He reminds me the most of Apophis. If you google him and find pictures, you'll definitely see the similarities. They have the same angryface. I think it was really the combination of the bad fashion sense (so MUCH bling!) and the voice that did it for me. Hee!
The little leather posing pouches just looked silly. Dangling manbits would have looked -less- silly; that's how silly they looked.
*laughing* Oh man.
I cannot wait to see this movie. It was described as having "too much blood, gore and sex" and I'm les yes! sign me up! I can't wait for it to come to France.
A couple of my Iranian friends are really up in arms about it, all pissed that it's a racist film, that Persian women are dipicted as moralless whores, the men unclean and evil, going on about how the US is just building up anti-Iranian propaganda for "when" we invade. Fercrissakes, it's a movie. a) Iran hasn't been Persia for a very long time, b) who really pays attention to the nationality of the characters? (Though with the frequent bellowing of "THIS. IS. SPARTA!" I suppose that side's hard to miss.) I'm going for the awesome cinematography and silly pouches, thankee very much, not because I want to go hating on Persia. *irked*
I do know that it's got my two nephews to suddenly start researching the Battle of Thermopylae, and in the process they'll probably learn a lot! So that's all to the good. More fodder for the neglected ancient Greek fandom! :D
hm...so far the love scene between Leonidas and Gorgo is winning.
(still thinking) For eye-candy, I enjoyed the scene with Leonidas becoming king. I also enjoyed most of the last battle of the 300. I particularly enjoyed Xerxes and the spear.
I am horribly biased, I must say. Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire was my introduction to the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae (well, the first one that actually stuck with me)...
...and I've READ the 300 book by Miller...
...and it saddens me that they looked at both of them, and chose 300 to make as a movie.
I'm sure 300 is a very visually astonishing and artistic movie, don't get me wrong. And I enjoy that sort of thing.
It's just...I remember the exhultation, the horror, the glory, everything in Pressfield's book...and I don't know that I can like 300. It felt like a cheap-thrill copy of Gates of Fire when I read the graphic novel, and everything I've heard about the movie just confirms that.
Yep, I can see that... it's one of those films that if I was asked to make a movie about Thermopylae, I would have done it differently. But hey, they didn't ask me; and it's probably just as well, because I would have had more male nudity.
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If you're a Stargate geek, you will understand my intense amusement at the arrival and first speech of Xerxes. Clearly, he is a Goa'uld.
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*laughing* Oh man.
I cannot wait to see this movie. It was described as having "too much blood, gore and sex" and I'm les yes! sign me up! I can't wait for it to come to France.
A couple of my Iranian friends are really up in arms about it, all pissed that it's a racist film, that Persian women are dipicted as moralless whores, the men unclean and evil, going on about how the US is just building up anti-Iranian propaganda for "when" we invade. Fercrissakes, it's a movie. a) Iran hasn't been Persia for a very long time, b) who really pays attention to the nationality of the characters? (Though with the frequent bellowing of "THIS. IS. SPARTA!" I suppose that side's hard to miss.) I'm going for the awesome cinematography and silly pouches, thankee very much, not because I want to go hating on Persia. *irked*
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I think mine was the part where "I am not your Queen". Applause burst out in the theater we were in.
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hm...so far the love scene between Leonidas and Gorgo is winning.
(still thinking)
For eye-candy, I enjoyed the scene with Leonidas becoming king.
I also enjoyed most of the last battle of the 300. I particularly enjoyed Xerxes and the spear.
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I am horribly biased, I must say. Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire was my introduction to the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae (well, the first one that actually stuck with me)...
...and I've READ the 300 book by Miller...
...and it saddens me that they looked at both of them, and chose 300 to make as a movie.
I'm sure 300 is a very visually astonishing and artistic movie, don't get me wrong. And I enjoy that sort of thing.
It's just...I remember the exhultation, the horror, the glory, everything in Pressfield's book...and I don't know that I can like 300. It felt like a cheap-thrill copy of Gates of Fire when I read the graphic novel, and everything I've heard about the movie just confirms that.
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Heh.
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No matter how historically accurate it may be.
Despite a long and sordid history of romance novels, man-bits are not perpetually impressive members capable of kindling lust at a moment's notice.
If they were, we'd never get any work done. *winks*
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