I could see a good movie that portrays both sides in heroic and unheroic lights. But how stupid is it to favor the moslems when we are at war with Islamic terrorists and people's kids, dads, husbands are dying in the Middle East? Liberals are very sick people and many times they don't care if the movie bombs, they would never want to make anything but left wing crap.
I agree. Some of the best movies, stories in history have had protagonists w/ flawed pasts and characteristics, and antagonists who were hardly "villains". Shakespeare made a legacy out of it, as did Homer (at least in the Iliad). Some of the best movies, both in the classic era (Citizen Kane, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang) and modern era (Memento, Primer, Spiderman 2) had flawed protagonists and not-so-discernably-evil antagonists. I'm weary of people who impose a Manichean worldview on the mechanics of history and fiction, where you have the perfect hero (what's interesting about that?) and the ravenous, redundant nasty villain. Yawn. Zero tension, only one level of conflict.
The problem w/ the Left, Hollywood, ect., is there *is* gray area in the specifics of world history: was there really that big of a moral difference between Themistocles and Xerxes? Between Alexander and Darius II? What to make of Alcibiades, if a story was made of his life? The Crusaders did some stupid and corrupt things--are we to overreact to Leftist propaganda by portraying the Crusaders as perfect saints? Heck, a movie made about King David is going to be a movie about a seriously "flawed" hero, you can't turn King David into a Howard Roark type of perfect protagonist.
But the Left has it's gray area when it comes to core values, instead of the genuine gray area of "Realpolitik"--in contermporary terms, what to do w/ Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or China, when a clear cut moral solution, what is the objectively good thing to do, isn't present--back then, what the Crusaders should have done about Islam's advance into Europe and then how the Crusaders should have governed their reconquered lands.
The Left reverses it, muddles the core principles that should guide us, meanwhile the Left possesses a simplistic understanding of worldwide political history that makes Sesames Street look sophisticated. The problem w/ "Kingdom of Heaven" isn't that it is balanced, the problem is it ISN'T balanced, and imposes a "black and white" solution to a centuries long conflict--the good Muslims and good wishy washy Eurotrash agnostics vs. those irredeemably evil devout Christians. They shoot their "gray area" load on the very idea of values, so that when it comes to the characters, they must impose a more rigid "Good vs. Evil" structure than we get from the Bible itself.
It represents the utter hypocrisy of the Left, that the only evil people in the world are people who claim that there is a force for Evil in this world, and that the only good people in the world are those that there is a force for Good. It's truly idiotic.