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[ishtar79]

• I finally watched the 300 yesterday, and honestly, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Why must you insist on 'drawing inspiration' from my country's history, Hollywood?
  
  But of course, this isn't about historical accuracy, being based on a comic and all. And let's even leave aside the misogyny, racist stereotyping, uncomfortably clunky and inappropriate parallels to current political events and odd mix of homophobic machismo with rampant homoerotic imagery. But whoever felt necessary to 'translate' Thermopylae to "Hot Gates" needs to be shot NOW. 300 half-naked, muscular men at the Hot Gates? I think I saw a porno like that once.

• My current splitting headache is only partly Frank Miller-induced though. A PSA: when reaching under desk to retrieve an item, it's best not to keep your eyes on the computer screen, or you will know the literal meaning of "headdesk". Thanks to my epic klutziness, I'm now sporting a black eye.

• I still haven't decided what to do with my LJ-I'm no longer comfortable on Livejournal, but I'm still crossposting until I figure out what the best way to keep up with the portion of my flist staying on LJ (I think feeds might be helpful, provided I can figure it out). I'm open to suggestions, btw.
  
  My previous post, which contained a few recs, was IJ-only though. I'm not going to be posting recs on Livejournal, for obvious reasons-and while I could, in theory, play the 'sort out the offending material' guessing game, I'm not willing to get into that way of thinking. The amount of self-censorship I'm already doing is quite enough.
  

Comments

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

My favourite thing about 300, apart from the ridiculous wolf, was at the end when they panned across his dead body and there were like, 499367593 arrows in him. Overkill, much?

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

At least he didn't keep running with them sticking out, Chuck Norris-style.