[Ikemeister]

Absolutely. Hollywood hasn't learned that sometimes history doesn't need to be embellished....like the proposed movie about Valerie Plame and her worthless husband.

[NucSubs]

I must tell you all I was not only skeptical, I was evangelical in telling people to NOT see this movie. Greco-Roman History is one of my "things".

Then I read this http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson101106.html by Victor Davis Hanson. If you are unfamiliar with him, he is a classist professor and sometimes conservative commentator who appears on NRO sometimes. He is the author of "Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience", "Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom", and "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War" among others (see his complete list here - http://www.victorhanson.com/Books/index.html)

I have re-thunk my position and will probably see it.