Great episode! I give Jaws 2 probably a little more then you! Haha hope your feeling better now brother! Matrix is great, not a massive fan of the franchise but it’s entertaining putting it mildly. 300 is perfect to me in everyway!
I love 300. I know some people will argue it's not historically accurate but if you think about the movie it's all being recounted by one of his So already you have an unreliable narrator. If you think back to the movie Braveheart when William Wallace walks out into the battlefield he starts talking about how all these myths and legends started surrounding him including how tall he was and that he could shoot lightning bolts out of his ass. So I think what's happening in 300 is leonidas's lieutenant is trying to get the rest of the soldiers fired up. They are literally going into battle against one of the greatest armies of all time and for better or worse it's essentially a suicide mission. Most of these guys would be afraid. But if they're hearing stories about how Leonidas took on immortals who couldn't die, a guy with essentially chainsaw bow hands, and a king that was 20 ft tall and was able to make him bleed that's going to get the army fired up and ready to go into battle. So once you look at it from that lens all the historical inaccuracies don't matter the weirdness of some of the characters don't matter because it's all based on an unreliable narrator who is embellishing events to get the troops fired up. I know rise of an empire gets a lot of flack but I also think that's another incredible movie that does the impossible it serves as a prequel, and equal, and a sequel to 300 while showing a completely different aspect of the war by focusing on different mentalities and philosophies and a different form of combat in this case naval. Both of the 300 movies are absolutely amazing and I am so stoked to hear they're going to be making a TV series set within that universe I hope it's as good as both movies
