The Top 10 Most Politically Incorrect Things About The Movie, "300."

10) None of the soldiers are portrayed as mentally unstable, religious zealots, cowards, traitors, or immoral.

9) The good guys take no prisoners.

8) All the good guys are Westerners and all the bad guys, except for a few who are bribed, are not.

7) The only gay characters in the movie, lesbians, are on the side of the bad guys.

6) The line "Freedom is not free," is part of the justification for the fighting.

5) The children are taught to be tough, whipped when they trangress, and put in dangrous situtions.

4) The movie is unambigiously pro-war.

3) The slick, anti-war Spartan politician is lecherous, deceitful, and corrupt, while the pro-war Spartan politician is decent, honorable, and genuinely concerned about his country.

2) All of the good guys were white, but none of the bad guys were.

1) The Spartans take weak or deformed babies and toss them off the side of a cliff...

This movie I gotta see...

Boonie, is this a real movie? And what does 300 mean?

300 Greek soldiers fought against the Persian army.

Sounds good to me .

I heard that it grossed 72 million last weekend. The third highest. What does that tell you? I don't know.

It's about the Battle of Thermopylae from a graphic novel with the same name.

Same hybrid CGI & live action style as in Sin City. Looks awesome , has it started here??.

Sounds like a major flick there, some real big name stars

Gerard Butler ... King Leonidas

Lena Headey ... Queen Gorgo

Dominic West ... Theron

David Wenham ... Dilios

Vincent Regan ... Captain

Michael Fassbender ... Stelios

Tom Wisdom ... Astinos

Andrew Pleavin ... Daxos

Andrew Tiernan ... Ephialtes

Rodrigo Santoro ... Xerxes

Giovani Cimmino ... Pleistarchos (as Giovani Antonio Cimmino)

Stephen McHattie ... Loyalist

Greg Kramer ... Ephor #1

Alex Ivanovici ... Ephor #2

Kelly Craig ... Oracle Girl

Made by the same Australian producers of Happy Feet - recent oscar winner for best animated film.

Director George Miller also made Mad Max and Babe.

Saw a trailer for it last night ...... it may tempt me into the cinema

It's about the Battle of Thermopylae from a graphic novel with the same name.

Same hybrid CGI & live action style as in Sin City. Looks awesome , has it started here??.

Maybe its my age, maybe its my gender () but I just didn't find Sin City (and its graphics style) that appealing, so doubt I will watch this one either.

Sounds like another thinly disguised attempt to justify and encourage wars of terror (hey, look, the Greeks and Romans did it, and they were like, Classically philosophical and shit, dude. So why can't we?).

Lots of these lately. Wonder why?

I'm just not a big fan of CGI flicks. If I want a cartoon I'll watch The Simpsons.

Or you could say like Quentin Tarantino 'If I'd wanted all that CGI shit I'd have gone and stuck my dick in a Nintendo'.

Well, the point of the OP was how it seems all events, including those which happened nearly 500 years BC, must be judged thru the prism of contemporary political correctness...

Anyone remember that Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans..? I liked that one.

Well, the point of the OP was how it seems all events, including those which happened nearly 500 years BC, must be judged thru the prism of contemporary political correctness...

While you definitely have a point, I don't think it is only contemporary 'political correctness' that influences how history is viewed. History is a vast expanse of disorganized and often contradictory data that can be used to forward a point for anyone, be it a liberal, socialist, conservative, nazi, anarchist or fundamentalist.

The fact that this movie deviates from the norm of 'Hollywood Greece' as we know it, does not automatically mean it is any more true or real - does it?

Anyone remember that Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans..? I liked that one.

'Spartacus', if memory serves?

Good flick.

The fact that this movie deviates from the norm of 'Hollywood Greece' as we know it, does not automatically mean it is any more true or real - does it?

I haven't seen the movie yet so can't give a subjective opinion but would venture a guess that this depiction of war 500 BC might be closer to the definition of 'real' than the romantic versions we've come to know from Hollywood thus far?

Anyone remember that Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans..? I liked that one.

'Spartacus', if memory serves?

Good flick.

I think that "Go tell the Spartans" was much more recent history. Vietnam era perhaps?

Anyone remember that Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans..? I liked that one.

'Spartacus', if memory serves?

Good flick.

I think that "Go tell the Spartans" was much more recent history. Vietnam era perhaps?

With Burt Lancaster?

He was an OLD platoon Sgt., if I remember correctly.

Sounds like another thinly disguised attempt to justify and encourage wars of terror (hey, look, the Greeks and Romans did it, and they were like, Classically philosophical and shit, dude. So why can't we?).

Funny meadish, well done.

Is this a budget version of "500 Spartans"?...which I loved when I was a kid.

Oh, by the way, the most politically incorrect thing about "300." is that you can't tell if its a sentence or a decimal number. If its a sentence then where the heck is the verb, fool....and if its a decimal number then where's the part to the right of the decimal, fool....either way I'm not voting for you so that makes you politically incorrect.

Is this a budget version of "500 Spartans"?...which I loved when I was a kid.

Oh, by the way, the most politically incorrect thing about "300." is that you can't tell if its a sentence or a decimal number. If its a sentence then where the heck is the verb, fool....and if its a decimal number then where's the part to the right of the decimal, fool....either way I'm not voting for you so that makes you politically incorrect.

Lighten up Chownah! It's just the 300!

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Release Date:

1 September 1978 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama / War more

Tagline:

Skirmishes, Ambushes And Boobytraps Explode Into The Most Savage War That Ever Scorched A Land more

Plot Summary:

A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities... more

Plot Keywords:

1960s / Vulgarity / Vietnam War / Vomit Scene / Decapitation more

Burt Lancaster ... Maj. Asa Barker

Craig Wasson ... Cpl. Courcey

Jonathan Goldsmith ... Sgt. Oleonowski

Marc Singer ... Capt. Olivetti

http://imdb.com/title/tt0077617/

Go tell the Spartans,

Stranger passing by

That here, obedient to their laws

We lie

Herodotus.

King Leonidas is one of the most unsung heroes in history. If it hadn't been for that little army willing to die to the last man it's very likely that democracy as we know it would be stillborn.

Respect!

I wonder how much of the story is 'actually' true?

I wonder how much of the story is 'actually' true?

Like legends passed down, they get reworded with each telling?

And, um, what does CGI mean? Cartoon?

Thanks for the quote, Endure. Sounds in the same vein as Charge of the Light Brigade.

"CGI = Computer-generated imagery, a film-making technology"

Thanks, TAWP!