Weekend Feedback: 03/22/07
Regarding your report on the box office bonanza born from the wallets of young “manly” men hungry for the bloodfest offered by “300,” realize that those muscles being flexed are vicarious to a real warrior’s world
(Commentary: ‘Manly’ films flex muscle at box office, March 13). These filmgoing guys are so “hardcore” that they collectively popped wallets for $70 million in seven days to watch the brutal stabbings, beheadings and up-close-in-your-face battles using hand-held weapons that, in spite of the effectiveness of modern weaponry, seem to be making a comeback in places like Iraq and Afghanistan … where improvised weapons and trip-wire booby traps can still dispatch an enemy quite handily, and equally as bloody.
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