I suppose being the only fairly well known 'persian nationalist' on the forum, you all were expecting at least some reaction from me on this, so here ya go:
The move 300 (I'm talking about the original, not this sequel which I don't know/don't care about) did not bother me in and of itself. Personally I got the impression that the target audience were boys between the ages of 13-17 that liked to play violent video games such as Call of Duty/Skyrim, and then Jerk off to porn while they're supposed to be doing their homework.
In other words, 'sophisticated' kinds of people are less likely to be attracted to the movie, even if they aren't persian.
None of this bothers me. The only thing I can legitimately say bothers me is that one of the directors said (forget which director it was and the exact quote) something to the tune of "the movie 300 is at least 90% accurate". This bothers me. Not just as a Persian, but as someone against that kind of blatant lying just to increase ticket sales. 300 was a nice round of masculine fighting in conjunction with some beautiful female flesh, as so-many adolescent boys like, and that's great. But to say everything went down that way in the real life actual situation? lol.
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