Just Close Your Eyes and Count to Three

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Well, thank goodness I didn't watch 300 until after I'd seen Watchmen or I would have gone in assuming it was being made by someone who couldn't direct his way out of a small plastic bag full of massive holes. I've not seen a film so turned on by pain since The Passion of the Christ. Naked sweaty men stabbing one another for several hours doesn't do much for me, the fact that the key pieces in this whole thing were '300' the comic book and '300' the computer game so that '300' the movie was just an advert for the latter (they might as well have got Stan Lee or Dan Didio to voice over saying "level up!" after each successive wave of enemies was killed) was unavoidable. And as for the tacked-on story from back home with the Queen trying to get the senate to send more troops, surely there is no-one in the audience that is not insulted by evil Senator McNulty carrying around the money he's been paid by the Gou'ald Xerxes to stop the Spartans from fighting on his person? All right, so he's not expecting to be attacked in any way, but what does he need to carry it on him for? And someone give Faramir a strepsil, the poor love's voice gets croakier as the film progresses.

As ever with anything Frank Miller has produced in about the last twenty years I have to ask, is this his concept of masculinism or his parody of the concept? Or is it like Stephen Colbert, it is a parody, but other people's reality tunnels make them unable to see it as anything but the truth?

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As ever with anything Frank Miller has produced in about the last twenty years I have to ask, is this his concept of masculinism or his parody of the concept? Or is it like Stephen Colbert, it is a parody, but other people's reality tunnels make them unable to see it as anything but the truth?

This is the eternal question, and something I've never been able to answer. That said, I don't like Miller much, so in at least some senses I'm not sure it matters what his hidden intentions are.