i mean i thought that's what it was, just some filter, but honestly it's probably more complicated than that.  this is what wiki says:

Post-production was handled by Montreal's Meteor Studios and Hybride Technologies filled in the bluescreen footage with more than 1500 visual effects shots. Visual effects supervisor Chris Watts and production designer Jim Bissell created a process dubbed "The Crush,"[12] which allowed the Meteor artists to manipulate the colors by increasing the contrast of light and dark. Certain sequences were desaturated and tinted to establish different moods. Ghislain St-Pierre, who led the team of artists, described the effect: "Everything looks realistic, but it has a kind of a gritty illustrative feel."[12][19] Various computer programs, including Maya, RenderMan and RealFlow, were used to create the "spraying blood."[20] The post-production lasted for a year and was handled by a total of ten special effects companies.[21]

there's no fault in it at all.  i don't care that you enjoyed it, enjoy whatever you want!  but you EXPLICITLY SAID that 300 was an awesome movie and you had no idea what we were talking about like it was some flawless movie and we had no reason not to like it.  this entire thing has just been an explanation, not me telling you what you should and shouldn't like.  everyone likes stupid shit.

I dunno how you figure it's such a bad movie. It straight up ISNT a ripoff, that's the same fanboy bullshit that comes up with all movie adaptations. You are asking a little much if you expect a movie to come direct from the print, (ironic, in this case some of it did). ALSO, the diversions from the Greek mythology came from the book, and have nothing to do with the movie, which should be judged seperately, right? ps I did a search for Little Red Riding Hood, classic story right, DOZENS of movies come up, clearly all ripoffs, as they are not the events from the grimm brothers' version.
I can understand why you wouldn't LIKE the over-dramatizations with the dialogue and plot, but these things are also strengths, and whether they are good or bad is in direct relation to your opinion. The movie did very well in theatres and dvd sales, and has a very good rating pretty much everywhere you look.

but cool anyway dude, im glad thinking a movie was good makes me unintelligent. I'd like to hear what makes my opinions so terrible, and what makes yours so great. Seriously dude, you pick fights for fucking nothing.

I dunno how you figure it's such a bad movie. It straight up ISNT a ripoff, that's the same fanboy bullshit that comes up with all movie adaptations. You are asking a little much if you expect a movie to come direct from the print, (ironic, in this case some of it did). ALSO, the diversions from the Greek mythology came from the book, and have nothing to do with the movie, which should be judged seperately, right? ps I did a search for Little Red Riding Hood, classic story right, DOZENS of movies come up, clearly all ripoffs, as they are not the events from the grimm brothers' version.
I can understand why you wouldn't LIKE the over-dramatizations with the dialogue and plot, but these things are also strengths, and whether they are good or bad is in direct relation to your opinion. The movie did very well in theatres and dvd sales, and has a very good rating pretty much everywhere you look.

but cool anyway dude, im glad thinking a movie was good makes me unintelligent. I'd like to hear what makes my opinions so terrible, and what makes yours so great. Seriously dude, you pick fights for fucking nothing.

so i shouldn't criticize the subject matter of a movie because it is based on a book?  how about i just criticize both?  300 the novel was kinda gay, too, but it was better than the film adaptation.  and dawg if you cannot recognize a middle of the road between COMPLETELY ACCURATE and PERSIANS WITH SWORD-ARMS then i don't know what to tell you.  also the difference between this and little red riding hood is that where it is MORE OR LESS fairly accurate and just omits a lot of shit for the sake of making it acceptable for seven year olds, this is a grossly inaccurate and overstylized bastardization that can't even hide behind the fact that it was only changed to be more fitting for children.  don't get me wrong, i think those disney adaptations are pretty lame, and i think kids can handle more than people give them credit for, but this is substantially worse than that.  it took way way way more liberties than those movies pretty much ever do.  compared to this, they seem pretty faithful to the original stories!  the problem with 300 isn't ONLY that it's inaccurate and just a really stupid adaptation; that's not even its MAIN problem.  it's just some cheesy action movie that nerds with no taste for whatever reason decided to espouse constantly.

also no sorry bud BAD MELODRAMA is not a strength; that's an objectively bad quality.  it's a negative unless USED SATIRICALLY i guess, and that clearly isn't the case here!  also i think you're unintelligent because you constantly post stuff that makes you come across like a pretty unsophisticated guy, for example using DVD SALES to judge a movie's quality.  get the hell out of here with that!  this is a pretty universal opinion on this board i have noticed, so!

ps i didn't pick this fight, i just asked a question!  i would say if anyone picked it, it was mog.  but that's not to say i wouldn't have if he didn't, because i do enjoy being kind of a dick over stupid unimportant shit on the internet!

ahahaha i forgot about that.  that was a pretty good ep considering the simpsons kind of sucks a lot now.

uh i forgot i'd already had an argument in this thread until i looked on the last page and remembered.  weren't you saying that you'd read the book and that the trailer looked awesome???

I've also just said that I've looked around the internet for more information regarding the movie, and I've also just finished the book again.

it just seems kind of odd!  what did the internet tell you that you didn't get out of the trailer?  also idk i wouldn't have expected a second read through to be so illuminating if you got it the first time, especially since there's not even that much to get.