Got into Miami a couple of days ago, and as it turns out, I may not have a chance to visit Orlando after all.Weather was good enough on Tuesday for the beach, but it couldn’t last.
Saw 300 at a proper theater. The army full of ayrabs, orcs, goblins, and blacks rubbed me the wrong way, and the Spartan landscape was completely empty of slaves whose population totally outnumbered the free men of Sparta. Otherwise, the meathead in me basked in the artsy animated violence and tribal music with generic metal guitars. They say that the political allegories applying to 300 are open to interpretation, but the only dim allegory I could come up with instead of the U.S./Iran thing is that the dirty scot Leonidas looks a bit like Bin Laden at the right angle. I think hollywood needs to take a stab at Martha Washington, post Give Me Liberty. Imo It’s the only good thing Miller has ever written.
The Miami Vice movie would have been a lot better if the score was made up of Jesu instead of all those mediocre covers. Imagine Wolves playing during those trademark Miami Vice slow moments.