300 observations: I got nothing.

[intertribal]

- Man, there were a lot of monsters in 480 B.C. Like, serious, Rawhead Rex stuff.* Fangs and goat heads and all that. Look cool though. I'd probably be creeped out in a theater.
- The Persians are definitely way more interesting in design than the Spartans. They've got all the monsters and exotica. Nice fancy bull-head thrones. The Spartans are, well, spartan.
- Yeah, this is pretty racist. Especially considering Frank Miller's comments, yowza. Frank Miller, a black mark on your name. Now I feel bad for liking Sin City.
- Leonidas is definitely a basket-case. Somebody's got a little General Ripper in 'im.
- Was I supposed to find the whole Gorgo stabbing Rapist Guy empowering? I must have missed it.
- The political ideology presented in this movie kind of defies reason. I'm with Roger Moore. This is pretty much the definition of fascist art.
- Cool fight scenes? Sort of.
- Oh fantastic. Now I get to watch Mission Fucking Impossible III.

*: Of all the Clive Barker stories I've read, how is RAWHEAD REX the one I can't get out of my head?

Comments

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

LOL, sorry. Frank Miller made 300. Frank Miller also made Sin City. He's a comic book artist, and what he really made was the comics that these movies are based off of. Frank Miller said that he made the Ancient Persians in 300 so inhuman/savage because they represent the backwards/savage people that "we" are fighting today (Middle Eastern Muslims). He also makes what he himself calls propaganda of Batman punching out al-Qaeda.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

s'ok, I usu. feel that way wrt anything to do with pop culture, for better or worse. anyway, that is pretty wtf.