Wow, he sure knows the history bits. I did think the movie was gorgeous visually (and yes, the eye candy didn't hurt), but it was so over the top I ended up laughing through most of it. That was made worst by the fact that a)I watched it with a friend and b)my speakers are screwed up and drown out the dialogue, so I switched the audio channels, and ended up with something that can only be described as commentary for the blind-there was a male voiceover describing what was happening onscreen any time there wasn't actual dialogue. He seemed to be especially keen on lines like "Leonidas stood, the moonlight falling on his muscular body'. Er, yeah. That increased the hilarity.

About the feeds, I think I'll do that. I'm planning to get a paid IJ account, and a helfpful member of my IJ flist is talking me through the process. And I plan to of course keep checking the flist on LJ/commenting.