Quick Review: 300

[jeriendhal]

Summary: In an adaptation of Frank "Whores, whores, whores" Miller's slightly exaggerated telling of the classic tale of the Three Hundred Spartans, King Leonidas and his not at all gay very manly and underdressed warriors take on hordes of Emperor Xerxes' scary brown people and defend the freedom of Greece, while his Queen get boffed by traitors back home.

Review: There was so much testosterone dripping from this movie, I think I grew a third testicle watching it. Everything else you want to know about it you can find at the most excellent review by history_spork

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty dead on. Silly fun though.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a silly movie. But not as downright appalling as The Spirit

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I have so far avoided that one. Though it can't be worse than the TV movie that was on back in the 80's.

[eric-hinkle.livejournal.com]

I'm left feeling kind of odd over this movie. On one hand, I read about the battle of Thermopylae growing up and so the idea of seeing it done as some bizarre opera sppeals to me. On the other hand, I've learned a LOT more about the Persians since then, enough so that now my sympathies run more their way!

Heh, rather OT, but in my 'anthropomorphic pre-Islamic Persian fantasy stories' I'm still working on a tale where the main character, Ardashir, ends up in a long since conquered and abandoned Greece chasing some villain. Who is hiding in the Valley of the Hot Springs, which is still defended by an army of 300 angry vrykolakas.

Thanks for the summation; so very accurate!

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

The depictions of the Persians was very... problematical to say the least. Not to mention the glossing over of the more nasty aspects of the Spartans (fighting for freedom my ass!)

The furry Greece story sounds very interesting to say the least!

[eric-hinkle.livejournal.com]

Well, if by fighting for freedom we mean "fighting to stay independent of Persian rule" then yes, it fits. But freedom in the modern sense of the word? No.