[freedom44]

Greeks and the Persians were and are the same. Most of my Greek friends were angered more than even my Persian friends.

[finnman69]

Saw 300 in IMAX today. Incredible, totally entertaining, visually spectacular. Very violent, definitely an R rated non pussified film.

[aristotleman]

I think the critics are angry because foreigners have taken a "sacred tale" and have changed it to suit their agenda/make money.


Would you be be critical of a french movie portraying the american civil war as a war between brutal, ignorant mercenaries?

[Netizen]

The movie – an adaptation of artist Frank Miller's graphic novel – opens in Greece on Friday and will show at 70 screens in greater Athens.

"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."

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Which is it? Based on a novel or based on a comic book?

[design engineer]

Good that some sense prevailed in Greece. This movie does nothing but provoke hatred against non-white, mid-eastern looking people like me.

[RightWhale]

Greece should produce more of its own movies so they can portray things correctly.