I dont go to the movies often, but there was one movie over the past year that I really wanted to see but just never got the chance, ok couldnt get a date, but thats another story. The movie was 300 and shame on me for being a slacker. Good fucking movie.
A friend and co-worker burned me a copy, and mind you this is the same guy that has promised me the NewsRadio box set for about a year now, he watched it last night and made me a copy immediately afterwards. It's that good. He like me would be classified as a conservative, and as I recall Miss C wrote favorably of it as well.
To the movies detractors and apparently there were many this would be an indictment of the war-mongering bloodthirsty "neocons", well that might true and if so the peaceniks should get on their knees and thank us for it.
because...
Nobody wants war. Nobody likes war.
but...
War for a lack of a better word is good. War is right. War works. War clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. War, in all of its forms -- war for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And war, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
Yeah thats right....pussies!
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That quote about war--is that an adaptation of the quote about greed from Wall Street? At any rate your quote certainly does capture the very essence, the spirit of fascism. As Gore Vidal says, they want Perpetual War.
As for 300, I thought it was a good flick, well-made, entertaining. I can't agree with the reviewer that there was nothing homo-erotic about it. I recall one line of dialog, during the battle, when one soldier says to his friend "I've got your back" and he replies "Not now, I'm a little busy." The meaning was clear enough. Homo-eroticism among the Greeks? Who'd have thought? There is a reason anal sex is called "Greek" you know.
"A celebration of martial virility", contrast that, by the way, with Karl Rove and George Bush, and all the other war-mongering pussies who have never been near a war.)Anyway, "martial virility", perpetual war, it does all seem fascist to me, and very gay.
Miss C did not write favorably of 300. Miss C found 300 laughable. Miss C liked Apocoplyto better than 300. Even though parts of Apocolypto were laughable too.
Miss C thinks people should watch Zulu, with Michael Cain if they wish to see a good war movie in which a small band of men defeat a large army.
They weren't Greeks Gary, they were Spartans. The Spartans were not given over to the Greek's man loves boy ways.
Even I know that Sparta was one of the Greek city states. And a quick look at Wikipedia shows that pederasty was approved of in Sparta as in most of the ancient world. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Ok maybe it was Miss D I was thinking about.
Not enough action in Apocolypto for my taste.
Let it out Gary....
sparta, in fact, encouraged homosexuality in its military because they thought it would lead to more impassioned fighting (pun fully intended).
geek (sorry, GREEK) hysterian is entirely right.
you guys need to catch up on your homo-history.
or else (as i more suspect) you are in denial ...
but, hey, football season is coming yeah !!!!!!
ha !!
Yeah nothing gay about football.
Didnt make the team huh Gary?
Its funny how liberals look at homos as a dirty little joke or a gotcha.
but let me guess, you have gay friends....
come on, you know. football is SO gay.
guys spanking each other on the behind ... among other things.
just like war, guys in the trenches. also gay. that's why they don't want openly gay men or women there. for fear they will find out the truth.
Football is not gay, but i wouldn't expect you women to understand that.
i love football
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