300

[kandrathe]

1.) Like someone else said, if I wanted to watch something accurate, I would watch a documentary.

My only issue with psuedo-documentary movies are that today's youth do not know or care about the difference between the real and Hollywood versions. Other times, people don't even know that what they are watching is a remake or adaptation of an earlier made movie, story, or play.

Have you read "Odyssey" by Homer? Or, did you happen to watch, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Most of what makes the 2nd most interesting is the literary allusion to the former. But, not knowing classical Greek, or southern literature would not preclude anyone from enjoying the film.

If if makes you feel any better, I also mostly find faults with books that are turned into films, and abhor books that are written after the movie is made. So, the movie, "300" gets two strikes in my book. First, it was loosely based on one of the most important battles in the history of western civilization, and second it was made into a movie from a graphic novel that was a much better medium for telling the story. Both the graphic novel, and the movie however were naught but mental pablum meant to titillate and entertain.

P.S. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with titillation and entertainment. There is something very id affirming in a "dick" flick, as my wife is want to call them.