"300" Director: Critics "were so neo-con, so homophobic."

[Pale Blue Dot]

300 director Zack Snyder says he feels no resentment towards the critics who pummeled his movie. "Nah, I love 'em, they were funny," he told Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein in today's (Tuesday) edition. "The reviews were so neo-con, so homophobic. They couldn't just go see the movie without trying to over-intellectualize it." Goldstein himself commented, "Sadly, our critics, who seemed content with hooting at 300, have lost touch with what makes movies different from other art forms. Hollywood's mass-audience films are not a literary or an intellectual genre. Never have been, never will be. They are built around visuals and emotion, the two elements that 300 used to capture the public imagination."

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-03-20/#3


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Note: I haven't seen the film, so I have no particular dog in this fight.

[Little Wing]

1. *snort*

:D

[AnneD]

2. My daughter's (16yo) comments....

(there were some maybe unintentional funny moments) when she saw Xerse's in ... uh ... costume "looks like he stepped off a Gay Pride Parade float". I lost it. My comment-"I haven't seen so many six packs since Greek Week in College." A little bit of plot, a little bit of history, a lot of blood and gore, a lot of special effects.

Edited to add that the true story was far better than what was filmed. The few nuggets I got from it were full of puff with little substance.