EB poll of '300'

[Tiberius Nero]

Historical accuracy doesn't have anything to do with a movie taking itself seriously; a movie takes itself seriously when: 1) it purports to talk about high ideals, i.e. Liberty, Democracy, Progress, Sacrifice etc in our case and 2) it does so in a manner which doesn't undermine those ideals, by having the movie being self satirical. I am not irritated by James Bond films; they don't take themselves seriously; many scenes are there to make you laugh and make fun of the situation in the movie itself. Not so in 300. A movie which does not undermine its point by being self-satirical takes itself seriously. That is what I mean by that term. Why would a movie have to claim historical accuracy to take itself seriously anyway? It is a movie, not a documentary.

I brought the example of vampire capitalists to draw a parallel between the level of juvenile propaganda found in 300 and that, just to make clearer to the poster who asked "why do you consider 300 propagandist" the reason why. I never said anything about forbidding freedom of expression to artists or anything of the sort. I fully support freedom of speech; for this reason I defend the right to harshly criticize as rubbish what is rubbish, while it purports not to be. Believe me, if Leonidas took a break at some point in the fight to get a whiff of coke light, I would say it was the best movie ever (exaggerating of course); that would have been an indication of the movie not taking itself seriously. As it is now it is a bag full of pretentious rubbish. And it is the pretentious part that irritates me, if that is not clear yet.

P.S. I am doing this for the fun of dialectics too. Not taking anything personally don't worry. ;)