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300: Rise of an Empire

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K1dmor:
 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zqy21Z29ps
 Holy...

 I just grew a beard in 2 secs.

 This looks like a good year for Zack.

Near Lurker:
So we're going from Sparta to Athens?

...the kind of over-the-top machismo that defines the franchise loses something from moving to Athens, doesn't it?

TheEvilDog:
Not quite.

We imagine Athens as the cradle of democracy and a centre of the arts, but in truth Athens was as much a military power as Sparta was, albeit as a naval power rather than as a land power.

J:
the thing i always found clever & interesting about the original 300 is when you realize that the whole thing is being told by Dilios. the guy who got sent home before the battle ended, specifically to tell said story and rally the greeks.

everything from "we spartans are the manliest men in the world, and the athenians are a bunch of pussies" to "the traitor was a weak deformed reject, and the xerxes is a big gay body-mod fetishist" is essentially self-aggrandizing spartan propaganda.

the movie is basically a really subtle stealth parody of it's self.  like if paul verhoeven had ever heard of the concept

J:
that said, xerxes was the coolest motherfucking thing in that movie and i will see this sequel just for more of him being awesome.

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