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lesbiassparrowI just saw this and I feel a bit like Father Ted in The Passion of St. Tibulus. I just know for a fact that the Spartans wore more clothing. (I feel the same way about Rome.) However did they manage during the winter? I guess they were too busy fighting wolves to feel the cold.
This is completely the version of Thermopylae I would have written as a seven year old. Who had watched Lord of the Rings 50 times. And was on heavy drugs.
While I appreciated the semi-nude men, I was mightily amused by the film's desperate attempts to insist that the Spartans weren't gay. No, they weren't: we get this message loud and clear by Leonidas' sex scene with his wife and the heavy insistence that he wasn't oiling himself, his sheen was all due to sweat, manly sweat. Right. There was also the interesting dig at the Athenians.
And it was so funny. WhenFaramir random Spartan wanted to stay part of the fight, I was sure he was going to insist that he had only had a flesh wound. And what was his accent?
Oh and just to make it clear: this petrol station is on the site of the battle. Marathon has a much nicer monument and park but it isn't alongside of a motorway.
This is completely the version of Thermopylae I would have written as a seven year old. Who had watched Lord of the Rings 50 times. And was on heavy drugs.
While I appreciated the semi-nude men, I was mightily amused by the film's desperate attempts to insist that the Spartans weren't gay. No, they weren't: we get this message loud and clear by Leonidas' sex scene with his wife and the heavy insistence that he wasn't oiling himself, his sheen was all due to sweat, manly sweat. Right. There was also the interesting dig at the Athenians.
And it was so funny. When
Oh and just to make it clear: this petrol station is on the site of the battle. Marathon has a much nicer monument and park but it isn't alongside of a motorway.
