it fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.
Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the "gates of hell(o!)" Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara'd Xerxes. When he's not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.
On first glance, the terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals. Yet aside from the fact that Spartans come across as pinched, pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. Not since Beau Travail has a phalanx of meatheads received such insistent ogling. As for the threat to peace, freedom, and democracy, that filthy Persian orgy looks way more fun than sitting around watching Spartans mope while their angry children slap each other around. At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical.
Possibly nowhere outside of gay porn have so many broad shoulders, bulging biceps and ripped torsos been seen onscreen as in "300," a fact that will generate a certain bonus audience of its own; it's not even certain Steve Reeves, the original "Hercules," would have made the grade here.
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Originally posted by: Queasy
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Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the "gates of hell(o!)" Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara'd Xerxes. When he's not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.
On first glance, the terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals. Yet aside from the fact that Spartans come across as pinched, pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. Not since Beau Travail has a phalanx of meatheads received such insistent ogling. As for the threat to peace, freedom, and democracy, that filthy Persian orgy looks way more fun than sitting around watching Spartans mope while their angry children slap each other around. At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical.
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...
And why does no one ever answer this question?
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...
And why does no one ever answer this question?
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...
And why does no one ever answer this question?
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: clamum
Fvck the haters.
As for the tirade about the lack of the Spartans' clothing, wasn't that how they fought back then? I thought they took quite a bit of pride in their bodies.
Why are people so obsessed over this movie? It's just a movie...
And why does no one ever answer this question?
Maybe they like unrealistic comic book portrayals of real events.
Like Spider-Man.
Originally posted by: Queasy
...amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.
Originally posted by: mugs
Maybe they like unrealistic comic book portrayals of real events.
Like Spider-Man.
Originally posted by: vr6
thats how they dressed back in the day. i don't know why they are complaining about that. did they expect chainmails or something?
Originally posted by: yankeesfan
I was really looking forward to this movie until I saw this clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lW9gw5TwxE
Now I'm considering skipping it.