Why Frank, how shocking!

[brown_betty]

Frank Miller's recent fixation on retelling the same slightly creepy story again and again?

Still going strong, baby!

(Special bonus for Mary: If you read far enough down, quiche's heterosexuality is called into question.)

I'm fighting the urge to lecture lj at large for daring to be excited about 300. Does lj really care that the person who

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[slipstreamborne]

OH GOD. 300. OH GOD.

As a classicist, it makes me cry. Tears! Tears of sadness, down my face!

Someday I'll sit down and force myself to read through the whole thing so I can make a proper rant of it, but the art, the basic archeological inacuracies, rapes my brain and I must go and read many a volume of Age of Bronze to cleanse it.

[brown_betty]

If you ever sporked it, fandom, lj, and feminism would be indebted to you. And I would make you pie.

[rubynye]

I'll make you something out of my Classical cookbook to accompany BB's promised pie. But yes, AoB is a lovely antidote to such fuckwittery.

[slipstreamborne]

I'll need to get a hold of a copy, then, and find all of my notes and readings on the subject. :)

But off the top of my head? Miller's take on "armor"? HA. WHAT ARMOR. The Spartan's don't need no stinkin' armor. They deflect the blows of their enemies with their penises, which sway gently in the breeze. And while Miller does get a few neat, minor historical details correct (i.e., the Spartans brushing out their hair), he forgets basic things like, oh, HOW A PHALANX WORKS.

And Xerxes! I won't even talk about Xerxes, as it makes me all frothy.

[rubynye]

Oooh, thank you.

*goes to find cookbooks*