tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post7898597654481905772..comments2024-03-06T05:15:50.818-05:00Comments on <b>ab ovo usque ad mala</b>: 300Grotiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-36092915226508020112007-03-14T14:55:00.000-04:002007-03-14T14:55:00.000-04:00To me it seems that half the time they are trying ...To me it seems that half the time they are trying to repeat the success of another movie. I'm a big fan of derviative works, but much of the time what is produced seems more formulaic than merely derivative.Grotiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-3294740650284843032007-03-14T12:19:00.000-04:002007-03-14T12:19:00.000-04:00I just didn't see any reason to go fork over $20 (...<I>I just didn't see any reason to go fork over $20 (tickets plus soda, etc.) to see this movie.</I><BR/><BR/> Or you could just sneak outside refreshments in like I sometimes do.<BR/><BR/> ...But I agree. Ticket prices seem unreasonably high these days, especially for the quality of the entertainment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-7294750906318423302007-03-13T10:50:00.000-04:002007-03-13T10:50:00.000-04:00Well, I might rent it on DVD. I just didn't see a...Well, I might rent it on DVD. I just didn't see any reason to go fork over $20 (tickets plus soda, etc.) to see this movie. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I will probably find more entertainment in the mental images I get from reading Herodotus or Aeschylus than I would from watching this movie. I guess that sounds snooty, etc.Grotiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-48032513183703048922007-03-13T10:30:00.000-04:002007-03-13T10:30:00.000-04:00Anyway, did the film discuss the lot of the helots...<I>Anyway, did the film discuss the lot of the helots? Or the tyranny which the Spartans practiced throughout much of the Peloponnese?</I><BR/><BR/> Nope and no.<BR/><BR/> <I>There were other things, like the Spartans tossing the ambassador down that well. The Spartans were sticklers when it came to religious piety. That seemed way, way out of character.</I><BR/><BR/> Yeah, I thought that well scene was pretty cheezy and overly dramatic. Typical Hollywood.<BR/><BR/> That's part of the reason I never got into comics very much...a lot of comic writers seem to have the characters acting predictably dramatic or heroic, but without all of the beautiful speech you might find in a classical author.<BR/><BR/> There *is* a lot of rhetoric about freedom in the film. At moments I was suspicious (but not really) that the film was commissioned by the US Army, it was so emphatic about fighting for freedom.<BR/><BR/> It wasn't painful to watch in any respect. Though there was a lot of video-game-quality blood flying in the air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-9367724587442944212007-03-12T20:06:00.000-04:002007-03-12T20:06:00.000-04:00BTW, the script that we are thinking about writing...BTW, the script that we are thinking about writing would concern the Mytilene revolt and debate.Grotiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-23294400909779521592007-03-12T20:00:00.000-04:002007-03-12T20:00:00.000-04:00Plus, from the preview their seemed to be a great ...Plus, from the preview their seemed to be a great deal of yelling the word "freedom!" Sparta was an oligarchy, indeed the predominant oligarchy amongst the Hellenes, and individual freedom was not a value they really honored. Now community freedom was an important value (that is freedom of the small portion of the population who weren't enslaved), but I don't know if they presented it that way and I had no desire to find out .Grotiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-15131737569278756192007-03-12T19:53:00.000-04:002007-03-12T19:53:00.000-04:00It basically looked like it was going to be a vide...It basically looked like it was going to be a video game. <BR/><BR/>There were other things, like the Spartans tossing the ambassador down that well. The Spartans were sticklers when it came to religious piety. That seemed way, way out of character.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, did the film discuss the lot of the helots? Or the tyranny which the Spartans practiced throughout much of the Peloponnese?Grotiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227412655536656312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29269755.post-79907743113845532472007-03-12T12:07:00.000-04:002007-03-12T12:07:00.000-04:00So what in the reviews specifically made you not w...So what in the reviews specifically made you not want to see it anymore?<BR/><BR/>I saw it yesterday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com