Everyone seems to be doing it, so I'll add a few new words of my own about the movie 300. Great movie, and it lives up the hype in every respect. Yada, yada, yada. You've seen that several times over from others already, no doubt. I'm going to try to not get into the "me too!" game here. Anyway, you know how a lot of pundits and assorted mental giants have compared the movie to blatant Bush Administration propaganda? I can't even begin to see how someone could suggest that George Bush is Leonidas. Can anyone see our illustrious Manager-In-Chief bucking the Congress, going in with a contingent of heavily armed Secret Service agents and Green Berets and fighting an intractible enemy himself when no one else is willing to fight them?
It would be great if we actually had a leader like Leonidas, but all we have today are managers. Yes, management, not leaders. These are people who run the government like it's a Fortune 500 corporation, not a government. Olmert is another good example of what I mean. Cautious like a risk-averse CEO, not a king who understands the stakes to his country of being defeated militarily or being forced into a humiliating, dishonorable stalemate with an enemy that should have been crushed within days of the opening of hostilities.
I read some of the negative reviews first, then saw the movie. What I noticed is that if America were Sparta, and Iran were the Persian Empire lead by Xerxes, we'd be having to say, "stick a fork in America, she's done for" with a "leader" like Bush. If I were going to draw any philosophical lesson, I'd just say that it's an indictment of the state of our governments today that it is more concerned with not offending foreigners' sentiments than defending the West and its allies.
This mini-review inspired by Arielle and Isaac Schordinger.
Welcome to the '300 review' club. I watched it 1 day after it came out and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you have sec read my review.
I certainly didn't see it as being President Bush propaganda. The people saying that sound paranoid and obsessive and must be seeing President Bush skulking behind every rock and leering out of every cranny!
Glad you enjoyed it. The commercials for the movie haven't really hooked me, so I won't be seeing it.
I look forward to the day when a war movie can be made without people looking for pro-war or anti-war propaganda for whatever conflict the U.S. happens to be engaged in at the time.
Well, I'm not one of those people who thinks that it's Bush Administration propaganda as you can probably tell from the tone of my blog post ;)
You should read some of the stuff that was linked to by Isaac Schrodinger. Some of that stuff is just wild, but sadly, the sort of thing that we have come to expect from the leftists in the past decade.
I didn't see it as a Bush/Iran/Iraq thing either. It's just a movie. A decent one at that, except of course for the indecent parts.
Hee hee!
Before anyone says anything else about Bush Administration propaganda, read this. This is why I mentioned that.
I didn't see any bush, they all seemed rather buff and shiny ;)
WOW, yum, aaaah.