> Lots of people are up in arms about "travesty of history" and other
> nonsense - but it never was intended to be a Historical depiction of
the
> Spartan stand at Thermopylae; rather it is a movie based on a comic
book
> (sorry, Graphic Novel) based on another movie, based somewhat
tenuously on
> history. (And yet it still gets more right than "King Arthur"...)
Better yet, as Victor Davis Hanson has commented, this is a movie
about the Greek myth of the Spartan stand at Thermopylae. I'm pretty
sure that the Greeks would have loved it. Personally, I thought it
was the single coolest action/war movie I have seen. Period.
A glorious kick-ass event.
Jeff