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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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[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. :)