This movie is awesome. There are people spinning the homophobia/homo-eroticism, some varying reaches at Iraq War parellels... it's kind of ridiculous. I think a lot of people are bringing too much of their own baggage.*
Go for the delectable slo-mo scenes of one v. many slaughter, stay for the shouted one-liners of over-the-top bravado.
The one thing I noted towards the end that with all the digitized stylistic composition in every shot, it wasn't flat or undetailed at all. You can still see pored in peoples faces. I went to pick up the comic before it came out but decided against it since the trailer was way more visually impressive.
*I will acknowledge one objection to the movie I haven't seen anyone express -- if you're of Persian decent you really ought to be out picketing, because they made the bad guys into perverse caricatures. I suppose historians may also have a bone to pick, but both objections have the same response -- this movie is a hella fun story.
to be clear, i really enjoyed the movie. a surprising amount of detail comes from tradition (even cheesy lines like "throw down your weapons!":"come get them!" are actually from herodotus).
i also think allegorical interpretations are misplaced here, but ironically they're not only incredibly easy to make, the big ones are also easy to reverse. so it actually ends up being fun to discuss, even though it has no right or intention of being that kind of movie.
Everything makes a little more sense when it's anchored.
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That movies kicks ass, btw. The best two or three beheadings I've ever seen.
i liked it too. the first scene is a pile of baby skeletons for god's sake. it also strikes a unique 'homophorotic' narrative perspective.
all spartans do is fight and do crunches
Homophorotic?
Seriously, is this movie worth seeing?
Time to do cruches.
This movie is awesome. There are people spinning the homophobia/homo-eroticism, some varying reaches at Iraq War parellels... it's kind of ridiculous. I think a lot of people are bringing too much of their own baggage.*
Go for the delectable slo-mo scenes of one v. many slaughter, stay for the shouted one-liners of over-the-top bravado.
The one thing I noted towards the end that with all the digitized stylistic composition in every shot, it wasn't flat or undetailed at all. You can still see pored in peoples faces. I went to pick up the comic before it came out but decided against it since the trailer was way more visually impressive.
*I will acknowledge one objection to the movie I haven't seen anyone express -- if you're of Persian decent you really ought to be out picketing, because they made the bad guys into perverse caricatures. I suppose historians may also have a bone to pick, but both objections have the same response -- this movie is a hella fun story.
to be clear, i really enjoyed the movie. a surprising amount of detail comes from tradition (even cheesy lines like "throw down your weapons!":"come get them!" are actually from herodotus).
i also think allegorical interpretations are misplaced here, but ironically they're not only incredibly easy to make, the big ones are also easy to reverse. so it actually ends up being fun to discuss, even though it has no right or intention of being that kind of movie.
A training regimen straight out of ancient Greece
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