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Early Access to YouTube's reaction to "300"

🕑 Added 2021-11-09 19:10:11 +0000 UTC

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Byrd N. Hand

I liked the first "Sin City," but that's about all. I've always considered Snyder to basically be in the same league as Roland Emmerich, Michael Bay, Stephen Sommers, and Rob Cohen, i.e. largely a 'mindless action movie' director. And your assessment of his character doesn't surprise me.

Jeffry L Manion

Byrd you are correct. Frank Miller is a bit sleazy. Very influential in moving comics in a more gritty style along with Alan Moore's Watchmen comic. He is the inspiration for Christopher Nolen's Batman Dark Knight movies. I like his early stuff but he as a person is a not someone I'd spend time with. Bit of a prick. I like the comic 300 because it has really good art and color by Lynn Varley. The history is crap but the comic is fun. But I have gone beyond the scope of Duaffy's channel so I will stop.

Jeffry L Manion

This is all true but when you read further it comes clear that the only freedom the Spartans were interested in was their own. The whole society was based on institutionalized slavery. There was much that the Spartan legend of Thermopylae is inspirational but as far as the actual society it was, by our standards, awful. Further reading about that time period would be about the Battle of Marathon. Cool stuff. No Spartans but a lot of Athenians and a crap load of Persians. Don't get me wrong I like 300 and own a copy. Also if you like this movie may I suggest Sin City also by Frank Miller directed by Robert Rodriquez. And now I am off my soap box. I hope that this is no way makes you like 300 any less. (Pick up the Graphic Novel. It's really good.)