March 18, 2007

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Did anybody else see “300”?

I thought it was basically war porn.

Via Rex I just saw this NYT op-ed by Neal Stephenson defending the movie somewhat:

The less politicized majority, who perhaps would like to draw inspiration from this story without glossing over the crazy and defective aspects of Spartan society, have turned, in droves, to a film from the alternative cultural universe of fantasy and science fiction. Styled and informed by pulp novels, comic books, video games and Asian martial arts flicks, science fiction eats this kind of material up, and expresses it in ways that look impossibly weird to people who aren