Good thing Hollywood loves the Goracle

Because, back in Tennessee, his star shines less brightly.

300

I know. It’s rather pointless posting a review of 300, especially a week after it opened. As Andrew Stanton put it, it’s the most unapologetic movie ever. It doesn’t care if you like it or not.

I admire its purity.

This is not great filmmaking. It has some unintentional laughs. (To its credit, it has a couple of very good intentional ones.) But it is what it is, and it doesn’t hold back. In the entertainment biz we talk about “committment”. This movie is 100% committment: Full throttle, no let-up, Katie-bar-the-door committment.

There is a part of me very happy to see it having great success at the box office. All the 14 year old boys watching, no matter how old they are, are going to get:

• An adult lead.
• An adult woman as his queen.
• Lots of talk about honor and valor.
• The idea that some things may actually be worth fighting for.
• A notion that, perhaps, large invasions from the Middle East by people with crazy religious ideas aren’t such a good thing.

To as modern-day Iranians getting frothed up about how Xerxes and the Persians are portrayed I say

• This all happened centuries before Mohammed was born.
• It’s only a movie. Get over it.

I will not be sending my mom to see 300. As much as she might enjoy the resulting 1800 abs, she’d probably start regretting her ticket purchase the umpteenth time a spear goes through somebody. That’s if the beheadings don’t get her first. And let’s be honest: If you’re in this movie’s demographic you’ve already gone to see it. Which is why reviewing it is rather pointless.

Still, it’s my blog.

If you can handle violence and really loud rock music, and you haven’t gone yet, consider it. If you just want the erudite take on how historic it is, I refer you to VDH.

Hoo-aah.

Update:

Fred Thompson’s take is pretty funny. I’m going to have to keep my eye on this guy.

Gimme that old time religion

The kind back when a man had a “church gun“. You can read this, and other wonderful stuff, on the LawDog blog.

His take on the violent moonbat who impersonated a recruiting officer is especially nice.

It’s worth pawing around in the archives.