Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="Dana Stevens"]Directed by Zack Snyder, whose first feature film was the 2004 makeover of the horror classic Dawn of the Dead, 300 digitally re-creates the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., where, according to classical history and legend, the Spartan king Leonidas led a force of only 300 men against a Persian enemy numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The comic fanboys who make up 300's primary audience demographic aren't likely to get hung up on the movie's historical content, much less any parallels with present-day politics. But what's maddening about 300 (besides the paralyzing monotony of watching chiseled white guys make shish kebabs from swarthy Persians for 116 indistinguishable minutes) is that no one involved—not Miller, not Snyder, not one of the army of screenwriters, art directors, and tech wizards who mounted this empty, gorgeous spectacle—seems to have noticed that we're in the middle of an actual war. With actual Persians (or at least denizens of that vast swath of land once occupied by the Persian empire).[/quote] Zack Snyder forgot his chief responsibility as a filmmaker: convincing people who base their political beliefs on action movies (not comic fanboys, they don't EVEN have political beliefs) that Republicans are wrong with a capital BUSH. Also, does Slate film critic Dana Stevens even realize what's happening in the Amazon rainforest at this very moment? Because it's sure not coming through in her reviews. [quote name="Dana Stevens"]In interviews, Snyder insists that he "really just wanted to make a movie that is a ride"—a perfectly fine ambition for any filmmaker, especially one inspired by the comics.[/quote] I can just picture little Zack Snyder sitting alone in his bedroom reading <i>the comics</i> while the rest of us are out learning to spot all the various things men do that could be considered homo-erotic.[/quote]