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I'll go with an open mind, 'cos I liked Sin City, but I expect the Classicist in me to be irritated by it!
Lots of action, bit of gallows humour, amazing (and I mean amazing) fight sequences. It's not a deep philosophical movie about the horrors of war. It's just a no-nonsense-beginning-to-end-fight-filled-big-balled-head-chopping-beard-growing stunner of a film. I'd totally go see it again
Pffft. I hate gore and violence and I managed to sit through it at the cinema. There are battle scenes but it really isn't so bad Go watch it!
Well, not really. And I'm not just complaining about the lack of spartan sex.
I haven't seen the film, but I understand it is true to the comic. The most obvious difference is that the spartans didn't defeat the iranians. They did hold back a numerically massively superior force for 3? days, and give the greek army time to arrive.
But I guess that call fall under simplification.
And the way I remember it, Herodotus said that for the first few days there was no Spartan dead but many Persians. In the end they were all killed, Leonidas was beheaded by Xerxes himself.
They don't defeat them in the film either.