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Most homoerotic movie ever...

posted 13 years ago by dan6pitcher
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300 was one of my personally most painful movie watching experiences. I went in expecting a historical drama about one of the most incredible true stories in the history of the world. What I got was some homoerotic computer generated version of He-Man or something. Why did they need so many slow-motion sequences? I understand the slo-mo in Baywatch, but in a war movie?

Why did so many straight guys like this? It's basically 90 minutes of nonstop half-naked men with digitally enhanced abs. How is that anything but gay soft-core?

I have nothing against homosexuality and am in no way homophobic, but this movie made me feel like I accidentally bought tickets to some gay fantasy film and not a movie about an event that actually happened.

And why were they so racist against the Persians? What was with the monsters?
Zack Snyder is such a horrible director...he directs movies like they're Video Game trailers. He makes me almost respect Michael Bay as a director.

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[–] poc-1 13 years ago

The MOST homoerotic movie ever - That's ridiculous !

- what about Top Gun or Spartacus, the Passion of the Christ

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[–] tim-sterk89 13 years ago

obviously you havent been looking what the director was trying to show you.

he was showing the spartans strength, glory and honor.

and why was it slo-mo, to create tension, and because it looks F- ing awesome.

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[–] TheRudeAbides 13 years ago

The actual Spartans were more homoerotic than the movie Lol. It's well built men killing people violently and viciously. Where's the eroticism? I think the this thread is one big long troll fest and deservedly so, look how many people got roped in. GOod job guys :-)

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[–] hellpepper 13 years ago

I am gay and I love "300". But I did work with someone who was pretty right wing and one day he was talking about the film and I replied to something he said about the film with "Oh yeah, 300 is great and probably the best gay themed film of the year!" To which he sputtered, "What ,how is that?"
"Look", I said. "You have got a small army of great looking muscular guys going into battle in speedos and capes and the army they are fighting has a leader who wears make-up and seems really into piercings and who also is always wanting guys to kneel before him. Just seems pretty gay to me is all."
He had nothing to say.

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[–] pikemarsillach 13 years ago

Leonidas - real Giza Sphinx - eventually reincarnated into Caligula, and then as punishment, a bisexual Batavian gladiator from 75 AD to 87AD. The beetle symbolism at the end of the film symbolizes this symbolic kicking off of the Piscean age, with this gladiator passing his armored swim test, further symbolized by the various versions of The Moon trump card. The dress of the 300 in the film reflects the life of this famous -though his name is lost to history - gladiator from the Rhine Delta who fought out of the Spectacula Amphitheater in Pompeii, and then the larger Flavian Amphitheater in Rome before dying at the "hands" of a bear.

"The precipitant has a smaller place in real existence, thus ... it is mortal."

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[–] Sukhoi_Su-27 13 years ago

Bull *beep*. Where on Earth did you get THAT from?

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[–] pikemarsillach 12 years ago

The actors had to do a specific kind of workout for months designed to create a specifc build profile which mirrored that of actual Spartans, who were rather lean and acrobatically capable compared with odern body builders and such.

"The precipitant has a smaller place in real existence, thus ... it is mortal."

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[–] Megatherion 12 years ago

The real Spartans looked nothing like this. The superficial and unreal bodies of these fake Spartans reflects that of the modern gym culture with artificial supplements. The real Spartans were likely to be hardy and rugged with a wiry quality to their muscles and nowhere as preoccupied as these oversized fairies to have waxed chests.

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[–] brucegxbg 12 years ago

i feel zero gayness out of this good movie, which has nothing to do with homo at all

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[–] MiddleAgeGuy 12 years ago

I partly agree with the OP. With the difference that I am not outraged by it.

But I agree that the movie provide eye candy for ladies and gay men. I would even argue that it objectifies men. It must make some guys feel insecure seeing these sculptured abs, etc.

However, I think it is a great movie, so I don't care about that. And I say let the ladies and gay men admire the perfect male bodies. Why not?

It doesn't ruin the movie at all. And from Ancient Greek art I have seen, I wouldn't expect anything else.

I also like to use movies like this and Troy to counter arguments which claim other movies objectify movies. I just mention 300 and point out it is the same for men too.

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