Comments | kazriko: Politics in critical reviews.

kazriko

Politics in critical reviews.

Mar 08, 2007 09:16

This review, of 300 has made me want to see it when I had no interest in the movie at all before. If the euro critics think it's bad because it is too american and jingoistic, then it has to be good. ;)

I'm sure these same eurocritics gave An Inconvenient Truth a high score solely because of its politics as well.

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Dude.... misterflames March 8 2007, 18:36:47 UTC

Your link be busted... I'm just sayin'. :grin:

Re: Dude.... bibliophage March 8 2007, 19:43:01 UTC

Well, - _I_ managed to read it.

BW

Re: Dude.... kazriko March 9 2007, 03:05:27 UTC

That's what I get for posting right before getting sent to the field for 10 hours. I didn't have time to check it before leaving the office.

denubis March 9 2007, 22:00:25 UTC

::blinks:: Wow. Spartans? Bloody?! I... I never would have guessed that! I mean, they liked bunnies, and... and... treehugging?! Right?!

::sighs::

kazriko March 9 2007, 22:29:44 UTC

Heh. The funny part about the story of 300 is that both sides consist of fairly bad people. The persians? Talk about Hubris. The emperor killed all his engineers because a storm came out of nowhere and destroyed the bridge they were in the process of building. Very expansionist and fairly violent. The spartans? Anything to win. Stealing? Perfectly fine as long as you don't get caught. It's a useful skill in battle after all. And don't even get me started about how daft Athens is with their twisted form of "democracy."

I wish we could get some stories about the Roman Republic. I suppose they would be boring though because of how they were simultaneously the strongest guys in the area, and the least ambitious on expansion. We always get the stories about the scumbags in the roman empire because violent, insane idiots are more entertaining. ;)

samwibatt March 10 2007, 16:26:02 UTC

Sounds to me like the critics who read modern events into "300" are really missing the point. Didn't Miller himself say it had nothing to do with what's going on today?

Or did I imagine that?

kazriko March 10 2007, 17:30:14 UTC

I'm sure he did, or if he didn't say that he's probably thinking it.

Hard to blame them though. We've gotten into an era when every movie has a hidden political message (usually for the side they support.) When they come across one that's just made for entertainment they must be having a really hard time not seeing one.