Does for Sparta what BIRTH OF A NATION did for the Confederacy!

Rating: 4/10 (21 March 2007)

Great Zeus! What ludicrous hogwash! Miller and Snyder somehow transform the most oppressive, most superstitious, and most pederast of the Greek city-states into a bastion of "republican" virtue! Next thing you know Hollywood will put out a movie where Jesus of Nazareth gets married or something....
300 was visually arresting, but otherwise morally, politically, and historically BANKRUPT. Plenty of wheat field footage but not a hapless Massenian helot in sight. No mention that Sparta had TWO kings who reign simultaneously. No mention that Queen Gorgo was Leonidas's own teenage NIECE (and yet Dilios derisively dismisses the priests as "inbreds"). No mention of the famous Delphic prophesy warning Leonidas that either Sparta will die or one of its Kings will die. Completely screwing with the battle order at Thermopylae so that neither the Athenian navy (who guarded the seaside flank) nor the Thespians who died to the last man at the Spartan rear get their historical due. Also, Leonidas was among the first to die on the final day and the succeeding action was for control of his corpse. Fiddling with historical accuracy is one thing, but purposely insulting the intellect of the audience in this manner is unconscionable.