300 Rials is exactly what you should pay to see 300
Keivan wrote a bunch of posts about the British sailors and even one about the movie 300. Now I am going to write my opinion of 300. Let me just say if you are a straight woman or a gay man, you will definitely want to watch this movie (well, not the rape scene) which features well-oiled hunky men. That Leonides. Yum.
The Guardian had a lol review of the movie that pretty much sums up my opinion: gorgeous men in underwear fighting the army of a gorgeous pierced Xerxes.
Keivan’s older brother commented, “Couldn’t they afford to buy material to clothe themselves?”
And Jonathan Korman at Miniver Cheevy sums up my opinion:
[A] guy who reads a story in which the Spartans are the good guys and the Athenians are a bunch of sissies as a “fight for democracy” does not have the political or artistic sophistication to tackle Watchmen.
How anyone reads the movie as a fight by free men for the sake of democracy is just beyond me. Let’s look at it as fiction, not as historical fact. I’ll call the Spartans the Musclemen and the Persians the Fashion Victims. Is there anything at all redeeming about the Musclemen other than their well-oiled abs? I mean, when the wife of Leonides goes to have a political discussion with a senator she is raped instead. Wow, what a great legacy. Now that’s a society worth dying for.
And then there is the part when the Musclemen push messengers of the Fashion Victims into a well. Jeez, that was a bright move. Another great legacy. I am so proud of my Western civilization.
It’s also clear that the Fashion Victims are just deranged enough to accept, yes, dwarfs into their midst. Wow. That’s deranged. The Musclemen, those great precursors of Nazism and fascism had the good sense to leave them out to die. Another legacy we can all be proud of.
The Musclemen were suicidal, fanatical fools, but at least they were buff. The Fashion Victims were racially and physically diverse but ultimately they were slaves to fashion instead of to freedom.
And then there was the dialog, our host yelled out half the lines in the movie before they were said. This movie definitely has a future as a midnight showing.
Someone somewhere tell me why they liked this movie and why anyone should feel any compassion for the death cult of the Musclemen.
Oh, and by the way, the movie is for sale all over Tehran, no riots yet, but I’ll keep you posted. 
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Just heard this review by Mark Kermode: “It’s a film about well-oiled men in their pants.”
I overlooked every historical fact, every possible embedded message, forgot the fact that those musclemen living and sleeping together with their bikinis look kinda gay, and decided I should join a gym instead
.. I enjoyed the action, c’mon, it was the best fighting scenes anyone can get! amazing direction also. 
The movie is based on graphic novel by frank miller.i think to miller is just graphic he did 5 movies based on graphic novel.
Jina-
This is totally unrelated to the topic…but I have to give you a chance to gloat…
Go ahead and say it “in your face, Howie”.
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2007/03/26/announcements/
The evidence is there
What can I say Howie, there will always be someone better than you.
Jina-
I said gloat…not exaggerate.