The Popular Arts Post: Film, Poetry, Roleplaying, Music and Literature

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Went to IMAX for the first time last week to see "300". As the thread on RPG.net suggestsit really isn't good at all (my summary is probably on the last page). Also recently saw The Notorious Bettie Page. Visually cute, it included some excellent thematic considerations and then utterly failed to elaborate on them.

Unitarian service last Sunday was poetry, readings and folk music. As is my norm, I selected Unitarian poets and authors, specifically, Horatio Alger, Ambrose Bierce, ee cummings, and Kurt Vonnegut Jnr.

Easter Sunday was spent, as per last year, playing GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. The Fellowship of Talor journeys in the eleventh scene for HeroQuest. Have managed to convince imajica_lj to run Call of Cthulhu in the near future.

Went a bit nuts on the weekend buying music: Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Hawkwind, Gang of Four, Devo, China Crisis, Eels, Elysium. No one can claim I don't have a variety of tastes. Have made a start on the small moutain of books sent to me by Ticonderoga; a seven-part space opera by Kevin J. Anderson. Also should mention that my review of Blackbeard: The real pirate of the Caribbean is available in the latest issue.

Cocktail party for Friday night is shaping up very nicely indeed.

Comments

[rodshark.livejournal.com]

Yes thats the battle I was referring to, and though they did lose eventually, they did hold off the Persian fleet for a couple of days and inflicted heavy losses on the fleet before being forced to retreat after the pass was taken.

I need to read the comic book as well, but from what I have read, the director followed the comic book almost exactly, so I think thatit is a case of the comic book being innacurate thereby making the movie inaccurate.

It would be really great to see someone give this battle the treatment it deserves and make it more historically accurate, oh well probably never happen.

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so I think thatit is a case of the comic book being innacurate thereby making the movie inaccurate.

Ahhh, that would explain a lot.

It would be really great to see someone give this battle the treatment it deserves and make it more historically accurate, oh well probably never happen.

There are several factors acting against this - not the least being that there is no easily identifiable good guys versus bad guys.