An insult to Ancient Hellenic spirit

Rating: 1/10 (15 July 2007)

I don't mind the historical incorrectness, because it is not a historical movie. But, as a Greek, I was insulted by this movie. The main reason is that Leonidas and the Spartan warriors are presented as American Rambo-like clones, with blonde well-styled hair, hairless chests, tiny brains, lacking any kind of modesty and seriousness, making stupid jokes that would fit in a stupid gunfighting American film. Ideals in ancient Greece had nothing to do with the arrogant butchers of this movie.
The mess is completed by the metal music, the Ephors being monsters raping girls (of course not!) and the "orcs and goblins" of the Persian army.
As for nationalism and the demerit of word "freedom", consider this: The 300 did actually die for freedom and such a death was indeed considered glorious, a great honor, and was pursued. But even this sounds like a fascist clichÃ© because of the tons of the trash, "patriotic", Hollywood films where "heroes" go to the other side of the world to butcher people for "country and freedom" and because Leonidas talks not like a ancient Spartan but like a brainless commando captain in Delta force or something.
If you want a Rambo movie that's OK. But don't do one by desecrating a real person's memory and a whole people's history.