Ok, it’s still basically just a lot of flexing and screaming. Nevertheless, the new trailer for Zach Snyder’s 300 is out, and it’s an adrenaline shot…one of the more effective previews I’ve seen in awhile. (And “Tonight we dine in Hell!” seems like it might be an apt catchphrase for all kinds of situations.)
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Um…bad. I thought that no one good do a worse job than that hack version from the 1960’s– the 300 Spartans. But WTF is with the Rhino? Xerxes looking like he escaped from a LOTR battle? Okay, “we fight in the shade” and “tonight we dine in Hades” are anecdotes in Plutarch and Cicero, but my god, I’m thoroughly disturbed. This must have been how you Americanists felt when watching Pearl Harbor. “This is Sparta!” Just an FYI for all you readers out there who know nothing about the Spartans except from graphic novels and this kind of cinematic bullshit, Laconia is the region in which the 4 villages which comprised the polis of Sparta were located. Our word Laconic comes from the Spartan refusal to talk more than was required. Cf. Herodotos on the Aristogoras of Miletos, and especially 7.179 on the Battle of Thermopylai itself. Leonidas says nothing in the narrative. Sorry Murph. Didn’t mean to get on a soapbox, but Greek historians the world over groaned at Alexander–this movie is much much much worse.
Shut up, J GO.
IT’S A MOVIE BASED ON A COMIC, NOT BASED IN ACTUAL FACTS, reverendo pelotudo!
See things as they are, not as YOU’d like them to be.
’nuff said.