"300"

I saw the trailer for “300”.

Frank, it was bad enough you bastardized the story of Thermopile, but to let WB bastardize your, albeit mediocre, graphic novel just to earn a few more bucks.
That’s just a shame.

Frank Miller is a good writer. He is, there is no denying that he knows how to write a compelling story and make the reader want more, I mean he wrote a genius story for Wired magazine’s six word challenge:

With bloody hands, I say good-bye © Frank Miller 2006

Personally speaking, I think that’s one of the best things he’s ever written… which is a shame, because as the writer of the “The Dark Knight Returns” (one the openers of the Modern Age in comic books and the re-invention of Batman *swoon*) you’d think he’d remain good on the role.
And while “Guardian Devil” was good it wasn’t up to par, in my opinion.
And I don’t want to get into “Sin City” because I have a ton of issues with that… I hadn’t read the books, but when I saw the movie I thought “How could Frank let this happen?”
I then read the novels.
Ah-ha.
Yeah, okay so I was mistaken about the nature of this esteemed writer.
No matter, lots of good writers slip and put themselves into a mess.
Oh, look he has a new graphic novel “300”; it’s about Sparta and the battle of Thermopile.

It appealed to the history geek in me.
It also appalled the history geek in me.

Oh, Frank isn’t it enough that you mutilate, abuse and cater to your serious issues with women in a Sci-Fi setting. You managed to mess up a story constituting only of men from thousands of years ago!

Frank… WTF!?!?!

The book was, as I said, quite mediocre, but the movie just looks bad and if a trailer has no saving grace for a movie, this looks like a movie I’d rather not pay for, not in the cinema nor rent it on DVD.
If I do watch it, it will be in the comfort of my own home where I can guiltlessly flip past it and be happy I never paid to go see it.

At least Mr. Miller isn’t directing this one.

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Having no job and no school to go to, I've begun to look up deals on the Internet to go to Ireland.
I don't care that it's cold there right now, it's still green!
And I need a holiday, with any luck I'll find someone to go with, but I can handle alone as well... I think.

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I just got off the phone with my former supervisor, demanding a proper explanation to my termination since on Wednesday I was very emotional and wasn't up to asking any questions and let myself cool off during the weekend.
So just a few minutes ago he phoned me about some stuff I still have at home that have to do with the office and him asked to explain to me why exactly I was fired, because what he gave me was very vague before, coating it with "it's for my own good" crap.
I stood up for myself and I feel a whole lot better.
I also feel the ties are cut in much cleaner way and now feel nothing to that company other than the fact that my sister's sister-in-law works there and I happen to be friends with her.

This is a good beginning for the week.

A couple of things

#1 I'm getting extra shelves in my room.
Yay, more place for more books, because I was getting worried about the space, and finally my comic books can live in my room, along with the Pratchett books in the house. I was actually getting worried about the space, because ever since morin gave me a large portion of the the S.J. Agnon collection of writings, with much thanks and pleasure, I might add, the amount of book space in my room shrunk in a very significant way.

#2 I really have to tidy my room before all this happens, because my friends, the floor is somewhere there underneath all my shoes and my clothes.