We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:59:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Denizen Ry reviews the move 300] 300. I saw it. I liked it. It isn’t history or the only thinly veiled social commentary one expects from comics produced after 1995. It draws heavily from history for its substance but it isn’t history, not even close. It’s also done in comic book style. Everything is at the extremes---mega-pretty or mega-ugly; mega-virtuous or mega-unvirtuous. It’s a binary world. Good guys wear leather Speedos and carry bronze shields (with the inverted V, but not done in red like I am used to seeing.). Bad guys wear not-leather Speedos and lots of gold. Aside:... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:01 -0600 Heh. Well, he's a hell of a lot funnier than me. Thank God for that. I really think people need to put Critical Theory(the social one) aside once in a while. It's not the only tool in the box for looking for meaning in things. What miffs me is that they seem to miss that while we're supposed to like the Spartans we aren't supposed to want to be them(what with the infanticide and general lack of civility and all). Oh no, it's just a commercial for Emperial America. Leather kilt? Ain't that a little kinky BlSp? (shudder) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57743 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57743 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:47:34 -0600 My boy Matt almost always delivers "da goods" :) I'm just happy to share'em! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57736 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57736 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:01:09 -0600 Bloodspite - excellent links, dude! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57729 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57729 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:47:19 -0600 Forget it. I give up. Some one pass me a misslette for the Book of Speedo, wouldya. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57718 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57718 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:30:49 -0600 The Globe & Mail and their ilk still don't understand the phrase "Peace Through Strength". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57715 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57715 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:43:23 -0600 Matt took Slate to task for their completely over-the-top-you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me movie review they did on it. I'm anxious to see it now between you and he, Ry.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57713 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57713 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:19:47 -0600 ...the gospel of the freedom in the garb of the warrior. Let us pray: From the Book of Speedo, Chapter 6, Verse 34...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57712 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57712 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:03:15 -0600 Oh dear, you must not be so cavalier with the putatively deeper meanings of the film. Did you really miss: " ... determined to preach todays favourite sermon, the one that peddles the gospel of the freedom in the garb of the warrior. If the movie's neo-con message is as thin as a politician's excuse, ..." Untimely ripped from the Globe & Mail's review, which closed with "... all with their shared warrior codes and their shared trails of blood, all fighting heroically to keep themselves free even when it meant keeping others enslaved. ... preferably that slick recruitment ad for our very own Spartans. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57709 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_went_i_saw_i.html#comment-57709 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:57:01 -0600