Comic Book Film for Dubya (Leftist Unhinged about 300)

The Tyee ^ | 3/9/07 | Steve Burgess

[LdSentinal]

I don't plan on seeing this movie, but the left-wing forums are gnashing their yellow teeth about this.

[Crawdad]

Canada--an apartment over a really great party.

[Ken522]

I think Steve Burgess secretly liked the movie, but he was paid to write a hit-piece on it so he's got to sound negative.

[aft_lizard]

I am going to go see it right now, I hope it's good.

[Doohickey]

You should. It's very good. And for the record, I don't kill cats for fun, and I'm not George W. Bush.

[Popman]

The plot -- don't blink now -- is this: 300 brave Spartans, led by the heroic Leonidas (Gerard Butler), guard a pass against the Persian hordes commanded by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro).

What is to blink about? This is actually history.

Molon Labe

[Porterville]

Why all this hand wringing over the murderous history of Persia?

[atomicpossum]

I guess you shouldn't watch the film through pinko-colored glasses.

[sinanju]

The movie's a blast, not to be taken as history. I find it amusing how the lib movie reviewers are having trouble making up their minds about it. www.slate.com's Dana Stevens essentially thrashed the movie exclusively on the basis that it doesn't throw in any ham-handed anti-Iraq war or Bush-bashing references.

I'm no fan of the totalitarian, enslaving, child-abusing Spartans, but I'll never be hip and enlightened enough to not appreciate great acts of heroism.

p.s. Ol' Xerxes must be spinning at his portrayal as a jewel-bedecked, gold-loinclothed, homoerotic giant. Hyuk, yuk.

[eleni121]

I will see it for lots of reasons...one of which is that without the Spartans' sacrifice we wouldn't be here today.

Another reason is that the producers have said that "western civilization" was saved at the Battle of Thermopylae.

[wmfights]

Wow, do you think the reviewer is liberal?

[PzLdr]

You'd think lefties would love this flick. The Spartans are soooo buff! And Xerxes looks like an S& M dungeon manager.< sarcasm off >

Of course, since Thermopylae IS one of the first rejections of multiculturalism and diversity by western white guys, and the Spartans didn't allow their women to reach their full potential by serving in the combat arms, I can see why this leftist weenie was unhappy.

[Frank_2001]

Well, if the Persians had won, history would have been vastly different, and there would have probably been no United States of America (a leftie's ultimate fantasy) Look, just be glad they didn't have those horrible GUNS back in 300 BC!;)

[theDentist]

Leftists are afraid to fight. They think "diplomacy", talking, undertanding/"feelings" are the solution. These are the fools who want to sit down with OBL and find out how he wants us to live and agree to it.

They are sissy-boys.

[willgolfforfood]

I haven't seen this movie, and don't plan to at this time. I'm sure it will be on my satellite in 6 months. If the little lady says she would like to go (she likes Rambo movies, so it wouldn't be unusual for her to decide she'd like to see this) then we'll probably go take it in somewhere nearby.

Having said that, what in the world does this twit have against "a little bit of rough doggie-style hetero sex"??

Idiot. No wonder there's so few Canadians, as compared to Americans.

[lowbridge]

I don't kill cats for fun

You don't know what you're missing.

How about baskets of puppies?

[Exeter]

"There's virtually no development of the Persian side, almost no real sense of who they are and why they are so scary..."

Franklin Schaffner, the director of Patton, also didn't take the time to explain who the Nazis were or why they were "so scary". For those of us who paid attention in western civ class back in high school, there wasn't a need for the director to explain who the Xerxes was or why the Greeks feared a Persian invasion force intent on enslaving them all. But Mr. Burgess must have slept through history class that day, or perhaps there weren't enough pretty pictures in his text books to hold his interest. Either way, if someone knows his address, would you please write to him and explain what was going on? Maybe then he can understand why these men would lay down their lives to protect their country. Apparently it's a concept that's difficult for him to grasp...

[Ransomed]

"Someday, somebody is going to make one of these comic book movies that isn't quite so depressingly comic book."

Yeeesh. I reckon this guy thinks that movies should never resemble that which they are based on.

[OpusatFR]

Gerard Butler in a loin cloth. That's a good reason to see this film.

I'll bet some malebashing lefty had heart failure over a guy who really looks like a man.

PS, and yes, Opus is not gender challenged.

If you guys can have Catherine Zeta Jones every time La Dowd writes another post-Douglas screed bashing Bush, I can have Gerard Butler..