300 (2006) | Movie REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING |

[@justintrefney1083]

BSG, Parks and Rec and now 300. You are steadily becoming one of my favorite channels

[@miller-joel]

It's not because of what they cover. They are smart and have a good dynamic.

[@Gosu_Noob]

The "May you live forever" is a lot deeper than you first mentioned... Consider that the highest honor a Spartan can have is a glorious death in battle.

[@cedric13]

The traitor also mentions his limbs constantly pain him, so he is in effect cursing him to live in pain forever

[@technofilejr3401]

It is because of these ancient warriors that the character Master Chief and his comrades in the Halo video game series are called "Spartans". Just like these ancient Greeks they were taken as children and sent into a training program. The Spartan program in the game didn't just make them exceptional soldiers, it made them superhuman.

[@randalthor741]

A lot of the most badass lines from this are direct translations from ancient Greek sources. Just a few are: "Come back with your shield or on it." A traditional Spartan saying, because if someone were to break and flee from combat the first thing they'd drop to get away faster was their heavy shield, and also because while your armour protected you (Spartans wore armour, the only reason they don't in the movie is artistic license from the Frank Miller comic), your shield protected you *and* the Spartan next to you in the phalanx, so if you dropped it you're not just a coward for fleeing, you also left your brother in arms unprotected in battle. "Then we will fight in the shade." According to the sources, much like in the movie this line was said by a Spartan when he was told that there were so many Persians that their arrows would blot out the sun. "Come and get them!" Molon labe in the original Greek (I've seen it translated as "come and get them," "come and take them," and "come and claim them"), is what Leonidas was recorded as saying when the Persians asked them to lay down their weapons. Pretty much just like in the movie...

[@technofilejr3401]

22:02, Captain Artemis didn't truly understand that each of his children is unique and irreplaceable until that moment. Also it's one thing to send a son to war and another to see him cut down right in front of you. He was just not ready for that level of shock. Fun fact the actor Vincent Regan who plays Artemis (Leonidas's second in command) also played the Myrmidon warrior Eudorous (second in command to Achilles) in the movie Troy.

[@isaiahpavia-cruz678]

I had just turned 17 when this came out. After finish our last ever “final exam” in senior year of an all-boys Catholic high school, my classmates and I went straight to the theaters to watch this movie. Everyone was AWOOing once it had ended. Great times.

[@m.e.3862]

Shot on a soundstage in Montreal. One of my coworkers was an extra (he was walking around in a toga in Sparta) Also Spartans wore armour from head to toe. Miller took artistic liberties by depicting them as fighting in speedos lol

[@leegallegos984]

This movie was based on Frank Millers 300 graphic novel that was itself based on the story of Leonides and the 300 spartans. Many of those epic scenes you mentioned were lifted directly from the comic.

[@technofilejr3401]

13:12, yet almost 2000 years later, being a combat medic or part of Mortuary Affairs (they recover dead bodies) are both two highly regarded occupations in most modern militaries. Too bad the hunchback couldn't have known this.

[@charlesbarnes6912]

Fun fact: Xerxes was only 5'9 in real life, but that was considered super tall at that time ✌️

[@Mr.Ekshin]

ALL of this is based on the mental perceptions of those soldiers hearing Dilios' recitation of the epic tale. The wolf becomes a hellish beast. Xerxes goes from being taller than average to being a giant. The rhino and elephants are creatures most Spartans have only heard about in tales. The appearance of the 'immortals' are more like goblins than men. Again... all of it is in the imaginations of Greeks hearing verbal retelling of the story.

[@Palavino]

SLOW MOTION! fun reaction guys :)

[@Iymarra]

Great movie, still a very huge group of memes from it. Fairly formative, tbh, in the rise and proliferation of the meme in popular culture.

[@tonyvoyles296]

This is a true story

[@miller-joel]

This. Is. Sparta.

[@JohnDoe-230]

Another good movie is hildago but nobody has reacted to it on youtube. Cheers.

[@JasakaD]

❤❤

[@mikeobrien9136]

ladz dope reaction but 35mins of 300 is diabolical

[@mommiferchichi2575]

I don't like it because you removed the final aww criminals

[@boqndimitrov8693]

too bad the second movie was so boring. it literally killed the possibility of more movies!