not a bad film but spartans didnt fight like this (more compact and disciplined) they would have lost on the first morning like that but good fun film anyway
This movie makes me thinks "Greeks, god damn they were badass to kick Persia's ass" and then I go watch Troy and I think "God damn, those Greeks are pricks!".
I have one thing I'd love to see. Leonidas v.s. Achilles.
in high school i accidentally hit a teammate with a javelin during track practice. it wasn't through the heart or anything but i was blessed with the name leo for the rest of the year haha
seeing all these comments about u faggs saying that persia wasn't great
we are all persians (aka iranians) but the ones saying shit againts us are 90% not even greek .... c'mon man
with very much respect to the director of watchmen and suckerpunch
this movie is offensive to our culture while u cared about making the money outta lies that people love to see and believe .....and yes the movies action scenes are of the hook so fuck all u haters of reality ...
(2). they have anthen shields instead of spartan shields
(3). broke formation
(4). leonidus threw his dori spear. the dori spear is the spartans primary weapon they would never discard it unless its broken or if their in close quarters combat.
(5). the furs on top of the helmet is foward instead of sideways
@McNachos64 Wow, thank you so much for sharing. Can you elaborate? Do you have time? I feel like my appreciation of the film could be enhanced by more of your self-congratulatory bullshit.
This is a film. Watching this film and saying "oh, that's not accurate" is like reading Tacitus or Dio Cassius and saying "this history is bullshit, there's not enough action or violence". The concerns are discrete and unrelated. Fucking troll morons.
@VongolaXGeneration woah language young man/woman. i liked how this movie showed a perfect example of the thermopalye pass. overall this movie waz good. i just pointed out the things hollywood did wrong
@McNachos64 So? How bout you go make a multimillion dollar movie, hire all the actors, and try to make this battle "historically accurate" which is extremely difficult, Mr "EvEryThiNG hAS tO b HisTorICalLY cORrEct Or eLSE iT bLOwS"
I dislike people who are always negative toward movies like Troy, 300, Titanic etc.
Ω ξειν, αγγέλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις... ... ότι τήδε κείμεθα, τοις κείνων ρήμασι πειθόμενοι Ξένε, ανάγγειλε στους Λακεδαιμονίους πως εδώ κειτόμαστε, πιστοί στο θέλημά τους" "Go tell the Spartans stranger passing by, that here obeiding to their laws we lie" The epigram in tribute of the Peloponnesian hoplites in Thermopylae
this is HOLLYWOOD FIGHTING. Hoplites shields during this time period didn't work without a man beside them. you couldn't use it for yourself. They did this to force the group to stay in unit ( phalanx). also they didn't have swords, only small daggers. Finally the king would be in the back for sure. The vets were always in the back shouting orders, the recruits in the middle so they couldn't run and the frontline had the 3-5 year semi-experienced group under 30 usually.
actually the Spartans killings may have been exaggerated but it is very possible. most of their battle s as seen in the movie were in extremely strategic areas which always gave them an overwhelming advantage as usually during the battle the Persians could only send 5 men at a time at them and obviously at that number the Spartans easily were able to use phalanx to kill them
@XxXOlegaSXxX Of course we know how it was then, that's not a myth, it's a historical event. The battle is described by Herodotus, the first historian in human history. The film changes some things, that's also true.
And of course I think the convertation is interesting, we can both watch and enjoy the film AND talk about history. History is not bla bla bla for everybody...
PERSIAN THE UGLIEST HORE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 1 SPARTAN TAKE OUT 10 PERSIAN HORE YOU ARE MANY BUT HAVE NO WARRIOR GREECE ARE FEW BUT HAVE MANY WARRIOR. SO GO FUCK YOUSELF
YOU SAY SPARTANS FEAR A PERSIAN SAY THAT IN FRONT OF WE AND YOU WISH YOU NEVER WAS BORN WANT TO KILL A GREEK SPARTAN CUT HIS HEAD OF HIS HANDS OF LEGS OF HIN YOUNG OUT HE NEVER GIVE UP SO GO FUCK YOURSELF . YOU CAN TALK MUSH SHIIT BEHIND THE COMPUTER BUT IN REAL WORLD.........................
Fucking idiots dont talk shiit about greece or you can geta fuck out from this site. if that ugly betrayder havent betrayed greece the perian could never come in in greece. spartans are the best wariuor that even lived if you dont now idiots. proud to be greek few greeks stod against many sagapo greece(L)
piece of crap. Persia is the one and only....what Sparta feared us for about 7000 years and Persia was unstoppable. Sparta only came to name 6500 years later. ANd besides they wuda got owned if Spartans came to Persia....remember that we went to Sparta with barely any food for many days
You can talk and shout from your soap box all you want....but it's a historical fact that Persia never could defeat Greece (a bunch of city states that couldn't get along with eachother). It's also a historical fact that once they were united Persia was defeated by Greece. Persia was a empire that got too big for it's shoes and ended up failing (much like all empires throughout history).
@Axel1617 Greece has been defeated several times by Persia. It wasn't until the Greek cities confederated together that Persia was defeated. It took almost another 100 years for Greece to become strong enough to threaten Persia's existence.
@HUMOON1 alright its one month old but u confuse me! U say that the persians are apparently much better then the spartans rite? Well then the persians shouldve been able to hold their own so the fact is spartans held off the persians and greece conquered them
I suppose you mean Thebans, not Thesbians? Thesbians is a literary term for actors. Has any one actually read a history book or do you just Google everything? So now you are experts? The Spartans were brutal people, but honorable in their own way, and that is what was needed at that moment in time, people who are fierce, brutal and ready to die.
They did indeed kill babies they deemed unfit, but then much of the world has done that as well.
ImaginedWriter Thebes were able to do that because of Alkiviades who convinced Spartans to change their way of life and fight again with the Athinians.He made them cut currency and built ships.Thebes wouldn't have a chance if they didn't change their ways.And after Persian war and 29 year war with the Athinians Sparta wasn't the same.This is why Macedonians also became powerfull.The strange thing was that they said ok with them and not with Thebes.I think because Thebes helped Xerxes.
@LakedemonP u cant make excuses for the decline of Sparta, it's better to burn away than fade, so remember the spartans as awesome but everyone falls, look at the macedonians and the english in the hundred years war i mean Crecy, Poitier, Agincourt and Vernuel, the english prevailed despite Frances numerical advantage and better equiped more established army England prevailed time and again largely because of the longbow and of course good tactics. Then Joan of Arc comes everytign went wrong
those battles happened during third persian crusade.It was the last chance of Persia to conquer Greece but they failed.But this wasnt the only important battle.Remember the battle of Marathon which changed the history of Greece and of Europe.If the Greeks wouldn't defeat Persians during the whole 3 crusades probably the history of Europe would be very different...Many countries and nations probably wouldn't exist.Scary i know but true
also the final battle lasted 3 hours. 30mins into it i think the king died then a hand full of guys draged his body into a conner and defended it for a few hours.
ya its written in one script that there were 7000 athenians along with the greek front there and other script says there were 10000 ;
and the most fiercest and bloodiest fight of the entire stand off was for the dead body of king Leonadus - ; persians snatching it and greeks recovering it back then again persians took the body like wise;
well at thermopiles were 300 spartans alongside along 800 thesprotians and hold their spot against 400000 or even more persians about 2 or 3 days but by no chance they were like the film.the fact is that they werethe best army at that time cause to theis superior training and advanced military techologhy compare to persians but they were dramatically outnumbered and therefore they lost with or without ephialtes intervention.and they were conquered by philipus and his son alexander afterhim
@galateagr Gerard Butler does look buff in his bare chest and all but you are right. The Spartans were encased in Bronze armor (weighing about 70 pounds) that gave them a big edge against the largely lighty or non armored Persians.
the spartans as history tells were at the head of this combined army..the army was able to hold off persian attacks for nearly 3-4 days before the traitor named Ephialtes revealed to the Persians another passage around the pass.seeing the enevitable threat of this army being surrounded and destroyed leonidas orders the army to break up andfor the other city state soldiers to go back to there cities and to defend there own cities..leonidas following spartan law stays to block there retreat
Sparta though was not one of the states who gave macedon there loyalty but as the spartans and macedonians did not have any quarells with each other they didnt have to worry about each other being a threat(geographic proximity of the two factions also made warring hard)...2) The 300 spartans DID NOT defend the pass in the movie as it is shown...The main pass in which the mmovie 300 depicts the spartans holding was actually held by the 300 men alongside 10,000 other greek city state soldiers..
ok guys thought i might clear some things out 1) Phillip of Macedon DID NOT conquer greece..He visited it many times with his son Alexander who was actually taught by a Greek and thus the Greek city states (NOT EMPIRE as the greeks were not unified) gave there alligence Phillip as they also feared the rising military power Macedon had become..(phillip was preparing for an invasion of Persia..he did not live and as such his son Alexander took the army he had created and invaded the Persian empire
@ShowYourWorking "And Alexander of Macedon didn't even need to contend with them because his father had conquered all of Greece before he was even born! " Pardon? Utter Shite! If that was so i'm guessing Demosthenes' Phillipics were just pointless Tourettes based Rants!
For your info, Spartans were Dorians like Argives. But Dorians were a sub-tribe of the western Greek branch hailing from western Macedonia. The proto-tribe is called Makednii and gave the Aetolians and Macedonians and from Macedonians a part descended and gave the Dorians.
Apart speaking the same greek dialect, Macedonians and (pre-Lycourgos) Spartans had pretty much the same archaic Dorian organisation. In Peloponesian war, Spartans and Macedonians were allies.
Greece did not exist as a country back then. It was more of a notion. Macedonians did not "conquer" any "Greece". They beat 3 main enemies of theirs, the cities of Chalkidiki, the state of Thebes and the state of Athens. On the rest they prevailed politically.
They tried to unite Greeks under 1 flag, same as Thebans, Spartans and Athenians had tried in the past but Greeks back then could not be united as for them the notion of "nation" and "state" were different.
@simoncase it was 300 spartans aganist all the persians the persians were on both sides... and it wasnt as strong i guess :P they shouldnt have though :(
@simoncase they had to cause there were so many persians runnin in different directions at the same time
plus the point of the phalanx is to confuse the enemy by standing together and do the same thing over and over and then break apart and attack the different soldiers coming at you... the spartans did it, the romans did it, hell it was the best military defense idea since they came up with the idea of shields
History is writan by the victors so the facts will always be questioned, This film has the best battle scenes i'v seen. Leave the history to the pro's and love the film!
I think the part about the Spartans commenting about the large volleys of arrows was an actual quote from a Spartan commander who basically said that the Persian archers were helping them by giving them shade to fight in.
They had a strange culture, but they were one that valued prowess and courage in battle as much as the vikings.
I personally like the spartans better, the vikings were just brutal warriors who had a good way of manuvering and catching it's enemies of guard. The spartans actually have a strategy and move like a good fighting unit, but thats just my opinionn :)
the spartans were about 300 not a thousand and they were enough to kill xerxes army but the efialtis b i tch had to get the persians in an open space where the 300 had no chance .... im greek and this is a fact ( efialtis wasnt a monstrous human . the director made him like that cause he wanted to show obviously how evil and corrupted he became . )
Just because a spartan had 2-3 equals doesn't mean there were more than 900 spartans at thermopylae, and not every spartan came from sparta to the battle.
the 300 spartans were alone at the hot gates battle the spartans hated athens they would never reinforce athens other greeks fought other battles with the spartans but they fought in differnt groups not aside eachother
spartans were some of the finest soilders on earth, if it werent for them incest breeding themselves due to lack of science knowledge (lol), they woulda still be great soilders to this day!
Um ok. Someone feels insulted, let me guess it must be a little kid. Wow great going, i bet that's how your parents talk to you huh ? Maybe they need to head on back to school and tuck you back in your mom's belly and and learn some education and manners. O and since i know you are going to comment back, good luck on that. FOOL!!!!!
I wish instead of the guy he killed being far away he was running at him so when he got owned by the spear up close he got pushed back by the force of his throw.
hahahaha me too.... in fact thats why i was watching it. i had remembered thinking about it and wanted to see just how good of a killing spree it was XD
and i see all the medals in the corner too.... beat down.... sniped... sword spree... XD
ya, youre right. they actually just faught in lines because the way they are fighting now, they would have been slaughtered because of the crowds of persians.
as the story goes, the 300 would have won easily killing all scores of 400,000s of Persians, if it wasn' t for a Spartan traitor named Ephialtes who betrayed them and showed the enemy how to get behind their defense lines.
After teh war with Persia, actually not even Alexander the Great, or the Roman Empire managed to defeat the Spartans, until finally Spartans slowly abandoned their military lifestyles.
@1035573 the Thebans, under Epamidinodas, broke Sparta before Philip II (Alexander's father had subdued the city-states before Alex was born) even came into the area.
In addition to the shock of losing/being embarassed, after the the rest of the world saw that superior generalship was more important than a tight hoplite phalanx, Sparta was finished as a major power. So neither Alexander nor Rome had to work hard to conquer them.
not a bad film but spartans didnt fight like this (more compact and disciplined) they would have lost on the first morning like that but good fun film anyway
kuiki123 1 month ago
spartan fucking campers
peywend 1 month ago
i used to fight like this, then took an arrow to the knee.
topgun8881 1 month ago 2
LEEROOOOOOOOOOY!!! JENKIIIIIIIIIINS!!!
The1979Warriors 1 month ago
This movie makes me thinks "Greeks, god damn they were badass to kick Persia's ass" and then I go watch Troy and I think "God damn, those Greeks are pricks!".
I have one thing I'd love to see. Leonidas v.s. Achilles.
Coolwhitey 2 months ago
@Coolwhitey leonidas fo sho
sadwhale57 1 month ago
in high school i accidentally hit a teammate with a javelin during track practice. it wasn't through the heart or anything but i was blessed with the name leo for the rest of the year haha
tyrantsfaceisred 2 months ago
seeing all these comments about u faggs saying that persia wasn't great
we are all persians (aka iranians) but the ones saying shit againts us are 90% not even greek .... c'mon man
with very much respect to the director of watchmen and suckerpunch
this movie is offensive to our culture while u cared about making the money outta lies that people love to see and believe .....and yes the movies action scenes are of the hook so fuck all u haters of reality ...
ferrywizz95 2 months ago
Only thing I HATE about this movie??
THE WHOLE THING LOOKS LIKE IT'S IN SEPHIA!!!!!
Other than that, it's awesome!!!
thejaimeshow2000 2 months ago
5 things wrong about this scene
(1).the're wearing no armor
(2). they have anthen shields instead of spartan shields
(3). broke formation
(4). leonidus threw his dori spear. the dori spear is the spartans primary weapon they would never discard it unless its broken or if their in close quarters combat.
(5). the furs on top of the helmet is foward instead of sideways
McNachos64 3 months ago 14
@McNachos64 ur gay
MW3expertz 2 months ago
@MW3expertz just pointing out the things hollywood did wrong
McNachos64 2 months ago
@McNachos64 interesting
kcirdrab 2 months ago
@kcirdrab yes very
McNachos64 2 months ago
@McNachos64 Wow, thank you so much for sharing. Can you elaborate? Do you have time? I feel like my appreciation of the film could be enhanced by more of your self-congratulatory bullshit.
This is a film. Watching this film and saying "oh, that's not accurate" is like reading Tacitus or Dio Cassius and saying "this history is bullshit, there's not enough action or violence". The concerns are discrete and unrelated. Fucking troll morons.
jezmuff 2 months ago
@McNachos64 i thought it was only roman generals/leaders that had the imperial ittalic helmet??
Iravetopendulum 2 months ago
@McNachos64 and? its still an epic movie
longebor85 2 months ago
@McNachos64 But it makes a kick a** movie though...lol
Metalbulletcoat 2 months ago
@McNachos64 but your still called McNachos.....
DolanStudios 2 months ago
@DolanStudios ha i dont think that matters bra!
McNachos64 2 months ago
@McNachos64 lol
DolanStudios 2 months ago
@McNachos64 I don't think any of that matters... GTFO
undertaker0517 2 months ago
@McNachos64 its a movie,we will never know how spartans look like in the pass
Snowsp33ders 1 month ago
@McNachos64 - Spartans fought in the nude, the shields have "L" in them for Laconia and that was a Spartan city!
StompingRabbits 1 month ago
@McNachos64 really do you do that with every movie like it fucking matter what they fucking look like
VongolaXGeneration 1 month ago
@VongolaXGeneration woah language young man/woman. i liked how this movie showed a perfect example of the thermopalye pass. overall this movie waz good. i just pointed out the things hollywood did wrong
McNachos64 1 month ago
@McNachos64 yeah but when does hollywood ever do things right
VongolaXGeneration 1 month ago
@VongolaXGeneration ha rigght;) lol
McNachos64 1 month ago
@McNachos64 So? How bout you go make a multimillion dollar movie, hire all the actors, and try to make this battle "historically accurate" which is extremely difficult, Mr "EvEryThiNG hAS tO b HisTorICalLY cORrEct Or eLSE iT bLOwS"
I dislike people who are always negative toward movies like Troy, 300, Titanic etc.
iamthebomb17 1 month ago
@iamthebomb17 who sais i was being negative i like this movie
McNachos64 1 month ago
@McNachos64 they based it off of the comic book NOT history
WunderWaffleman 1 month ago
@WunderWaffleman it still hapend in history not accuratley but it happend
McNachos64 1 month ago
@McNachos64 also they are missing the thousands of athens soldiers that ran away. then the spartans fought
Ps3scaryNinja 1 month ago
@Ps3scaryNinja right forgot that part
McNachos64 1 month ago
@McNachos64 -_- NERD! RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE WILL YA!
KyUuBiIgOnEfErAl 1 month ago
@KyUuBiIgOnEfErAl ha aww why does everyone call me that lmao!!
McNachos64 1 month ago
@KyUuBiIgOnEfErAl hes not ruining it hes just saying how it was in real life, and therefore teaching us all new things.
bibipbi 4 weeks ago
@McNachos64 5 things right about this scene
Its awesome, its awesome, its awesome, its fucking awesome, i love it. :D
casinozx 3 weeks ago
@casinozx thoes are opinions my friend:p
McNachos64 3 weeks ago
AMon14A 5 months ago
The Lord's Angel killed 187,000 Assyrian soldiers in the Defense of His Nation Israel.
Jesus is Lord and God! 1 John 5:19-20
Modern Son of Thunder!!!
ErnieMeTube 6 months ago
this is HOLLYWOOD FIGHTING. Hoplites shields during this time period didn't work without a man beside them. you couldn't use it for yourself. They did this to force the group to stay in unit ( phalanx). also they didn't have swords, only small daggers. Finally the king would be in the back for sure. The vets were always in the back shouting orders, the recruits in the middle so they couldn't run and the frontline had the 3-5 year semi-experienced group under 30 usually.
TheBokkah 7 months ago
Man these persians are taking archilles technique
jump and strike the neck
losers
lehxp001 7 months ago
@lehxp001 That is why the spartans are beating them...
ipods36 6 months ago
@ipods36 agreed
lehxp001 5 months ago
actually the Spartans killings may have been exaggerated but it is very possible. most of their battle s as seen in the movie were in extremely strategic areas which always gave them an overwhelming advantage as usually during the battle the Persians could only send 5 men at a time at them and obviously at that number the Spartans easily were able to use phalanx to kill them
kevinlimwangli 7 months ago
WHO CARES obout history! just look ;D how cool it is. history bla bla bla.. we newer know how it was then
XxXOlegaSXxX 7 months ago
@XxXOlegaSXxX Of course we know how it was then, that's not a myth, it's a historical event. The battle is described by Herodotus, the first historian in human history. The film changes some things, that's also true.
And of course I think the convertation is interesting, we can both watch and enjoy the film AND talk about history. History is not bla bla bla for everybody...
Lhein33 6 months ago
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I HATE THIS MOVIE. this movie has no respect for persians what so ever.
ejdeha995 8 months ago
PERSIAN THE UGLIEST HORE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 1 SPARTAN TAKE OUT 10 PERSIAN HORE YOU ARE MANY BUT HAVE NO WARRIOR GREECE ARE FEW BUT HAVE MANY WARRIOR. SO GO FUCK YOUSELF
GREEK1749 9 months ago
YOU SAY SPARTANS FEAR A PERSIAN SAY THAT IN FRONT OF WE AND YOU WISH YOU NEVER WAS BORN WANT TO KILL A GREEK SPARTAN CUT HIS HEAD OF HIS HANDS OF LEGS OF HIN YOUNG OUT HE NEVER GIVE UP SO GO FUCK YOURSELF . YOU CAN TALK MUSH SHIIT BEHIND THE COMPUTER BUT IN REAL WORLD.........................
GREEK1749 9 months ago
Fucking idiots dont talk shiit about greece or you can geta fuck out from this site. if that ugly betrayder havent betrayed greece the perian could never come in in greece. spartans are the best wariuor that even lived if you dont now idiots. proud to be greek few greeks stod against many sagapo greece(L)
GREEK1749 9 months ago
this is kick ass
76johnp 9 months ago
piece of crap. Persia is the one and only....what Sparta feared us for about 7000 years and Persia was unstoppable. Sparta only came to name 6500 years later. ANd besides they wuda got owned if Spartans came to Persia....remember that we went to Sparta with barely any food for many days
PERSIA RULE!
HUMOON1 10 months ago
@HUMOON1
You can talk and shout from your soap box all you want....but it's a historical fact that Persia never could defeat Greece (a bunch of city states that couldn't get along with eachother). It's also a historical fact that once they were united Persia was defeated by Greece. Persia was a empire that got too big for it's shoes and ended up failing (much like all empires throughout history).
Axel1617 9 months ago 13
@Axel1617
yh as i was saying we were untouchablke for like 3000 years...oh yes sparta only 500 years. Go back to basic maths, 3000 is bigger than 500 isnt it?
HUMOON1 9 months ago
@HUMOON1 Before we start math, I suggest you work on getting at least a D- on your spelling and grammar.
LegionOfMany112 2 months ago
@Axel1617 Greece has been defeated several times by Persia. It wasn't until the Greek cities confederated together that Persia was defeated. It took almost another 100 years for Greece to become strong enough to threaten Persia's existence.
joshuaissac 2 months ago
@Axel1617 Yea. Thats why the Greeks were epic (especially the spartans)
KyUuBiIgOnEfErAl 1 month ago
@HUMOON1 LOOOOL how pathetic
markmotarker 8 months ago
@HUMOON1 alright its one month old but u confuse me! U say that the persians are apparently much better then the spartans rite? Well then the persians shouldve been able to hold their own so the fact is spartans held off the persians and greece conquered them
konvic808 8 months ago
@HUMOON1 Doesn't matter how long they existed.
Doesn't matter how the fought.
Doesn't matter what would've happened if they fought in a different place.
Point is, The Persian Empire doesn't exist anymore.
LegionOfMany112 2 months ago
0:52 was probably the coolest he looks so negligent to the guy he just took out with his shield
nonconman 10 months ago
wow quality fails
tarealol 10 months ago
one question! where leonides keeps his sword ?! :)) after he throw the spear it takes the sword
razva81 1 year ago
@razva81 his sword is on his left side, if you look closely you can see behind his left leg
H3RB4L1S3R 1 year ago
Definately one of the best Testosterone scenes! The best is when he owns the guy with his shield and knocks his ass down! Beast!
NINJA118 1 year ago
93 persians.
vidbyvid 1 year ago
he probably killed about 20 people there
lampard179 1 year ago
spartans are crazy
D4rkh0le 1 year ago
0:50 Nigga, pleae
robotjj09 1 year ago
is there goona be a movie after this one
mr393420 1 year ago
@mr393420 why would it he dies at the end
syphon135 1 year ago
@syphon135 but at the end of the movie theres another army coming to fight the russians so there might a movi3 th3r3 im gewd at spp3lin arnt i
mr393420 1 year ago
@mr393420 lol russians?
samuriguy909 1 year ago
@samuriguy909 no exactly russians but i forgot the name for the other people so i called them russians sorry if i offended any one
mr393420 1 year ago
@mr393420 they are against the persian empire
samuriguy909 1 year ago
because its history the orical at delphi said sparta would lose a king or burn
sambridge15 1 year ago
I suppose you mean Thebans, not Thesbians? Thesbians is a literary term for actors. Has any one actually read a history book or do you just Google everything? So now you are experts? The Spartans were brutal people, but honorable in their own way, and that is what was needed at that moment in time, people who are fierce, brutal and ready to die.
They did indeed kill babies they deemed unfit, but then much of the world has done that as well.
bonnieallmine 1 year ago
At 0:26 how come both guys fell even though only one got hit? O.O
fury8793 1 year ago
not much of this makes sense, but its visually stunning and eye catching, and very entertaining in a strange sort of a way
MegaCastigers 1 year ago
look at that he cut off his leg 0:47
plzwork100 1 year ago
ImaginedWriter Thebes were able to do that because of Alkiviades who convinced Spartans to change their way of life and fight again with the Athinians.He made them cut currency and built ships.Thebes wouldn't have a chance if they didn't change their ways.And after Persian war and 29 year war with the Athinians Sparta wasn't the same.This is why Macedonians also became powerfull.The strange thing was that they said ok with them and not with Thebes.I think because Thebes helped Xerxes.
LakedemonP 1 year ago
@LakedemonP u cant make excuses for the decline of Sparta, it's better to burn away than fade, so remember the spartans as awesome but everyone falls, look at the macedonians and the english in the hundred years war i mean Crecy, Poitier, Agincourt and Vernuel, the english prevailed despite Frances numerical advantage and better equiped more established army England prevailed time and again largely because of the longbow and of course good tactics. Then Joan of Arc comes everytign went wrong
MegaCastigers 1 year ago
those battles happened during third persian crusade.It was the last chance of Persia to conquer Greece but they failed.But this wasnt the only important battle.Remember the battle of Marathon which changed the history of Greece and of Europe.If the Greeks wouldn't defeat Persians during the whole 3 crusades probably the history of Europe would be very different...Many countries and nations probably wouldn't exist.Scary i know but true
TheFreelife79 1 year ago
also the final battle lasted 3 hours. 30mins into it i think the king died then a hand full of guys draged his body into a conner and defended it for a few hours.
jew4liffe 1 year ago
pwned at 0:00-1:13
groenlink 1 year ago
There is a monument to their sacrifice and it reads
"Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
CadenRolland 1 year ago
At 0:53 it be like running into a cement wall. Haha, how unfortunate for that persian.
TheJmanzilla 1 year ago
0:36 BITCH SLAP!
JarheadM4A1 1 year ago
I like when he cuts off that one guys leg. 0.0
xXCOD6Xx 1 year ago
pwned at 0:53
brasteen1 1 year ago
love that at 0:50
J3NXx80 1 year ago
ya its written in one script that there were 7000 athenians along with the greek front there and other script says there were 10000 ;
and the most fiercest and bloodiest fight of the entire stand off was for the dead body of king Leonadus - ; persians snatching it and greeks recovering it back then again persians took the body like wise;
titfortat80 1 year ago
I think greek have most interesting history in whole world. I adore those brave spartans who standed against great beast.
cascic 1 year ago
well at thermopiles were 300 spartans alongside along 800 thesprotians and hold their spot against 400000 or even more persians about 2 or 3 days but by no chance they were like the film.the fact is that they werethe best army at that time cause to theis superior training and advanced military techologhy compare to persians but they were dramatically outnumbered and therefore they lost with or without ephialtes intervention.and they were conquered by philipus and his son alexander afterhim
galateagr 1 year ago
@galateagr Gerard Butler does look buff in his bare chest and all but you are right. The Spartans were encased in Bronze armor (weighing about 70 pounds) that gave them a big edge against the largely lighty or non armored Persians.
obstcr1984 1 year ago
@obstcr1984 who cares it they were insanely outnumbered there was 23, 800 greeks against 3, 700, 000 persians.
MegaCastigers 1 year ago
the spartans as history tells were at the head of this combined army..the army was able to hold off persian attacks for nearly 3-4 days before the traitor named Ephialtes revealed to the Persians another passage around the pass.seeing the enevitable threat of this army being surrounded and destroyed leonidas orders the army to break up andfor the other city state soldiers to go back to there cities and to defend there own cities..leonidas following spartan law stays to block there retreat
coronasing 1 year ago
Sparta though was not one of the states who gave macedon there loyalty but as the spartans and macedonians did not have any quarells with each other they didnt have to worry about each other being a threat(geographic proximity of the two factions also made warring hard)...2) The 300 spartans DID NOT defend the pass in the movie as it is shown...The main pass in which the mmovie 300 depicts the spartans holding was actually held by the 300 men alongside 10,000 other greek city state soldiers..
coronasing 1 year ago
ok guys thought i might clear some things out 1) Phillip of Macedon DID NOT conquer greece..He visited it many times with his son Alexander who was actually taught by a Greek and thus the Greek city states (NOT EMPIRE as the greeks were not unified) gave there alligence Phillip as they also feared the rising military power Macedon had become..(phillip was preparing for an invasion of Persia..he did not live and as such his son Alexander took the army he had created and invaded the Persian empire
coronasing 1 year ago
@ShowYourWorking "And Alexander of Macedon didn't even need to contend with them because his father had conquered all of Greece before he was even born! " Pardon? Utter Shite! If that was so i'm guessing Demosthenes' Phillipics were just pointless Tourettes based Rants!
Loobs666 1 year ago
Sparta ftw
piemaster3425 1 year ago
this movie is epic bad-assitude in HD form..amen to swords, spears and bad attitudes!
martiallaw04 1 year ago
That's gona leave a bruise in the morning...
stevenabb 1 year ago
For your info, Spartans were Dorians like Argives. But Dorians were a sub-tribe of the western Greek branch hailing from western Macedonia. The proto-tribe is called Makednii and gave the Aetolians and Macedonians and from Macedonians a part descended and gave the Dorians.
Apart speaking the same greek dialect, Macedonians and (pre-Lycourgos) Spartans had pretty much the same archaic Dorian organisation. In Peloponesian war, Spartans and Macedonians were allies.
papagamias 1 year ago
Greece did not exist as a country back then. It was more of a notion. Macedonians did not "conquer" any "Greece". They beat 3 main enemies of theirs, the cities of Chalkidiki, the state of Thebes and the state of Athens. On the rest they prevailed politically.
They tried to unite Greeks under 1 flag, same as Thebans, Spartans and Athenians had tried in the past but Greeks back then could not be united as for them the notion of "nation" and "state" were different.
papagamias 1 year ago
Why did they break phalanx?
simoncase 1 year ago 16
"After the phalanx has achieved it's goal, the main priority of a Spartan warrior is to unleash hell against his enemies"
GeamProducts 1 year ago
@GeamProducts rofl i love how u say "..unleash hell against his enemies"
hellx159 1 year ago
@simoncase it was 300 spartans aganist all the persians the persians were on both sides... and it wasnt as strong i guess :P they shouldnt have though :(
rowpwnzjoo13 1 year ago
@simoncase they had to cause there were so many persians runnin in different directions at the same time
plus the point of the phalanx is to confuse the enemy by standing together and do the same thing over and over and then break apart and attack the different soldiers coming at you... the spartans did it, the romans did it, hell it was the best military defense idea since they came up with the idea of shields
GeoPhe42 1 year ago
@simoncase because they are awesome :)
ZoschProductions 1 year ago
@simoncase THIS IS HOW GREEKS FUCKS!!!
SKATHAROZOUMISS 1 year ago
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laotsuu 11 months ago
@simoncase you know how these movie guys are!!!they want to make it as best as they can :PPPP
MrGreekLord 10 months ago
Persia was ruled by a council of old wise men and not some 8 foot tall circ de soleil reject.
cv9113366 1 year ago 16
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djvampyre 2 years ago
persians got ownd by the strong spartans
LegoGuy87 2 years ago 18
And were conquered by the romans 500 years later
trinimac13 2 years ago 3
@LegoGuy87 No kidding, I wonder how long it took you to figure that out.
TheJmanzilla 1 year ago
@LegoGuy87 your face gets owned by my dick
heyyodoug 1 year ago
0:45 to 0:50 is my favorte part of this scene.
awsome vid
5/5
Mrbichslap 2 years ago
spartans they well be defeated later by macedonians and greeks be added for the roman province by roman empire.
Gab1n0III 2 years ago
@Gab1n0III
r u friggin retarded the spartans conquered macedonia after a 7 year war nd sparta is greek city state
newpeoplerus 1 year ago
you frigging retard, the Macedonians conquered all of Greece.
WholeTruth 1 year ago
@WholeTruth you retarded stupid learn history shit how stupid is FYROM HEHEHEHEEHHEHEE
molonlave123 1 year ago
@WholeTruth ...WholeTruth didn't post this. Time to delete this userid I guess.
WholeTruth 1 year ago
dude 52 seconds it epic
wasupdude44 2 years ago
persia is usa in this irony.
sunshineflag 2 years ago
@sunshineflag why say that men?
SoYdElVeRdE12 2 years ago
@sunshineflag you have no idea how right you are.
flythebeast 2 years ago
History is writan by the victors so the facts will always be questioned, This film has the best battle scenes i'v seen. Leave the history to the pro's and love the film!
123twan123 2 years ago
I think the part about the Spartans commenting about the large volleys of arrows was an actual quote from a Spartan commander who basically said that the Persian archers were helping them by giving them shade to fight in.
They had a strange culture, but they were one that valued prowess and courage in battle as much as the vikings.
UCSPanther20 2 years ago
I personally like the spartans better, the vikings were just brutal warriors who had a good way of manuvering and catching it's enemies of guard. The spartans actually have a strategy and move like a good fighting unit, but thats just my opinionn :)
Damon130 2 years ago
And invading cities and raping the women.
THE MORE YOU KNOOOOOOW
ShadowkingA321 2 years ago
a spartan: next *another persison* died spart-*spear impailed him
mariotttttttt 2 years ago
the spartans were about 300 not a thousand and they were enough to kill xerxes army but the efialtis b i tch had to get the persians in an open space where the 300 had no chance .... im greek and this is a fact ( efialtis wasnt a monstrous human . the director made him like that cause he wanted to show obviously how evil and corrupted he became . )
dimitrispaok95 2 years ago
I don´t read all comments but there was much more than 300 spartans.^^
Every Spartan has 2-3 ([in german: Heloten] They called themselves "homoioi" (equals)
So there was over thousend warriors of sparta.
BlackBleath 2 years ago
Just because a spartan had 2-3 equals doesn't mean there were more than 900 spartans at thermopylae, and not every spartan came from sparta to the battle.
XdontUworryX 2 years ago
There were 300 spartans but around 1700 other greeks aswell..
drerror 2 years ago
yes it was only 300 spartans
xxxxj4 2 years ago
There were only 300 SPARTANS. At the time the entirety of Greece was in alliance with eachother to fend off the Persian Empire.
Alongside were members of the Athenian Army and some others from Corinth, Thebes, and other poli in Greece at the time.
aimhighdontdie 2 years ago 2
there are graves for only 300 spartans
xxxxj4 2 years ago
yeah because there were only 300 spartans that died there. The spartans sent everyone else back to reinforce Athens' forces.
aimhighdontdie 2 years ago
the 300 spartans were alone at the hot gates battle the spartans hated athens they would never reinforce athens other greeks fought other battles with the spartans but they fought in differnt groups not aside eachother
xxxxj4 2 years ago
Where are you even getting your information from? Do you even know why Xerxes wanted to invade Greece??
aimhighdontdie 2 years ago
xerxes wanted to take what greece had and add it to his empire my info comes from reality
xxxxj4 2 years ago
lol if fu think about it power in numbers really doesnt apply here :P
supraxz 2 years ago 3
0:50 pwned!!!!
MasterMatt117 2 years ago
not th3 best, but very very very impressive!
31rS3RP3N7 2 years ago
spartans were some of the finest soilders on earth, if it werent for them incest breeding themselves due to lack of science knowledge (lol), they woulda still be great soilders to this day!
udlock9 2 years ago
@udlock9 Spartans weren't well educated and were not the finest. They were good but there was better
redsoul888 1 year ago
too bad it wasnt actually 300 spartans
rob3132 2 years ago
wait there was "300" the ma15 movie
and there was a movie caleld "300 spartans" right?
zymethrox 2 years ago
um actually it was its on my college history book.
hazeces 2 years ago
Well, grow a dick ITS A MOVIE.
tubesuperfreak 2 years ago
Um ok. Someone feels insulted, let me guess it must be a little kid. Wow great going, i bet that's how your parents talk to you huh ? Maybe they need to head on back to school and tuck you back in your mom's belly and and learn some education and manners. O and since i know you are going to comment back, good luck on that. FOOL!!!!!
hazeces 2 years ago
0.52-0.54
Amazing upper body strength from Leonidis!! :=)
clipo3554 2 years ago
? ?
hoomanes 2 years ago
the part when he throws the spear..
I wish instead of the guy he killed being far away he was running at him so when he got owned by the spear up close he got pushed back by the force of his throw.
mmmm
MrBeethoven333 2 years ago
Ya, I agree with u, it would have alot better.
Turbochargesi 2 years ago
killionaire!
nobodypickthis 2 years ago
ya definatly
famergamer1 2 years ago
one of those guys got stabbed in the nuts
Kairadragon 2 years ago
the first man who was hit by the spear was pawned by the spartans and got FIRST BLOOOOOOOOD!!!!!
xXxVicstorexXx 2 years ago
MOMOMOMOMOMMONSTER KILL KILL
Spawn40k 2 years ago
lol all i think about ween i watch this is
duoble kill
killing spree
running riot
killtacler
extermination
RhettRock 2 years ago 2
KILLIONARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EFRproductions 2 years ago
Perfection!
lubracate 2 years ago
hahahaha me too.... in fact thats why i was watching it. i had remembered thinking about it and wanted to see just how good of a killing spree it was XD
and i see all the medals in the corner too.... beat down.... sniped... sword spree... XD
FlamingChicken321 2 years ago
they really are the world's finest solgiers
zimkid421 2 years ago 2
solgiers ?
hurbaga 2 years ago 2
they really did not fight in this "solo way"
kubicek5 2 years ago
ya, youre right. they actually just faught in lines because the way they are fighting now, they would have been slaughtered because of the crowds of persians.
archerykid123 2 years ago
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as the story goes, the 300 would have won easily killing all scores of 400,000s of Persians, if it wasn' t for a Spartan traitor named Ephialtes who betrayed them and showed the enemy how to get behind their defense lines.
After teh war with Persia, actually not even Alexander the Great, or the Roman Empire managed to defeat the Spartans, until finally Spartans slowly abandoned their military lifestyles.
1035573 2 years ago 16
@1035573 the Thebans, under Epamidinodas, broke Sparta before Philip II (Alexander's father had subdued the city-states before Alex was born) even came into the area.
In addition to the shock of losing/being embarassed, after the the rest of the world saw that superior generalship was more important than a tight hoplite phalanx, Sparta was finished as a major power. So neither Alexander nor Rome had to work hard to conquer them.
crabbieappleton 1 year ago
@1035573 Alexander the great crushed sparta immediately
kilbara12 1 year ago