300
My review of Frank Miller’s 300 – ” Then we will fight in the shade” – is posted at Chicago Boyz.
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March 13th, 2007 at 5:57 am
the IMAX has been sold out for days but I refuse to see it any other way…
March 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
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.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:46 am
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
March 14th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Hi tdl,
Thank you very much! Hope that you enjoy the film!
March 15th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
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.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:53 am
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.