Monday, March 12, 2007
300
My review of Frank Miller's 300 - " Then we will fight in the shade" - is posted at Chicago Boyz.
My review of Frank Miller's 300 - " Then we will fight in the shade" - is posted at Chicago Boyz.
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the IMAX has been sold out for days but I refuse to see it any other way...
# posted by 
: Monday, 12 March, 2007
: Monday, 12 March, 2007
hi Danmac,
Agreed. It's worth the wait to see good movies in that format. If a film isn't on IMAX then you might as well watch it at home when it hits Blockbuster.
Agreed. It's worth the wait to see good movies in that format. If a film isn't on IMAX then you might as well watch it at home when it hits Blockbuster.
Mark,
"we are the fortunate heirs of a thousand slender chances." Priceless quote. Great review, it makes me want to go see the movie now.
Regards,
TDL
"we are the fortunate heirs of a thousand slender chances." Priceless quote. Great review, it makes me want to go see the movie now.
Regards,
TDL
Oh bollocks.
I am sure it will be a fun film, leaving aside the rather nasty racialisation and similar rubbish.
But the precious classicist self-fellating Greco-phile idiocy re "slender chances" is pure bollocks.
the last five hundred years made liberty, not Grecian slave cultures nor other precious mythologisation of the pre-Xian past.
Rubbish mythologisation of history. No wonder you like Lewis' modern works.
I am sure it will be a fun film, leaving aside the rather nasty racialisation and similar rubbish.
But the precious classicist self-fellating Greco-phile idiocy re "slender chances" is pure bollocks.
the last five hundred years made liberty, not Grecian slave cultures nor other precious mythologisation of the pre-Xian past.
Rubbish mythologisation of history. No wonder you like Lewis' modern works.
# posted by : Thursday, 15 March, 2007
: Thursday, 15 March, 2007
Hi Col
Heh - I make no claim to be a classicist. I don't have the languages under my belt for one and secondly my historiographical base is 20th century diplomatic and economic history.
In any event, I was pretty clear in my review that the movie was mythic, not historical (It's set to a hard rock sound track, for starters). Movies are better at " mythic" - "Gods and Generals" or "Saving Private Ryan" do not mythologize any less than 300, even if their details hew closer to reality.
"the last five hundred years made liberty, not Grecian slave cultures nor other precious mythologisation of the pre-Xian past"
True but that doesn't mean the chances were any less slender in a more modern time frame. If they were then political liberty and liberal economies would be the global norm.
Give Napoleon a few minutes head start at Waterloo and he'd have smashed the coalition. A few months delay in America's entry into WWI would have resulted in a German victory. These things were were not foreordained conclusions.
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Heh - I make no claim to be a classicist. I don't have the languages under my belt for one and secondly my historiographical base is 20th century diplomatic and economic history.
In any event, I was pretty clear in my review that the movie was mythic, not historical (It's set to a hard rock sound track, for starters). Movies are better at " mythic" - "Gods and Generals" or "Saving Private Ryan" do not mythologize any less than 300, even if their details hew closer to reality.
"the last five hundred years made liberty, not Grecian slave cultures nor other precious mythologisation of the pre-Xian past"
True but that doesn't mean the chances were any less slender in a more modern time frame. If they were then political liberty and liberal economies would be the global norm.
Give Napoleon a few minutes head start at Waterloo and he'd have smashed the coalition. A few months delay in America's entry into WWI would have resulted in a German victory. These things were were not foreordained conclusions.
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