Good God its a movie...if it was a "documentary" then they could have at it...
I was discussing this with my teenage sons ysterday. Their attitude was, "Mom, It's a comic book! What do they expect? It sounds cool."
I don't know if my obsevation is wrong, but the Greeks seem like a rather highstrung group of people. Very touchy.
I don't know if my obsevation is wrong, but the Greeks seem like a rather highstrung group of people. Very touchy.
I don't know if my obsevation is wrong, but the Greeks seem like a rather highstrung group of people. Very touchy.
Bloodfest is an understatement.
"This is not a university lecture, it's a movie," he wrote in the daily Eleftheros Typos. "It's an adaptation of a comic to the big screen, and that's only how it should be judged . . . When seen this way, it gets high marks."
At least one of them got it.
While the reference to the Iraqi war is BS, I don't blame the Greeks for being upset. This was a real event with real people. It was a very heroic act by the Spartans, they knew they were cannon fodder and that their sole purpose was to hold the enemy long enough for the rest of the Greeks to prepare for battle. To make it into some fantasy type of movie or book, and there are some good books about this, is a desecretion of history IMO. As for persians, they were asshats at the time this happened, they were invading Greece simply for the conquest, they had the tails whipped by the Spartans and their allies, one million Persians against 300 Spartans and about 6000 assorted other Greeks. The Persians became so terrified of the Spartans that the mere sight of them later on caused the persians to run from the battle field.
Spartans (western warriors) defend themselves
against the hordes of ISLAM (Persia). It's no
wonder elitists condemn it.
HELLO PEOPLE MOST OF THOSE COMPLAINING ARE ELITIST SNOBS.
These are the same people with the ivory tower mentality that demand everything be taught with the dry excitement of sand.
They are irrelevant.
This is just a PR stunt.
The same ring leaders of this "outrage" are the same ones who were complaining about the closing ceremony at the 2004 olympics being not intelectual enough. (too much fun not enough culture)
I have been to Thermopole, I have seen the Leonidas memorial at the famous battle scene.
If anyone wants a comparison, these type of people were complaining about the Patriot.
Purists with no life.
Gosh, we better stand aside, and let these experts write a scripts, contribute the funding, recruit the actors, do the direction.
But if we had waited for that, we would be waiting even longer than the Athenians waited at Marathon for the Spartans, that is, we would have waited until the war was over, and then when the next war started, the Spartans still could only contribute only 300, while the rest were delayed for ANOTHER religious festival.
When the Spartans finally contributed 45,000 men to the battle of Platea, only 10,000 were fully qualified soldiers. Most were slaves, who had to be brought along to prevent them from leading a slave revolt at home, in the absence of Sparta's soldiers.
Sparta doesn't even have good ruins now. Just a memory, so the rest of Greece resents them.
Not quite "were and are". Iranians are more hairy.
Greek list ping!
Greeks and the Persians were and are the same.
Greeks are Persians in drag....
70 MILLION dollars opening weekend...incredible.
Sounds like the Greek socialists just wet their collective panties. It's a movie taken from a comic-book version of events. What do you expect?
It's foreign to them, so they hate it.
I hear the Greek are a very xenophobic people. From what I read, that also bleeds into their movie reviews. :)