The trailers for 300 have me pumped

[Munkay]

The trouble is that rather than researchable obscurity, the 300 will become the Cliff Notes for the modern masses. So I fear worse than not telling the tale, is mis-telling the tale. Myth telling does no harm if we are talking about "The Dark Knight Returns". The feat at Thermopylae deserves at least a framework of historical accuracy, but I fear that is another victim of a world consumed with entertaining itself to death.

I will probably see it, and enjoy it. But, I will know it is no more factual than Die Hard.

And Harmodius and Aristogeton slew the tyrants...