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[thanate]

wow. that was bad. that was so apallingly bad that words fail. really truely terribly awful. but, this having been said, you should all go see it. take along someone against whose shoulder you can hit your head when necessary. and yell at the king when he breaks rank and throws away his spear in the first persian charge.

I may have to break out my copy of Heroditus now, and possibly also my classics notes, as I'm totally blanking on who it was who wrote the chapter about the guy who designed the Spartan society. (I know I don't have it, as I read that out of the reserve room at oberlin, and I think my notes were taken on the back of some piece of scrap printer paper... in fact, I think that may have been the only time I acutally used the reserve room, oddly enough)

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[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

The Post said it would be bad, so I didn't bother, and likely won't.

Also funny, though - I've been pondering Herodotus as well - but only because I was listening to American Gods and, well, I don't think I've ever really given it it's due good decent thought-time.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

It may be not really a theater movie, but as something to get someone else to netflix when it comes out, it's probably worth it... quite pretty, if rather gorey in strange and pointless ways, and the plot is so mindlessly predictable it's funny. Oh, and the credits... they just sum it up completely. dark persian silhouettes on a pale background, and then you have the silhouettes of spears stabbing them and splashes of red artistically fanning out across the screen. Artistic, but completely stupid. I laughed.

But, I mean, most terrible movies I get bored and just want to walk out of after the first ten minutes. This one I was entertained for the whole time, even if I had to pull out my phone and text someone in the middle of it to express how absolutely horrible it was.

[grauwulf.livejournal.com]

but you did get the social points so that makes it all worth it, eh? :) It's too bad really, so much potential.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

It was worthwhile anyway, I think. I'm just still totally amazed by how awful it was. It's astonishing. Possibly in the same league as, oh, Army of Darkness or something, only much prettier and they didn't do it on purpose. You should take the people who make you sit through Jackass to go see it. :)

[stanci.livejournal.com]

It's based off a comic book. *cough* Excuse me, graphic novel.
Is it bad because it's three steps removed from the actual real history, or is it bad because it's just bad?

[thanate.livejournal.com]

it's three steps removed from any sort of reality... very dualistic (everyone is either perfect or horribly deformed) and the "plot" is on the trite side of the comic book spectrum. And... there are all these little bits of "look, we read about the Spartans in class once" little cultural tidbits, but then you have the stoic Spartan affectionate family with modern interactions and a *roman* senate (when they mock the athenians for being pansies, but then apparently have the same sort of government) and a huge exquisitely paved well... I think if they'd discarded the ties to history entirely it would have worked better, because the pieces they kept were just so diametrically opposite to what they changed. You can't have the emotionless spartans with "oh, my son!" emotional bonding moments. And you certainly don't have everyone else supporting them, if they go that crazy. And then there was the anamatronic wolf...

[stanci.livejournal.com]

Anamatronic wolf?? I think I'm scared....

[thanate.livejournal.com]

with glowing eyes. It was kind of shaped like a spiky greyhound or something, very wasp-waisted, and started making weird machinery-dying noises when speared. Or perhaps that was supposed to be the background music, which was also... interesting. And I swear there was a persian later on with the same glowing eyes.

[stanci.livejournal.com]

They were both possessed by the same demon.... Yeah, that's it....

[thanate.livejournal.com]

possible.

Of course, Dominyk thought the movie was fabulous. He also liked Ice Age 2, though, so that's not saying much...

[stanci.livejournal.com]

I liked Ice Age 2 - of course, I watched it with Kai and Laz, who are 5 and 7, so I was in good company.

Does this mean you're alive and doing stuff now? Because you're not online that I can see....