[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Talk about someone who just doesn't get it!!!

Only a liberal could say that words like tyranny, freedom, reason need to be supported or they have no meaning.

Only a liberal could misconstrue what is meant by the word 'sacrifice'.

"Why bother to fight?" Indeed!!!

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Iranians hate 300.

The Greeks hate 300.

The liberals hate 300.

That makes it a must see.

[Argus]

If sacrifice is not noble, why bother to fight either?

The liberal default position is not fighting in any case, so what's this bozo's point?

[BillyBonebrake]

Drama fags hate George Bush. Just ask Frank Rich.

[70th Division]

I saw it and liked it. Apparently so did a lot of people 'cause they grossed 70 Mil this week end. This guy knows nothing.

[6SJ7]

Box office mojo? More like box office mumbo jumbo.

[L98Fiero]

"Slammed" alert. Apparently there is no other word other than "slam" that can be substituted for "criticizes". What's next, "Yo, yo, dem lib haters done slammed on that 300 movie, yo!" as a headline?

[VaBthang4]

This reporter suffers from what is called "Liberal Hate Fixation"...

...everything is seen through and clouded by this emotional disorder.

From the movies you watch, to the salad you eat, down to the color of socks you wear and how you put'em on.

All of life becomes subordinate to this hyper-hatred.

[The Blitherer]

Hmmm...thanks Scott. Your review just inspired me to go see it again this weekend. I suggest everyone on FR see it who can stomach some violence (okay, a LOT of violence). The more these lefties open their mouths about the movie, the more they appear like the cowardly, perverted and corrupt priests and senators depicted in the movie.

[GSWarrior]

Most of my liberal friends hated the Lord of the Ring trilogy. I'd expect them to hate this movie too.

[snowrip]

Email address of Scott Holleran, the idiot reviewer:

scott@boxofficemojo.com

[Sloth]

Like watching a blood-drunk barbarian on a rampage

o/` I'm-a get get get get you drunk, get you blood-drunk off my stump o/`

[alloysteel]

The army that the 300 stood up against, was that of Xerxes, King of Persia (which is present-day Iran). The size of that Persian Army was variously guessed as being between 50,000 and a million. While I doubt the latter figure, the biggest problem would be logistics for that army, simply keeping them fed. How does even one of the mightiest powers of 480 BC, manage to move that many soldiers and all their supply lines, over a distance of well over a thousand miles, from Persia to the Greek archipeligo? Now if Xerxes was staging from Asia Minor, a much larger army could be moved in a relatively short time, but still well short of the million or so that was being referred to.

The 300 Spartans under Leonidias that kept the entire Persian army bottled up has to stand as one of the most effective delaying tactics of all time.

[grapeape]

History????

It is a legend. No one knows what happened anyway.

Sounds like this idiot was just looking for a reason to make a political statement.

[SuziQ]

I think someone sent out a memo to all the liberal movie reviewers in the US, because they ALL have the same talking points. Or maybe they just all read the NY Times review and are falling over themselves to copycat it. Though the NY Times piece didn't mention President Bush, it was very condescending about the attitude among the Spartans that "freedom isn't free".

[Brad from Tennessee]

Here are some excerpts from Scott Holleran's review of Robert DeNiro's ridiculous "The Good Shepherd," a movie about the CIA and the Cold War:

"With a murky script by Eric Roth, who wrote the intolerable Munich (with Tony Kushner), the origins of the CIA are depicted in the person of Edward Wilson (implacable Matt Damon), a Skull and Bones college kid who is tapped for spy games during World War 2.

"But, first, Damon's inscrutable character is introduced in a Bay of Pigs Cuba invasion plot—that was one of President Kennedy's foreign policy debacles—that ties into a scheme implicating someone close to Edward Wilson. This monotonous movie moves like molasses, . . ."

"In the end, The Good Shepherd does pull off an accomplishment of sorts: in conveying the idea that defending America during the Cold War means losing one's soul, Mr. DeNiro has created what may be the first pro-Soviet U.S. movie since the Soviet Union ceased to exist."

[Paradox]

I think Hollaran is a Libertarian, since I have seen him rip socialism in movies before.

[Ben Mugged]

In the movie, the King says this is the birth of democracy and that democracy is not free, that it requires sacrifice. I completely understand the liberals concern with the concept of sacrifice for freedom.

I saw the movie this weekend, it is excellent.

[Liberty Valance]

300 is submerged in style over substance.

This could go for lots of movies...

Kill Bill 1&2 - Pulp Fiction - From Dusk til Dawn - An Inconvenient Tru....uh etc.etc.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Um, it's an action film, based on a comic book. It wasn't designed to please Historians with PhDs from liberal universities, for heaven's sake.

It was eye candy, and full of patriotic fervor.

The story it told was of the brave sacrifice made a full year before the big battle. But the patriots knew they were going to inspire the Council and the Citizenry alike to rise to defend their home.

And it was easy on the eyes. Inspires me to do some spinning and weaving and to sew some capes. ;-)

[Puddleglum]

Sounds like Scott Holleran is hollerin' a little too much, Must have struck a nerve. This movie is the anti-Cindy Sheehan.