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movie review - 300

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2008.05.11

This is a very stylish and imaginatively-filmed/animated period piece set in antiquity. It tells the story of the Persian invasion of Sparta, and the defense of that city by a bunch of oiled, muscled, and taciturn men you could barely call characters. Everyone is a posturing asshole, and most have six-packs instead of any form of character. It just goes on and on. The tagline is "Prepare for glory" and everyone acts like they have an erection under their leather cuirass.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl