Thermopylae drama drowns in ersatz blood; Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, this film is all bulging pectorals, comic-book emotions and spurting red stuff – in short, a bore.(News)

From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) | Date: April 1, 2007 | Copyright information

I’m trying to get things straight: when I questioned a member of the generation – to whom these things are meant to have pop-cultural significance – about the distinction between graphic novels and comics, I was told that comics have advertisements and graphic novels don’t. So now you know, if, indeed, you were labouring under a misapprehension like me!

300 is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller, who also penned – wrote? drew? – Sin City. He sourced his inspiration from the historical tale of bravery and ...

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