Random thoughts; bittersweet

[chickenfeet2003]

I have a snuggly grey cat on my lap and, like the bengals, she is healthy and hasn't been eating tainted catfood. This makes me very happy though my sympathies go to those of you with high temperature bengals or cats who have been eating the recalled brands. I hope everybody makes it through OK

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[albionwood]

A friend of mine (iisaw) saw it and liked it, so I've been posting snips from various negative reviews in his LJ. The NYT's A. O. Scott:

“300” is about as violent as “Apocalypto” and twice as stupid. ...a bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, rendered in images that might have been airbrushed onto a customized van sometime in the late 1970s. ... Devotees of the pectoral, deltoid and other fine muscle groups will find much to savor...

The homophobic and pro-war agitprop aspects have been covered by, among others, Dan Savage, who says "George Bush is going to blow a load in his pants when he sees this movie."

So I, too, shall not be watching this one. In any case it is clearly designed to appeal to the video-game generation, which I somehow avoided joining.

[chickenfeet2003]

In any case it is clearly designed to appeal to the video-game generation, which I somehow avoided joining.

That's one of the two main reasons for avoiding it for me. I loathe the video game aesthetic. The other reason is, of course, my distaste for travesties of history, especially bits I know well. I rather regret missing some apparently fairly hot slavegirl on slavegirl action at the Persian court though.

[shezan]

ROFL from the grave of Simonides.

[shezan]

(I assume you've read Mary Renault's The Praise Singer?)

[chickenfeet2003]

A long time ago...