Pirates 3 was a great, great movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, had amazing action scenes, wonderful characters, settings and story. However, I suffered a general discomfort in the face of an elevated theme in the third pirate movie - that of "freedom". Basically, the East Indian Trading Company is taking over the seas, establishing law and order. So all the Pirates are fighting for the right to be Pirates - the right ...
300 = War on Terror
I just watched 300, the new graphic novel movie from Warner Brothers about 300 heroic Greeks who challenge an army of invaders. Visually, of course, the movie was stunning. The acting, the costumes, and the characters were superb, and the plot wasn't really that bad...except that I kept seeing parallels between the movie and the Bush administration's War on Terror. We all know that movies will take money and put a carefully placed product advertisement ...
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