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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

OK, I'll be a parrot:

300 was awesome. All the way through I kept thinking: "I can see why the libs and the Iranians hate this movie."

But it will never get a whiff of the Oscars; it fails far too many of the PC litmus tests mandatory for Oscar consideration.

9 posted on 03/27/2007 1:27:33 PM PDT by henkster (When democrats talk of "the rich," they are referring to anyone with a private sector job.)

It is a comic book writ large.

12 posted on 03/27/2007 1:33:03 PM PDT by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)

But it will never get a whiff of the Oscars; it fails far too many of the PC litmus tests mandatory for Oscar consideration

Let me list a few:

Disdainfully referring to Athenians as "boy lovers" (and by implication heaping disdain on the swishy politician)
Having a swishy politician be a treasonous, lying, two-faced villain
Having the heros being manly, hetero, European males
Having the enemy being non-White, non-Europeans, who get their butts kicked even though they vastly outnumber the good guys
Having the head bad guy being a body-pierced butch queen
Having a "differently abled" character being as deformed on the inside as he was on the outside

I could go on...

20 posted on 03/27/2007 1:49:40 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)

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