I hear also, not big into slavery. Correct?

Freedom is not free, but (dom) is still dumb.

Concur. It was far more homoerotic.

They owned slaves and only allowed males to vote. It kind of sounds exactly how our democracy began.

I do not mind Akerman as much as other people do; no real reason. Never thought that she was good, but I did not care. Maybe she built up goodwill on Children's Hospital for me. Billy Crudup did fine job drifting away from humanity, and Patrick Wilson had some good dorky charm. Matthew Goode I think was asked to…

That was the sequel, yes? I do not want to look it up.

Probably healthier for me if I do the same.

The number that I have read the most is around 7000 Greek warriors, but I am no historian.

I don't disagree, but that would have been a very difficult task for anyone, fitting that source material into a long movie. He is not a director that you hire for subtlety.

The Black Freighter would be the first thing to go in any meeting about making a film version, as fast as Tom Bombadil would get cut from the Lord of the Rings.

Yeah. That the most… comic booky thing in there that a larger audience probably would not have sat well with. You have three hours, you have to make some changes.

Maybe it really needs a one-year series on HBO do have a chance to do better.

I think that the Watchmen crowd was largely unpleasable. Jackie Earle Haley nailed his role, and other folks did fine.

The early sequence of young Leonidas killing the wolf by letting it attack him in a narrow spot so that it loses most of its advantages sets up the main battle later where the same tactic is employed. It is also, I am guessing, accidentally subversive. A large military, out of its element, attacking a much smaller…

Them, swimming in the primordial ocean, and that spiral staircase in Jude Law's place (who stole the show for me) representing DNA. I saw that on HBO and did not like it much the first time, then it really grew on me with multiple viewings.

I would put it in the top three, with Boogie Nights at one.

I could have accepted slipping it in at #20 just for its glorious stupidness and fun. That is what #20 is for.

It would save lives on her side and maybe overall, too, to end the war quickly, I agree. I guess they needed some reason why the only side with nukes does not just use them constantly.

Also charging downhill, with the Lannisters' backs to a river (as far as I could make out) and all spread out. They made their mistakes by not having scouts all around, but travel times have now dropped from it taking a whole season to get anywhere (yay, another road trip with two mismatched people) to transporter…

If the Starks simply executed Baelish at any time, who would object or even ask for a reason? The Vale will not miss him at all, and he seems to have zero allies anymore.