Some Friday afternoon manflesh for you. (via slog)

Posted Mar. 23,2007 at 3:17 PM EST by Andy Towle in Film, News | Permalink

1. Brilliant, and perhaps the best of the endless applications of this song given that it renders the context of the images more historically accurate than the film itself.

   Posted by: Leland | Mar 23, 2007 3:51:06 PM

   
   

2. Fantastic!!! Great way to end the week!

   Posted by: Rad | Mar 23, 2007 3:55:05 PM

   
   

3. A great celebration of men and the beauty of the male form... thanks!

   Posted by: Jonathon | Mar 23, 2007 4:08:11 PM

   
   

4. anyone else notice guys look hot when they work out ?

   Posted by: RJP3 | Mar 23, 2007 4:08:37 PM

   
   

5. Oh my. TGIF.

   Posted by: Otto | Mar 23, 2007 4:11:16 PM

   
   

6. That was awesome. The use of that song never ceases to amaze me... Granted that the movie is just chock full of scantally clad muscle men running around being manly.... so it all kind of just fits together ;)

   Posted by: Nick | Mar 23, 2007 4:48:43 PM

   
   

7. Hehehehehehe.........."Loved It!!!" Great end of the week visuals!!

   Posted by: paul r | Mar 23, 2007 5:21:44 PM

   
   

8. Perhaps someone can do similarily with "I Need a Hero"?

   Posted by: Ted B. (Charging Rhino) | Mar 23, 2007 5:55:39 PM

   
   

9. leland we agree yet again. There must be something weird in the air.

   Anyway; yeah saw 300, it was almost laughable especialy the goat man, giant demon possesed wolf, the orcs (immortals), the grenades???? (pre chinese discovery of fireworks powder), the multi story high elephants, rhinos as big as an elephant, the giants, the crab man, the spandex diappers (vs breastplates and tunics), the floating girl, gollum (hunch back) etc I thought I was watching

   Frodo and the One Ring Take a Vacation in Greece.

   Oy Vey

   My nephew was especialy disappointed since he had just been learning the family tree and that his great great grandfather came straight from greece. A 10 year old who should have been impressed with the action said "that was a fairy tale...blah"

   supposedly George Clooney has the rights to Gates of Fire and is trying to produce a more historicaly accurate portrayle of the battle of Thermopylae

   Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 23, 2007 6:08:15 PM

   
   

10. This movie was the lamest attempt i've ever seen to try and aestheticize war and celebrate fascism. Not only are all the bad guys people of color and/or effeminate, but the guy who betrays the good guys is deformed. The work out video attached to the 300 website is far more interesting (and useful) than the movie itself. Maybe playing "It's Raining Men" on the soundtrack might have perked things up a bit.

    Posted by: gwyneth cornrow | Mar 23, 2007 6:08:43 PM

    
    

11. gwyneth did you notice the magic blood that disappeared instead of covering everything after splashing oh so artisticaly from the people.

    An african messenger kicked down an open well the size of which we in the modern world wouldn't even have let alone ancient greeks. a messenger who in reality would have worked for the egyptian pharophs instead of slugging across the arabian desert just to get a job with persia.

    A bunch of scots , irish, and britt white boys playing people in south eastern greec who in reality would have been very similar in color to the persians (who themselves wouldn't have been as dark as portrayed). A bunch of actors whose own ancestors were up in the dark forests of europe butt naked, limed spiked hair, woad body paint , ad picking lice off of each other.

    Oy

    I guess if I make a movie about george washington riding a unicorn and say well it is based on a comic book based on a movie about a real event , I could get away with it and make a lot of money

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 23, 2007 6:20:55 PM

    
    

12. PS on the blatant homophobia in this crap flick....Uhm trying to play of homosexuality as everybody else in greece except spartans when in reality

    "Spartanized" was a common slang of the day used by all the other greek city states to mean a man had been buggered (f'd in the butt for those who don't know buggered)by another man.

    But in this flick no way would the spartans have even looked at another man's butt

    can anyone tell I loved 300....LOL, I am off the soap box now

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 23, 2007 6:26:33 PM

    
    

13. That's too funny, how could I not have seen this coming!!

    Posted by: Ray | Mar 23, 2007 7:08:03 PM

    
    

14. what a giant step backwards this film is for all men, straight & bent!!

    Posted by: MiKEM | Mar 23, 2007 8:09:23 PM

    
    

15. Man. Some folks sure are angry about this film that is intended merely for entertainment. And to sneer at it for claiming to be "from a comic book" when, it IS, and thus wasn't intended to be historically accurate is just ridiculous.

    It was an enjoyable couple of hours spent watching hot guys fight in slow-motion. You don't have to like it, of course. But the vitriol is just so unnecessary.

    Posted by: Desideratum | Mar 23, 2007 8:13:05 PM

    
    

16. Desi

    What you fail to realize is that the Spartans were real and the battle of thermopylae was real.

    What you also fail to realize is that the movie is racist and homophobic. But hey just a comic book and desi enjoys racism and being homophobic.

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 2:10:47 AM

    
    

17. Delicious.....

    Just a thought.

    Posted by: Dr. Pat | Mar 24, 2007 9:18:14 AM

    
    

18. The political slant of the film (and the fact that all the bad guys talk girlie or are black and brown) is what kept me from seeing this, though I'm sure I'll buy it on DVD so I can rip the video of all the muscle and work it into my gay porn collection.

    As for the historical inaccuracies: Yes it IS a comic book, therefore it's not held to the same standards as other historical epics. Besides, human kind has been retelling stories and adding Gods, demons, magical quests since the beginning of story telling. This is no different. The only danger perhaps is that in America, this will probably pass for a history lesson considering the intelligence of the average teenager.

    Posted by: mark m | Mar 24, 2007 9:18:19 AM

    
    

19. Many of these comments are just bordering on the silly. The film is based on a comic book, there is all. For those who wants historical accuracy of the battle of Thermopylae, care to give us your version? You of course can't, no one can, no one really knows what happened, not even Herodotus.

    As for the racial elements, Xerxes army was multiracial, drawn from different people in his vast empire, while the Greeks were, gasp, all Greeks, white Southern Europeans. The only complaint you can make is that there aren't Persian looking people (or even dress like them, the film maker obviously didn't bother to look at any pictures of ancient depictions of them). It's a historical fantasy, got that.

    Posted by: hazh | Mar 24, 2007 10:36:39 AM

    
    

20. Uhm

    Hazh actualy, some basics

    No giants, no goat men, no grenades, etc...You can bet on that

    Also

    Athenian nave was there, hundreds to thousands of Athenians, hundreds to thousands of corinthians, and arcadians, many times more spartans were there,etc...were all there.

    "never surrender" NOT!! leonidas was one of the ones who said to the other greeks "retreat" and he and select few spartans would hold the pass to protect the RETREAT. many spartans retreated with the rest of the greek forces to rebuild their armies and the navy.

    That, is fact.

    hazh....Uhm you do know that South eatern greeks are very mediteranian and at that time owuld have looked even more like a mediteranian and not a scots, irish, or britt. Huge difference in skin tone and hair texture. yes caucasian but no scots , not irish,not britt and looked nothing like a northern european.

    The persians would have looked almost exactly like the spartans in skin color and hair texture....Persians are considerd caucasian as well not semitic.

    But hey, an 8 foot tall LOL drag queen to make it that effeminate men who massage the shoulders of other men is evil...well I guess you might just ahte yourself a bit. The athenian gay joke...well, see a shrink for your homophobia

    I have decided to make a comic book about George Washington riding a unicorn and all darkies being demons, then I will take th comic book and make a movie, and finally i will make a lot of money and young americans will probably believe it is history.

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 10:52:49 AM

    
    

21. sorry for my typos

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 10:54:45 AM

    
    

22. Mark M

    As far as working gods and myths into story telling, for example Homer and the Illiad....But Homer thought the world flat.

    Homer most likely actualy believed that Athena flew around eating heroes and then pooping them out to turn them into demi gods. An actual part of the illiad.

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 11:01:19 AM

    
    

23. PS Mark M

    A more modern version of myth incorporated into history would be geroge washington and the cherry tree, not george washington and a unicorn.

    Modern myths are a lot less fantastic when utilized.

    Anyway; I am getting off my soap box.

    :-)

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 11:04:24 AM

    
    

24. JimmyBoyd, Duh! You obviously didn't read my last few words, "historical fantasy". Oh yes, let's trawl through all the Hollywood films and see if any of them give accurate historical or racial representation, what, Elizebath Taylor as an Cleopatra?

    So go on, give me an accurate account (you know, accurate, not like I'm guessing this and that) of the battle of Thermopylae, for starter, what is the size of the Xerxes army?
    

    Posted by: hazh | Mar 24, 2007 11:17:45 AM

    
    

25. Hazh I elizabeth taylor as cloepatra was decades ago when racism was more tolerated.

    That isn't an excuse that just proves my point that this film is like racist movies of old

    Anyway; no matter what you MUST admit the grenades were over the top

    Grenades!!!!! 2,000+ years before the first recorded recipe for black powder CHINESE 1628

    Grenades? just a comic book fantasy, well with grenades in it 2,000+ prior to gunpwder you might as well use guns as well for afterall it is just a comic book fantasy version

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 24, 2007 11:42:57 AM

    
    
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