http://www.metafilter.com/tags/spartans Posts tagged with 'spartans' at MetaFilter. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:24:02 -0800 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:24:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/59315/Is%2DGeorge%2DBush%2DLeonidas%2Dor%2DXerxes <a href="http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/">300 opened today.</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2161450/">Slate's reviewer didn't like it</a> -- "No one involved ... seems to have noticed that we're in the middle of an actual war. With actual Persians." <a href="http://www.slate.com/?id=3936&m=18923203">Some people took him/her to task over it.</a> Still others <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/movies/05spartans.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">asked the director</a>, "Is George Bush <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas">Leonidas</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I_of_Persia">Xerxes</a>?" Obviously, the Frank Miller fanboys love it. And one of the guys from AintitCool says, "<a href="http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31520">Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey</a>." But who knew the trailer's catch phrase "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae">Then we shall fight in the shade</a>" is actually lifted from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus">Herodotus</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59315 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:24:02 -0800 300 ass frank kicking leonidas miller spartans war xerxes frogan