The Hot Gates

A couple of my favorite excerpts from the first few paragraphs from this Seattle Times review of "300":

"It's one of history's great last stands — like 'The Alamo' and 'Zulu,' except with hyper-macho, near-naked muscular guys who seem like something from one of John Milius' childhood fantasies."

"When the hot, naked oracle of a group of deformed priests tells Leonidas not to go war, he instead goes for a 'walk' with 300 armed "bodyguards'"

and

"...as the action alternates between slow-motion and fast to emphasize every decapi-tastic detail."



Decapi-tastic. Sweet.

-t

Though maybe the Persians weren't that bad, and the Spartans did lose...