Derek McMillan Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 On Saturday I tidied the garage and spent a long time queueing for the dump and dumping the garbage. Today I went to see 300 with my daughter. (Her idea). Frankly the dump was more fun. The battle scenes are well choreographed but the cartoon-like violence becomes repetitive when you have seen the fifteenth beheading. I found myself murmuring, "I've had worse than this, this is just a flesh wound." which seemed to send my daughter into fits of laughter. The dialogue is forced and false. It is a bit of an insult to the Greeks who invented rhetoric to make them sound like neocon yahoos. And Xerxes was a bit of a stereotype I think. The big bad black guy with an army of rhinos, giants and elephants. And it is just the film to get Bush baby dropping 300 hundred troops into Iran just to see if it works. No it was not history. To be fair, historical drama seldom is. Shakespeare (for example) certainly isn't. Having said which this certainly ain't Shakespeare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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