"300" The Movie - Propaganda, or Just A Movie?
I just saw it recently. Great action sequences. Ancient Greece is cool, as are other ancient empires and stuff.Still, some things about it disturbed me, and it wasn't the violence or blood that...
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Hyped to see it too.... maybe once I do my vote will change...
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I well remember the 80's and early 90's when the movie bad-guys were more often than not Arab or Middle-East terrorist types. There got to be a point where it became this big awful stereotype. Also,...
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Well said Happy- I think your analogy reverse is perfect for this situation. Might does not make right.
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Quote:I well remember the 80's and early 90's when the movie bad-guys were more often than not Arab or Middle-East terrorist types.What an absurd comment. "More often than not". What tosh.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Are you really 45 years old? I doubt it.There have been protests over Hollywood's stereotypes of them as terrorists. Books have been...
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Remember- uncle wants us to believe that everything good for the US is good for the rest of the world!
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Ok finally saw the movie last night - some cheesy gruesome creatures added in that I could have done without - but fantastic action scenes, and I still enjoyed it!As for applying the jist of it to...
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Quote:Are you really 45 years old? I doubt it.I should care what you doubt?
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Happy, he really is 45.Uncle said,Quote:I can't wait to see it.Looks really cool.OK, that does it. I'm not watching 300. If uncle is excited about this movie, it has to be about...
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And imperialism is bad? If Panama were as powerful as the US would you still be complaining? Sanity is for the weak.
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Quote:And imperialism is bad? Bad does not start to do it justice. I am absolutely terrified of the US. They can kill me and my whole country and nobody would even risk going to jail for it.Quote:If...
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There were definite pro-war "We must fight for our country" themes in the movie, but I don't think it was an attempt to get us to be ok with invading another country. Parallels can be drawn, but the...
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Some people won't be happy until America is also a third world country. We should all be third world countries. That is the goal of socialism, mutually shared misery.Anyway.The thing about 300 was...
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I also can't believe how you people missed the anti-religionist message of the movie.See, Persia was Mysticism and Magic, Greece was reason (though not really in history). Greece beats persia.It was...
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Ohhhh.... and I thought it was because they had many Gods to help instead of just one God!
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"300" is a strange movie indeed. But I am hard pressed to find more than your basic style-over-content action movie lurking in the framesBorn of the mind of Frank Miller, a truly cranky comic book...
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Quote:I suppose this could be grossly mistaken as a call to arms by rightwing imbaciles, and even Lanni seems to have taken the Spartan rejection of Islam taking over some kind of refferandum against...
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Quote:The Spartans fight for the light of greece which the movie calls "reason" against the tyrranny of 'Mysticism." The Movie should be an athiest's wet dream. Reason vs. religion.Do you even know...
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I am talking about the Movie 300 dude, not the real Spartans."Socialism is a fantastic idea in theory, but turns out to be a bit of a letdown when carried out. However, socialists argue that an idea...
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