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Originally Posted by Destrox
Damn... you do know this movie was not meant to be a history piece, that it was written to be an exact book-movie transition from a COMIC BOOK.
These things never were meant to be taken that serious.
Comic books, just like movies, in general (excluding educational films) are merely made for entertainment.
I'd suggest for you to re-watch it after brushing that chip off your shoulder, but it seems firmly in place.
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There's really no reason to get personal about this. We are not required to like either what Frank Miller did in the original comic book or in the movie. HISTORICAL fiction derives part of its charm and appeal and certainly all or most of its CONTEXT from a historical setting. There's a point to which we allow artists to play with history in order to make a compelling story. My complaint about the historical inaccuracies-and I think n0nsensical's too-is that they don't in any way contribute to making the story more compelling. For me, in fact, they made the story less compelling. I very much enjoyed watching the battles in the valley and the excess of Persia, as I noted, but the entire storyline in Sparta wasn't compelling. Why is my slaughter being interrupted with political nonsense that isn't factual and isn't interesting and, at the end of the day, didn't even matter?