homo-erotic fascist propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2007)

The ending of this movie tells us to "remember why" they died. Does anyone understand what it was that they died for? Couldn't they have retreated before they got surrounded, like everyone else? The choreography was good enough, I suppose, but honestly I have better things to do with my life than be lectured by a mediocre director as to why violence and sadism are intrinsically good virtues. Why exactly are we supposed to care about the Spartans, other than "Xerxes is a girly-man?" The talk of "freedom" and "justice" in the movie made the most illuminating unintentional satire of our nation's misadventure in Iraq- that those ideals are things that people talk about in order to justify gratuitous violence. Zack Snyder is the dumbest human being on the planet.