucking die if I fucked this up. And the manager was right behind me
and was like it's his first dayat his first job. And you just
took your sunglasses off put him onyour forehead and you were like, oh,
nice, congratulations man, And Iwas like, oh, okay.
Second time, you walked in wearinga Batman and Superman shirt, like a
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like a comic book T shirt theactual movie. At the time, the
movie had only been announced like acomic con like I don't even think Batman
hadn't even been casted, yet wedidn't know. Fuck, we just knew
that it was coming, and Iwas like, yeah, man, I'm
really excited for that movie, andyou're like, oh, dude, same
(02:51):
the fact that they quoted Frank Miller'sDark Knight Returns, and I was like,
okay, hell yeah yeah, becauseafter that it was just all downhill
from there. We started talking aboutlike fucking Watchman and all the other yeah,
pretty much anything that Zack Snyder haddone up until that point, like
Man of Steel and everything. Itwas just like, all right, cool,
three hundred was fucking one of them. Oh yeah, dude, cause
(03:14):
you're gonna hate this shit. ButI was like, dude, I was
like ten when this came out,So this movie is like my childhood.
You know, it's all good.I was fuck man, uh twenty one.
Yeah, So when this came out, it took the fuck off.
At least as I remember, ittook the fuck off. Dude. Everybody
(03:37):
that I knew, including myself,went to see this movie in theaters multiple
fucking times. I remember how atthe time groundbreaking. The visuals were.
Yes, the camera work, whichSnyder has always had a knack for,
(03:57):
framing shit exactly like a comic bookand most of his filmography comic book adaptations.
Yeah, I'm trying to think becauseit was Dawn of the Dead was
his debut, if I'm not astand and that was a fucking fantastic creame.
Dude, love that movie. Threehundred credit me if I'm wrong?
Was that his second or third?That was the second one? Yeah?
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Okay, so and it was hisfirst writing credit too. God, that's
so fucking crazy because like, yeah, there was the scene with uh Jar
Butler talking to that like emperor.Yeah, that was not in the graphic
novel. No, some of thestuff was obviously done for you know,
(04:38):
the movie and everything. But Iloved it. Yeah, I did too,
man. And this is a FrankMiller written graphic novel, which again
I adore Frank Miller's work. Andagain this is more of us just waxing
poetic about having seen the movie,what it meant to us and shit,
because I I'm gonna go ahead andassume that most of our audience has watched
(05:00):
this movie. I have to assume, like, if not, how like
we said, this movie had everybodyin a choke hold. I feel like
you have to go out of yourway to not see it, dude.
Okay, this and this goes allthe way back to like when YouTube was
very fucking new. Okay, becauseyou got to understand everybody out there that,
like YouTube has been around since twothousand and five. Fuck stupid videos.
(05:25):
Dot Com was one of the firstlike meme presences, like if you
were going to look at videos likefor meme content, it was on websites
themselves, Like YouTube as a wholewas not the way we know it today.
I say that because this is Spartathing. It was one of the
earliest Internet memes. Dude. Yeah, dude, there was a lot of
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that going on, like because normallywith something like that, you just see
it like as a parody in moviesand TV shows, you know, like
the Simpsons might do it, orlike little things like that or Scary Movie
twelve or some bullshit. You know, like not to say that the scary
movies are bullshit, that's childhood also, but you know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, but yeah, that soundsabout right. This is Sparta is probably
like one of the earlier ones thatI can remember being like this is all
over the internet. Yeah, andI remember like techno remixes of like the
video like you know, yeah,like being done where I was like,
what the fuck's going on? Whichthat scene in general, Like we can
(06:29):
get into some of the plot ofthe movie obviously, because like it's worth
talking about. We're doing a wholeepisode on it, a based on our
three hundred episode, but like whenthat scene happens, like so they they
show Leonidas, King Leonidas like beingbrought up and how they're training, Like
they basically train these fuckers from thetime their kids until they're warriors, you
know, so you get the ideathat King Leonidas and the rest of the
(06:53):
Spartan Army are a bunch of hardass motherfuckers. So here comes this persian
on horseback with skulls and crowns oflike defeated sick dude. But I love
how Leonidas just looks at him.He's just like, you know, he's
come to warn Leonardis, and he'slike, oh yeah, Zersees is about
(07:13):
to just come fuck everybody's ship up. He wants land and water. He
just requires it, like you kneelbefore him and like turn all your shit
over or he's gonna like turn yourchildren and your wives into fucking slaves and
all this other shit. The Spartansand Greece are this. This is a
free like people, and just Leonidisis just he's pretty much like to get
(07:33):
off my wall. And at thispoint where he's like, bro, you
fucking come over with the heads andcrowns like skulls of fallen kings and you're
gonna fucking threaten me and my people. Then he beats children for fun and
has a rat tail. Don't goonto his property and say give us land
and water. Yeah, this dudehas no problems beating your ass, especially
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after you fucking insult his wife fortalking. Yes, you fucked up.
Because the one thing that I thoughtwas the most awesome shit about the way
that this is depicted is that theSpartans treat their women equally. The fact
that she just looked at that dudeand he was just like, what makes
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you think that? Like she canspeak amongst men, and she's like because
we give birth to real man,And I'm like, god, damn,
she just roasted your ass. Shewas fucking fire. I have a couple
of things about this scene that Ido want to point out. It's the
whole thing where they back them upto that giant goddamn hole in the ground
and he kicks him, you knowthrough He's like, there's a Spartan.
Fucking Spartan kicks him down into thehole. Who'd have fuck built that shit?
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I don't know, really built thepairmid but really think about how deep
that hole is, bru, that'san ocean violation waiting to fuck it happen,
I swear to god, dude,you have to think like, unless
for circumstances such as this, dothey have a netting around it like a
safety? I don't know, LikeI feel like maybe they bored it down,
or that they dug down, butthen like maybe like they dug like
(09:09):
a little walk with spiral walk away, you know, back up the deal
and they were just filling it inas they go back up. But it's
like, dude, what if thatfucking gave way and you just you fell
and you're just fucked. Every timeI watched this movie, though, I
think of the fucking bar from KanyeI keep it three hundred, just like
the Roman shit. Dude, lookJesus is my favorite Kanye album. At
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that bar, I was like,bro, what the fuck did you just
say? And then to top itall off, okay. So I don't
know if you've been made aware ofthis, but there's like a an online
meme that is scarily accurate where itsays, ask your man how often he
thinks about the Roman Empire, andlike some of the answers is like,
(09:58):
oh, usually once a month,or like about once a week, sometimes
every day, you know, likelike it depends on the dude, but
like most of them will say atleast once a month, okay, And
women are just like, I don'tunderstand this. So I was talking to
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one of my coworkers who's a femaleand talked about that blah blah blah,
and I brought it up to adude coworker and then he was like,
dude, you want to hear somefun facts about the Roman Empire just because?
And we both went down a fuckingrabbit hole, right, and she's
just sitting there listening to us,like the fuck. Yeah. So the
(10:43):
other day I was off work andshe was like, hey, what you
doing today? And I was likewatching three hundred and I sent her just
just a picture. She goes,You're in the Roman Empire? And I
was like, God, damn it, Kanye, you fool everybody right.
So essentially, Leonid is like,no fuck that, we're gonna go.
We're gonna smash the shit out ofJerseys in his Persian army. But but
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they have to listen to the oraclewho lays down the wall, who is
like if if he goes to theepers, I think it's only bro,
I don't. I think that's theirname. But I swear to God when
he rolled upon that one guy,I was like, is this the red
skull guarding the soul stone? Likewhat the fuck? Oh dude, you
tell me that didn't look like it. It did. It's like, you
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must listen to the oracle. AndI'm like, bro, get a fucking
lozenge or some shit. That dudesounded like he smoked a cart and of
fucking menthols for a week straight on. Don't get me started on the fucking
like the hunchback and not damn out. Oh we'll get to him in a
minute, that little fucker. ButLeonidas is sitting there and he just dumps
(11:54):
all this gold at their feet andhe's like, giving him this legitimately laid
out fucking bad as planning. Hewas like, we won't he like punch
his fa we will smash that fuckingfar. I'm like, dude, listen
to this muscle man. He knowswhat he's talking about. And then you
got all fucking cancer thrown up thereand be like you must listen to the
article, and I'm like, bruh, batman listens to the fucking oracle.
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Okay, fuck you. This guyhere is like you need to listen to
this naked, underwater dancy bitch whileI lick her, like gross, motherfuckers.
Dude. I swear it's so funnythat you brought up that scene,
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because like, the one thing aboutthis movie and Watchman that they have in
comment is that everybody's like, yeah, those uh, the nude of these
scenes, they were really something.Snyder kept the camera on that for a
good bit. Yes he did,He sure did. And I remember I
was in maybe sixth grade, okay, I was at the w W.
(13:03):
Lewis like little deck shit, youknow that's sitting there talking to my buddy,
and I was like, dude,what's your favorite action movie? And
he's like, when you say action, do you mean like action movie or
do you mean like action. Iwas like I was like action and he's
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like probably three hundred I was like, what about the other one. He's
like, honestly, probably still threehundred. Yeah, because they shot the
nudity. You have fucking three hundredframes for a second, dude, I
rise, Hey, that shit wascrispy as fuck. It was. It
was That's where I love about thismovie. Snyder movies in general have such
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a distinct look. But I wasjust about to fucking say that, but
this one, like, because ofthe time period, it still had that
grainy like film look to it.Yeah. I guess that was like the
post production bit of it, justto lay to make it look like because
you know how the you've read thecomic guy assume like, yes, real,
like fucking it looked like that.This looks like a Frank Miller comic,
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say, with Sin City and yeah, dude, what a time to
be alive. So they're getting tothe area, which, by the way,
Leonidas leads all his guys out,and so there's some actors in this
movie I forgot, Like I forgotMichael Fasspender was in this movie and he's
so good in it. Dominic Westwho played Jigsaw and Punisher Warzone Jigsaw.
(14:31):
Uh, I fucking love that movie. Uh still to me, the best
Punisher film. Goddamn. He playsthen who winds up being a corrupt politician
in this one. And he's nota comic book character, but he he
he's a trader to the entire Spartanclan because he's given xercees in all them.
Hey, no, this is what'shappening. This is blah blah blah
blah. So he's like, youknow, the gods said you shouldn't fight,
(14:56):
Sparta is gonna fall, and Leoni'slike, I'm just out here.
First, I gave no such commands. I'm stretching my legs. I'm going
for a walk. And these threehundred men on them my personal bodyguards,
you know, and all those others, And I'm like, this is great.
But to make a long story short, there's a lot of action here,
I mean towards the end, likefrom here on out is basically like,
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there's good story and shit happening during. But my god, the action
sequences that happen from here on aregreat. They make you believe that these
severely outnumbered motherfuckers could just beat thepiss, strategically beat the piss out of
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an army of thousands, and theydid for a good bit. I think
that's the crazy part is like thisis loosely based on a true story,
like fucking goddamn right, And thisis one of those instances where obviously the
fiction's way like way overdone, butright. And also, I mean,
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I don't know the facts here,Like I said, I'm not gonna pretend
to know either. Yeah, LikeI'm not a history major by any stretch,
but I did see a lot oflike articles saying like, actually the
Persians should have been the good guysand all that other stuff. Yeah,
that's that's fascinating it all, andit's probably historically true. I'm not gonna
debate you on it. I don'tknow for sure, but if that's what
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you're claiming, okay, whatever.But it's more fascinating to look at the
underdog story of three hundred versus amillion, right, dude. Cinematically that
just makes more sense, right.And I think one of the funniest goddamn
scenes in this movie is like thebefore their first big like fight sequence,
they're getting prepared, right, mAnd I love like Gerard Butler's delivery is
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Leoni's is like it looks like rainand they just watch that fucking ocean swallow
and cat size, all those fuckingboats full of people just like sailing to
the shore to kick their ass,and they're just like, nope, dude,
well I'm glad you brought that up. Okay, did Leon and Idis
ever give you like almost like aWalter White Heisenberg vibe in the sense said,
(17:22):
and I'm not talking like season one. I'm talking like season three,
season four, where Walter White isbasically dead at this point. It's just
Heisenberg. Okay, he was smarterthan everybody. He knew he was smarter
than everybody, but his ego wasstarting to get the better of him.
I don't think so. I thinkit's because that's how they were. They
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were all raised with how do Iput this, it's not a hive mindset
in this instance, but the Spartanswere raised to like they had integrity.
They were not going to fucking justroll over and die. It's one of
those was like, fuck, youcome and take us. If you think
you can fucking take us, thendo it. This is how we want
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to die. We want to dieof fucking warriors death, and we want
to die defending our people and standingup for whatever the fuck is right.
So I don't think it was aHeisenberg mentality. I think it was just
more or less of like, wehave no fear at this point, and
how the fuck do you fight somethingthat's got no fear? Hey, you
(18:26):
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was just a couple of dialogue moments, and I'm not shitting on the dialogue
(19:33):
here. I love this movie.I'm really no negatives, but like the
scene where he is talking to uhZerses and he's over there one on one
or whatever, yeah, and he'slike, oh man, my legs got
it. Yeah dude, yeah,I can't kneel. I'm kind of cramping
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from killing all your men, youknow, like fucking hilarious. But in
my brain, I was like,dude, oh God, you're making me
nervous here, because fuck, it'sego so much ego. Oh fuck,
if you look at it's both ofthem too. Oh yeah. But it
just kind of gave me like shadesof Heisenberg when he was in the chemo
(20:18):
therapy. And I'm paraphrasing it,but he was basically like, yeah,
I'm god, y'all say that thiscancer is gonna take me out. No,
no, no, I take itout, you know, like basically
that kind of shit, right,I get that. I think into the
other side of that, I thinkLeoninis was just like, you're no God,
I'm gonna make you bleed. Likeliterally, they're tell me you bleed.
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Yeah, you will, Like straightup, I know we're jumping through
a lot of this moviement again,we know you fuckers have seen this.
Farren winds up betraying the Spartan Army, so does the hunchback of Notre Dame,
who is like a discarded little fuckerthat like thinks he's gonna just come
and fight. But Leonid's like,nah, you can't lift your shield up
(21:03):
past your fucking neck. And Imean, he wasn't wrong. I know,
he definitely wasn't wrong what I wassaying. This little motherfucker goes to
zero Seas and sells out the restof the Spartan plan and gives away their
entire like you know, corridor plan. That's the moment where Leonis knew they
were gonna die, because you thinkabout like when he found out they got
betrayed right there, he was like, Okay, well fuck it, Like
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that's why he said, like tonightwe died in hell because they knew they
were gonna die going into this fightno matter what. They just they fucking
knew they were dead. By thetime we get to that sequence where he
sends like, hey, we're gonnasend some of these people back because his
right hand guy Delios dude, David, Yeah, Delis don't have me trying
(21:48):
to pronounce these It don't matter.His right hand guy de Leo's who has
been narrating the entire time the oneeyed snake plisk and looking the guy which
that that dude could have been afucking shoe to play snake plitskin. Anyway,
he keeps a handful but sends mostof the younger children like with him
because he's like, no, no, no, no, no no,
he's young guys need to like birththe next set of warriors, and you
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need a younger army to train andall this other shit. So he rolls
up the Zerses and the rest ofhis army after fighting a shit ton of
like an Asian army and like abunch of other motherfuckers that they just killed
the shit out of. Whenever Ifirst saw this, I did not understand
if he purposely didn't like if hedidn't hit as Zerzes when he launched the
(22:34):
spear, because he fakes him outlike he's gonna ballot to him. He
drops his sword and drops his shield, and he drops his spear and he
kneels down. He winds up launchingthat spear and it cuts his face and
like to the point where it cutssome of the piercings out of his fucking
cheek. When I was younger,I was like, oh, fuck he
missed because I thought he was goingfor a death blow, which I think
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maybe he knew he was gonna diewhether or not he killed Zersees. So
it was more or less like,Okay, if you're gonna kill me,
I'm gonna like embarrass you, becauselike you're you're preaching that you're a fucking
god among men, but you bleedlike a goddamn mortal they put their name
to the test, cuts the dudeon the fucking cheek, and I was
(23:17):
like, fuck he missed. Yearslater, I'm like, my man's was
he knew he was about to die, and he was like, fuck it.
He did it out of spite,and I fucking love it. Shit's
so fucking cold, dude. Ohand his wife winds up killing then because
like he sexually assaults her and givesher some dialogue that she gives right back
(23:40):
to him in front of like thecouncil, Like when she fucking stabs him
in the stomach and turns the bladein him. I'm like, oh,
get him. I was like this, get this. Motherfucker dropped his That
motherfucker got hit and spilt his fuckingsonic rings all over the grounds. Crazy,
dude, because this is not along movie compared to a lot of
(24:03):
what we see now. And alsothat's weird to say, dude, because
it's got almost a two hour runtimeand we're sitting here like, oh,
it's not that long of a movie, and it's really not comparatively speaking.
Yeah, Like I think like also, when you think of these big,
massive set pieces and epics, especiallyhistorical epics, these are usually two and
(24:26):
a half three hours, you know, like we're talking like dances with wolves,
fucking like all this crazy shit.What's the other one? What's the
one with Gibson? Uh? Fuckthe Mel Gibson movie. Oh, Braveheart,
(24:47):
Braveheart, Thank you. I don'tknow why I forgot, But when
you're thinking of movies like that,you know those are big, beefy fuck
fuck. Yeah, dude, BraveHeart was Brave Heart was considered like an
epic like when it had come out, because I remember very vividly that being
one of the first two vhs,like releases I saw, and this movie,
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they're so much chocked into it,and it's like still somehow seventy five
percent action set pieces and it's stillonly like two hours. You know what
I like the most about this moviethough, how well done, because you
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know, most of this was obviouslyeverybody out there knows most of this was
like CGI and shit, where likethe sets were built and it was green
screen, but they had some propsup front. But then the scene where
he's telling gorgo his wife. Whenhe's telling his wife goodbye and you see
the Spartans walking off in the distance. It's one of the first times that
I've seen this movie because I havelike a fucking like a PS five and
(25:53):
it basically like bumps up the quality. I'm on a four K TV and
shit, and you can see howmuch more smoothly the actors are walking away
compared to the background. And I'mlike, oh my god, it finally
happened where you know how we lookat older movies and we're like, oh,
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that's so obvious, it's not evenfunny. I looked at this and
I was like, fuck, dude, this movie held up so goddamn long
that the technology that surrounds its viewingnow as far as the TV and then
like the PS five and everything that'sgonna bump the quality up. I was
like, fuck, now I cantell that it's digital. You couldn't tell
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this was digital for twenty something fuckingyears. It was insane, dude,
especially because, like I mean,I grew up with it on DVD,
so like it was like seven totwenty p you know. So I was
like, damn, this shit lookhard bruh. But no, I'm I'm
just blown away at like you're talkingabout how his wife kills that dude in
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front of everybody, and it's like, man, like that's the kind of
like revelation like feeling that you getafter like a movie. It's almost like
twice as long almost, you know. And it's crazy that this shit felt
(27:21):
as satisfying as it did. Yeah, because I don't feel like there's a
wasted moment in this movie. No, not really no. And I again,
I remember when this had come outand I saw it, dude,
I oh my god, I watchedthis so many fucking times. I knew
people that kept and I was oneof them. For a hot minute.
I'm not even gonna lie, butthey kept this movie on repeat. Dude,
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Well, it's just it's just afucking guy movie. Like, that's
what I was gonna say, Dude. I vividly remember seeing this movie in
theaters with my friend Anny, andI'll never forget this as long as I
live. She fucking leans over andshe was just like, in the most
(28:08):
positively fucking hilarious way, she goes, this is the most testosterone driven movie
I have ever seen in my fuckinglife. And I was like, God,
same, dude, Yeah, Like, this is one of those movies
where if you just want to feellike a fucking man, not only a
man, but a fat, outof shape man too. Hey, don't
(28:30):
be talking shit. Hey, I'msaying it too, Bruh. It's just
funny as fuck. Five minutes Sannaand you're already like, goddamn it,
I'm breathing hard, like the fuckis a fuck you? Right, That's
what it cracked me up to.This movie made every fucking dude be like,
I want to be a spartan.I want to go like hit the
(28:51):
gym. And these fuckers fought innothing, They really fought in nothing.
And I remember somebody being like,why do they do that? And I'm
like, they move quicker, there'sless holding them back if they are efficient
and they can protect and attack,like if they can block as well as
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they have offense, Dude, y'allare fucked. Oh yeah, in every
sense of the word. That iswhy that Spartan team was so good.
I'm talking about the fictionalized team.That's why they were so fucking good.
But the movie concludes with them blottingout the sun with harrows and Leonidis and
his men just fucking getting filled withthese bastards and Jerseys wins. I remember
(29:34):
like being pissed that they fucking lost. I was like, you've got to
be fucking shitty me. I wasso mad. I love that though.
I love the notion of like,god fucking damn it. And every fucking
like history teacher you ever met waslike, fucking Richie, I told you
(29:59):
this, I told you in gradeschool, and you're just like, no,
you didn't. You ain't taught meshit. You ain't said that was
three hundred I did because I rememberthem teaching me that ship too. I
remember the story of it, andI remember all this shit. I didn't
remember the outcome. So then whenthe movie rolled around. I was like,
(30:25):
the fuck some bullshit. I wantmy money back, fucking Bobles,
my money back. I want mymoney back for the last three minutes.
You can have my money for thelast like one hour fifty seven minutes,
but give me the rest of bruh, give me my thirty five cents.
(30:47):
Fuck, give me give me mybox of raisin nets for free, like
you know what I'm saying, likemy popcorn for free. Man. Mine's
was, uh was dibbs, youremember, Oh yeah, I remember that
ship dude, Oh dude, snowcaps, DIBs, fucking god whoppers,
(31:07):
dipping dots. Yeah. But themovie concludes with Dilio's uh talking about the
rest of this story to the Spartans, and it looks like he's just because
they frame it where it looks likehe's talking like to maybe just a handful
around a campfire, and really,in reality, they are being prepared a
year later to fight the Persian army, and now there are ten thousand Spartans
(31:33):
that are leading thirty thousand Greeks,and Dilios is the head of the fucking
army now, and the movie endswith them running towards this other fucking like
huge Army, and you're just like, oh, man, they are super
fucked. That not the Spartans,the people they're about to go fuck up
are super fucked dude. Yeah,dude, three god, three hundred is
(31:56):
such a it. It still holdsup up. I got to say that,
it still fucking holds up, man. I mean there's a few obviously
some fucking problematic shit here and therein this movie, but it's like it's
very outweighed, you know what I'msaying, back when men were man,
God, damnity. Oh yeah,I can't believe for me and Devin to
(32:19):
be sitting here, it's been likeeight years, almost going on nine.
I don't know, like that thosenumbers don't make sense to me. I
know, dude, it's fucking insane, But I don't know. I couldn't
have I couldn't have thought of abetter movie to talk about, or a
better thing to talk about on likea like a three hundredth episode, which
(32:43):
to me that wrote itself. It'slike it's kind of like the obvious pick
of what we were going to talkabout, but really and trutly like it
does like encompass everything that makes uswho we are, makes our like it
bonded us in friendship, and thenlike here we are, like we talk
about a lot of shit, wrestlingmovies, whatever we like or whatever,
(33:04):
and then like it comes to thisand like this director and his particular body
of work. Everybody shits on ZackSnyder for no good fucking reason. In
my opinion, I really like theGuys movies and shit, yeah, like
that's the thing, is a lotof the gripes about his movies. I
will look at it and be likeI hear you, you know, like
(33:28):
there's some stuff, dude, Iwill die on the hill of Batman Verus
Superman to particularly the Ultimate Edition.But anytime somebody like complains about certain like
logic or something like that, I'mlike, no, I hear you,
I get it. Blah blah blah, you know, like I can't debate
(33:50):
it. But at the same point, I'll take that over, like I'd
say, what seventy percent of themovies that I've seen in my life,
like it's one of my favorites,you know, Like I love that movie.
Right, And this, for anybodyout there listening, should tell you
everything you need to know about ZackSnyder and his filmography and his inspiration and
(34:13):
shit. His five favorite movies Excalibur, Bad Max two, a Clockwork,
Orange Blue Velvet, and RoboCop.Yeah that makes sense that all checks out,
Yeah, because they all contain shitthat this man has put into his
films. Yeah. Yeah, Uh. Three hundred is still a fantastic action
(34:38):
film. It is very greatly stylized. It is a fun watch, It
is culturally significant in many fucking ways. It's one of my favorite action films,
oh for sure. Like it's fuckingup there. Yep. We're gonna
get back into some wrestling next week. We are jumping back into our WWF
(34:59):
thirty years two High Machine series forSurvivor Series nineteen ninety three. We last
left off with SummerSlam nineteen ninety three, and then after that we will be
talking about aw full gear. Butuntil we do that, visit super media
prospodcast dot com for past president futureepisodes. Check out all the other shows
(35:20):
on the odd Pods Media network byvisiting Oddpodsmedia dot com. Subscribe to us
on YouTube, follow us on socialmedia. Happy three hundred dude, Goddamn,
it's been a fucking ride, fuckingon trick. I know that's a
long time to be doing a fuckingshow. Jesus, fuck shit. Well,
on to three hundred more is hertwo Sweet meet Brow Sweet, Thank
(35:43):
you very much for hanging out withus. This has been episode three hundred
on Zack Snyder's three hundred. Untilnext time, I'm Richievin shade'es on. We're all
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