OK ,OK, OK... enough already

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2007)

I can't stand all the whining anymore about this film. First off, this movie was awesome. Perhaps one of the most masculine film I've ever seen without it having a hint of stupidity.
Now, for all of those people who are whining about sticking to the original plot of the graphic novel (yes people, this was made from a comic, hence the dramatic heroism aspect), shut up. Movies are meant to just be an interpretation of what they're based from. Of course it has to stay within some limits or else it ends up like another "Prisoner of Azkaban". But I don't think it really was that far off the mark. Anyway, if you want the original plot without any corruptions, read it.
I seen someone wrote that there wasn't much character development and a bit of bad acting. Honestly, I don't see how you could put much development into a movie about a battle. It's not like they're gonna stop fighting and bleed there hearts out to each other. Plus, this was a movie about men who were tempered not to show emotions. On the other hand, I think they did pretty good with Leonidas' dilemma of what to do at the beginning. The other good one was the son wanting to earn the respect of his father and then after the son had been killed, the father regretting never telling his son how much he loved him. Oh, and about the acting... the killing was pretty frickin convincing to me. The dialog had its profound moments throughout the movie as well.
Oh man, first the Iranians, now the "concerned mothers" of the states. OK, this movie is NOT racist. It's just historically accurate whenever it comes to that part. Wait a second before you blow a colon, OK? Now, the Spartans were all about breeding the best when it came to their children. I know it sounds like horses, but deal with it. They weren't exactly nurturing souls. Anyway, I don't really think they fornicated with outside ethnicities that much because that would've contaminated their superior genes (think Nazi, OK?). Therefore, the Spartans were white (Greek, whatever you want to call it). On to the Persians... they conquered a lot of kingdoms and absorbed those citizens into their army a slaves and such. So naturally, they would be comprised of a lot of different ethnicities. Such as black, Asian, and middle eastern. I'm pretty sure there were some white guys in that mess too. So you see... no intentional racism. As for the Iranians... well, we can't really help the fact that your ancestors went on a empirical, murderous rampage a few thousand years ago. Now can we? Hopefully this cleared up a few things. If not, shut up.
P.S. I'm not a redneck Bush supporter. The Iran thing, just happened to be something I heard about in the news. Apparently they didn't enjoy the evil Persian look that "300" portrayed, so they decided to make positive movies about the Persians. I say, as long as it's entertaining and doesn't turn out to be something horrible, like "Facing the Giants", I'm game.