United 300

I am not normally one to complain about "offensive" material in the Media, but it is interesting to see that the recent MTV Movie Awards awarded the new "Spoof Award" to United 300, effectively a spoof of the claustophobic docu-drama United 93, which reconstructs the 9/11 events on Flight 93, and the comic book epic300.

I have watched the short film on YouTube now and the plot is essentially the same as both films but involves German hi-jackers as opposed to the original terrorists. I admit the low-budget send-up of 300 was creative, with the costumes and the near spot-on impersonation of Gerard Butler. But one would wonder if this film is an insult to those who died on 9/11.

One could adapt the claim against Monty Python's Life of Brian and say that if 9/11 didn't happen then this film couldn't have been made - at least in the way it was.

Then again I included actual footage of 9/11 in my college music video of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".