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Another franchise reinvigorated by a prequel, this film of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel introduces Daniel Craig as a younger, surlier 007, with more abdominal rips than all 300 Spartans. Craig's Bond is a rogue warrior playing by his own brutal rules. The plot, as always, is irrelevant, so enjoy the movie for what it is: a bunch of cool stunts, gritty scenes and capital-A actors having...
Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...Planted firmly in the realm of cartoons / video games / comic books to which 90% of American movies aspire, the Miller graphic novel (with coloring by Lynn Varley) is a faithful, if jizzed-up, version of the 479 B.C. battle of Thermopylae. The action and much of the dialogue are taken from Herodotus' near-contemporary history...
...currently bound by their individual state’s electoral procedure—bound to support the candidate who wins the national popular vote. The bill would guarantee that the presidential candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states would win the presidency—a novel concept, I know. Legislatures across the country should shake off the inertia of tradition and get on board with this plan...
Perhaps one day the starry-eyed young man with his head immersed in a book, oblivious to the genocide in Sudan, will turn out to be the next Proust, who wrote what might be the twentieth century’s greatest novel about pastries. Or perhaps that smelly science nerd, slaving away in the Science Center while you stand outside shouting “No Blood for Oil,” will discover the cure for AIDS. So please, friends, leave them to their bubbles...